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.
绝望的午夜这场戏朱迪·科默演得真好，只是结局的出逃有点突然... 三星半
护理老人需要的不仅是硬件，更重要的是人文，国内可以这样应对老龄化社会的到来吗？至于新冠，2022年之前我为中国自豪，现在。。。
护理院着手，以小见大，最后带病人逃跑12天被警察找到很绝望。
其实电影的主题很简单 就是帮助 无论是国家政府还是个人都对他人缺乏关心 在善意礼貌之下是冷漠 特别是这种疫情灾难面前更能显示出现今社会人与人之间的漠不关心 充满着冰冷的规则
Sarah找Tony帮忙的时候真的特别感动。另外不知道每小时8.5镑在英国是个什么水平？
听小变态说英式英语真的变扭啊，有点用力过猛。
善良和同理心有时候就是在事态变化时候油然而生的，可能很疯狂但是也很无奈
在歌颂所谓的胜利的时候，也别忘了当初的狼狈。
觉得难以承受的原因是这不是历史，而是正发生。
啾迪的演技太赞了！！！咱就是说，也只有其他国家才敢拍这种片子……Sarah和Tony的对手戏好自然啊，最后Sarah带Tony隔离的剧情还挺让人动容的
出乎意料地拍出了那些只流传在网上的，我们所有人曾经在面对新冠时所处的困难境地：物资短缺，只能把垃圾袋当做防护服；医疗资源匮乏，病人躺在床上等死，以及最令人心碎的无依无靠和被抛弃的感觉。有个值得玩味的镜头：护理院的管理人得到了一批从中国来的非常可靠的防疫物资，可能那时候中国已经度过了物资短缺的时期，而英国仍然处在捉襟见肘的状态中。我在生活中遇到了很多防控疫情过犹不及的情况，可我一直认为，什么都不如人命重要。
有人在拍社会反思，有人在拍没有“我们”你们会怎样。新冠三年，有了《援助》和《无耻之徒》，非典20年，还什么都没有。
后半小时借男女主的情感与逃离，控诉并深化政府应对疫情的不足。
结局掷地有声的控诉 也并无法改变这个世界的运转方式 所有的不公平 都是无法通过个体去改变的 所以 人们选择漠视
3.导演不爱国呀，电影里展现的情节一定是道听途说，应该谴责他！
中段长达20分钟的长镜头太过出色，描绘的却仅仅是疫情之下再简单、真实不过的场景，然而在我看来其压抑、惊悚的程度更甚于现如今一众恐怖片：凌晨三点半几乎只身一人的看护院之中，闪烁的走廊灯、肯尼急促的呼吸、不断转接中的电话，这一切构成了这全片最为绝望的一幕（有几个瞬间给我以很强烈的mgs v中亲手杀死母基地被感染士兵剧情的即视感）。同样朱迪-科默在这段惊艳的演技更是这一段最后也是最完美的一块拼图。可惜的是，第三幕带着托尼出逃看护院的情节实在脱节感过强，也抛弃了之前犹如无声呼救一般不断浮现help字样的空镜，而最后萨拉在警车中通过戏内的台词对着镜头外的英国政府进行批判、呵斥的一番发言，则显得编剧表达诉求与立场的欲望太过直接而直白。
前半小时跟拍女主进入疗养院，结识47岁便患有阿尔兹海默症的男主。
不知道后人以后看到这段时间的新冠电影，是什么感受。
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剧情本身而言拍得很现实，让人很难受。
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