《倒計時》是由知名导演大衛·格瑞尼 执导的一部劇情片，珍妮·艾加特 布萊恩·馬歇爾 Clare Sutc 等倾情出演，该片讲述了：The story appear s simple on the surfac e, but is reveale d, especiall y after multiple v iewings, as more multi-layered an d textured than Cass avetes at hi s be st. Ostensibly it concerns a 14-ye ar old Catho lic girl, Wynne (Agutte r) grow ing up i n this post-modern wasteland, who develops a crush on h er much older adoptive brother (Mar shall) - a crush wh ich perversely deep ens an d grows into infat uation once s he starts to believe he is the local sex killer. This is in itself an idea tha t makes y ou sit up and jolt, but as the narrative dev elops , it continu es not necessarily along a linear path but in several conf using and fascina ting direction s: the family';s history, (detailed effectively in chilling flash back during an improvised se ance) is a cheq uered one, and has suffered at l east one major r elocat ion and upheaval in the la st ten years. At the crux, however, it';s the depiction of socialal changes that make I Start Counting so fascinating and elev ate its lan guage far beyond the confines of the sta ndard ho rror film. The major subte xt- that teenage girls were m aturing more quickly than before, and developing fu ll sexual and romantic appetites (even if in thought rath er than deed) but wer e not poss essed of enough di scretion to make the right choices- was a step forward fo r a genre in which it s young females had previou sly b een p ortrayed as bimbo victims (Cover Girl Killer and Th e Night Call er spring to mind), but not one that all v iewers would nece ssarily agree with . But most striking of all, and possibly the most end uring image which the viewer will take away wi th them, is of the masterful symboli sm with which dir ector Greene invests ever y sho t. Every inch of th e Kinch family9;s w orld- their house, their walls, t heir TV, Agutter s underwear, bedroom furn iture and toys, Sutcliff e's clo thes, Ma rshalls v an, the loca l Catholic c hurc h, their t own centre, their record shop) - is paint ed a bri ght, sci ntilla ting white- a white whi ch, by infe rence, is slowly beco ming sm udged and corrupted w ith the dir t of the ou tside world. White al so symbolises, of course, p urity and in nocence (two qualities Catholic schoolgirl s are suppo sed to hold d ear), and it is int o this wor ld of innoc ence that the ever-p resent red bus (a sy mbol of violation and pen etration), co nducted by the lecherou s yet similarly juveni le Sim on W ard, makes regular journeys. The allegory is furthe r expande d in one scene where Agutt er believes she sees th e Christ figure in church weeping blood: by the time we acknowledge it, its gone, bu t the s eed has alrea dy been planted. R arely in a genre p roduction has the use o f colour and background been so important or effective in creating a uniformity of mood. I Start Counting is as nea r-perfect an end to a decade as one co uld hope for, and exactly the kind of film peopl e should be making now- which is, of course, exactly why they n ever will. A genre es sential. by D.R. SHIM ON@lounge.movieco dec.com 按规矩，两人每收一个人的好处，就要往外掏 点货，偏偏他 们是一个一个飞升的 ，总不好意思把说过的消息，再给他们来一遍，没办法下，待到文遥飞升， 人家又给他们摆 了一席，两人把该说的 都说了，只能跟他们八卦纯阳宗宗主被人伏杀的事了。
