《倒計時》是由知名导演大衛·格瑞尼 执导的一部劇情片，珍妮·艾加特 布萊恩·馬歇爾 Clare Sutc 等倾情出演，该片讲述了：The stor y appear s simple on the surface, but is reve aled, esp ecially after multiple viewings, as more multi-layered and te xtured th an Cassavetes at his best. Ostensib ly i t concerns a 14-year old Catholic girl, Wynne (A gutter) grow ing u p in this post-modern wastela nd, w ho develops a cr ush on her much older adoptive brother (Marshall)- a crush whic h perverse ly deepen s and grows into infatuation once she starts to believe he is the local sex killer. This is in itself an i dea that mak es you s it up and jolt, but as the narra tive develops, it continues not necessarily along a linear path but in several confus ing and fascina ting directions: the famil y's history, (detailed effectively in chil ling flas hback during a n improvised seance) is a chequered one, and has suffered at least on e major relo cation and upheaval in the last ten years. At the crux, however, it 's the depic tion of socialal changes th at m ake I Sta rt Counting so fascinating and elevat e it s language f ar beyond the confines of the standard h orror fi lm. The major subtext - that t eenage girls wer e maturin g more quick ly than before, and developing full sexual a nd romant ic appeti tes (even if in thou ght ra ther than deed) but were not posses sed of eno ugh discre tion 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 sp ring to mind ), but not one that all viewers would nec essarily agree with. But most striking of all, and possibly the most e nduring image which the viewer wil l take away with them, is of the mast erful symbolism with which director Greene in vests every shot. Every inch o f the Kin ch famil y's world- their hou se, their walls, their TV, Agutters underwear, bed room fur niture and toys, Sutcliffe's clothes, Marshalls van, the local C atholic church, the ir town centre, their record shop) - is painted a bright, scintillating white- a wh ite which, by infe rence, is slowly becoming smudged and corrupted with th e dirt of the ou tside wor ld. White also symbolises, of c ourse, p urity and i nnocence (two q ualities Cat holic school girls are supposed to hold dear), a nd it is into this w orld of innocen ce that the e ver-pre sent red bus (a symbol of vio lation and penetrati on), condu cted by the lecher ous yet similarly juven ile Simon Ward, makes regu lar journeys . The allegory is f urther expanded in one scene whe re A gutter believes she see s the Ch rist figure in church weep ing b lood: by the time we acknowledge it, its gone, b ut the seed has already been pl anted. Rarely in a g enre produc tion has the use of colou r and backgr ound been so important or effective in creat ing 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 fi lm people should be making now- which is, of cour se, exactly why they never will. A genre essent ial. by D. R. SHIMON @lounge .moviecodec. com 宁知意点头，“他现在 每次来，都是从这里进。” 说到这里，她想到什么，现场给她复制了一枚玉简，“陆望老祖参与了仙上 楼三百六十八家的禁制改造，他在各店都弄了一 个随机传送阵，你记住各店传送阵的位置，以后出门遇到危 险，寻就近的仙上楼，百里内随时 可定位传送。”
