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.
有几个故事挺吓人的，冥婚的单元男主身材真好。
整体太过于压抑，其实底层生活还是有苦中作乐一面的…
城镇化的伤痛，既不深刻也不清晰，不只剩下忧伤
柬埔寨/大楼拆迁/跳街舞/骑摩托车的少年与关于父亲的梦/东南亚的夜晚总是闪烁着霓虹灯
ps这个假人模特跟我在纽约的房东长得一模一样 我真是醉了
故事来源导演个人经历，找的男演员实在和导演太像了，私人情感和社会问题的融合。通过大量梦境将拍摄手法逐渐带离平实。不知导演是否确实想达到令人困惑的效果。街舞比赛情怀在前半段多次铺垫，后半段下落不明。90分钟的电影，不填的话尽量少挖坑。
梗不新，很多都猜得到走向。但是胜在一个个短小，该恐怖该血腥一点不含糊，还不错。
不太敢看😰😰😰，一段一段的，也还蛮有意思……
这大概是短视频时代下无脑恐怖电影的模范代表
《韩国都市怪谈》还可以，怎么到了《首尔怪谈》这么又臭又长！
整体片子情节较为散，但是带给观众的感觉非常好，不论是色调还是视听语言都非常的舒服，整个片子下来可以让观众深深地感受到一种故乡的味道。映后导演有说到电影中设置跳舞那一段落是为了表达自己希望人们跳脱出一种形式中。但跳舞这一点，像是轻轻点了水，没有强大的支撑似的。也深深反映出那时政治层面的原因。
2022年的韩国怪谈还在拍八百年前日本怪谈拍过的套路
很明显的作者电影，导演把自己的经历融入电影画面的角角落落，把氛围表达出来了。本来以为分为三大段是要表达三种不同的情绪或主题，但其实无非就是自己梦想的无力，贫穷和社会精神世界的崩塌罢了，反而感觉第二三大段粘在一起了，因此觉得分成三个部分没有很大的必要，但情绪堆叠起来的效果倒是大大给了我惊喜。剧作方面：对于第一大段的剧情属实觉得和后文没有什么关系，而且并没有主要刻划主角，反而是戴面具的c力了一些。剧情上面不出意料的简单又繁琐，细小的事件以小见大，渐渐就反应出了柬埔寨的社会环境，有导演个人的思想和态度在里面，欣赏导演的台词功力。对于导演，有几个隐喻镜头和幻想镜头安排的很有感觉，对于电影时间空间的运用给了我很大的惊喜，小布局的节奏感把握的很棒。
质量仍和上一季一样参差不齐，密室逃脱、人体模特、齿虫相对来说较好。我蛮喜欢齿虫的前半部分渲染，后半部分就是一部司空见惯的丧尸片。如果拍第三季的话，请集中几个故事又或是仅专注一个故事展开，不要再浪费颜值盛宴好吗。
7：冥婚（女鬼好歹是千金 咋变鬼了也不收拾一下）
不太看鬼片，觉得挺好看的，主要都长得太好看了
5.9/10 这是一部犹如夏日篝火旁试胆比赛的影片。 虽然一个个故事都称不上合格, 甚至毫无脉络可言; 但在时长限制下, 提炼故事最精华部分的方式让每一个短片都足够惊险刺激。 不少尺度略大的场面给于的视觉冲击力, 更为影片多添几抹亮色。 此外本片虽然不要求极高水准的演技力, 但一众偶像依旧努力展现了及格, 甚至以上的演技, 亦使作品不沦为一部专门取悦粉丝的糟糕作品。
看太多了，所以这电影套路和剧情实在是无趣无聊
——2022.1.8
科长的映前导赏。切断身体 发展需要割裂 浑浊的历史与迷蒙的未来 把握年青一代的当下 红色高棉 是多少人共同的记忆怪核。直到大厦崩塌。
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