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".
就是配音有些过于炫技而不真实了，知道你是杜比影院，但一片飘落的火纸怎么会有那么大的金属般的摩擦碰撞声呢？
没睡，但也是真的没劲。想要故意误用一个概念来形容它：“视觉系”电影。如果把它往脉络里续，当然逃不掉60年代那些到现今的慢电影，但还是很没劲。
依旧在爱宝filmhouse看的小型电影节（Italian Film Festival）：电影没看懂…豆瓣评论也看不太懂…不知道如果没有精准错过Pasquale的介绍会不会能懂一点…我这感悟力追随老师的步伐漫长且艰辛啊…
不是「媽媽的神奇小子」，也不是「神奇小子的媽媽」，而是「小子的神奇媽媽」，孩子的意願並不重要，爸爸依舊總是缺席，媽媽做錯了也是一切為了孩子好，近乎綁架的「世上只有媽媽好」，透露著一股強烈的「沒有XXX就沒有XXX」的單向因果，孩子的自身努力被抹殺，其他人的犧牲與幫助也被無視，真實的故事也許並不如此，只是電影本身實在令人失望。
魅力主要還是真實故事。亞特蘭大拍得很好，中段拍得還行，最後部分完全失控，沈悶至極。3.5星。
太牛逼了，15min看进去之后越来越有意思。感觉生命真的延长了3倍。
意式乡村风光大赏 aka睡眠挑战 我的北影节终于开始了...
众人知道苏炳添奥运会刷新成绩的光面，又或许，这次会让人记得苏桦伟的暗面。
2022 D’A Film Festival Barcelona 第六场，剥去台词设计，放弃具体的人物塑造，将“人”回归到自然意义的“人类”，并将其完全置于自然的环境中去探索，无论是马突然闯入帐篷还是小心翼翼地用石头、火把探寻洞的底部，都是与自然的互动。音效极佳，完全将观众带入那个探索的环境中，风声、水流甚至雾气的划过，都带来自然的律动。几处摄影角度令人称奇，在写实与探险带来的未知恐惧中把握住了绝妙的平衡。无数次地想到柏拉图的“洞喻”，我们被迫只能看到自己选择想要看见的。
不服命，不等于不认清自己局限性，愚蠢的逞强，结果要么伤害自己，要么连累他人。
黢黑的屏幕只剩下矿灯的光源，像在观众的世界里烧穿了一个洞。
胶袋不是用来装垃圾而是用来练憋气，奖牌不是用来换钞票而是用来当金器。他怕跑步让母亲太辛苦，母亲因他不跑才辛苦。既然起跑时的人生时已经慢了，更要在后半程发力冲向终点。履带运送了母亲的绝望，跑道证明了儿子的不凡。这条路不是简单的路，他也从来不是普通的人，她却是简单普通却有神力的母亲。
渐入佳境吧，很港片的套路。配角们能再好好选选就更好了。吴君如把光环都给了男演员啊，很耀眼。感人不感人的就都能想到。力量感都来自真人真事的加持。
声音处理的很好 画面真的太美了 这样的片子即便我睡着了 我也不敢说无聊 我不敢随便否定导演的用心
如果不是真事改编就一星。
洞穴的探索与老人日常生活的平行剪辑像是对一段往事的探索。
bjiff 9.23 探索山洞的故事 风景很美 节奏很慢 穿插着小镇居民的日常昼夜 后半部分还是看睡着了
前半段差点睡着，从进入洞穴后，被勾起了兴趣，再次感叹大自然的奇妙！佩服探险队的勇气！全剧没有一句台词，更显出记录的真实性，致敬历史。一个个世界之最的背后，都是多么来之不易。
@高先电影院，纯粹是听了几个三姑903的访问才想看的，讲到苏妈眠干睡湿凑大个仔，曾经被陌生人兜口兜面闹说都不知道前世做了什么会生出这样的儿子，再回到电影里的逼着孩子走，他们只会怪我，好心酸。很多地方刻画得相当现实，比如不愿接受街坊同情之下的帮助，母亲分配不均的爱，运动员退役后的生计等等，而不是一个人人大爱的虚假故事。社会歧视仍在，同工同酬未有，要多一些理解和支持。
戛然而止。我在想，拍一个勘察墓葬的不错啊。 @2021-09-21 22:37:43 @2022-06-03 23:19:56
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