二十年代的美国处于经济萧条时期，春暖失业率居高不下，春暖工人受尽压榨，成为了大机器生产中的一颗螺丝钉。查理（查理·卓别林 Charles Chaplin 饰）就是一个底层市民，他在一个机器隆隆的厂房里日以继夜地工作，以赚取微薄的收入。重复繁重的工作压得他喘不过气，他把人们的鼻子当成螺丝钉来拧，卷入流水线机器的皮带里，令人苦笑不得。查理尽管贫穷，但却很善良。他在路上搭救了流浪女，和她一起生活，家里破烂却又温馨。每次身无分文的查理为了找到吃的，都会故意犯事，以便进入监牢。光景一时间有了好转，流浪女成了歌舞红星，然而好景太短暂了。©豆瓣
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
回复 :伊茱欧海拉亲眼目睹黑帮少主岛崎寻尼被杀，而年轻英俊的杀手在杀人时，竟然流着泪。原来在杀手这一行中，杀手杀了人之后，自己就将是下一个被杀的人。寻尼之父自日本赶来报仇，发现该杀手隶属一中国秘密组织「龙之子」。寻尼之父原欲以伊茱为饵，引蛇出洞，不料自己先被杀死，引来了三大帮派一片混乱，大家都想坐上龙头老大的宝座，但是，只有找到这个杀手并杀死他才有资格登上这个宝座。杀手终于衔命来杀伊茱了，但是这对「没有明天」的男女，却彼此打动并深深结合，而双双陷入绝境－－不仅日本黑道要他们的命，中国秘密组织更放不过他们。
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回复 :德川幕府时期，刽子手拜一刀（田村正和 饰）深得主公信任，然以柳生备前（橋爪功 饰）为首的柳生一族觊觎大权，因此视武功高强的水欧派剑客拜一刀如大敌。在正式比武前夕，备前设计陷害拜一刀，并杀害了他的妻子蓟（古手川祐子 饰），致令拜一刀挥刀而起，斩杀前来拘捕他的官差。在此之后，他与有着“暗里柳生”之称的柳生烈堂（仲代达矢 饰）相约决斗，最终取胜，于是获准带着儿子大五郎离开江户。从此，拜一刀化身为独行江湖的赏金杀手，与宿敌柳生一族结下难以化解的仇恨……本片根据小池一夫和小島剛夕的原作漫画改编，并荣获1994年日本电影学院奖最佳男配角奖（田中邦衛）。©豆瓣
