The story appears simple on the surface, but is revealed, especially after multiple viewings, as more multi-layered and textured than Cassavetes at his best. Ostensibly it concerns a 14-year old Catholic girl, Wynne (Agutter) growing up in this post-modern wasteland, who develops a crush on her much older adoptive brother (Marshall)- a crush which perversely deepens and grows into infatuation once she starts to believe he is the local sex killer. This is in itself an idea that makes you sit up and jolt, but as the narrative develops, it continues not necessarily along a linear path but in several confusing and fascinating directions: the family's history, (detailed effectively in chilling flashback during an improvised seance) is a chequered one, and has suffered at least one major relocation and upheaval in the last ten years. At the crux, however, it's the depiction of socialal changes that make I Start Counting so fascinating and elevate its language far beyond the confines of the standard horror film. The major subtext- that teenage girls were maturing more quickly than before, and developing full sexual and romantic appetites (even if in thought rather than deed) but were not possessed of enough discretion to make the right choices- was a step forward for a genre in which its young females had previously been portrayed as bimbo victims (Cover Girl Killer and The Night Caller spring to mind), but not one that all viewers would necessarily agree with. But most striking of all, and possibly the most enduring image which the viewer will take away with them, is of the masterful symbolism with which director Greene invests every shot. Every inch of the Kinch family's world- their house, their walls, their TV, Agutters underwear, bedroom furniture and toys, Sutcliffe's clothes, Marshalls van, the local Catholic church, their town centre, their record shop) - is painted a bright, scintillating white- a white which, by inference, is slowly becoming smudged and corrupted with the dirt of the outside world. White also symbolises, of course, purity and innocence (two qualities Catholic schoolgirls are supposed to hold dear), and it is into this world of innocence that the ever-present red bus (a symbol of violation and penetration), conducted by the lecherous yet similarly juvenile Simon Ward, makes regular journeys. The allegory is further expanded in one scene where Agutter believes she sees the Christ figure in church weeping blood: by the time we acknowledge it, its gone, but the seed has already been planted. Rarely in a genre production has the use of colour and background been so important or effective in creating a uniformity of mood. I Start Counting is as near-perfect an end to a decade as one could hope for, and exactly the kind of film people should be making now- which is, of course, exactly why they never will. A genre essential. by D.R.
摩天轮上两两互映，遗弃者与被遗弃者在小小的四方箱内情感尽现。安静的步入高潮，然后悄然回落。温情到浪漫与飘渺的现实，自然很难被接受。我们需要克制和面对的是什么？
老姜带孩子，真的是温柔而坚强啊。
以为最终会是4人掮客小分队带上婴儿组成韩版小偷家族，最后还是走了偏现实结果。总体上几个人物都刻画的不错，摩天轮两个人的对话令人动容。
画面好看是好看但，很像反复练习的应试文。关于生、养的所有表达都让我觉得有文化，或者说性别鸿沟了。几个好演员像时令蔬菜，但被做成了一碗麻辣香锅。
又抛出一个伦理问题，相当敏感了。可以选择不堕胎，但反堕胎还弃婴加杀人结局如此童话，感到不适。
失真的温暖不是真正的温暖，比起《小偷家族》是真逊色，整部电影只有摩天轮交心一场触动我的戏，然而这与火爆偶像IU的表演毫无关系，延展说宋康昊影帝拿得也很虚，裴斗娜更是毫无发挥。是枝裕和在舒适圈内游刃有余，单场景固定机位到镜头调度依然能细腻阐述人物关系与情感变化，但首次执导韩语片仍是噱头为先，一没改变，二无亮点，清汤寡水的行活作业，就有些让人失望了吧？
他說「現在也不晚」的時間，他在明暗模糊的陰影裡面，轟隆聲很大。好像真心話只有在那種條件下才可以講出口，也只能講一次。
有良知的人贩子和先遗弃后贩卖亲儿子的杀人犯母亲合伙卖娃之旅，一路坎坎坷坷一路温情脉脉。理性和感性，我都拒绝接受这样的逻辑和情感设定。
尽管有些不切实际（尤其男主的行为动机），但还是心甘情愿地沉浸在电影所编织得童话般的谎言中。
是啊，你们要是彼此之间早点相遇就好了。
它确实有是枝裕和的味道，但又确实是一部韩国电影
浓浓日式口味的韩国电影，到处都感觉不对劲，而且《小偷家族》的概念再来一遍，实在没什么意思，煽情也变得不节制了。
3一车上的沦落人，是无组织目的性的结合，最后每个人都被温情盖了过去。虚假的又真实的造梦童话：在不完美的背德者之中寻找人性的真善美，用没有血缘关系边缘人相互取暖的余烬温暖观众。
是枝裕和这次用了类型化，传统的戏剧式结构下，用一个整的悬念包裹住这个“家庭”——究竟送子的下一站在哪？“掮客”的题材是冰冷和现实的，成为装载的背景，无论是弃婴到福利院，还是收留弃儿去卖淫，影片的主体笔力放在人物变化以及情感上面，即女主对于孩子的情感变化和这个家庭的关系变化。我一直对于人物的动机无法认同，他们组成这样一个家庭去干这样一件事，在这个过程里抱团取暖，一定是需要外界对他们很冰很冰才可以，也就是他们这个戏剧行动一定是在很冰的外围下做起来才有意义，我没觉得他们有多么惨，我也无法在这场行动中共情他们，是枝裕和对微妙情感的处理还是很到位，我不知道有什么原因，这个电影在多线索去撕扯这个类似于公路片过程中，将一切消解了，我更想看到的是我前面提到的：明明那么冰，明明很陌生，却能一路同行互相温暖。
《掮客》
是枝裕和还是是枝裕和，但韩国不是日本，所以有点奇怪。宋康昊演每一个平凡的人物都有好强的感染力，在他对比之下其他演员的演技好像都平平了
将黑暗或夜色中看不清的人脸作为摄影母题——为数不多的记忆点，然而故事结构和人物设置同[小偷家族]过于雷同了……
1.第一幕故事情节过于平淡，节奏偏慢，给观众情绪上的起伏不大
还是喜欢是枝裕和讲故事的方式的，淡淡的，但这部他拿得太重却放得太轻了，关于生而不养的挣扎只在它放在大片大片浓得化不开的阳光下，虽然美好，但也只是熬成一锅鸡汤，对于是枝裕和来说有点一般了。
无法忽略在剧作上的绵柔与无力，摩天轮上伸出的手和不小心打开的车窗成了最后的体面——属于是枝裕和的温存。甚至远不如上一部《真相》。某种同义性，不如去看《小偷家族》或者《晨曦降至》。
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