女人莲心

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。

正顺是一位在食品厂工作的中年单身妇女，她和工厂同事永洙在秘密交往。幽会途中，永洙偶尔会用手机拍摄正顺。有一天，正顺感觉到她的同事们在都背后议论她。当她开始寻找问题所在，才发现是永洙把她的视频传播给了他们的同事，她的世界一瞬间土崩瓦解。