王琥
发表于9分钟前
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:故事发生在某知名企业,以收到的一封电子邮件拉开序幕。这封电子邮件将会从根本上威胁到企业的生存,好不容易才查出了警视厅公安部的一个警部与这家企业有着密切的关系,但是,特别监察官却企图竭力隐藏可供查明真相的线索。为了调查案件真相而被提拔的,是即将被革职查办的白州胜彦(椎名桔平饰)和秋吉宗贵(窪塚洋介饰)二人。专门调查警察组织内部犯罪的特别监察官室,对某个危险人物进行了调查。他就是警视厅公安部警部的石卷修次。由于他与大型胶片制造商——DAITO公司相勾结,并且与中国黑社会组织的关系等等,一直令人怀疑,说不定哪天就会引发足以导致警察机构崩溃的爆炸性新闻。为了掌握石卷的动向,警察厅特别监察官室长——御代田警视正,决定起用二个将被革职查办的警探对警察组织内部进行调查。这两个警探就是白州胜彦和秋吉宗贵。白州胜彦——在毒品交易现场射杀嫌疑犯后,拿走作为证据的现金。秋吉宗贵——有女装癖,在警视厅盗窃女警制服。与此同时,DAITO公司本部收到了一封奇怪的电子邮件恐吓信,送信者署名“溺水的鱼”。电子邮件上宣称:如果不能满足信里的要求,不但DAITO公司本部,就连其设在东京都内的DPE照相馆也将受到毁灭性的打击。虽然这样的要求让人感到不可思议,但是这种威胁根本无法判断其真伪。DAITO的四个照相馆的显影液箱里都被掺入了漂白剂,顾客的胶卷也因此全部报废了。罪犯的手段虽然周到、完善,但又不同于一般的恐吓企业犯罪。“溺水的鱼”的目标并非是金钱,而是指名要求DAITO公司的管理层高级职员,到来往行人众多的地方,自己进行有损自己尊严的行为。鉴于这些高级职员们的爱社精神,他们不得不流着泪、可怜兮兮地在众人面前一个个地活活丢丑……某个星期五的夜晚,石卷在富有才气的图像艺术家——冈部哲晃所经营的俱乐部举办的特色娱乐活动“同性恋之夜”上露面了。为了潜入调查,不太情愿的白州和略显几分兴奋的秋吉假扮成一对同性恋情侣,混进了这个狂热而令人窒息的俱乐部……意外的悬念一个接一个地明朗化了,白天展开了激烈的枪战,白州和秋吉潜入了混杂着各种人物、各种欲望的大都市黑社会组织中,在他们面前发生了令人震撼的事件……
仓本裕基
发表于6分钟前
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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