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".
不署中岛长雄的钟孟宏，摄影没有以前那么好看了。而即便设置了那么多的对位回应，故事本身还是缺乏戏剧性，可看性较弱。疫情所造成的焦虑和奔溃固然居有时代特性，但这个元素若是用不好，还是不要用了吧。
作品质量蹭蹭往上走
不知为何总感觉类型跳跃，《阳光普照》也是，内心的阴翳被过度放大为令人出戏的恐怖质感，或许和配乐有关？
“每个人都有难堪的过去，只是大小不同而已。而且未来会怎样，没有人知道。”王净👍
故事性比较强 bgm不错 贾静雯延续了我们与恶的距离中的演绎 有种看困在时间里的父亲的感觉
设立 魏如萱这种念大字报的角色，单纯增加了矫揉造作的不和谐。 所有的人物都用力过猛，脱离现实，但又不梦幻。
父亲是缺失，就像“借精子的人”。
爸爸只是一个提供精子的男人而已，女儿可以成为支撑妈妈的存在。比起阳光普照更喜欢这部，瀑布虽粗糙但更能让我共情。
完全可以代入和共情，虽然这样说有些矫情，但是这就是我们破碎人可以get的电影。
我的开年华语最佳。如此生活三十年，勉力维持的生活秩序被巨流冲垮。瀑布是遮蔽天空的蓝色围布，疫情吞掉人的感受力，于是她幻视幻听所有关于水的状态：从暴风雨到瀑布倾泻轰鸣到溪流深处。母女关系的转换也是一大优点，刚开始误导观众呈现一个有问题的女儿，最后利用幻觉的打破看见一个有问题的母亲。和解自然放在最后，但也是在父亲缺席下母女命运相依的一个渐进状态。极喜欢音效，看见蓝色瀑布倾泻而下，轰鸣震耳欲聋，人们很难抵抗暴风雨的侵袭。
從19年之後，鍾+張從〈腿〉開始的創作（以及這部片），題材選擇都在往更大衆的生活層面去經營（事實上陽光普照也是，但那套調度依舊是鍾往常電影的慣用手法），而這部片更像是一個蹭COVID-19熱度改出來的故事。故事更像是電視劇而不是電影。尤其這片前一小時的戲處理得很糟糕，劇情上本不應該笑的，從結果來看就變得很尬很好笑。但很明顯的，這部片跟他過往電影的調度比，那種透過威嚇人物來達到觀衆心理關心的調度手法收斂了很多很多（個人覺得是件好事），雖然似乎也導致整個劇作質量一同下降了。後續的創作類型有待觀察這一趨勢。★☆
剧本有点不伦不类，整体也很匠气，他镜头里的台湾和我印象中的差别很大，就我所知的平凡疫情故事也比它来得戏剧化和深刻。娃娃这几年真是热衷各种客串啊。黑泽明的电车狂拥趸真多，是冷门里的热门了…
有几个桥段很有意思。但总体我还是很不喜欢钟孟宏，感觉他的作品漂浮在人生真谛和狗血八点档之间，漂浮在煽情做作和朴素动人之间，整个让我非常不适。
我们有妈妈，有女儿，有阿姨，有姐姐，有妹妹，有女医生，有女朋友，有女同学，我们会穿过瀑布，我们会在洪水中活下来。
自从《倚天屠龙记》之后再没有看过贾静雯的表演，这次和王净搭档真的很不错，近来发现，很多小女生的演技真的很棒，比如陈妍霏，文淇等。比年轻男演员出彩的多。
魏如萱那段也太做作了，别的都蛮好的，看得人窒息，还好有一个懂事的女儿。会想到齐秦版本张三的歌mv里，那个贾静雯，一个人试着重新生活，总是会这个这部片子里的贾静雯重合。我们可以不那么坚强，可以崩溃，可是崩溃的时候，如果是自己的话会被瀑布吞没吧。
如果命题是双方都不做单方面牺牲的角色，那母女关系真的好微妙好难写，优点是还是完成了，但没有留下佳章。贾静雯的表演还是很惊喜的，觉得台湾女演员这几年真的很有突破。
完全可以代入和共情，虽然这样说有些矫情，但是这就是我们破碎人可以get的电影。
也太丧了
这部片算是给予希望的片，每每在谷底总会出现一些人来帮助。火烛后阿姨来帮忙，失业后遇到超市主管帮助，卖房子被压榨被房地产经理帮忙，让本身跌到谷底的两母女有了希望。这些贵人的出现是挺戏剧化的，虽然也让片子看起来显得不太现实，但导演也许就是想给大家一些希望。虽然现在大环境这么差，个体如此难熬，但阳光总会有的，所以最后那个好无征兆的泄洪，交代了现实的无常之余，也给予了人们最后的希望。
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