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.
这就是学院派吗？影像逼格满满的，摄影，场景极具风格化和美学效果，极简主义的几何建筑构型，黑白画面配合烟雾缭绕的气氛。台词很古风和剧场化，是莎翁原台词还是新写的？这部可能是典型的形式大于内容？因为我看完后最大感受不是故事带来的享受与震撼，而是对美术摄影等所具匠气的佩服，而改编自同一剧本的黑泽明的《蜘蛛巢城》在电影化和叙事上显然做得更好，更多的体现了贪婪欲望罪恶等在麦克白命运中造就的悲剧。
Expressionist set. Unsettling witch. New character Ross as the third murderer.
相比15版麦克白逊色不少，戏剧般的形式感和黑白并没有加分，最重要的内心情感戏也是一带而过，不知道在拍些什么……
你以为迷雾之后是天
这个黑白对路，和极简背景相得益彰。台词，表演，人像特写都是教科书级别的。
当个有声书听听还凑合，非常厌恶大量使用黑人演员的政治正确，强行将角色赋予黑人破坏了观影乐趣。
科恩兄弟分开后就刻意去掉喜怒无常荒诞的命运巧合和暴力的黑色幽默了，唯一喜欢的就是古早味的美术摄影了。
还有多少人能够接受莎翁的对白和戏剧的风格呢。
舞台化布光、垂直调度、俯拍和仰拍，地狱般的荒原弥漫着死亡气息，毫无生气的高大建筑和空旷通道让人迷失，视听雕琢到这种程度看着太过瘾了。以弗里恩斯作结提供了彩蛋般的乐趣。
这话剧感非常忠实了。加上特殊装置艺术和白幕、黑白影像，怎么讲呢，完全的戏剧+电影语言+装置艺术，1+1+1是否大于3，新思路
B/74｜刺杀国王、献祭预言、皇后发疯几场戏惊艳绝伦，音效和视觉效果结合相宜，强对比的打光和几何简约式的布景仿佛上世纪初德国表现主义的复兴。各位戏骨贡献了完美的表演，除了“达力”实在让我有点出戏。但是有一说一，这种布景带来的劣势和优势同样明显，空间受限带来的是画幅景别的重复使用，视觉造就的力量在半个小时后之后就消失殆尽，最想看的类似《蜘蛛巢城》里的移动森林则直接用纷飞的落叶一笔带过。A24尽整这些花活儿，多了也就不新鲜了。#LondonCurzonSoho#
野心和良心不能共存，再伟大的英雄失德失势以后也不过疯子，居然在战斗中去拣王冠被砍头，这一幕设置的太好了。近距离话剧加黑白影展的配置，大爱。演员们的脸和演技全部经受特写镜头考验，还如此干净流畅，厉害啊
复古的画幅，极简而考究的布景，舞台剧的形式，整体情节虽简约，但对于单个场景的设计却很有创意与深意，达到了叙事与拍摄风格的统一与呼应。
照搬罢了，即使配上了顶级的演员和绝妙的摄影，精巧的置景，这依然是照搬。
每一位功成名就的大明星都想要一个证明自己有台词天赋的机会
极简舞台剧，中世纪建筑冷峻鬼魅，迷雾重重，影子般的乌鸦，神叨叨的恶魔，有《第七封印》的感觉了，摄影简直太美太美，灯光也打的颇具水准。一度认为莎翁原著中的活生生的人性罪恶和宿命论很适合放在德国表现主义，黑白，高反差的戏剧化影像进行表达，畸变的人，扭曲的脸在一个个特写里直击观者，而那些高大建筑生硬的切线仿佛时刻在将人分割，虽看整个片子没什么原创性但在视觉表达和呈现上足够惊艳
基本看不出科恩兄弟的影子，看完之后发现只有乔尔的署名。摄影上佳（虽然有几个地方让我觉得在模仿黑泽明），布景有特色，其余无甚新意。选角和表演令人失望，影帝影后发挥平平，Washington发怒的样子让我想起街头见过的磕嗨的黑人老头，Macduff的演员简直是灾难。电影本身质量其实还行，但我非常失望。
画面和风格很不错，但是情节方面可能只适合不怎么熟悉《麦克白》的观众。
演员表是否暗示了old man是witches的伪装/幻象？
表现主义风格，戏剧化台词，再次对人的欲望与宿命发出诘问。但几何感强烈的极简空间（布景），浓密的雾气、黑白的反差（光线），角度的选择（调度），都只是视觉的迷恋，缺少意义的配合。
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