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".
一个人对这部片子的喜爱程度和她对生活的绝望程度是成正比的。
小白兔扮猪吃老虎，没太明白，他为什么要杀他？
人物描写非常好，演员也演得很到位。本就喜欢凶杀发生后层层剥开发掘真相的作品，看完这部发现我也很喜欢凶杀前层层堆砌引致高潮的作品。看影评说原著的人物的性格更极端，本电影的改编更贴合现实，也更彻骨寒心，让我想到如果《Rusty Lake: Roots》要改编成影视作品的话，找简导来拍一定非常合适。toxic masculity，缺乏自爱自尊又需要变强大，通过伤害对自己示弱的人来找回自尊；但是如果刚好又爱上的话，那这段关系只能慢慢滑向一方杀掉另一方的结局，因为爱对这种人来说过于沉重。如果不除掉外面的防卫来让真实的心变强大，而是继续加强防护，那么他们始终弱小的心灵就终将无法承受这种感情，只能通过把另一方毁灭掉来寻求解脱。原本以为BC只能演学究，开始还有点嫌弃他的口音。支持拿奥斯卡影帝和最佳导演。
Netflix越来越让人惊艳了，果然他们深谙内容才是王道。这个故事很新颖，演员也很放得开演出，这是疫情期间第二部在电影院看的电影，全程精彩不犯困，有点想笑，有点想哭，有点小悲伤，充满了希望，细想也很绝望。最近南部刚经过龙卷风，在自然面前我们太过于渺小。还好搬家之际没有遇到什么极端天气，继续敬畏的活下去吧。加油。
用人物状态以及他们和物的互动去叙事表达，这一套用到精疲力尽之后让影片看起来肃杀但是干涩，克制却又满溢。之前简坎皮恩只看过钢琴课，两者有很多相似的感觉，不过我认为钢琴课那一套卡司远胜于犬之力，特别是霍利亨特之于本尼。最开始那朵纸玫瑰从诞生到毁灭的几个空镜真是让我喜爱。
NYFF Centerpiece。西部风景居然拍出了《明亮的星》里的英国湖区的宁静。 与之对比的背景音乐却一直续着张力，总感觉有什么要发生。然而剧情又被反高潮处理，没有真正爆发出来。个人没有很享受这种矛盾的观影体验。/二刷，半年三次看到坎皮恩，看来她是真·精神纽约人。在看发现其实谋杀铺设的很清楚，没有故意隐瞒，基本也不算反高潮处理，音乐紧张并不是无中生有，之前估计都睡过去了
“宛宛类卿”的情节吗？！
它冷静疏离的视角中又有让我糊涂的细节导致可能我看明白了情节，精致的拍摄和配乐，但依旧边看边猜，realization来得太晚，本就隐晦的情感更不清晰。就好像努力从那个山上看到我一开始就看不到的狗一样
第一部令我简直怀疑自己智商为零的电影，看到一多半竟然还是不太清楚各人物之间到底是什么关系怎么回事，最后也只能靠不确定来猜测这片子到底讲了什么。现在的电影已经要靠故弄玄虚来制造噱头了吗？原谅我不懂这是电影的进步还是退步。（影片中卷福多次穿着大喇叭裤走来走去也没干什么事，真不知道几个意思。）
原来克斯汀邓斯特比杰西普莱蒙大六岁啊，这是他们夫妻俩第二次搭档扮演夫妻了吧，上一次还是在冰血暴第二季。
片尾处美少年玩味皮绳的一段，补足了《色戒》电影版里的缺憾。
片子本身还是有意思的，我感兴趣的点在于男主角在片子里呼吁应该be able to say things而不是be clever or charming or likeable. 我明白Adam McKay想说政治家们没有寄予严肃话题认真对待，那么他自己用无厘头喜剧处理严肃题材的做法该怎么说呢？他创作了一个人物反对他自己。当然这不是不可以，讽刺别人的时候把自己也编排上，我只是觉得这事有意思。
奥斯卡级卡司很好地提升了这个荒诞讽刺喜剧的信念感，使其观感超越了一般的SNL闹剧。虽然我看得很开心一直在笑，但如果把彗星看作疫情的话，也是蛮让人心情沉重的。【剧透预警】彩蛋很逗，飞了两万多年的梅姨到底还是被怪物咬死了
20220219le。细节很多的电影，但故事并不是开放的，看起来也挺类型化的，一种外表的强大，一种是内心的强大，前者终究是砧板上的鱼肉。音乐和摄影很棒的。
性暗示场面极其精准，两人单独相处的几场张力爆表，起承转合的时间点冒了很大的风险最终证明是立得住的，非运动镜头美不胜收，遗憾的是运动镜头稚嫩得令人失望
20220219le。细节很多的电影，但故事并不是开放的，看起来也挺类型化的，一种外表的强大，一种是内心的强大，前者终究是砧板上的鱼肉。音乐和摄影很棒的。
金融家控制政治、政治操控媒体，媒体操控大众，一切信息舆论皆可娱乐化，没人在意真相，一切皆可娱乐，最终娱乐至死！荒诞吗？但现实就是这么荒诞！印象最深刻的是凯特·布兰切特饰演的早间节目主持人布里·伊万特，一个情史丰富，受过高等教育，看似是一个时尚前卫的独立女性，我以为她会有不同于普通人的独立思考，在关键时刻能表现出智慧的一面，结果发现是我想多了。结尾很舒适，脑残女总统和冷漠科技富豪带领的地球“幸存”者们，在太空仓里沉睡了22740年后着陆在一个伊甸园般的美丽星球，然而却发现，他们不过是跨越万年去给一种叫Bronteroc的鸟类生物送食材。
感觉像看了期两个多小时的SNL，主咖小李，音乐嘉宾A妹。
毫无耐心地看完前一半，两个月后看完后一般整个人爆炸。人物散落在每一个缓慢的时间符号中，立体，透明，看到自身
早说了不要看这种文艺片了，没想到又是。节奏慢到令人发指，情节跳跃严重。。最后讲了一个利用医学知识干掉叔叔的故事。。。当然了，这里面还掺杂着一些GAY的意味。可惜了，卷福这么情深，居然栽在一个小兔崽子手上。。
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