就在即将期末考试之际，19岁的黛菲因为父亲中风不得不回到家乡。他的康复疗程是这对父女治愈他们脆弱关系的契机。在这个地中海小镇上，她慢慢地被卷入了一场家庭闹剧。她亲眼目睹姑姑用自己提供的非处方药自杀。自杀后，司法程序就此开始。在罪恶感之下埋藏的变化是，她慢慢发现自己失去了清白和天真，并质疑自己原有的正义观念。
元龟二年夏，早川的又七（藤原釜足 饰）、太平（千秋实 饰）被困秋月无法返家，只因秋月战败于山名，故山名重兵把守秋月早川的边境以防秋月的雪姬（上原美佐 饰）逃亡。二人在山中遇见了秋月武士真壁六郎太（三船敏郎 饰）和雪姬，并在不知对方真实身份的情况下与其共同运送木柴取道山名向早川进发，只因觊觎藏在木柴里的金条。真壁的计谋帮助四人顺利通过了秋月山名的边关，而雪姬不忍看秋月女子（樋口年子 饰）在山名受辱，命真壁赎之。五人运木柴赶路，忽被四名山名兵盘查。真壁当机立断杀死两人，又飞身上马追杀逃掉的两人。一路追至敌营，遇见了山名武士田所兵卫（藤田进 饰）。二人相见恨晚，较量许久，难分高下……
卡尔·韦弗（史蒂夫·卡瑞尔 Steve Carell 饰）人到中年，中年危机如约到来——妻子艾米丽（朱丽安·摩尔 Julianne Moore 饰）提出离婚，令他面对儿女不知所措。重回情场的卡尔发现自己已经脱离男欢女爱的时代了，幸而遇到泡妞高手雅各·帕尔默（瑞恩·高斯林 Ryan Gosling 饰），帮他重整行头，教他当今最时髦的方法俘获女人芳心。卡尔重战情场了，反而是雅各遇上感情烦恼，他遇见一个叫汉娜（艾玛·斯通 Emma Stone 饰）的姑娘，令他发现真爱原来和招数、游戏根本无关，他不再在意是否“泡到”她，宁愿和她聊一整夜。女人缘变好的卡尔渐渐发现家庭仍是自己最大牵挂，雅各渐渐发现自己愿意为汉娜放弃花花公子的日子，加上卡尔13岁的小儿子也开始情窦初开为爱烦恼，爱有多疯狂，又有多愚蠢，在汉娜邀请雅各回家吃饭的那刻，终于见了分晓……
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. SHIMON@lounge.moviecodec.com
讲述在人生中从未尝到过成功的排球教练遇到只要取得一次胜利就可以的女排队后开始挑战的故事。
