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.
注定结局的政治审判，半百之后世界并没有变更好。
这世界上根本就没有所谓自由和自由的天堂 motherfucker
“你是否蔑视你的政府？”“与我的政府对我的藐视相比我的藐视不值一提。”美国的60年代是一个黑暗却充满希望的年代，虽然黑暗，但人们充满了追求光明的力气和反抗黑暗的激情—60年代是理想主义风起云涌的年代。《芝加哥七君子的审判》带我们再次回到60年代，也许只是想让我们重拾那个年代以鲜血为代价留给我们的遗产：永远抵抗权力机器对个体的碾压，永远反对体制对思想的审判。权力的侵蚀无处不在，所以个人的权利是每个人寸土必争、绝不退让的东西。
电影编排铺陈和混剪插叙都很漂亮，意识形态倾向过于明显，不过能拍出这样的电影总比被过分压制好。
信息量极大。现在看来，过去的辉煌岁月真的太牛逼了，无法复刻。
剧本质量不错，表演只能说一般水准吧。换个牛逼导演，这片子应该会更好看。
这片居然不被禁，这是整不明白到底发生了什么吧。
求同存异，真的很美好
2.观于2019年1月5日、2019年1月12日，本篇是我2014年秋开始看第一遍《名侦探柯南》电视动画以来第一次追上更新进度。（2020年2月2日～11月2日，完成《名侦探柯南》所有动画正序版二刷）。
What's your price？
这法官真尼玛是个逗逼~”法律“大多数时都只是掌权者的武器，无论在哪个地方~
电影拍的很不错，几场法庭戏十分精彩，如果2020年10月之前看，我会热血沸腾，但全程围观了2020年底那场丑陋的选举回头再看，只能感叹那种公正，民主，正义的社会土壤已经变质，美国再也不是人人向往的世界灯塔。
伟大的电影，两个小时仍觉不够，大洋西岸的人们流下了羡慕的泪水
感受到索金大神找到了自己的节奏，输出爆炸却张弛有度，内容多到这个地步却没有落入冗杂。撕开黑夜的人在结尾都渐渐露出了另一个自己，Tom的强硬、Abbie的肃然、David的挥拳、Schultz的敬意，只有傲慢与固执从一而终，永不变形。2020看起来很适合这部电影，50年后世界，侮辱与损害还在，壁垒与龌龊还在，硝烟与热血也还在。
期待错了方向，以为庭审是重点然而只是线索。耗时冗长甚至可笑的审判过程带出了事件的回顾，人物形象也建立得很好（主要是Sacha Baron Cohen）。戏里与当代的美国变得如此相像，但结局方向却很难猜测。
劇本及剪接強大，編導功力也比前作《莫莉遊戲》好得多。
the whold world is watching！堪比当年看悲惨世界的 do you hear the people sing！但是，怀揣美国梦的爱国者们，我替你们的理想感到可惜，现实的灯塔国用过去这差不多一年的种种，彻底打脸了。左或者右，这是个永远无解的命题，但我相信，自由民主，始终会是对此有所追求的理想主义者们，心中的向往。
- 与我的政府对我的蔑视相比, 我的蔑视不值一提。
剪辑凌厉又伶俐，台词与场景之间的互文更是自带力量，共同构建起庭审、现场、回忆/讲述交错编织的叙事空间，历史影像在其中穿行无碍，是警铃，更是利刃，劈开时代的外衣剖心而来，历史何其相似，却又何其不同！
工整，利落，好看！雏菊和鲜血背后的爱与勇气。亟须永志莫忘
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