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.
震撼度不如当时看《骑士》那么强烈，缺少了一股狠劲。之前看过一个赵婷谈马力克的《新世界》对她创作的影响，这部片子里有更多效仿马力克拍人与自然的镜头调度，但是其中有一些成为了这部片子的减分项，因为她们两者的落脚点是不同的，马力克希望我们关注的是个体之上的宇宙，而赵婷更像是宇宙之下的个体，所以她通过给置身于广袤无垠中的科恩嫂中景的那些镜头所营造的氛围，比起树林里的几个马力克调度，要对这个主题表达更有效。不过整体还是胜在质感，以及四平八稳的铺陈和人物塑造，减少对白通过镜头来交代心态变化也做得很干净利落和清晰，确实拍的挺扎实
第一季
其实更喜欢<骑士>啦，这部也不赖，但也不至于惊叹好得过分，你能看到一个人而非只是个女性与这个世界自处的方式，和解真的存在吗？越过山水，才知道答案。
为啥美国老人都那么有活力，可以开着房车到处去，我们老人只能在家带第三代？
低配版《拾穗者》，1. unfortunately dwelling on kinship rather than after kinship；2. 太靠音乐藏拙。Frances很擅长weird and stubborn的角色。看不出来女主角到底迷茫还是不迷茫，要还是不要什么。
拒绝港湾，回到最初梦碎的地方，然后再转身继续走下去。真正的公路片。
不觉得拍的有多好，能得奖只能说选题好，聚焦那些四处流浪的房车客，有年轻面孔也有老人，反正各有理由无法停留某个地方，表演感很突出清楚这是假的，但我知道这些人是存在的，能产生共情，我期待这题材能拍出更棒的影片
我们都在路上，下个路口见~
四星
被过去束缚着不能停下，貌似自由的在路上。路上的人们都很可爱，有点过于诗和远方了。
以为一直要逃离的那个起点，可能只是公转的焦点；以为不断远去的逃离，可能只是兜兜转转。6
如果不是一个中国导演凭这部电影卷走了金狮奖、金球奖，我想它绝不会上国内的院线。因为它实在是太不“娱乐”了，甚至不适合在电影院里观看，这是孤独的人在孤独的时候孤独地看的电影。老实说，我对女主的各种固执有足够的理解，但并不认可她的不得不上路，导演需要这个角色来彻底表达游牧式迁徙的另类人生末路，对国人来说这更是破天荒的概念，没发现有啥可以共情的人群（也许人生已过半百的人适合），另外国内喜好看院线的电影爱好者，和非院线电影爱好者有霄壤之别，如同二个人喜欢旅游的人结伴而行，一个是准备一路打工赚旅费，一个是挥舞着花呗非四星不住，是注定分道扬镳的，如赵婷自己所说——“很多人可能会看睡着，但那些没有看睡着的人，会得到一种全然不同的观影体验”
这是部很神奇的电影，第一次看到导演把公路电影拍得这样生活化。整部电影都是切碎的似乎毫无关联的情节，那么碎碎叨，每一个画面却都能牵扯出一个社会议题。科恩嫂的表演真的做到了“不像在演戏”的演技。它像极了纪录片，却没有纪录片的严谨和纯粹，它是一部公路片，却又停留在开车流浪的人的无依之地。整部片子运镜很赞。给三颗星是因为我认真看了两遍，发现自己是个社会主义特色下的中国人，我没法感同身受里面所有的社会问题，在中国，一个可以开房车到处流浪的中年女性，我们会称她为有钱任性的富婆。这就是不同制度国情下观众观影的感受。我想，赵婷已经真正融入到美国社会了，虽然她是中国人，但她只有来到美国，才能真正做她想做的电影。相信这部电影今年有望冲奥斯卡！因为拜登新政府下的美国人需要此类电影。
看到Fern处理掉回忆里所有不舍得丢弃的物品这段，她回到和Po以前的家，后窗有一大片荒地，直到远处的山脚下。我在想，人存在世上的价值到底是什么。
游牧民族的灵魂居住在谁身上？
公路疗愈片，很完美，该抒情的地方，不泛滥，节奏真好，让我想起《长路简史》，我的确觉得那个更打动我。
麦姨已经出神入化了，这里根本分不出哪个是演员，哪个是真的游牧一族。最后黑幕起，“献给不得不上路的人，我们路上再见”，全剧的克制都在这两句话释放，戳中泪点。哪有那么多的浪漫，很多时候上路都是不得已的。不管是生活所迫还是为了疗愈内心，终究还是要活下去啊。
我愿看遍世间所有江河湖海，冬秋春夏。任何人都可以选择任何一种生活方式，生命感受。亚马逊工厂流水线上是生存；行车万里、旷野篝火、分享诗歌、夜晚望星空的是生命，一种生命状态。走进群山荒原，近看绿色雪山，触摸秋叶雨水，“当你欢笑着舞蹈着且真正活着，记得我说过的话，并想起我。”温和的毫无保留的走进心里，不回避不排斥孤独，它也是生命一部分；拥抱旅人亲吻家人，他们值得被惦记被牵挂。“我从不说永别，我都是说路上再见。”无所谓自由选择，被迫上路，还是houseless，谁又能多强过谁，路上再见吧旅人。（配乐迷人）
有人把赵婷和李安拿来做对比，但是好像赵婷更随性一点，这部就拍的很有纪实风格，不像李安的作品，还是有很多中国文化的影子。其实与其说《无依之地》讲的是美国底层人的生活，不如说是各种底层人生活的缩影，他们对着镜头，说出了自己的故事。不是无家可归，他们只是没有房子而已。
一个女人，晚年之际脱离熟悉的生活轨道，住在车里，四处流浪。尤其对于女人，世俗更觉凄楚。然而她本人并不这么想。镜头跟随着她，经过空旷荒野，走到巨浪悬崖，沿途日出又日落，冬去春来，与偶遇的人相聚离开，她始终不肯停下。
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