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

讲述一对因疫情封城而隔离在家的夫妻，开始重新审视自己以及两人的关系。

由米歇尔安德尔森指导，理查德托德和迈克尔雷德格雷夫主演的美国老电影。

　　本片根据真实事件改编
　　1970年，来自美国长岛中产阶级家庭的青年希斯（Brad Davis饰）与女友来到土耳其度假，临行前希斯偷携了两公斤大麻，不料登机时暴露，并因藏匿毒品被捕。希斯在被押往监狱的路上逃脱失败后又遭监狱官毒打，所幸他很快结识了两位狱友：吉米（Randy Quaid 饰）与艾力（Norbert Weisser 饰），并开始逐渐熟悉土耳其监狱中如露天市场般混乱荒诞的生活环境。
　　虽经父亲多方努力，但希斯仍不得不忍受四年刑期。四年后即将出狱时却正逢美土交恶，希斯不巧被改判三十年，成为了外交的牺牲品。艾力这时又刑满释放，希斯的承受力面临崩溃，最终决定加入到吉米的逃狱计划中去……

　　展现了17世纪英国资产阶级革命（也可以说是世界历史）中最重要的一段历史时期，改革与保守势力之间的一场大决战。影片描述了奥利弗·克伦威尔推动并领导消弱专制王权、确立议会绝对权威斗争中的作用。从而最终奠定了延续至今的西方政体制度的基础。

　　Harry Palmer已经离开了英国情报服务部门并成为一个私家侦探。他接到的第一个业务就是带一样东西去赫尔辛基，可是他带在身上的东西可没那么简单，他开始怀疑他这个亿万富翁到底给了他什么……