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".
都要 全力以赴…落后未落败 大步行下去，有耐力后来居上 才算天赋。」
某時某刻閃現出舊時港片的一點味道，但電影除了實實在在的赤誠之外，竟然意外的也相當實誠，完全沒有美化任何一個人。
不知道为什么，吴君如在港澳女星里不算拔尖，我看过的作品也少，却莫名有种好感。
在电影情节设计上采取先抑后扬。讲述不顺遂的童年，遭受各种眼光和生活的困顿。在机缘巧合下找到了跑步是人生逆袭之光。
独自在外的时候，我常常会怀疑我是否值得被爱，能否过好自己的生活，可在妈妈的眼里，我永远值得被爱，永远是神奇小子。
奥运会选出来的是人类最强健的体魄，残奥会选出来的是最不屈的灵魂。“不平凡”的人一样可以追求梦想。
中规中矩 想讲很多问题 又好像什么都没讲。
只有一边练习一边拍广告那段比较好，其他的全部都看得让人很无语，普通话配音非常非常非常出戏
还可以，虽然有点地方有点像公益广告，但是基本上还是呈现出了温暖且残酷，现实且有力量的效果。吴君如演妈妈真的永远自带催泪buff。男主每每奔跑起来我都鼻酸，开始思考跑步这件事到底意味着什么：人类与时空作斗争，与自己作斗争，与命运作斗争。以及也是一个不错的粤语区影像，香港总是能让我想起小时候的广州。
抱着很大的期待，特地看的粤语版！其实感觉导演更多的想引起社会关注残奥人员的同工同酬问题，但是对于电影来说的话，既然叫妈妈的神奇小子，更多要侧重在妈妈如何鼓励发掘孩子的天赋，如何帮助孩子一步步走到最终的领奖台，而不是讲一些错过主题的东西！其实在幼年和少年时期，更应该着重的展现，也是最能打动观众的地方！个人资料，由于是香港导演，最后鸟巢决赛时，画面里只有一个英国国旗的设计感官很不好，不管是有意无意，难免让人不多想。本来准备被吴君如的演技感动一把的，谁知也是不温不火，差的有点多，被预告片坑了，可惜啦！
看的粤语版，第一感受 ：是好看的 。有几次泪目了，以前运动员的待遇蛮差的，更何况是残疾运动员，想想在香港当快递员7000块钱，而残疾运动员（冠军）的经济补贴只有3000块，还要自费各种培训支出。。。电影里如此，现实中也如此 。我是真没有想到拿过这么多次冠军的运动员的待遇也是如此之差 ，真的不容易 。。
前半部分相当好 很催泪 节奏也是那种经典运动片的调调 中途开始拉垮 后期基本靠慢镜推情绪 就有些刻意了 能理解剧本囿于真实故事的约束 但还是有改善空间的 吴君如一如既往的稳 观影过程中很自然地记起从前看金鸡和岁月神偷的美好感受 以及 从忠奸人开始关注张继聪 既有型又有演技 非常喜欢他
2021.09.05 在大地影城和芋头一起观影
整体的情节还是太过制式，那个长得贼眉鼠眼的运动员经纪人也没有成为反派大boss，没有反派的电影其实有点难拍，这一部只能说勉强完成任务。
一开始的四人接力哪里最好。
君如和蘇的三個演員都好出色，特別係成年後。見到洪嘉豪出來笑出聲，還有locker演弟弟，蘭姨，盧海鵬，6永，當然特別是柳柳的歌聲響徹影院，聽了就當見了。影片開場孩子學會走的處理好抓馬哈，唔知係咪致敬阿甘呢，雖然本片都有點出戲---濾鏡，心諗如果拍得貼地一點就好了，但定位大概沒那麽沉重，單純想喚起普羅大眾關注這個問題來的情感渲染吧。
真人真故事～很简单的励志故事，上帝不宠你，就用勇气和毅力震惊上帝的核心表达。虽然有些桥段很感动，但是叙事还是有些平，毕竟是个传记片。
苏桦伟三个演员选得都不错，有几场戏吴君如明显被比下去，反而有点表情僵硬，故事的话就普通操作，有原型人物支撑不会太脱离真实，比郑恺那部不知道好多少了。
（2021.8.29）两星半，其实是《神奇小子的妈妈》。东亚窒息母爱在残疾运动员身上的极致体现，感动一直上不去，总有哪里觉得别扭。（但是可能人物原型如此，所以也不好说啥。
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