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".
三重视角拼出了“强奸”这个结构里各方的“共谋”关系。施害者、闺蜜、丈夫、婆婆（放弃发声的受害者）、明知真相却“闭嘴看好戏”的随从小厮，包庇施害者的权势阶层、偏袒施害者的法律法庭、宗教系统…各色人等，都在其中对受害者施加着“二次强奸”。最后一章的女主视角，补完了千百年来历史缺失的女性叙事，也打破和颠覆了男性一统的叙事格局。但是不不不，没有什么“最后”的决斗，哪怕在700年后的今日，性侵受害的女性，依然要被“扒光衣服，脖子套上铁圈，绑在木桩上，接受舆论的炙烤，被活活烧死”，这个结构对女性的压迫远未终止。片子美术、历史还原做得太棒，从服化道到建筑景观，中世纪风貌展露无遗。
一句话概括就是自古至今，No 都他妈 means No。片子挺好但希望导演们不要再让譬如马呆萌这样的核心美国人来演法国人了哈哈哈哈哈
有马版《罗生门》：“我不在的时候，除了丰收之外，我们的财富主要靠这些马繁殖。我买了这匹母马来繁殖，它带有战马的血统，它会生出许多有价值的小马，有时候，胜败与生死之间的差别⋯⋯不能是这匹种马！不，你不行！别上我的母马！大门要关好！母马正值发情期，这些事非同小可，要花钱的！”（有意义，无真相）胜 似输了。
A—>B—>女人，既不新鲜也不聪明更遑论“女性视角”（回过头看罗生门确实高明）。女权主义作为一种伦理视角，我们并不关注前两种真相；女权主义作为一种意识形态，我们更暴论地认为不存在前两种真相。看这两年女性创作者以女性经验创作的主流电影遭遇各种挑剔的尴尬（外有前程似锦女孩，内有我的姐姐），完全预料得到，今后，像雷公这种无关痛痒又长又臭的片子会被吹上女性电影的宝座。这片这评论不管好评和差评都看得想仰天长笑🙄
虽然囿于雷公高龄之下略保守的创作视角，但当前两幕缓缓落下，褪去了男性符号的血与火，第三幕里的玛格丽特整个人顿时焕发出了让人夺目的理性、感性以及珍贵的人性--即使这一切都是从过往的历史观出发，被浓厚的女性时代悲剧色彩所涂抹。
很当代了，而且和老雷以前拍的那些所谓的女权电影比起来说教意味实在太直白了。
光影质感超级好，巴里林登成为一个极致之后，这两年拍的中世纪逐渐走向了另一种影像风格的极致。和The Green Knight 同样是非常美的中世纪电影。
六百多年前女主敢做的事，现代人不一定人人敢为；她婆婆与闺蜜的观念，六百多年后仍随处可见。女性觉醒、男女平等，任重道远。
就看最後決鬥，21世紀過了20年，還有這種水平的冷兵器對抗。白雪飄灑，點落在盔甲上的冷寒；眾目睽睽，兩個人物聚合到頂點的矛盾，緊張到窒息的肅殺之氣。匕首扎進皮肉那一聲嚦血，面上承受數次猛撞後的血綻肉破。
六百多年前女主敢做的事，现代人不一定人人敢为；她婆婆与闺蜜的观念，六百多年后仍随处可见。女性觉醒、男女平等，任重道远。
一个男人粗鲁野蛮，另一个男人自我催眠
恐怖的是，一旦老公决斗落败，身为妻子，女主将被脱光衣物，脖子套上铁圈，绑在木桩上，被活活烧死，而且在被烧二三十分钟后，死亡才会降临。而她老公依然瞒着她申请了决斗……最令人舒坦的结局，自然是两男决斗中双双身亡，但老公的死必然导致女主遭受火刑，因此，观众不得不希望男主获胜。女人有多难，可见一斑
这么好看的电影不引进太可惜了。开头夫人盛装打扮，还以为她是要坐贵宾席观摩决斗呢，结尾给鞋子特写，脚上的枷锁造成强大的反差。三种视角展现，前两种男性视角和最后的女性视角相距甚远。结尾算是导演的善意，一如欧也妮·葛朗台，但她们所经历的苦难都让人心痛。
前两段的铺垫，把最后面的决斗弄得我血脉膨胀，想把司机弄死的情绪非常强烈。在最后一段真相中，导演似乎在诉说着，女性即使在自己面对着侮辱还坚强着自己的控诉，发出自己的声音，即使可能面对自己的生命危险。然而到最后的胜利，也只是把胜利的果实交给了男性，而女性只是男性的附属品，所以最后女主也只不过在这一片欢呼声中，无法寻得正义胜利的快乐。
四星半
维权还是猎巫都是靠女主的起心动念，那么这事走向了反面。整个故事女主道德光环就在于雷得利斯科特强行加入的预设。
很讨巧的手法！精彩的细节！女主演技真棒。所以直男视角里岁月静好的婚姻在妻子眼中竟然一地鸡毛嘛…最后的dual确实挺带感
其实并不如《异形》和《末路狂花》那么有力量，算是借古讽今的作品。朱迪·科默值得一个影后，这片子男主换几个人貌似也差不太多，但女主功力差一点点都不行。一个有意思的点：第三段标题出现后，“The Truth”一个词比其它几个词多停留了几秒钟才消失；结尾字幕也够讽刺：Jean几年后在另一场决斗中丧生。
另想疯狂吐槽的是，这么干净这么瘦这是大本？？？返老还童了？？？为什么不用这副肉体拍蝙蝠侠？？？想起了《普罗米修斯》的法鲨，是不是金发就显白显年轻啊？？？
令我拍案叫绝的年度最佳。与《角斗士》、《天国王朝》两部古装史诗着眼英雄、战争、宗教等题眼的宏大叙事相比，雷德利·斯科特在这部电影里采用了极其微观的复仇题材和十分内敛的手法，仿佛是用一把锋锐的匕首，一刀见血地切剖了从古绵延至今的父权制度，真不愧是能拍出《末路狂花》的名导。三段“罗生门”式的叙述互相补充也互相矛盾，在重重叠叠的遮掩中构成了极度血腥、凶暴、黑暗、诡谲的互文，姗姗来迟的真相却让故事沉入更加惨烈的悲剧之中。雷公的克制和冷峻加剧了意旨的哀恸——在这近乎令人窒息的两个半小时里，他用隐幽却一如既往的女性主义口吻警醒着着每一个观众，即我们自诩的文明至今未能完全地将女性从男性沾沾自喜的虚荣专制里解放出来。很多时候，这是一种制度性的群氓作恶，而加害者浑然不觉。
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