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.
各种奔跑虽有滥用嫌疑，与文本倒契合——一种无畏的、生机勃勃的劲头，因为年轻可以允许随时放弃重来，可以全然不计外界跑向对方；原声太棒，David Bowie《Life On Mars》那段日剧跑最美。
文化、经济、政治三种权力手势解构了青春爱情。
剧本确实厉害，但镜像化后看得我常常出戏。一部电影的时间内我看了会书，吃了东西，改写了儿歌，查询了电视机售价。133分钟片长我花掉了至少3小时，观影体验被撕扯地支离破碎，读书美食码字购物体验良好。
他们争吵不休，永远满怀嫉妒，在复古的、灯火通明的加州夏夜里不断地奔跑，在受命运安排前不断否认他们注定要在一起。 可惜有佳句无佳章，远不是最好的PTA。如此糟糕的亚裔玩笑，在2021年出自好莱坞最重要的作者导演的新作中，在以包容著称的纽约，还能引得观众大笑。道阻且长。（讲自己的故事当然没问题啊，but PTA is such a small man 在座各位有想到吗？我是没眼看的。
真是神力啊magical moments
不知所谓。原速看了一小时，1.2倍速看了一小时，最后也没有惊喜，浪费时间。
以《魔幻时刻》为骨架，内里放置大量《喜剧之王》的肌理，在辅以见缝插针的经典电影段落的移植，共同构建出本片的面貌。从魏翔本身来说，之前作为配角参演的电影中，他可以称得上亮眼夺目，能凭借一句“风雨中抱紧自由”抢戏沈腾，也能凭借“三口一头猪”出圈，自身的喜感其实来自于于平常情境突然转折的反差，再加上惯用的变调扮丑的路数，作为配角是异常亮眼的存在，但当作为主角之后，这一反差就消失殆尽了，因戏份的增加，反差被时长无线的延长，以往的惊喜出现，现在就变成了平常的戏份延展，而且在单一路数的情况下，不断令人凝视，是会提起疑虑的，正是在这种情况下，魏翔那份基于本身经历而写的“喜剧之王”脉络，就变成当下最无俗套的喜剧式煽情，而过往的表演也从一个表情带来的人物喜感变为看似凸显演技的眉眼细节，实则挤眉弄眼的烦人演法。
又一部在全世界爱情片都处在消靡时刻仍然创造出爱情惊喜的片子，神奇的点在于很多时候情节行进的“无逻辑”却构成整部片子的流动与轻快。
真的又长又无聊，那种70年代的酷劲都被说烂了，还一直在拍，没啥新意，不过年代还原感还行。
他们在互相折磨什么，他们在等待什么，他们在跑什么。🤔
PTA的《好莱坞往事》和《美国风情画》，故事上没有《私恋失调》那么紧凑，但是那些丝滑的长镜头依旧让人着迷，和许多类似题材不同的是，安德森想要呈现的是一种“长不大”的可能性，既然大人的世界只有幻灭，那为什么不在那之前逗留久一点呢？
开心麻花的戏，你要说好看吧，看后又记不住任何，你要说不好看吧，毕竟你也跟着笑了
女主一度陷入男性囚牢中，但解救她的亦不是男主，只能是浪漫的逃离，如此看来PTA绝非不解women power风情。//能把如此cliche的故事讲的如此动听，就连“奔向彼此”都重新焕发张力和光彩！水床和弹珠游戏对抗石油和政治，这才是真正的70年代。
Very easily, the best film of the year.
真是神力啊magical moments
“还行”的唯一原因，打算去补电影中化用的经典之作了，原谅我只认出来《雨中曲》（说来还是小时候六公主播出时看过的
年轻气盛真好，不气盛还是年轻人么。两个年轻气盛都不讨喜的人，彼此互相折磨的青春史。电影最大的问题就是角色不讨喜，演员也不讨喜
我们有所保留，我们付出一切；我们心猿意马，我们两情相悦；我们彼此折磨，我们拯救对方；我们针锋相对，我们同仇敌忾。我有好多好多理由不喜欢你，我喜欢你。
我感觉很难有一部电影能让我这么无感.. 既不是烂片能让我讨厌，但是从头到尾又没有一点能打动我。I gained nothing.
PTA尽力了，四星鼓励，其实如果把这片当成一部歌舞片去看，无论是摇曳，还是奔跑，它还是挺酷的。
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