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".
Ariana DeBose的Anita独树一帜
其实两版《西区故事》故事情节是“高度雷同”的，其他方面水平上也差别不大，为何豆瓣评分老版比新版高出许多，这未尝不是观众厚古薄今的心理偏好在起作用。而厚古薄今、厚外薄中这种打分偏见，可以说是见怪不怪了。
街头是有了，根本看不到生活
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《这个看脸的世界好难》不过最后真爱战胜了颜控233很可爱的一部圣诞电影！很有梗 打破刻板 圣诞电影老梗的基础上反转老梗 非常有趣 写你想写的故事 做你想做的蜡烛 Just be yourself 做真实的自己 面对真实的自己 这世上比起爱情更难找到的是跟你合拍的人啊 结尾有被感动到 欧阳万成这部表现真的可爱 Darren真的适合演这种有点憨憨的帅哥hhh
有这个时间，为什么不去再刷一遍法语版的罗朱呢…至少人家歌好听唱得也好听啊…哪来的那么难听的音乐剧，还外加一群破烂嗓子…看到后面就盼着男女主赶紧死了，结果女主居然不殉情！气死个人啊！
就很流水线但是还可以哈哈哈哈哈哈至少不难看，虽然太过好莱坞PC童话，为了欧阳才看到嘻嘻
莫名其妙地很喜欢这部电影。全程尴尬又搞笑，一开始看以为是连续剧结果居然是个电影。两个主演画风的确是差太多，欧阳还长得像我表妹，但还是挺感人的。最感动是以为家里人会恨透Josh 骗他们让他们整个地方的人都看戏，但他们都更注重Josh 的感受。这个家庭太温馨了。后面的告白也很暖心。看到分这么低有点可惜。想起我跟队友相恋也是这这样。。。我心中的五分电影。
而深思人物之间的情感，与其说托尼与玛丽亚的爱情是主线，倒不如说他俩才是表象情感。更深的情感则是那几个男人的，这并非腐眼看人基，而是稍微思索几秒钟便能意识到这是顺性别（白人）直男为自己打造的“Men for men”的环境，同时也是一个枷锁。所以到最后奇诺的行为既“合理”也落了俗。
运镜、调度、剪辑、色彩……随便一帧都精确呈现出教科书般的匠气，斯皮尔伯格将好莱坞电影工业的元素发挥到了极致；更难得的是，他古典方式里蕴藏的是年轻的活力和灵动感。撇开烂俗的罗密欧与朱丽叶剧情，作为歌舞片男女主角的演技、舞姿及歌喉，都给人灾难性的崩坏感，如同姚安娜要在图兰朵中放歌，在天鹅湖里独舞。
①歌舞片对于场面调度的要求更高，但斯皮尔伯格做得真是棒；②人类愚蠢的一个表现就是，许多仇恨，都是莫名其妙的存在，往小了说是西区故事，往大了说就是宗教冲突，民族仇恨，甚而至于假借冠冕堂皇头衔的各种战争；③剧情上有硬伤，男女主角的人选也似可商榷，尤其男主，有点城乡结合部年轻俊才的意思。
对完美主义者说“爱不是完美是真诚”相当于bullshit 只有电影里才有可能发生的剧情 订婚那段镜头用得很出彩啊 / 比起奈飞其他同类型的电影已经好很多了 / 假结婚+致所有我曾爱过的男孩
一个很简单的故事但完成得很差，节奏有问题，并且男女主都过于单薄，不确定是演技还是设定缺失，两个人的爱情戏毫无感染力。但作为一部歌舞片，置景、群舞戏、镜头调度，这些都足够好，所以还是喜欢。
今年的片子越看越预感不详，好莱坞老资历导演们集体瓶颈，互相传染一起摆烂，叙事水平只退不进，手牵手一起扎进自我重复的泥潭死不回头，不过没关系，只要披一层复古怀旧的皮，就有影评人上来吹出花，谁说只有漫威会搞主题公园？
集成圣诞rom-com的想象：不期而至的偶遇和天造地设的结局，误会、尴尬、纠结、告白，浓厚芳醇的节日气息，真爱至上重温和复刻…白女亚男搭配社交骗局的冒进选择，拆解套路呼吁diversity，顺便嘲讽dating app放大谎言侵蚀真心的暗面效应，仍不能免俗以皆大欢喜的灯下拥吻作结。你爱的到底是屏幕对面的心灵，还是profile的漂亮皮囊？抛开口是心非伪饰，我们都需要一次机会，正视被浮华的社交运作遮盖太多的自我、梦想和真爱。欧阳万成奉上可爱的演出，Darren Barnet饰演的完美替身则是立于社恐宅男反面的刻板镜像杂糅。当Nina Dobrev注视他藏匿镜片后的puppy eyes时你将意识到人的魅力真的会被偏见蒙蔽。最打动人心的一笔是香味蜡烛留存记忆，无关种族，只有信物之于节日的承诺意义。
好了全看完了，后面甚至都没啥歌舞了
在没有字幕的情况下观看有门槛，尤其是要分辨西语和带西语口音的英语，似乎是为了美国西语观众翻拍，以弥补原作用非拉丁裔出演的时代遗憾，但可能他们看也和大陆地区看尚气差不多，觉得是文化挪用。片子前半部分有张艺谋的错觉，动辄数十人齐刷刷的舞蹈，用演员服装的配色制造视觉张力展现族群间的冲突。但我喜欢斯老对这种张力的取舍，一个是舞台后接吻的镜头，还有一个是男主站在楼底和女主对唱的镜头，上一帧还很炫目迷幻，下一帧就切到黑白为主体的色调。这可能是斯老对这个题材和形式的反思，美好的幻想只存在于被冲昏头脑的人里，就像原版提及的移民/少数族裔问题到今天也还在，歌舞类型和古典戏剧改编剧本的形式却已经过时。男主演技烂如国内鲜肉，尤其是最后在地下让人尬得背贴座椅；混音也可以炒了，女一女二吵架戏的刺耳程度太可怕了
好了全看完了，后面甚至都没啥歌舞了
优缺点和老版几乎一样，群舞段落华彩，但是剧情老套抓马。新版很明显有努力，想写出更好的故事、舞蹈和时代反思，但是这个故事大纲在这儿，“要么爱要么死”的观点难以服众，只能止于及格分了。男123和女12还是很养眼的~
爱好难 爱也好甜，感觉国内的“程路”可以做Jimmy的平替啊。
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