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.
二三线主演+漫威/DC配角加盟是阵容强大，豆瓣的舔狗真是让人窒息。 回到电影本身，用又臭又长装神弄鬼来形容真的是毫不为过，洋洋洒洒两个半小时才chapter 1。配乐真的非常cliché，一个苏格兰风笛一个女声吟唱就是异域辽阔了，配乐一响你就猜到接下来会发生什么，说是烘托气氛不如说是预告剧情。最后，这个设定真的打上奇幻的标签比较合适，说是科幻我觉得很扯，不提原著您到了公元1万多年居然还是封建帝王制？当然你可以说原著就是这样设定而且就是科幻流派？打斗场面有点太寒颤了，除了海王没一个能打的，海王还毫无意义地送死了，连推动剧情的作用都没有就去死了。服装和场景设计，让人梦回阿富汗，怎么看都有点冒犯的感觉。男主天选之子的人设，真的已经倦了倦了倦了倦了……好莱坞只会拍这种人设吗？三星给特效和运镜。
吵得耳朵疼，受不了……然后八千年后竟然还是父权社会还强调血脉啥的……设定是古代我都信啊！
這真的是Villeneuve夢寐以求的創作源起？如是，那這一次集結了他過去在荷里活時期，一步步走來運用的視聽元素，2049的空曠感，外星生物至於巨蟲，《Sicario》的動作打鬥。Villeneuve 刻意的「慢電影」節奏，令故事拍得明明白白，套入中東、伊斯蘭國度的視覺元素，最後演變成王子與公主...其實是母后大逃亡記（主角保羅在其後的經歷令人想起伊底帕斯王），以至香料和家族鬥爭真的是資本和資源之間的對峙了。一一被弱化了複雜世界觀設定，原文本中反英雄、反主流文化氣色也不再見，雖然我們也可無視原文本的生成時空，轉而重視導演的重構，但開局的設置和簡化，像戲中沙漠般無法判斷，現在只是第一集的Part 1 很難說，就像ZackSnyder重拍《Dawn of the Dead》，什麼都好像做足了，但正經過頭地用太空歌劇方式來拍一部邪氣十足的文本總覺不是味兒。
（4.2/10）不难看出，维伦纽瓦此次改编《沙丘》的工作重心在于创造“宏大的史诗感”，但很可惜这种“宏大”需要视觉效果和配乐去不断地提醒观众，且这种提醒被滥用到成为刺激和操纵。剧情碎片化，人物缺乏塑造，整部电影被原著牵着走，陷入完全迷茫和割裂的状态。为了严肃而严肃，为了宏大而宏大，有头无尾，华而不实，一切仅仅停留在表面。
真的只有两个part吗？这个序幕拍得仿佛是奔着连续剧去的，也确实更适合做成剧。故事和世界都没有任何溢出想象的东西，不能掀起任何情绪，只是工业并无美学。
这有啥看不懂的 为什么冒出来很多男的说女的看不懂 干什么啥都要拉踩我们女的
画面很不错。音乐推着你走。
我就腹诽一点，也不知道是原著锅还是电影改编的问题，咱都有预知能力那么牛逼了，能不能别光浪费在看见对象上了？有点正经事儿行吗？ 别弄得跟青少年思春似的
无奈原著小说已经显得过时，所以本身也没太期待，电影表现中规中矩，在我看来甚至不如林奇版《沙丘》，起码老版猎奇之中还带点怪异，看得出些许个性和创意。许多人把这版《沙丘》跟《指环王》比，维伦纽瓦和彼得杰克逊中间也就隔了一个诺兰吧...下次再也不看杜比了。
磅礴史诗语境下的苍白叙事。
p.s. 最后的决斗也太敷衍了；依旧get不到赞达亚
仍然品尽甜茶不肯安歇微带着后悔，寂寞沙丘我该思念谁？
好烦Zimmer的配乐…一惊一乍的都不让我好好睡觉
你觉得平淡无奇的现在，正是他们做梦都梦不到的生活。
IMAX视听感受很不错，宏大中略带震撼。但这种宏大是靠格雷格·弗莱瑟的摄影和片中的巨物崇拜，以及汉斯·季默的配乐撑起。导演套用《降临》娓娓道来的叙事方式和宿命论，整部影片慢悠悠，文绉绉，角色靠着“剧透式”的梦境一步步走向所有人都能猜到的命运，再加上梦境的反复，让整部影片显得单调和枯燥。原著庞大的细枝末节被化繁为简，但剧情简化得过于简单干瘪，以至于影片被没有必要的拖长，却没有必要的细节填充；同时又将电影语言化简为繁，用大量的文艺镜头和舒缓的节奏伪造出史诗感，以及区别于好莱坞爆米花的独特气质，但时间和观众的耐心也因此被消耗，造成没有必要的拖沓。第二部就这样被“拖”了出来，造成第一部“预告片的功能性”大于本身的观赏性。单独作为一部电影来看的话，算不上一部好的作品。
缓慢有序地讲述故事的每一幕，王子逃亡记仅是开始，接下来将开启复仇与崛起之际。
最多三星，不能再多了。 真的只是个开始，几乎没有剧情的电影，每次讲不下去就切到故作高深的话语和梦境。 对于原著的文本改编，也没能跳出老白男意yin式的殖民主义思想；相较于《降临》和《银翼杀手2049》，该片的人文思考真的过于简单，甚至可以说没有。 可能由于人文思考是如此简单且可预测，导致宏大的配乐也让我感觉很不搭了。 此外，打斗戏真的像过家家，甚至简单到有些好笑。 真的只有特效宏大，其他都很廉价，可惜好莱坞最不缺特效好的电影。
好烦Zimmer的配乐…一惊一乍的都不让我好好睡觉
這不就是一大型科幻MV預告，故事太單薄了，當然畫面場面特別好，但除此之外就沒了
实话说设定宏大角色众多，完全不了解的观众，上来可能会懵。但看了一会儿我好像明白了，这是一部“帝国与中东”架构的影片，资源的丰饶与环境的险恶，虎视眈眈的帝国与充满神秘力量的local，机械设定也充满苏式重工气息。沙丘场景值回票价。其他部分怎么说呢，就是导演能拉来这些投资，在这个漫威时代干这个，是特别大的本领。作为视觉大制作，卡头怼脸景别、仪式感走位、POV镜头多到有点离奇，占据全片三分之二以上，可能这是一种风格？
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