曾黎
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:暴风雨侵袭中的大西洋城，一场拳赛正在体育馆中预备上演，当地警探瑞克（尼古拉斯·凯奇 Nicolas Cage 饰）在敲诈赌客之余亦不忘为老拳王泰勒打气。这场比赛同时吸引到了国防部长莅临现场，担任部长护卫的海军长官凯文得以同老友瑞克见面，两人相谈甚欢。拳赛开始后，一名红发女子吸引了凯文的注意，另一名银发女子则与部长交头接耳，泰勒中拳倒地的刹那，部长中枪，凶手被凯文当场击毙。瑞克为自责中的凯文出谋划策，滞留全场一万多名观众。从比赛录像中，瑞克发现拳赛有假，以泰勒为突破口，瑞克锁定幕后的几名可疑人员，逼迫真凶出面将同伙灭口。同时银发女子茱莉亚向瑞克透露了事情真相，军火商为盈利在飞弹试验结果中作假，为防止事情败露暗杀了部长。瑞克决定拾起警察的责任，将罪犯绳之以法。
雪儿
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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
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