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".
骗泪童话。礼堂的音乐会后，父亲在车后斗手覆在女儿颤动的喉咙上“听”她唱歌，给我哭惨了。世界林立隔阂高墙，人们缩回家庭，期盼血亲带来的温暖。
好妙好温柔的电影，我喜欢！女孩的三个聋哑家人的表演和转变真的是四两拨千金，当然女孩的表演也很棒，她在面试时，最后一边唱歌一边用手语给家人传达歌词那段太戳人了呜呜。
没做功课，也没看过原版电影。看片名以为是主角是听障人士，开始看片才发现原来是个反向角色设置。学校演出那段突然进入听障人物的视角特别赞，无声胜有声的张力完全出来了，这点声音设计上比《金属之声》高明很多，同时迎合了一家人互相理解的剧情走向。后半段出现的那两次手语演唱片段都很打动人。
女主长相是我喜欢的类型，男主是《初恋这首情歌》里的小哥呀！为家人用手语表演歌曲那里是我新年第一哭！
歌几乎都不好听，这我是万万没想到！
关于爱，关于被爱，虽然我的世界没有声音，但我仍然会在台下听你歌唱。
我看了一下爸爸和哥哥的演员，改成五星。妈妈的演员早就认识知道是听障人士，没想到爸爸和哥哥也是
You'll be there to push me up the hill.
"I've never done anything without my family before."
好久没看这种温情家庭片了，看得很感动，也有好多好笑的地方。也了解了一下聋哑家庭的独特之处。今年奥斯卡电影我大概就看了两个，如果就让这部得了，也挺好的吧，大家都治愈治愈。女主姑娘很会唱啊，有迪士尼歌曲那个味。哦，还有要给apple的超高清画质点赞！
3-22 coda在音乐里意味着结束。看之前以为自己不会爱上这部电影，到后面还是被感动，倒也不是电影有多煽情，而是能relate到更多角色的心情。女儿为家庭付出了很多，但是也想拥有自己的人生，毕竟还是高中生，终于开始追求梦想。学校的部分就是glee all over again，谢谢老师的reference，让这部电视剧的影响还能到今天。家庭里，生活有艰难的部分，但是一家人相亲相爱，就是最好的事情了。一个让人开心又流泪的故事，我依旧是爱音乐，这个世界终究是离不开音乐。
一部有着古装电影的充分野心，但却没端住的现代片，片中除了薛景求之外几乎所有人的表演都充满了现代类型片的痕迹，善良的热心的狡猾的市井的，你可以在其他很多商业片中找到精确匹配的角色模板，同时强事件且套路的情节设计也消减了作为历史题材的沉稳，昌大难道只有到了官场才知道其黑暗吗？跟若铨呆了那么久一点都没学到？同时配乐的使用有些过，黑白影像只停留在于形式，最后的蓝鸟更是刻意到让人出戏。总体观感比较失望。
根据法国影片改编，一个中学女孩与其家庭的故事，很温馨，很感人，且励志，但不如原作有感染力。女孩是家庭中唯一非聋哑的正常人，偶然机会音乐老师发现她极具唱歌天赋，让这个原本艰辛但相依为命的家庭起了波澜，本已认命的女孩也陷入到追寻梦想与帮助家人的痛苦选择中。电影很好地表现了这一过程，故事丰满，情绪与气氛把握不错。
比原作工整匠气了一些，浑然天成的朴拙感略逊色，但好在演员挑得好，也比较完整的保留了原作的情感内核。
（我果不其然又哭成了王麻子）
2022年了
相信东方的读书人，一定会有强烈的共鸣，当固有价值观被现实世界一次次击溃后，为天地立心，生民立命，继往圣绝学，开万世太平的思想挣扎在自由的思想和怯懦颤抖的笔触之间，我们的手中只有笔，一杆孱弱无力的慰藉，慰藉自己的孤独和对生命自由意志的挣扎，然后老去…就只有老去…
其实很多immigrants家的小孩估计也是这样吧
是一部文学性与视觉表现都很好的作品，用渔夫的淳朴上进去对比官府的腐败堕落，对于东西方观念、人和人的相处、官和民的关系的呈现虽然表面直白，但有一定批判性。青鸟、乌贼墨、鱼之道等等的比喻贴合故事主题还很有诗意。
这次奥斯卡都被史皇抢了风头，都忘了本片是夺得最大奖。翻拍得不错，一切尽在预料之内，但又能感动人心。特别是四个情节：逗死人的那段父母床戏、母女的深夜对话、音乐会突然静音让全民体验聋哑的世界、最后试音时加上了手语的表达。我挺喜欢女主的闺蜜，大胆爱，估计她会上船，哈哈
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