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简介: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.
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简介:饭馆服务员小凡子是一个不安心本职工作、富于幻想的姑娘。”她幻想自己有朝一日能够脱去那身“没出息的服务员工作服而变成歌唱家、医务工作者。但是,现实一次次打破了她的幻梦,小凡子因此变得消沉了,她更加厌恶自己的工作,并将胸中的郁闷都发泄在顾客身上。和小凡子青梅竹马长大的某大学学生张志,不愿看着小凡子消沉下去,便常常来劝慰,给她讲干什么工作都是为人民服务的道理。但小凡子却认为张志讲的都是大道理。张志为小凡子装了一台半导体收音机,鼓励她为革命工作学好外语,小凡子却认为没意思,并对另一位端盘子的姑娘佟英成天埋头学外语感到很不理解。不仅如此,小凡子还不顾张志的劝阻,和一个胸无大志的青年人小谷谈上了恋爱,并一意孤行。她对张志说,她之所以这样急切地谈恋爱,是因为端盘子的不好找对象。后来,经过工作上和爱情上所受到的一系列挫折,小凡子终于认识到小谷是个不学无术,又缺乏社会道德的青年,而张志才是她理想之中的爱人。可是,在她还没来得及和张志表白爱慕之情时,却意外地发现,张志的女朋友竟是她的同事佟英,这使小凡子思想上受到了强烈的震动。偏巧,佟英通过业余时间刻苦自学又考上了夜大。认为端盘子没出息、学外语没用的小凡子,思想上再一次受到了强烈的震动。小凡子漫步走到海边,面对着翻滚的潮水和展翅翱翔的海鸥,心潮起伏,思绪万千。  导演:马精武 刘诗兵  编剧:马精武 刘诗兵  主演:郭靖 杨晓丹 袁牧女 吕晓刚 马静
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端盘子的姑娘