Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
去掉了加州、纽约和新奥尔良的色彩，以一种更加冷漠的视角去观察生活、聆听对话，犹如给你一杯白开水，平淡却依旧润泽。
冲突，和解，道歉。很多很多对彼此的理解，亲密关系的建立。情绪教育。孩子的智慧和洞察力，对于暴力的理解那段真的令人惊叹。对生命无常的描述和应对。
温柔向的人文关怀，借青少年之口述说未来，絮絮叨叨，全看个人喜好了。
但当电影结束，我却感受到了一种久违的失落感，我很久没有如此沉浸在一个故事或一个人物上了。我虽不是一个时常感到孤独的人，但这种两个灵魂的互文依旧让我感同身受。
有点《爱丽丝城市漫游记》的味道，但是更重情感方面的东西
[Embarcadero Landmark] 不浅不深，正能缓解我的育儿焦虑。微妙的平移和推拉镜头很可爱
不是我爱的拍法，过于片段化过于讲述甚至有丢煽，但形式和内容仍是合在一起的，而且两个人在丛林互相吼的时候莫名打动。yep, sometimes it just unfortunately touch me.
片名其实翻译作《说出来吧》或者《发泄出来》更合适，纽约，雨天，9岁男孩儿和fun uncle突如其来的播客之旅记录童年。失意中年人希望从孩子们的童言无忌中找到答案。“我爱你你爱我但我们永远不可能百分百理解彼此”估计是年度最佳母子关系宣言～
虽然没有旁白，但片中读的那些书、做的那些访谈、录的那些环境音（所谓“使不朽”）、日记性质的自述、平添忧郁的黑白画面，都让人想起泰伦斯·马利克式的（故作）深沉。片中所有受访者都是真实出镜即兴发挥（包括一个后来被枪杀的叫布莱恩特的黑人小男孩），这倒挺适合方法派的华金·菲尼克斯。不知道这种亦幻亦真的骚操作是不是受了去年《无依之地》的启发。
「Have you ever thought about the future?」「Uh,yeah.Uh,whatever you plan on happening,never happens.Stuff you would never think of happens.So you just have to…you have to come on,come on,come on,come on,come on,come on,come on,come on,come on, come on, come on, come on.」
“我不会记得吗？” “我希望你记得。我会提醒你的。”
按照text from mobile phone来道歉。一直以为小孩受父亲的影响较多，直到他谈起母亲的每一处细节。分别时的yelling。小孩子想家与失眠时也不会直接表露情绪。
little person，可爱和温柔，大人启发孩子，孩子启发大人，活的何必那么虚伪，活的何必那么累
3.5 静谧不平静的生命波流。有着诗句窥私般温柔的表达和抚慰人心的字句。与很多现代美式作者一样，从城市影调的旋律变奏中汲取力量，身处、浸泡、融化进不经意的环境声场 (车流 海风)，由孩童的纯真直接调动起已然遗忘的曾用来抗争这个复杂世界的简单直觉，一种有着强大昭示的问题集合并汇聚了世间所有答案。米尔斯眼中的都市个体总是饱含甜蜜珍贵的真诚告解，镌刻着家庭Ta者言语于一体的印记，好似人群街口处失去而又寻得的欣慰与恍然。如同洛杉矶与纽约等每个对照相望的城市，去聆听新世代的未来憧憬，拥抱停留在二十世纪的情感记忆。它告诉我们书本的扉页在生活里不断复现，发送的讯息与声音的波段都共处同一频率，续写故事的冲动将由我们自己完成。观影途中一直期待最终转换成彩色的那一瞬间，可惜没有等来绽放，或许它早已停留在了过去。
自由主义知识分子对亲情、成长、和解等生活系列命题的内心思辨，巧妙地通过“叔叔带侄儿”的故事和话筒设定娓娓道来～像是把王小波的杂文精选视觉化了一般～
A zone of resiliency. It’s ok to not be fine. Laugh or cry, there will be someone who wants to try to have the appropriate reaction.
👏(co-casted by jennifer venditti)
小丑这种浓墨重彩式的表演之后，华金证明在生活流电影中也能自如表现，小男孩的表演更是惊艳，真实表现了一个回避性依恋型的小孩面对离别的情绪化表达。今年的黑白作品确实有点密集得有些没有必要，但是这部里黑白不仅有帮助表现《曼哈顿》式的纽约景观，更是压制住爆发的冲突，让情绪始终处在某种阀值之下，紧张却不夸张，温情且不矫情。Mike Mills的电影里，生活如流水，烦恼是溪水里的石子，偶有漩涡却总归不是大风大浪
假想父亲对照失职母亲的故事，质感拿捏的蛮不错的。
8分 2022.01.16 一部很舒服的电影 可以慢慢的品 杰昆和小演员演的很棒 带孩子真是好难
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