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.
刷抖音看到解说，反感这种镜头都是一惊一乍的老式吓人套路，不打算看完整片了，就这样吧，我还是一如既往不喜欢日韩恐怖片为吓人而吓人的变态感觉。
奇怪就奇怪人家的偶像不仅有颜，抛开唱跳，演戏也能撑得住
整體比較老套無聊⋯像小學時候看的那種鬼故事集錦。
十个剧组的会操练兵，也不错，精气神都挺足的，至少喊的不错，牙医变异时抽搐那几下也很像样，科技特效感再少一点就更好了。
科长监制，东南亚拆迁故事，故事讲得很拧巴，卧虎单元有机会拿奖。
10个小故事，不是个个都短小精悍，情节印像深刻的有衣柜和最后的密室逃脱，其他的就是为了吓人而吓人。
《韩国都市怪谈》导演洪基元，首部电影长片，呈现形式上实则依旧是10部短小精悍的短篇故事集。看作剧集的成功，令导演在本片的发挥上，有着更为惊人的表现力，和艺术思想成分的加成。除了猎奇、奇观化的视听呈现，高度类型化的叙事方式，部分短片虽良莠不齐，但看到了主创们的努力，在影片对现实的关照上，希冀有一些现实向的启发，虽然这个目标，从呈现结果倒退上来说，有些差强人意。但从影片完成度上来说，的确有被惊吓到。尤其类似于《衣柜》、《寄生虫》和《层间噪音》等，短片故事本身已经形成了一个单元完整性。PS：导演选角能力还是蛮出色的，男演员群体的颜值都很在线，代表了东亚审美的一种普遍趋势和潮流。韩国把潮流文化立于根本之国策上，不得不佩服这种年轻向、面向未来的国家格局。在吸引外资上，韩国文化产业也淌出了一条成功之路。
没有一个让我满意的故事，但是冥婚那个小哥哥很可爱
很多短小的故事，类似怪奇物语。（寄生虫的part很恶心。
夜色中沉沉望的 是梦 是遥不可及
几十年来，柬埔寨没有电影作品，日子也一样过。导演面对这样一个人口与经济体量和中国三线城市相当的国家，处理其现代性延迟到来的问题时，选择了退回个人的记忆之场，尽力做隐喻的尝试。这样“贫瘠”的作品，叙事的不够决绝与落地，其实是荒凉历史的孩子。平遥影展在北京，贾科长映前导览@中国电影资料馆。
靠着机翻字幕和抖音解说半理解看完了
3.0，小标题式的结构，摄影善于捕捉宏观的社会进程以及聚焦部分微观的家庭生活和人物状态，金边的GDP和基建总体上还是跟国内五线的县级市差不多，甚至不如，消费水平和收入完全是两极化发展，更是一个电信诈骗大国，底层国民看世界的眼光仍然处于时代末流，偶尔有一两部电影可以有机会多了解一下这个地方的真实的城乡环境。
7：冥婚（女鬼好歹是千金 咋变鬼了也不收拾一下）
总觉得因为导演自己的思绪主导的太多以至于故事其实讲的不是很清，对于剧本或者电影而言会觉得不是很完整，特别是阿卡-友谊这部分的呈现比重和结局都很仓促。但如果站在个人而言，我如果只是想拍一部表达自己经历和情感的片子，那很多时候的情感特别是童年成长，它其实就是模糊混沌没有结果也没有逻辑的。所以对于剧情而言要看在什么角度来评价了。
由于前2个实在是太差太差，我白眼翻上天了都.以至于后面有几个还行的，也拉不高前2个带来的无语情绪
关于一次拆迁。漏水发霉的房顶，好友的离别，搬空后物件零落的房间。老屋在梦里反复出现如昨日般新鲜。雨季时在杉树下投出篮球，砸在松动的筐上咣咣作响。球砸破窗槛的牛奶瓶，落到泡沫花盆里，沾上仙人掌的小刺。井水冲刷掉地面的热气，喇叭花早已收起耳朵。一样的秋风扫过，杉叶落在地上，杉树也落在地上。
life is life. Endless, meaningless, painful. Lighten &darken, and always dark.
是最近恐怖片太拉垮了，这种级别的韩国恐怖片也能拉出来宣传么（感觉自从昆池岩爆了以后就这样）…..可能除了牙医那段可以做个僵尸片的前传以外其他的甚至看起来蜜汁好笑，而且很多都过于无厘头以至于让人摸不着头脑，比如最后那段神奇的密室逃脱….
什么乱七八糟的，导演当人都是傻子，没看过别的恐怖片儿是吧…………
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