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".
不煽情的动人温情之作，可能看过原作的关系，看这部作品的时候并没有被感动到，有点可惜。对于很多人说的合唱汇演消音和父亲在皮卡用手“听歌”两个段落，确实令人眼前一亮。
青春期喜剧居然得了奥斯卡，可以和绿皮书竞争近二十年最接地气的奥斯卡最佳影片。好看的确是好看，但我觉得Coda比不过近年类似题材的其他佳作，比如Lady Bird, Edge of Seventeen
我想它什么都没做，只是所有入围电影里唯一暖的一部，带着千禧年的甜味，大家太需要回忆起来2020年前的世界。我也会选它。
淚目...想到自己背井離鄉海外求學，媽媽第一次出國飛來參加我的博士答辯儀式，其實也是那麼孤獨的坐在人群中完全不懂我和周圍的人在說些什麼，也是看著別人的反應開始拍手鼓掌...I miss them dearly
我一直觉得 听觉可能是我最容易放弃的五感之一 但是对于听障来说 唉……
选歌和表演各占成功的一半，手语版的both sides now恐怕Joni Mitchell也看了泪流吧
虽然伯克利不是光听一首歌就能考上，但Both sides now确实很感人，听到眼睛湿了。
这部片能入围奥斯卡最佳影片也是因为ZhengZhi正确吧？也不是说这部片不好，中间突然变无声那段真的很华彩了，另外女主就那么随意学了一下就能考进伯克利？
在伯克利唱歌那里差点看哭，演技精湛，情绪饱满，歌曲好听，用曲恰当，黄黄的还很搞笑。如果是原创的电影，必须五星！可惜了，不是原创。
疫情之下，美国人民需要，奥斯卡工会需要，全世界都需要这种电影，能理解。
2、影片讲述的是一个健听女孩的成长故事。主角是一个热爱唱歌的女孩，出生在一个靠捕鱼为生的聋哑人家庭，当她陷入个人和家庭、梦想与责任的两难境地时，她会做出怎样的选择？
情节设置上缺乏新意，冲突与矛盾都在预想之内。胜在明亮动人的青春氛围与细腻真挚的家庭戏编排（碾压陈腔滥调的校园恋爱）。演出的高光段落拉高了整体的观感，层层铺垫到静音的那一刻，情感轰隆作响。
好莱坞乏味改编一则，演员选角现实性及整体表演大加分。
900｜打动我的瞬间与故事完全无关。这部电影应该拿金鸡奖，而不是奥斯卡。
PS：看到Ruby在伯克利面试立马梦回当年参加艺考，台上台下一对三的情形简直一模一样，居然稍微有点紧张hhh
奥斯卡最佳影片，苹果公关成功，翻拍同名电影没想到竟然战胜了大热的《犬山记》。
翻拍自法国电影《贝利叶一家》，记着要去看。
温馨的亲情片，人性自私不逃避，亲情羁绊很真实。人生和家庭都很温暖，在温暖的底色下残障人士生活的苦痛和挫折有所淡化。插曲很厉害，提升了这部电影的世界观，电影里不好交代的人生要两个角度看世界，歌词也告诉你了。
还有，女儿用手语为他们一家翻译歌词的场景…
但拿下BP多少还欠缺一些说服力，作为翻拍片，它对原作《贝利叶一家》并无多少实质变动和超越，2007年马丁凭翻拍片《无间风云》登顶，至少是从视听到气质到主题全方位改造过且焕然一新的。希望行业能意识到，对保守的过分表彰就是对创造力的抹杀。
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