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.
86//其实片头部分心里有质疑画面处理水平，且对片中的恐怖形象如此轻易、无震慑力地暴露全貌感到迷惑。当故事以轻巧的节奏展开并逐渐显露其漂亮的形式基奠，质疑和迷惑彻底消散。
不喜欢导演过火的理念。马丁路德金看完泉下都坐不住了
看过把自身主题喊的最大声的恐怖电影。片中他人口述的前传海伦的故事明显更胜一筹，此版的黑人画家纯粹吃饱了没事找事，本身也没经历啥黑人压迫，缺乏内涵，所以电影细数了黑人压迫简史，无奈。艺术行业、皮影戏、灵异配乐等试图营造一种高级感，但和粗滥的剧情和屠杀格格不入，倒是和评论家说的gentrification如出一辙。
糖果人，糖果人，糖果人，糖果人，糖果人不杀黑人。他是黑人群体的生存咒怨。
7/10 Successful for a horror movie, but then the lack of finesse really shows when you have too much to say through a horror movie but don’t know how to deliver the messages artfully.
其实这片是糖果人系列的续集，还是有很多前几部的场景
导演功底不错，虽然剧本中段有点泄，但是结尾部分救回来了，要不是因为疫情延期了许久，这片子应该能赶上blm运动的余波。我不明白短评里面看到黑人平权就打低分的人是什么心态，一部摆明了全黑人班底制作的影片在加上本身就是黑人题材的原系列，你指望人家拍什么？血泪控诉的是黑人遭受的苦难，难道其他有色种族就没有这般遭遇吗？不指望共情但是至少可以客观评价影片质量吧？声画的运用和剪辑方式都算是近期恐怖片中很出彩的，期待导演将会怎样呈现惊队2。
非常绝望的表述。族裔问题无法解决，于是要化作怨灵对白人进行无差别屠戮。
刚开始还认为91分钟怎么够讲完一个种族歧视题材电影，看完之后发现五分钟就好了，前面的86分钟的内容就略显寡淡了。全片精华都在最后五分钟的皮影动画里，简单的配乐，简单的画面再加上一些字幕，诠释了糖果人的本质：糖果人不是一个人，而是无数无辜灵魂的蜂巢。
本身就是对恐怖类型片的gentrification。那么如今这个高级住客有多高级呢？——竟然出现了两次【戴着耳机不知道周遭发生了什么】的桥段。
比逃出绝命镇强点儿。但既然是怨念，凶的方面实在离东亚差得远了。
6.3 非常“聪明”略去了亚洲人和黑人念出最后一次名字，且略去了社区的概念，蜂巢幽灵也只是直观的蜂群而已，并没有将社区楼房的居民视为蜂，在这一点逊色于《廉价住房》，对于结局，导演该去看《趣味游戏》
就差射观众脸上了。一万句粗浅的政治表达也比不过拍一部好电影，一万部这种糖果人也比不过一部逃出绝命镇
21_163。比起以前看过的版本这版本可谓政治意味非常浓厚。但新加的东西也挺有意思的吧，皮影戏（？）好看
讲真不吓人，黑人平权这种zz正确也太明显了，哈哈。
又一个不能提名字的伏地魔……黑命贵所以杀人有理？20220201
新版的《糖果人》几乎成了一部纯黑人电影，还是那种中产阶级精英众生相（其实他们也不怎么看得起低端人口）。
摄影方面还是不错，和都市传说的风格相得益彰；剧本层面是很失败的，连故事的完整性都做不到。
继承了前作对城市建筑的社会表达，也找准了新主题，群体自身应当夺回关于群体历史的话语权，否则所有历史都会在城市建设的代际中被抹去。但后半段是不是塞入了太多内容，白人警察执法那段也太直给了……而且如果主角是被“隐藏的过去”所指代的，群体被迫害历史引发的潜意识恐惧给吞噬，那暗线角色推动主角的动机是什么？其前史是不是和立场有矛盾啊
但本片不仅毫不恐怖，调度不错但只服务于画面美感，连jump scare都算不上，政治表达更如此浅白，我都不好说这是让位之后的结果。
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