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".
抽丝剥茧式的人物描绘，一个人要过多久才能卸下心理负担？瀑布寓意倾泻的压力，人生似乎常常游移在崩溃的边缘。钟孟宏真是不错，一年一部值得期待！
从戏份和视角来看，王净和贾静雯应该是双女主吧。
虽然结尾想给个大反转但是没有那么大的力度，就戛然而止。相对”法比安“，这个力度不足。贾静雯表演升级，点赞。好像还是比较适合这种角色，定型了。演的最好的还是陈以文！！！
4.5 疫情之后的又一部 没有快进看完的好片，每个场景的细节都做得又足又厉害。（贾静雯演技真好
捕蛇的情节是有治愈到我的，因为女儿选择相信母亲，为她出气。相信在关系里很重要！
依旧很钟孟宏的一部，不过故事的结尾居然是这样，和我想得还蛮不一样。
看开头的时候总在想这种有关疫情的偏向写实类的电影十几二十几年之后会不会也成为时代的产物 疫情引出了看似平和家庭下的一系列矛盾 母女关系在矛盾中慢慢变化
浅焦大特写意味着“专业主义”：虚化周遭，以极高的专注力与精细度打量眼前的物件。在电影的一开头，我们就看到了这样的镜头，那把錾刀精准地落在了它极浅的景深内。“硬汉派侦探”并非只意味着一套身手矫健的动作，而更多是一份与诸多物件打交道的“工作”，于是我们有了一位非人非物的、既是人又是物的、前所未有的笨重的蝙蝠侠。镜头总是被固定在车上、摩托上、滑翔衣上，以限制视角并贴近物的方式极大限度地弱化了它们在用于工作时的奇观属性。那些杀人的物、用于取证的物、作为证据的物，共同拥有着平等的关注，我们得以在这座腐化的城市和这个富豪超英形象的精英主义倾向中，窥见一种珍稀的品质：民主，影像的民主——带资本家布鲁斯韦恩也得工作！
疫情背景下伤痕，我们隔离人群远离病菌的传播，去获得生理健康，但带来副作用则是在狭小的房间中发霉，脆弱，敏感，癫狂，神经衰弱让人心力憔悴，心理健康献祭给了生理健康。瀑布的意象很好，但导演苦撑两小时，营造的惊悚悬疑感用力，精致的布局反而让人紧绷差了一口气。
故事放在疫情背景下，似乎作用性并不强，因为感觉整个故事还是围绕着如何挣脱内心枷锁来交代的。前半部分的病症表现，各种古怪异常的行为不免让人惊出冷汗，加上表面上波澜不惊却充满细节变化的表情，表演足以让人称赞。女儿的变化与成长是治愈与转变的关键，我想导演也是想让我们看到，周围人的理解与关心是具有力量的。所以当我们还在怀疑电视后面那条并不存在的蛇的时候，被狠狠地打了一耳光。当结尾我们还在准备为到来的悲剧哀伤时，小静的衣服出现在了新闻画面中。生活当然充满难堪，但是爱和理解可以筑成我们的保护伞，纵使瀑布再次袭来，也无法将我们卷入其中。
和阳光普照一样，都是在讲家庭关系，还是更喜欢前者。怎么好好的日子就过成了现在这样。
暮光版青年蝙蝠侠，痛苦迷茫混乱情怯，但敢于信仰自己的信念。和这版相比，诺兰蝙蝠三部曲完全是爽文男主。
好家伙，这一个个的，偷窥、窒息、跟踪、捆绑、胶带、望远镜、紧身衣、烟熏浓妆、低成本cosplay，通过各种猥琐刺激视角表现出来，加上一本正经的文艺配乐，天哪天哪，好变态，好喜欢！！
色调和镜头都很喜欢，但是好像少了一点味道。瀑布巨大声响的点题和最后洪流的设计，那种强大轰鸣的声音带来的冲击不同于暗流汹涌溪流下隐匿的不安，而是一种巨大、快速、注入将人卷入又冲离生活稳定正轨的能量。诗意和强隐喻能get到，但是非要给头脑中的声音找个现实对照组刻意过头反而突兀得不讨好。看了太多东亚家庭片，对于这种细腻隐忍、偶尔突如其来爆发的，但总体还是相互扶持努力在误会中笨拙尝试理解的，太过东亚刻板印象的家庭结构和角色有些麻木。我想看到更有想象力的家庭，而不是再复述再现现实的家庭了。
四十分钟后这个片的情绪就是靠配乐在推了 故事非常生硬 但贾静雯真的好 所以整场看下来依然很舒服
想说谢谢导演还算善良给了个痛快，结尾我非常紧张地以为会停留在妈妈盯着屏幕的特写镜头就结束了。就说全球疫情已有两年多，无论是严防死守还是与之共存，所有人的生活都遭遇了不同程度的冲击，心理也承受了许多重压，该有影像作品去描绘和记录以及正视这种改变了。你知道吗？我也听到过那种声音，只不过我的是噼里啪啦的火星爆裂声音。
比阳光普照好很多…疫 情背景，中年危机，家庭问题，生活中总有那么多不确定的灾难，只能慢慢适应慢慢变好，比较疑惑为啥开车骑车得画面都是那种快进的效果……ps贾静雯保养的好好，弯弯的医美可以啊
看的首映 蝙蝠侠出场全场欢呼 超级英雄电影里最好的视听语言 回归了DC本身的推理 导演在此之外还营造了恐怖氛围 其实有点算是惊悚片 配乐和画面更不用说 罗伯特的演技脱胎换骨 虽然几乎多半戴着面罩但仍然能看出眼神中的情绪 总体也是一个不开灯的电影 但是氛围非常好 这一版我的最爱 大家一定要看！
提心吊胆看完，一直好怕掉下来最后一根稻草。蛇那一段好好，学到了什么叫“理解”，但希望自己一生不要用上。 看得我很感激我妈这么多年都很坚强，看到最后，觉得我也得好好的 健康的活着。
①成人之后，我们将犯什么错误？②我们会和自己达成谅解吗？③生活会越来越好吗？
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