Malcon是迈阿密日报的记者。当地发生一起谋杀案，世界由他负责报道。而凶手竟然主动打电话联系他，世界并告知凶手的后续杀人计划。同时，凶手一边不断杀人，一边不断打电话给Malcon，并告知其情况。此事引起警方高度重视的同时，也引起当地媒体的热播，Malcon变得家喻户晓。凶手此时却又迁怒于他，因为凶手的本意在于通过Malcon的报道，引起公众的重视，现在反而Malcon“喧宾夺主”。而另一方面，Malcon的女朋友Christine对此也极为不满，认为Malcon在帮助凶手……
回复 :上世纪90年代，一个北非村庄里，八名法国西多会修士严守着基督教的信条，在修道院唱诗、礼拜、救死扶伤，与当地穆斯林村民和谐相处。然而，一次恐怖主义分子的袭击，打破了这份宁静。工地上，外籍工人惨遭屠戮，西多会开始遭到村民的怀疑和怨恨。此时，政府军决定对修道院加强护卫，然而以克里斯汀（朗贝尔•维尔森 Lambert Wilson 饰）为首的修士们最终拒绝了军队的要求。在圣诞节前夜里，一群原教旨主义者深夜来访，宣称对这场屠杀事件负责。在教堂门口，基督教修士与伊斯兰教门徒进行了教义上的短兵相接。修士们用勇气和教义捍卫了尊严，全身而退。然而，政府军随后杀到，不仅活捉了恐怖分子，而且用卑劣的死刑处死了头目。他们怀疑修士与恐怖分子私通，于是把矛头对准了这座教堂……本片获得第63届戛纳电影节评审团大奖。
回复 :一对情侣来到林间小屋却意外遭到了凶恶歹徒的袭击，并在逃跑过程中被绑架囚禁。她们发现被囚禁的不止她们，歹徒也不止一人。她们必须为了活下去进行反击...
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
