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.
可能十年前（或者五年前）看这片的话会很有感触但是现在看真的毫无感觉了，世间大多数从一开始就非常美好的爱情都是这样的结局，也就见怪不怪了。以前我也觉得双方有相同的爱好很重要，但现在发现一点都不重要，重要的是对方愿意陪你去做你喜欢做的事，这就够了。毕竟，我也不想和我自己谈恋爱：（
忙起来还是会吵架啊
角色或许会变，但“我们”不会变。
“进入社会就像进浴缸泡澡。”于是真的有人在浴缸中死去。
小娟的工作赶上剧本杀的风口，获得融资，她因为是创始团队成员获得期权变现，有了很多财富。
应该叫“豆瓣上的恋爱”才好，因为共同爱好的书影音走在一起，但是没有前途。
看完以后全场人在鼓掌，真的好好看。开始意味着结束，世界上最稳定的关系依旧是 没有关系。
不由得想到穆旦这句诗，“相同和相同溶为怠倦,在差别间又凝固着陌生。”
2星半，就是很一般很一般的青春片，这个分数真是让我对日瓣很无语了。
特别文艺也特别理想化，永远保持恋爱的热枕，永远相信能维持现状，可理想派与现实派的相处，就像新鲜的花束初见美丽，日久凋零，越发平淡，那些热爱的美好回忆，终究成了人生中的一道路口的别离，工作是这样，恋爱也是这样，最后在餐厅里纠结的分手，却碰上当初同似自己热恋的模样，回忆与现实的交织，理想和理性的交错，也成了最后难以说出的感觉。那些同样兴趣的疯狂事物，终被时间磨平了迹象，漫画仍停留在了第八卷，电影也看不进去，也再也没有逛超市的喜悦，没有当初一起玩游戏的幻想，生活就只是生活，没有了情趣，爱情保质期也逐渐来临，一旦把这些问题抛到自身，似乎谁也不能避免，把爱情变成婚姻，把平淡延续下去，似乎是大多数人的选择，而最精彩的是，女主仍然是当初那番模样
但这没有错对，人都是会变的，你爱的对方永远都是现在的他和过去的他的组合，没有未来。
每个人都有自己的选择，也不要抱怨是生活（或者对方）把自己变成这样，其实这一切都是我们主动选择的结果。
从满脸姨母笑看到在办公室捂嘴不让自己哭出声，嘤嘤嘤坂元好懂，各种小细节看得太戳人了。世上哪有那么多天造地设，亲密期过了后不过是互相将就，但即便现实如此，我们难道就应该选择妥协吗？
一吵架就说：我们结婚吧……不是很懂这个思路
四星未满。哪有从头到尾都与自己完全合拍且步调一致的人？如果只因喜好完全相同而在一起，其实只是肤浅地爱上了镜像的自己而已吧。
-她会不会只觉得我们俩聊得来
但即便故事没有走向另一种结局，
劝分组类似“相识五年的男友变成了我完全不认识的人”这类帖子最让人困惑的是，事主往往最耿耿于怀的是恋人在哪个具体时间点发生了转变，而不愿去承认自己在一开始就看走了眼；这片子倒是给出了另一种解答，就算最开始没有看走眼最后还是会掰的，即使两人性格再像也无法保证基于偶然性的人生永远保证着高同步率。让本片拔高于同类类型片的高光片刻是结尾在咖啡馆的两人落泪，即使生活把社畜折磨到不惜拉昔日爱人下水的边缘，最后让主角破防的还是自己过去的影子，人身上还是自爱的痕迹要更深一点
big卡司+normal爱情+emo观众=8.7分纯爱片
这也太俗了，大学生相识先交换豆瓣账号，然后一个依然理想主义，一个为了生活去做打工人，于是分手了，但是隔壁影厅的伍迪艾伦四十五年前就拍过，人打个网球也会好上，即使没有理想主义生活所迫和有的没的也一样会分手的，伍迪艾伦还说了，爱会消散。
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