陈松伶
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:当鸟儿用羽翼去实现梦想,翱翔在我们永远无法凭借自身企及的天空,人类又该赋予他们怎样的赞叹呢?“鸟的迁徙是一个关于承诺的故事,一种对于回归的承诺。”雅克·贝汉以这样一句话带我们踏上了鸟与梦飞行之旅。毫无疑问,[迁徙的鸟]直接界定了世界顶级纪录片“获取真实”的标准——前后共600多人参与拍摄,历时3年多、耗资4000多万美元,景地遍及全球50多个国家和地区,记录胶片长达460多公里。这部动用了17个世界上最优秀的飞行员和两个科学考察队的电影甫一出世,就引起轰动。短短三个星期内就有250多万法国人为它走进影院,飞越1200公里的大天鹅对生命的坚持,在漫天风沙中追寻出路的沙丘鹤、在冰天雪地下与海鸦对抗到底的企鹅……尽管当中也有失败气馁,也有悬崖边的木头木脑,也有来自人类贪欲的窥视。除了简单的说明,整部影片不再有言语。本片的主角是憨态可掬,形态各异的鸟。他们带我们飞过大海,飞过雪原,飞过高山;他们用振动的羽翼向我们诠释飞翔,诠释执着,诠释温情,诠释生命。
朱宗庆打击乐团
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: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. SHIMON@lounge.moviecodec.com