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".
假期陪娃看的，基本我全程在玩手机。简陋的画面，没啥教育意义的剧情，不断重复的造型与场景。。。这种动画，好处就是，还有很大的进步空间呀。
挺分裂的，一边是宗教纷争的动乱，一边是灯红酒绿的慰藉
7.5。导演肯尼思·布拉纳的童年故事。北爱尔兰版的《罗马》，甚至连画面都一样是黑白的。虽然时代背景是不安定的，但故事并不是讲的大环境对自己童年的影响，而是讲的家庭和乡愁。现在的我对九岁时的记忆十分单薄，基本记不得那一年发生了什么。导演如此清晰地记得五十年前发生的事情，说明那一年对他意义重大。那一年是爷爷离开他们，也是他们一家离开贝尔法斯特的日子。离开熟悉的街道和朋友，可能也是离开童年。无论如何忧伤，导演记忆里的电影和戏剧仍然是彩色的，这么多年过去了，电影和戏剧带给他的愉悦仍然感染着他。
有点罗马那意思，黑白怀旧画面，儿童视角里的家庭记忆与动荡年代，对故乡的深情怀念。北爱尔兰新教家庭被天主教徒冲击，在外务工的父亲想移民而母亲不愿离开家乡，巷子里充满乐观精神和烟火气。小男主对电影情有独钟，只有电影和戏剧是彩色画面，果不其然又是导演童年自传。能感受到这类私人童年记忆电影的用情至深，但能获得多少共情不一定
小朋友说给满分。我觉得动画片里的狗狗们比电影里的漂亮。
儿子的第一部电影，儿童片里算剧情紧凑流畅的。整个故事线设定比电视剧更具情感色彩和说服力，人物对不同事件反应更有血性。
这部罗马/上帝之手/乔乔兔/四百击等等等等的劣质仿品，有独特的历史和political issue，有漂亮/心碎/英伦/小四的台词，有最melodrama的流行可看性——具备优势，却成了最虚假的。
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肯尼爵太努力了，无论炫技还是塞梗，然而…meh… 【而且主题真是讲跑路吗？第一世界的人民投胎好，跑路好轻松
就好像那些拥有远离故土的勇气又有将记忆中的黑白讲述出来的能力的孩子，童年时代一定都受到过伟大影音的影响似的。
每一首歌都恰到好处。童年的回忆即使已经褪色成了黑白，还是挡不住的阳光灿烂。一家人平平淡淡的过日子，所有的忧愁悲伤困苦恐惧都与小孩无关，他只记得天空，足球，洗衣粉和高自己一头的女朋友。永远不再……
本来只是觉得华而不实，一看评价，竟然之前有将至类比“罗马”的，还好没提前看到，不然这个落差太大了，观感就更一言难尽了。电影讲的是北爱尔兰首府贝尔法斯特的一个街区在宗教对持中的一段景。故事拍得中规中矩，镜头凹气质凹得很足，可惜内容撑不起来，类比罗马除了黑白凹造型镜头，应该也有对童年街区的回忆吧，就这回忆就真的只是回忆，有影像没想法，一切就在面上的那些了。
好戳我啊！立马找了Van Morrison 的专辑来听！
第一次带女儿上影院看电影，当放到阿奇被市长手下抓走的时候，女儿在一旁抽泣。
正在读一本90年代国内拼死偷渡去美国热潮的书，不是说人的suffer可以分出高下，但是就，不太能relate从爱尔兰搬去英格兰升职加薪还给房子的痛苦。
不如期待的好，也不像风评的那么差。大时代的背景和小家庭的故事都有了，三代人的态度都在了：孩子有哭闹和纯情，大人有理想和歌舞，老人有无奈和眷恋——最后差了一点张力把这些都捏合起来。类似题材的《罗马》实在高出太多啦。
画质好棒的，狗爪子毛茸茸的好想摸摸，内容也比较积极向上，通过动画对孩子进行积极向上的引导，英雄也会害怕，每个人都需要成长，整场孩子欢笑挺多的
到不了的地方叫远方，为了逃命，也就顾不上那些乡愁和瞻前顾后了。WOT
正在读一本90年代国内拼死偷渡去美国热潮的书，不是说人的suffer可以分出高下，但是就，不太能relate从爱尔兰搬去英格兰升职加薪还给房子的痛苦。
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