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.
行云流水、干净利落的打斗戏份很爽，行侠仗义、快意恩仇，好评！
林嘉欣好美～看了她的个人介绍，同样是两个女孩的妈，在加拿大产女的台湾人，这样符合她个人背景的人物设定，怪不得她演起来感觉得心应手，毫不费力
精彩弦目的功夫動畫設計就值給５星了；可惜主角人設太普通不覺得他性格討好，反像一莽夫被迫殺戮有点陰暗；大ＢＯＳＳ也是有故事有理想的人設，剧情倒是有点驚喜；最后男主得報父仇大BＯＳＳ死於㦸下，大牆塌下一眾嘍囉失依靠只能要男主照顧了...若有所指吧...有点意思，４星鼓勵
我讨厌贫穷还要生很多 更讨厌日子这么难过了你为什么不能懂事一点理解一点
疫情大环境下家庭生活的重新解读，母女两代人思想、认知的碰撞与融合，男性地位被刻意弱化。
以罗通为视角，漕帮卷入阴谋之中，同样是为父报仇，背后的老谋深算，谁曾想，下一代还是要卷入其中，到底什么是大业呢？被洗脑过了头的人真是天真的可怕~
虽然我无法感受到异国归来的不适，但是那种家庭争端和相处模式却异常真实。
女儿在美国学会了自我中心，老公忙于工作赚钱，都无法理解母亲的难处，自己又身患重病，本就貌合神离的家庭和解起来谈何容易。吵架戏拍手叫绝，拍得真好。很私人细腻，但过于drama了。
2022 #32 | 很细腻的一部电影，如果没有快到结尾的时候大的冲突出现，我甚至都觉得就这样平淡的叙述也可以，刻意引来了马这个意象也让电影更“电影”，最后结尾妹妹回家对我来说结束在这里还是有点突然，我一直以为还有故事...
没想到一部动画竟然重现了江湖武侠风味，快意恩仇的故事、流畅至极的打斗、应景的古风配乐，太绝太带感了
真是难得啊
林嘉欣已经演到了红姐——惠英红的角色了，主角女——妈妈自己身患癌症，大女儿叛逆期，小女儿被非典隔离，丈夫可有可无，对于生活她想抓住很多，包括但不限于带孩子们去美国，让孩子去骑马做自己想做的，但是一场癌症和一场非典把所有的虚假的繁华碾碎，兜兜转转了一大圈又回到了原点，还生死未知。上一次我记住林嘉欣还是《男人四十》里面的高中女学生。本片中并没有去分析更多文化隔阂的问题，而是冷静、甚至残忍的展示，癌症、青春期、文化隔阂、疫情对一个家庭的碾轧。
其實看預告片就很壓抑不太想看了，無奈被朋友按頭。整個故事都蠻架空的，不管是台灣文化還是美國文化，都浮泛表面，人物的背景、動機都很模糊，只是設定了一個母題，情節就跟著走下去。這樣的家庭氛圍太讓人窒息了，但的確是大多數中華家庭的代表：不懂溝通甚至不想溝通，明明知道互相埋怨沒用，還是忍不住互相傷害。很多片段其實無意義，可能是導演為了讓背景更加豐富，卻按錯地方。
支线做成电影不跟边角料做成主菜一样毫无诚意么。
100分钟没有一分钟是多余的，很多地方让人忍不住多看几遍，制作方真的是牛逼。
结尾仓促， 高潮后的转变略显突兀，可能预示着那个魂牵梦绕的美国梦突然一夜之间碎了…
枕刀歌13=特别篇上：时间（当年的真相。“千历三十八年”，那就是万历年间呗，时空背景明确了。）
角色造型不够精细，但值得为打斗设计单独加一星。最后一场大战三人合斗Boss，打出了三英战吕布的气势。片尾作为彩蛋的刀剑对决片段也让人惊艳，期待第二季。
先大吼一声：我最近都不要看东雅家庭电影了！！！！！！！！
原本我只是觉得香港的动作片里的动作传承在新时代的国漫，现在这部片彻底让我觉得香港的武侠片传承在现在的国漫了。这一类型国漫还需要更多的数量累计，终有一天大家在学习世界动画史的时候国漫的武侠动画会成为我们的一大特色题材。
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