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".
这个插叙剪辑和人物刻画的还是挺奇怪的，不是说什么不行，但是既然决定了生育就好好养，既然决定了抛弃就不要又回来愧疚。但表演还是很好的
The Lost Woman.
希腊旅游劝退片。以及达妹本体是刘海吧，看演员表我都没想到哪个是她…
不孕不育保平安。自我剖析的好，看了一眼原著，哦又是艾莱娜费兰特。
沉重……但是拍的真好！想擁抱裏面每一個女人~~~
手持近景拍摄表现出了内心焦虑感和被窥视感；细节丰富，各对“母女关系”相互映射，现实与回闪情节流畅地交织在一起；女性心理需求/心里状态描写细腻，男性的“工具”地位和弱化。
这 是 什 么 我 操；好到难以置信；121分钟的大火，每一分钟都让我倍受煎熬；找到这部电影，玛吉·吉伦哈尔会带你领略日常生活内部的惊悚结构，和真正的偶然、绝对的想象。
女演员都很棒。娃娃设计得巧妙，但线索性还可以进一步增强。结尾有些太过于戏剧化。20220111
895｜3.5，不完美的母亲，迷失的女儿，一个道理讲半天的原地转圈之作。小细节很赞，摄影配乐都很到位，科尔曼演得也很好。一开始我就猜女主搞不好是文学系教授，结果还真是，还是比较文学。
很喜欢，细腻生动，对于自我身份的找寻绝非一时能成，很多人大概都需要一辈子的时间，往往印证那句，回忆起来才是香的，we seldom care what we have but crazy about what we have lost.
the lost daughter,the nowhere mother.
「开年电影」别看短评，那些在这拽什么女性主义的人，都是扯淡。电影只是向我们阐述了一个真理：所有在离异时（不管任何理由）选择了放弃抚养权的一方，都会后悔，无一例外。（不用概率，这个概率是100%）电影开篇的处理方式非常复古。科尔曼面向海滩一头倒下去，同时片头THE LOST GAU DHTER与几乎是复刻了上世纪中时期的背景音同时出，紧接着就是转场，迷死人了。（这甚至都不是八十年代电影惯用的处理方式，得追溯到六七十年代）中段平行剪辑穿插叙事的手法倒是数见不鲜了。但片尾处与片头的衔接却恰到好处，几乎同样干脆利落，点到为止，意犹未尽，很妙。玛吉的导演处女作，味道真心可以。（赢在首尾）
没啥意思。在中国这样的妈绝对不合格，别管你多大成就。还搞外遇，把俩孩子直接扔给老公和姥姥。
不是满分作品但女性作者女性导演女性演员几位一体太能打动人了。无论是青年状态里的高能耗女儿带来的焦虑、遇见登山客带来的对自身的再审视与遗憾、遇见学术知己的一激荡，还是中老年状态里的自持、遗憾、骄傲、自省，都让人深陷其中。/估计喜欢费兰特书的人多数会喜欢此片。/达妹这个全包眼线让我没敢认。说实话有进步。至少把几乎听不懂听不进Olivia在说什么的状态演活了。她既苦恼又油盐不进。/跟这个假“平行母亲”的结局比起来，《平行母亲》很理想化了，阿莫多瓦秒变童话。/是我心中四星以上作品。打五星挽救一下。
怎么讲呢 五味杂陈吧 女儿和母亲的关系本身就很难描述 是一种极其特别的情节。爱 嫉妒 恨 眷恋 牵挂 参照物 又十分想要避免被别人看出来有彼此的影子。这个女作家的小说本来就很不好改变，电影拍出了女性复杂又无解的心理状态，但同时这不是一部拍给普罗大众观看的电影，因为它需要很多的心领神会。
想做妈妈的女孩一定要看看，如何为人母，才能养好娃，不至于后悔，没有遗憾。其实孩子小的时候就那么几年，一定要耐心全心全意地陪伴，而且出于内心深处的那份天然无私的爱，啥都不是问题，女主lost her daughters, fortunately, she found them finally...景点的男人似乎都时刻盯着那些可以揩油的女人们，呵呵
但该作品却比“那不勒斯四部曲”后两部对身为人母之后的展现更令人恐惧。。。。
呃，不太懂为啥夸成这样，就一部很故弄玄虚神神叨叨的处女作。重心都放在了闪回的重合和双线叙事的剪辑上，说实话还挺学生电影的，尤其是两个小时闪回比重基本要和现实部分的叙述持平了，整体结构拖泥带水非常笨重，起承转合基本上都是靠科尔曼女士的怼脸特写撑起来的，以致于没大看出Ferrante的风格，反之却有一种英式的Sally Rooney的感觉？黑发达妹和海滩度假真的好搭，但是她这个角色其实可以再深挖一点，在这里完全就是服务主角有点可惜了，不过没看过原著也不大好评价，之后可能会补。ps.阿尔芭脸啥时候肿成这样了...
這個的內容和表現形式遠比奧斯卡幾部入圍的都有趣和生動得多，只限於題材相對小眾不夠商業。但很多感情共鳴的東西，也有足夠留白，其實可看性和探討性都是不錯的作品。
7分，不太共鸣的一部普通甚至略显无聊的作品，不太有共鸣是显然的，这是一部比较写意的作品，但我既不是女性更不是母亲，女主的很多行为我都不太理解，至于什么导演的暗示更是看不出来也懒得去猜，感觉导演为了追求一些奇怪的效果过于牺牲了本片的叙事，导致我作为一个普通观众很没有兴致看完这部作品，前半段都要看睡着了。但是，本片的表演是非常出彩的一个点，也是我能给7分的主要原因。科尔曼和巴克利的表演都太出彩了，相比起来更喜欢巴克利的表演，但不得不承认科曼的影院戏是全片最令人印象深刻的片段很表演，表演功底太好了。
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