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.
2teach。所有的伟人都教不了22，也许她缺的正是一个平凡的老师。
2020年，终于有人告诉我们可以不要那么努力，做一个开心的人就是很好的一生。
想象力很丰富，很喜欢那只猫～不过spark不是人生目标，而是所谓活的当下，这样的说教似乎太空洞了。在特定社会结构中，个体难以获得成功，不被社会承认，就很容易退回到每个瞬间的感动中以求残存的意义，这种被逼退却既然作为一种防御而出现，就自然带有意识形态特性，实则掩饰内心痛苦，反向巩固社会秩序。真实的生命不应该割裂目标和当下感动之间的关系。
2020最后一部电影，感觉很幸福！活着真好！
回国以后很长一段时间无法对曾经生活在纽约的经历释怀 诚实地说我也以为达到某个目标 找到好的工作 完成什么壮举我的纽约经历才完整 我才能好好放手 但不是这样的 22在阳光下拿起那片秋叶的时候 我好像又穿越回跑着去metrograph的那个下午 阳光那么温暖 我突然意识到曾经的自己也还在血液里 奔跑去面试的我 赶地铁的我 对电影热情的我都在 那就是我最好的自己 活在海洋里的自己 i have being living after all and I will continue to do so. (抱着大花寻找soul
民胞物与嘛，像是一个冷冰冰的说理机器，和《头脑特工队》真的差距太大，概念做成短片或许更好一点。
热泪盈眶的电影，以后每一年都要看一遍的电影。
好一部佛教大片，一个死后在中阴里等着转世投胎的灵魂，夺舍还阳后在一叶中觉悟菩提的故事，在皮克斯手里讲得共了全人类的情。人生真正的“火花”并非成功，而是生活本身，它在落叶在音乐在呼吸在棒棒糖中，一切都是恩赐，这便是“爵士”精神。比起《飞屋》和《头脑》更爱《soul》，在真实和想象力的交错中，充满了透达人心的智慧。最妙的是，最后22去了中国西藏。
对皮克斯的期待永远都值得！！拍完了《头脑特工队》的现世和《寻梦环游记》的死后之后，这次终于来到了生前。这并不是预想中关于梦想的故事——毕竟那样就落入了俗套，而日复一日的生活就是世界上最美好的事。当然，音乐、猫和纽约市也是世界上最美好的事。角色和场景设计都太棒了，毕加索的立体主义和超现实主义灵魂附体啊！
用很淡的方式陈述一个很重的命题，符合大多数人去电影院的预期——「最好别让我想太多，这种分量还可以。」就像主角先前在理发店里，只跟托尼聊爵士乐而不谈人生那样。
寻找人生并不容易，即便好似找到了，一旦达成却又发现好像并不是辣么肥事。
我们从小就听过很多道理，长大以后，日复一日繁琐的生活，让我们忘了这些道理。
泰戈尔有诗：世界于你而言，毫无意义和目的，却又充满随心所欲的幻想，但又有谁知，也许就在这闷热令人疲倦的正午，那个陌生人，提着满篮奇妙的货物，路过你的门前，他响亮地叫卖着，你就会从朦胧中惊醒，走出房门，迎接命运的安排。说的就是这部电影吧，那么问题就在于，我觉得微微奇怪的是，平凡的火花应该是是一种“存在”的状态，剧作如果像是头脑特工队那样去寻找去探索去发现，则更加能说服我，但现在的剧作虽然成熟完美，实际用的是一种去求索去得到的论证方式，我觉得过于刻意。
“生命的火花不是目标，而是对生活的热情。”2021年想安利给身边朋友的第一部片子，好好活着，享受当下的每一分钟。
#桃花岛观影团#人生的那一刻美好，在镜中看到自己剪的好看的新发型，在母亲的回眸一笑，在吹着风仰望蓝天，在回忆起父母儿时的陪伴，在晴朗的天空下骑着车，在布鲁克林第一次看着曼哈顿的烟花，在将自己的热爱循循善诱教授学生，在光脚踩沙滩上任由海浪拍打，在人生的每一次日出。感谢皮克斯带来一次美好的心灵奇旅，这是我2020看过最好的电影。
一碗香浓美味的鸡汤。
拖了快两年才看的影片。确实和评论说得一样，有抚慰到几分钟的心灵。但也只是几分钟了。
皮克斯的审美和技术无需讳言，开头那段生死之交的量子空间的视觉呈现非常棒，可惜有点短，回到现世之后就普通多了。成片的评价最终还是归于主旨和立意——比《头脑特工队》稍弱，比《寻梦环游记》强太多，依然还是立足于与自我的和解，从成功学、社会达尔文和黑暗森林理论里解脱出来，享受生命中闪光的喜怒哀乐与回忆，才真的不枉来人世走一遭啊。四星。
When you try your best but you don't succeed, when you get what you want but not what you need.
过去每一部几乎都有很明确的某一方面的动画技术进步，比如火焰、水、毛发等等，这一部大概是“半透明的发光体”吧。只是这种造型很低幼的东西实在让人提不起很大兴趣。Pixar也“致敬”了很多过去的作品，灵魂很像Inside Out，日常生活蒙太奇则来自Up。2020年抛出“活好每一天”的主题自然很有意义，但大概也到此为止。
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