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".
而当我回头时，幸好那座叫做【家】的岛屿还在。
屎一样的美式政治正确，女同，肥胖，华裔，夹杂着恶俗的黄色段子，最后莫名其妙的爱与救赎。
不喜欢前面它玩的大部分花招，除了变石头的那个够“大道至简”，其他的对我来说太无厘头了些。最后有被缠绕的情感关系煽到。母亲说，如果我没有私奔会更好。女儿说，如果你没有生下我会更好。她们一定是这样又爱又恨的状态，控制、依赖、焦虑通通指向那个不敢面对失败的、懦弱的、自卑的、害怕被抛弃的自己。但这种煽情同样让我感到愤怒。对我来说母女关系就是一滩烂泥沼。爱的尽头也不是理解，是绑架。所以果然还是应该选贝果啊！
好想让许鞍华来拍部这样的高概念电影，让他们看看拍出《女人四十》的人怎么拍《女人的四十个宇宙》。
为什么不用天马行空这个译名呀？艺术科幻家庭爱情功夫哲学片，太喜欢了，短评无法抒发我的爱。We’re just a small piece of shit. Being kind is just a strategic way to live and fight. Everything! but! the! bagel!!! The organic ketchup!! Salute Trader Joe’s 🤪
我也喜欢用脚触碰爱人的感觉，原来我属于热狗手指星球
希望在石头宇宙，一起坠落吧。
个人认为看不懂这部电影的人不是缺乏一点善良or审美就是对生活的细节过于愚钝。片子不只是在讲亲情、爱情、亚裔生活，而是生活中大部分人正在经历的歧视、渴望被爱、先天生理心理缺陷、lgbt、缺乏自信、自我怀疑甚至性癖等等等等。我只能说觉得电影讲述混乱或者无聊的人自己加油吧。而且很多场景都是为经典电影or导演致敬的，并不是为了拼凑镜头。
Cliché is cliche even if you make a bombastic fuss out of it
电影真的很棒，讲的大概就是multiverse里某一个“loser”麻麻某一天忽然可以从其他multiverse里的自己借助到力量，来对抗大反派女儿的故事。multiverse的设定很夸张时而紧张时而爆笑，布景服化道有一点赛博风。中间很担心电影太飞了，害怕结局拉跨。但是最终还是回归到了家庭里面的用爱和empathy击倒黑暗的主题。尤其是妈妈和女儿之间的冲突，作为亚洲家庭长大的小孩真的太能relate了。很喜欢导演的定位“It’s about a family, and Asian is an important part of it, but the feelings are universal”
年轻一代的沮丧虚无在电影里似乎是不言自明的东西，也是整个故事的前提（尽管看上去她过得并不那么糟）。于是就忍不住从代际的角度来想，的确混同杂交了许多新旧语法（亚洲电影、游戏、动画），讲出了今天这一代的感受，之前的社会一再失信于人，不愿多做挣扎，情感的空心化等等。也因此觉得结局并不令人信服，又走上好莱坞的老套路了。
这个结局烂透了，又回到了相亲相爱一家人，搞半天多元宇宙就是包裹家庭伦理的噱头，还是石头宇宙最好了
年轻一代的沮丧虚无在电影里似乎是不言自明的东西，也是整个故事的前提（尽管看上去她过得并不那么糟）。于是就忍不住从代际的角度来想，的确混同杂交了许多新旧语法（亚洲电影、游戏、动画），讲出了今天这一代的感受，之前的社会一再失信于人，不愿多做挣扎，情感的空心化等等。也因此觉得结局并不令人信服，又走上好莱坞的老套路了。
2.美籍华人奴颜婢膝，明明中国进入2022年了，他们却仿佛被遗弃在旧金山上个世纪的唐人街里
李安说杨紫琼作为一个家喻户晓的大明星，却很奇怪的没有演过一部以她为主的一番电影。怪不得杨紫琼在接到这个剧本时要爆哭一场，她真的能文能武，好饭不怕晚，本片也实现了口碑和票房双赢，真好啊，对2022年的中国观众来说，也是另一个平行宇宙的故事了
如果故事在石头宇宙结束，本片将成为虚无主义者的有力宣言；但最后四十分钟，导演仍然告诉我们爱可以解决一切问题。至少在今天，我想这个主题带给我们的精神价值已经足够。
我晕 这部太屌了吧 成功上我的年度片单👍🏽女儿的每一身造型都太好看了吧！！场景切来切去的戳爆我！！ 刚开始Evelyn看到自己的一生 出生的那一刻医生的那句“不好意思 是个女儿”这句台词真是把中国血淋淋的现实给扒出来了 后面跟她爸爸说看看你怎么对待你自己的女儿的那段我要哭爆了 让中式家庭的愧疚批判绑架控制永远说不出口的爱和抱歉从我们以后终止吧😭总之就是很好看很好看omg了
神tm过瘾！天马行空都不足以形容影片的脑洞，刨去那些恰到好处，信手拈来的动作喜剧娱乐成分，以及那些让人爆笑的羊具豹局屎尿屁，影片触及到了之前所有电影从未触及到的境界（攻壳机动队1995、黑客帝国曾无限接近），当无限的everything、everywhere完全all at once，飓风可以娴静，核爆可以安宁，一片落叶可以狂躁和癫狂……生命和宇宙无限的选择和可能、人类的愉悦和尘埃的悲伤、蚍蜉的喧腾和石头的孤独、新生的蓬勃和毁灭的悲壮，时刻交织转换，形种相通，一切变得极富意义又毫无意义。就像那两块缄默的石头，在无声中用最肮脏的笑话来嘲笑人类的渺小与愚蠢。
问号脸，母女畸形关系的解不是爱是距离啊！ 所以电影停在石头不说话那就好了，石头眼里，生命和关系只是一瞬间，懒得理也不用理。
非常蠢。简而言之就是把现实当中所有的不如意都归咎于假想出的邪恶势力，来替代自己过往每一个细微的选择犯下的错；同时再假想出N个平行时空里的自己，通过机械降神的方式拯救现实当中无力挽回的困局，顺带还拯救了全宇宙。这种中二的梦只有目中无人到一定境界的美国人才会做吧。还整得花里胡哨的美其名曰「天马行空」，真的是搞笑。Ps:看完去搜了导演执导的上一部作品，果然我也是给的一星，从此拉黑不送。
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