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.
鸡毛蒜皮的琐事让人毫无带入感，毕竟《我爱露西》不是每一个人都看过得，看得过程无比煎熬，得耐着性子找亮点，要不是这卡司，真是10分钟都看不下去。
索金的千层饼剧作做出来的叙事层多角度，让“有一个家的ambition”到离婚ambition破灭的悲剧不再那么悲，更多呈现所谓“女性真实状况”的客观故事，而客观，在传奇饰演的女星最喜欢的脑内小剧场中，恰排除了很多狗屁知识构建，把标准都放在观者的观感之上，这正直接指向了以狗屁知识构建剧作的索金，那索金对于美国赤化危险、取消文化、女性平权等议题到底是啥观点呢，看起来就是怎么都行的有毒辩证法了...
算是传记片常有的通病吧 想涵盖的点多而杂 时间线乱 加上镜头语言的单调 让整个叙事很不抓人 Nicole的Lucille Ball 尤其在黑白光影中 总让我不由得恍惚成Renée 但凭借这么中规中矩的成片和虽成熟稳定但缺少话题性和巨大突破的表演 想要拿到Renée在颁奖季的剧本恐怕难度不小
3.5 题材从律政来到社会，同样的台词密度就会稍显紧促，再加上过满的主题，让电影更显的节奏失控。我可能第一次欣赏到了基德曼的表演。
1. 妮可的脸假到第一眼都不敢认
这女的所作所为,我一样都不喜欢！如果如她所言只是让"关心底层"的祖父高兴就在选民登记(?)上勾选共产党,那她确实是视民主政治为儿戏"没能力参与民主制"的白痴。"你猜我是谁?"之后那七八个人名,不是表示女主故意说错调戏男主吗?一直argue这个,她是没get到笑点吗？反正她深夜把同事们叫到影棚,贡献的那笑话真挺尬挺low。感觉不让女同事减肥,本质上还是不想有人跟她比美。作为连续剧演员突然怀孕,不应该像编剧们说声抱歉给你们添麻烦了吗?凭什么觉得天经地义,人家应该给你擦屁股？就算出轨,老公挽救了她的事业,甚至人生，这个时间点离婚...,行吧,你有这权力。
way better than any Netflix fake-ass bullshit (btw i want a home too😭😭😭😭
这个时间线前后跳跃看得我整个人都不好了，剧情根本对不上，然后才发现哦这是在插叙。。。能不能麻烦在大屏幕上标题字体打一个“两年前”之类的字幕！凌乱地看到最后觉得根本没入戏，铺垫全都浪费了，然而谢幕那场戏惊为天人，竟然看得我！号啕大哭！太悲伤了！仍然是Aaron Sorkin的sucker嘤嘤嘤
意外的还挺喜欢这部电影的，尤其是本片的剧本和群戏，这部电影其实故事并不很吸引人，甚至前半段可以用有点无聊来形容，但影片的后半段剧本围绕明线和暗线的推动和转折，以及演员的出色发挥让整部电影的观感非常不错，而且我似乎也还挺能接受索金的啰里啰嗦，所以个人还是挺喜欢这部电影的。本片的群戏非常出彩，妮可，巴登的表现都可圈可点，妮可后半段的表演非常出色动人。配角们的表现总的来说也都还不错，JK西蒙斯其实并没有给我一种很出彩的感觉，不过也是很好的完成了任务。
他用行动证明了他就是I Love Lucy中的I 也用行动证明了他不是I Love Lucy中的I
Luccille，一个精明、有主见、理智的好莱坞女演员。
p.p.s.妮可·基德曼的表演值得她所获得的奥斯卡提名。
有清晰逻辑真的很重要，这也是片中露西尔经常强调的。逻辑如游蛇穿过一层层套娃下来，从大的麦卡锡主义风暴套创作理念，商业考量，性别博弈，婚姻危机……再套到人的本真情绪，戏中戏，又片中戏外无限都散逸了出去。就是剧情有点臃肿，再简练点就好了。盯着妮可我流演露西尔，不知道妮可自己是不是总有一天会有人扮演她并拍出她和汤姆克鲁斯的故事……
疑似黨員身份差點摧毀她的事業，卻是不再留戀家庭的丈夫令她決定放手。無意義的出軌大概是最無稽的藉口，既知無意義又何必當初？立下決心的女人最美麗。"I'm home." 我已回家，卻不再是你需要的那個家。
因为在比尔布莱森的书里看到我爱露西的相关，所以来看这部电影。说实话，比较糟糕。首先是这部剧的妆发，根本看不出女主各个时间点的区别，把各个时间段穿插着放在电影里更是雪上加霜，我只能根据剧情猜一猜这个片段可能是在哪个时间段。其次就是剧情拍的很混乱，我不知道这个电影想表达露西的什么？几个插入的访谈老头老太太的片段我也不懂意义是啥。不过里面很多点倒是跟书里对上了——当时美国人对这部剧的狂热、对性的避讳、对共产主义的恐慌。很有意思。
透析上世紀五、六〇年代喜劇紅星露西·鮑爾與夫婿戴西·阿納茲的戲劇與婚姻內幕，露西和戴西都擁有完整的正常人格，尤其是露西幾乎接近完人，沒有一般巨星酗酒、吸毒…等慣有惡習；尤其不會像感情電影裡愛渲染的精神沉淪或情緒失控戲碼，一切都朝健康走向。
结尾的两块手帕在我看来正是又一大败笔。正因为没能力去写一个游移的故事，才需要以明确的真相作为支撑人物行为的动机。这也才有“到这里情感才立住”的感慨，不是终于救场，而是别无他法。
看了《里卡多一家》后，算是把第94届奥斯卡奖获得演员（男主、女主、男配、女配）提名电影都给看了。五部最佳女主角提名电影里个人最不喜欢的应该是《塔米·菲的眼睛》，而五部最佳男主角提名电影里个人观感最差的应该就是这部《里卡多一家》。
想讲的太多但没有任何一样讲好：元电影、种族主义、性别平等、那啥等等，甚至连一个基本合格的传记片水平都达不到。
突然发现威尔与格蕾丝的女主黛博拉·梅辛从五官到表情都很像原版露西啊，也就比妮可松弛贴近50倍吧
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