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.
同为东亚文化。在这部剧中确实存在很大差异。而我自己在平壤博物馆感受几百年书画，虽同文，也感受到差异！
对沉重历史的轻柔触碰。导演对主题敏感度很高，一开始主题非常好，为苍生福祉放弃自己的信仰，和借信仰之名戕害苍生福祉，展示人性复杂，具备现实意义。后面提到徒弟意识形态摇摆，师徒意识形态分歧，我一度觉得这些人性复杂度很高级，后来发现只是为揭露封建社会腐败做铺垫，沦为黑白对错口号式评判，一直批判没什么，先复杂后面越来越简单就有点跌份。结尾煽情廉价。技术有明显瑕疵，镜头设计不熟练，剪辑点不连贯，转场生硬，“看！是谁来了”“看！那是什么”“看！有你的信”是最懒惰的转场方式之一，频频出戏，更不必说有些转场连过场戏都没有。中文字幕质量欠佳。薛耿求李姃垠年龄变化、卞约汉阶层变化的表演值得赞赏。
2021年在韩国的电影里明确感受到中华传统文化的强韧生命力，作为一个中国人说实话多少是有点屈辱感的。唐诗儒道中医千字文这种表面的文化元素拿来用也就用了，恐怖的是对其内在思想的理解和展示也很有潜移默化的感染力，熟稔的好像信手拈来一般，始于儒家终于道家的思想升华更是神来一笔，不少细节也让人恍惚有种中华传统文化真在复兴的味道，不知这算不算“师中文化以陷中”。
沉重的话题却表现得毫不沉重，温润如玉，娓娓道来，16年弹指间，在黑白色的世界里，白头发和苍老仿佛并不是那么的明显，同样，在黑白的世界里，献血也只变成了一抹并不耀眼的底色，而如果，不是黑白的世界，那大海里的景色该多美啊
像编纂字典、故宫修文物甚至守灯塔，都是如此。
洞悉上层腐朽倾心西学的遭贬大儒邂逅向往功名醉心理学的小渔夫，从两个方向说尽了一个体系的活力与困境。即席汉诗酬答的那段让中国观众分外感动。没想到韩国还能拍出这么纯粹的东亚文人电影，黑白摄影的海面和树影，有日本电影的动态而无日式建筑的拘谨，文人意趣则让人想起《孔夫子》那时候的中国电影，真心让人赞叹。要说不足，大概是两位主角之外的配角们都刻画得较为脸谱化，功能性过强。
“兹”字的本字是“玆” 由两个“玄”字组成 代表黑色 这也是电影里丁若铨认为黑山不吉遂改为兹山的原因 没球用的冷知识+1
既然不能学以致用，那就以自己的真性情活着吧。非常动人，薛景求最后的独白那一声声“昌大啊”喊得呀，为何如此深情？PS.这片子的卡司一半都是阳光先生剧组直接过来的吧，哈哈。
我其实觉得挺一般的，看的中间想到了《邮差》，不如。视点一开始是老丁，但不由自主的就变成了弟子。而且对于主题（意识形态？）的部分，导演也很含糊，不确定他想要传递的是什么（态度？思想？精神？）。
印象中没有见过薛景求拍过古装类型的戏，不愧是变色龙，什么角色都能驾驭的好，事实证明导演大胆启用卞约汉也是非常正确的选择，如今能看到这样的片子是种很幸福很难得的事情了，因为咱们没有这个耐心和魄力拍出这样的作品，第一次看黑白片没感觉到闷，不过换成彩色应该又是另一种风格了
就按照自己的本性来活。
文化不是一天两天积累出的，韩国在致力于发扬传统文化方面下足功夫。
知识分子上山下乡，接受贫下中农的再教育，很有必要；而贫下中农只想着在平凡的世界「胜天半子」……死循环。
从自然来，到自然去；从两班来，到民众去。朝鲜末期，民生凋敝，何去何从，师生对比，兄弟对比。西学东渐还是朱子理学？陷官场泥淖还是慈山污泥？可能唯自然才能作答。
古朴的影像，匠心独具的拍摄手法，一种浪漫的情怀又痛彻心扉的顿悟。工整又整齐的排列组合。技法成熟表演圆润情感饱满。
丁若铨从一个士大夫被流放到了黑山岛，是处于他人生中最低谷的时期，而他遇到了昌大，通过对于海洋生物的直接的捕捞和游泳训练，而具有这方面的实践和考察的知识。在这个过程之中，丁若铨意识到了自己所学习和攻读的不管是来自儒家性理学，还是来自西方几何学、自然科学和天主教的影响的知识都遇见了自己的弊端，他从昌大普通的、看似直白的记录和描述中，知道每一种鱼都有自己行走和捕食的方式，而且用一种综合了民间的俚俗感和知分子的审美趣味的命名方式，给那些从来没有被记载的事物命名，其实丁若铨对鱼，鱼的命名和编谱方式，不是一种类似于李时珍的《本草纲目》这样的汇编和总结。尽管也是百科全书式的，受到了儒家性理学之中格物致知的“格物”理论的影响，但是丁若铨本身对于来自边缘岛屿的生物，尤其是鱼类，尤其是那些从来没有被文人所记载的
算是不错的韩国历史片了，虽然仍有流水账的嫌疑
价值观的冲突只是六个字，但它们会像鬼魅之手一样影响你做的每个决定，左还是右，前还是后，躺还是跑，去还是留，平和还是激烈，它是我们如何活着的帆。
田心，黑山《经世遗表》，学习一下？
本片寓意，意境颇得精髓，都是老祖宗的东西，却被别人拍得这么好，不得不有点嫉妒了。
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