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.
期盼科恩嫂突破自己演得更好；音乐格调差评；勿跟马力克往一块套，政治正确小甜品一份。
电影从头至尾的那种悲伤和执着深深打动着我，生命中那些来来去去的人们，不管去了哪里，不管是短暂的还是永远的，都记得在告别时说一句I'll see you down the road，总有一天会再相见，而那些一起经历的往事，或美好或残酷或悲伤，都会一直留在那片广阔无垠的天地里，永远都在。很爱本片的摄影！#NYFF58#
《骑士》更生涩但更沉浸，《无依之地》是天人感应、选择与无奈、起点旅途终点的完美融合
游牧之行，无依的心；翻山越岭的迁徙，不过是内心的一场放逐。视角虚实难分，风情画式影像用旅途的不易映衬着心灵的苦修，将其视作解谜或解脱似乎都并不影响它若有似无的社会性；阶级与落寞在一切的最终都形成了忧伤的通感，意韵凄苦却坦荡、悠远而迷人。
5.个人式风景
心无所属，永远是一个人的旅程。这一生，我们离别又遇见，在路上，却充满希望～
后来这个老太太被人举报，警察也来过禁止她在公园停车场过夜，她只能去附近的小学，或者在山坡的拐角过夜。她在公园附近待了快大半年，每天都会从车子里抖出来装fast food的棕纸袋的垃圾。车后座是几乎她所有的家当，乱七八糟堆着也像垃圾。最近一直没有见过她了，但愿她还好。
影片将一群被主流视野所忽视的、不愿意背负沉重房贷压力而选择房车流浪四处打工的现代游牧人群的生活状态展现在了观众面前，讲述了他们的生存哲学与生活之道。也许影片对于他们的生存状况进行了一些过于诗意的美化，强调他们选择这种生活方式的精神需求而非物质限制，但仍能让人感受到无处不在的孤寂。选择这种生活无论是主动抑或被动，都需要强大的内心。正如主角所说:"No, I'm not homeless. I'm just houseless. Not the same thing, right?" 他们不是没有家，他们只是把家随身携带，选择不断上路。
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
以纪录片的呈现为外套，其核心仍是主流片女主的情感线——流浪疗愈，渴望家庭，专情配偶。跟同名非虚构小说不是一回事情，但看得出华人导演很希望融入美国社会。
当我拥抱这个世界，我便是在拥抱你 衩姐
“水无形而有形,无物而容万物”——水作为传统的女性性别符号，尤其是东方女性，象征着协调、温润、灵动、没有棱角、却充满着韧性和力量、也从不停歇。在这部电影里，无论是影像风格、内容、主角性格都体现着这一点。
趙婷拍父子情，捕捉的是四手聯彈的家庭鋼琴表演，這一幕令我淚目。或許這也成為弗恩最後決定告別戴夫的原因——看到別人的「homeship」，才發現自己其實是真的homeless而非houseless。她明白那是她永遠失去的東西，與戴夫友情裡的crush瞬間也終無法彌縫兩個世界的分野，於是她回到路上。每個在路上的人都帶著各自的傷痛，而connect to the earth是nomads的最大解藥。更令我喜悦的是，电影不再聚焦以往西部之旅与男性力量互相捆绑的设定，通篇从女性主体视角出发，这多难得。
一个可呈现社会深层变动的绝好题材被回收到表现孤独个体内心世界这种熟极而流的路子里，游牧民的社群也不过成了风景的一部分。
配乐太妙了……
习惯了流浪，便再也无法停下上路的脚步。整片给我一种忧郁的诗意，在西方式的框架下，却也蕴含着东方式的哲理。上路的勇气总要大过无房的恐惧，而家的意义就在寻找的路上。
万事几时足，日月自西东。无穷宇宙，人是一粟太仓中。
观影其实是很私密化的体验，如果它能够让我relate，那么对于我来说就是一部好电影。《无依之地》前面1小时20分钟我都是跟在大片留白的剧情后面，偶尔被细节或台词触动，而从Fern离开Dave家的那一刻开始，我开始和她一起上路了。一个人吹着海风，和路上遇到的朋友聊过往，走向未知，孤独但自由。We don’t settle. See you down the road.
世界上有很多不得不上路的人，人们觉得他们无家可归，但在他们心里，四海皆为家。敬这些人的勇敢，真挚和心怀自由。
就，你眼睁睁的知道自己这个游戏马上就要关服，剩下的时间已经不够重新洗点重roll甚至再攒一身pvp装备，剩下的时间里你连采草药赚钱都懒得，够用就好了，要那么多干嘛呢
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