辛龙
发表于1分钟前回复 :本片是《沉默的羔羊》十周年纪念日推出的续集，这一集故事仍然改编自作家托马斯哈里斯的小说。从高度戒备的医院逃脱的汉尼拔（安东尼·霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 饰）恶习难改，继续寻找他的“猎物”，不料成了曾在自己刀下侥幸活命的梅森（加里·奥德曼 Gary Ol dman 饰）的猎杀对象。梅森是一个罪大恶极的恋童癖，曾经强暴过自己的亲妹妹，年轻的时候逃狱，并且接受过人魔汉尼拔·莱克特的心理治疗，但汉尼拔·莱克特却害他半身瘫痪并且严重毁容，现在必须靠人工呼吸器维生。但是他拥有庞大的财产，并且不断收集各种不同的儿童，希望能把汉尼拔引出来，进行恐怖的报复行动。无奈之下汉尼拔求助于克莱丽斯探员（朱丽安·摩尔 Julianne Moore 饰）。两大恶魔对决，到底谁胜谁败？
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发表于5分钟前回复 :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
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