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".
尼采说的对，那些杀不死你的，终将使你更强大
看梗概就知道会演什么的电影。女性总在渴望亲密关系。她太孤独了，想找人聊天。
值得反复观看。爱自己，接受自己原本的样子。
拥抱自己的身体，和痛苦和解，不带有色眼镜，满足自己的欲望，人生在世短短一瞬，没有那么多时间唧唧歪歪
我对里面的叨逼叨没兴趣，我就是看后面 感叹这个 汤普森都63岁的人了，奶子还保养的不错，没有怎么下垂，看起来像30-40岁的。羡慕
生活比戏剧更精彩系列。国内赞美人性的内容真的太少了。
我对里面的叨逼叨没兴趣，我就是看后面 感叹这个 汤普森都63岁的人了，奶子还保养的不错，没有怎么下垂，看起来像30-40岁的。羡慕
各方面都很出色的一部片，就今年看过的片子，它的精彩甚至不输给妈的宇宙。希望大家都可以任性地选择爱自己多一点，以及多给自己挣（攒）钱
是谁在刷CFA？是我。是谁在哭泣？是我。是谁在跟着唱？是我。是谁在跺脚？是我。啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊
2021M79/9.0 善意就是哲学最终的那个点
在鸭子面前通过ml进行精神痛苦的自我反省。leo太有魅力了
五星怒赞！一剂极度舒适的精神春药。内核还是与自己和解！话痨片真的可以拍得很好看！请洪常秀、伍迪艾伦学着点吧。
看得我哭哭笑笑的，她牵动我的一丝一毫的情感，笑她的尴尬，哭她的难过，感觉自己也在一点点把包裹的外壳撕开一丝口子。还记得他告诉我，你对自己要求太高了。我总是浑然不觉。我又总是处在矛盾中。但他也告诉我这个过程要自己度过，可以借助帮人的帮助但仍要有自己的力量。接纳自己，接纳真实的自己！他告诉她你可以的，然后变成，她告诉自己你可以的。然后不为了外在的标准放下judge 的态度，正视自己也正视别人。放松，我也学不会的放松。当我看到她真的放松下来，一方面为过去的生活哭泣，一方面为获得前所未有的自由而愉悦。自由，精神的自由，就是生命力的释放。我爱她最后面对镜子里衰老的自己，那亮晶晶的眼神。她不愧是这个世界上我最爱的女演员！
4.4/支持所有女性性解放（性解放不等于性开放，望周知。）更支持她们都可以在最简单直接的方式中拥有自己的快乐。这剧本真的太会了，演员更是十分到位，一间小小的房间把所有复杂的东西都呈现了出来，艾玛婶真的棒的。但是请放心，这并不是鸭的平均水平，一个足够好称得上足够贵的价格的鸭，至少也是一个好的心理咨询师。「也许比起你年轻时的貌美，更有人爱你备受岁月‘摧残’的容颜」
因为和现实脱节所以只能给四星，但整体和细节都很不错，男女主角太讨喜了。
Emma Thompson演得太好了，非常真诚，太让人感动了。剧本是一个典型的三幕式结构，工整、清晰，在目前动不动两个半小时长的大片中，显得十分灵动。 但最重要的是它对女性情欲的探索和自我成长，sex pleasure is a powerful thing. 最后的设计，虽然predictable，但是很妙，性愉悦从来不是谁给的，而是自我发现和自我解放。 关于边界/真实与虚假的探讨也很有启发性，good luck to 每一个在探索的人。
好的卡司确实能够掩盖剧本的局促，并且让影像高于平庸版本的真正舞台。2001-2011-2021，时代U字回转。
疫情前买的最后一部音乐剧门票，结果被取消了，这样一想好像快两年没看过现场音乐剧了。女机长的几首歌都好好听，一人分饰多角也很厉害，舞台虽小但利用充分，虽然还是感觉太普通了。
姐姐娶我！
感觉看了一篇音乐剧版的特稿，关于信仰的小段落最打动我
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