编号为223的警察（金城武）失恋后患上失恋综合症，国产在与金发女杀手（林青霞）擦肩而过又离奇相遇并有了一晚温情后，国产原本以为包括“爱情”在内的所有东西都有保质期的他意外地迎来心灵的短暂温暖。可是，他们的爱情还是结束了。快餐店新来的女招待阿菲（王菲）爱上了时常光顾快餐店的编号 为663的警察（梁朝伟），因拆了他的女友（周嘉玲）留在快餐店给他的“分手” 信，阿菲知晓了他的心情，偷拿到他的钥匙趁他不在时常潜入他家，一边梦游一边悄悄地改变他的生活，终在被他撞见时令其感受到情感的回归。然而，这才是他们爱情的开始。
回复 :故事一：歌星Sunny（黄耀明 饰）在医院昏迷半年了，但他的身体状况良好，昏迷原因不明。护士（叶玉卿 饰）负责在凌晨值班照顾他。每天凌晨1点，护士都能看到Sunny与一名女孩在一起，原来Sunny被这个死去的歌迷缠住了……故事二：芳（袁咏仪 饰）与几名同学到学校附近探险，据说那里常有个大辫子女鬼出现。芳的同学本来是想扮鬼吓她，竟没想到她们真的遇上了这名大辫子女鬼……故事三：众多市民都在一本报刊中，看到了一位多天前被撞死的老婆婆的身影。这是一张快照，负责这些照片的是交通警员阿辉（陈小春 饰）与阿明（徐锦江 饰），令人心寒的是接下来的几个月，他们都被老婆婆的鬼魂缠绕……
回复 :杀人游戏在年轻人当中颇为流行，七个朋友在酒吧里面玩这个游戏，不幸弄假成真，游戏变成了现实——他们发现每天晚上在游戏中被杀之人，必定在当晚真的死去。这使得众人大为恐慌，自己随时成为假戏真做的冤魂。他们猜想，凶手极有可能就在这几个人当中，为了能使事情水落石出，逃出生天，他们继续进行着这个惊悚的游戏，而往事也随之渐渐抬头。他们曾经有一个名叫露露（小宋佳 饰）的朋友，在一次事故中，露露被他们撇下不管，以致死亡。如今，露露似乎要回来了……这个恐怖游戏的幕后凶手，到底是冤魂不散的露露，还是另有其人？
回复 :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. SHIMON@lounge.moviecodec.com
