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".
1.5⁵
好无聊哦 ladygaga的角色应该更疯吧
冚家铲电影。从片尾字幕看来，本片聚焦的其实是Gucci品牌是怎样在Gucci族人手上跌到谷底的，而并不是男女主相爱相杀的抓马。电影时间线结束之后Gucci被外人接手触底反弹。片中主要刻画的四位，确实无一例外的丑态百出，老雷对这些人物毫无怜悯或情感，尽情展现了他们各自的贪婪、无知、自私、拜金和愚蠢。Gaga发挥应是最好，眼角纹里都有戏，莱托玩得飞起，司机并没有什么发挥。
不太明白的有两点，明明相爱，为何还要再等到30岁？明明相爱，为何要标榜对方是朋友？
偶现灵光，但瑜不掩瑕的作品。如bra扣错、父母不反对只是希望不要影响体制下的补助、球场吻戏等等都是还蛮有巧思的真实细节桥段，版权优势也能拿到《蓝宇》的经典片段用来背书，还有杨二汶主题曲助力，但可惜情感只有最后20min左右是连贯且渲染成功的，其余有太多是想当然且不真挚的交差作业，也蛮可惜谈善言，结局镜子戏恍惚感觉像看到陈冲光华重现。就“回到往日时光，确认彼此回忆是否定义一致”本身就是一个共通性很强的主题，即使在令人狂皱眉头的前一个半小时之后还能让人共情，就这点而言还算是学到了（？）。2.5归3。
钦佩雷导在如此年纪仍然保持着旺盛的创作力，但也不可避免的其中掺杂着对于他来说有些沦为平庸的作品，而不幸的是本片就是其中之一。
只想说2022年了……拍一部没有男人和父权视角强奸的纯les片真的不犯法哈。
老鳖演温州女商真是活灵活现，莱托的角色真是想象不到，把原本的自己完全隐藏掉了，其他演员也都很出色，雷公一把年纪还能这样出片真的厉害，但看下来就结尾字幕一出一个没有古驰家族的古驰有点感觉，其他的看不出太多的作者思维，甚至流水化了
让人泪流满面的电影，听说是导演的真实故事，没有硬改成HE。这个分数实在低了，大概男人的出现引起各位不满了，可是即使是2022年又有多少人能走到最后。加一颗星，因为这才是一部真正的同性恋电影，没有任何的擦边球，故事流畅，能把她完整拍出来，又被我们看到，已经很不容易了。
as boring as Wikipedia
稀碎，这不是能成为密友大概总带着爱，这是谁说旧情人变不到老友😓
对奢侈品无感的人，属实不知道高奢贵在哪的人可以看看本片启启蒙，对于高奢品在质感这块和世界的参差会有个直观的认知
断裂开，看不到人物，也看不到关系，感觉像保研生交大四选修课的作业。
地铁老人手机，看得我直皱眉头，连夜添了三道川字纹。如果电影论难看程度可判刑，导演好赖也要蹲个无期徒刑。但是雷导的话，他的功德可以赦免三次
雷老滑铁卢，比起《最后的决斗》，这部豪门八卦价值毫无张力，角色没立起来，还不如《金钱时间》。
平庸至极，剧情如同一条直线，连个起伏都没有。
这个电影把时尚产业的肤浅鄙陋刻画得淋漓尽致，那些沾不上半点艺术皮毛的排列组合，以及哗众取宠的视觉效果，之所以能受到世人的追捧，归根结底来于这些古老品牌的傲慢与偏见——崇古的傲慢与审美的偏见。它呼吸着工业文明的空气，散发出商业的腐臭。尽管男女主人公的感情生活符合一般规律，没有多少悬念，但人性的演绎依然震撼人心，正因女主人公太平凡太世俗，才使得这场斗争变得异常惊心动魄。
质感和结构上很类似雷公以前那部金钱世界，但是更强大的演员阵容并没有换来更好的效果，或许老雷的心思真的都集中在最后的决斗上面了吧，心疼他老人家一秒
姜还是老的辣，为啥评分那么低？gaga无论是造型还是台词还是演技都分分钟代入，粉上了。
婚礼那一段配乐很好听，但是配乐盖过了台词和表演使电影有“mv感”。两个主角嘴亲肿之后带口罩吃饭那段很可爱，有些画面拍得很美，调色很好但是有些地方柔光滤镜开太大了。《蓝宇》片段运用的很巧妙。
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