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".
被迫和小朋友去看 比我想象的要好看得多 好看到我妈都忍不住沉浸其中笑出声的那种
前面都比较平，奶奶最后一句话直接升华破防。奶奶不仅要独自面对儿孙离开，还要面对丈夫离世，被遗留的她，得有多坚强才能说出“走吧孩子，不要回头。”游子远行，被留下的他们心中纵有万般不舍，更与何人说。
镜头语言成熟，较多长镜头，开始时的两个环绕镜头运用得当。
kenneth branagh：ok我也要拍一部罗马
也就是正常的动画片吧，不过这个画风倒是不怎么习惯呢
1969年的贝尔法斯特骚乱打破了九岁男孩平静的生活，曾经充满欢声笑语的街头搭起了战壕般的壁垒，不断寄来的账单让日子再次增添了一丝窘迫，只有戏剧和电影为黑白的童年带来了一丝色彩。对于肯导来说，这是一部非常私人的电影，在多伦多电影节首映场的Q&A一度潸然泪下。然而这样的主题，却以幽默的方式呈现给观众，让人捧腹不止。片中很多彩蛋也很好笑，尤其是雷神漫画，真的笑死，简直怀疑肯导想在里面藏一个自己的宇宙。
很像正午阳光品牌会做出来的影视作品，从一开头场面到人物关系，都是好但似乎又有点滥。从景到摄影都弥漫着舞台剧摄影作品的气息，尤其人物常常正脸特写来处理，更像是摄影作品的动态影像，其中不乏一些小男孩在车下可以清楚听到父母的谈话这样的情节，就更能理解为一种舞台剧了。但是这部电影里舞台剧和电影都用了彩色来处理，黑白光影反而是一种真实生活。最喜欢一场戏是爷爷奶奶在窗边的谈话，丹奇为整部戏注入了恬静的烟火气，是一种日常的美，不是戏剧味。这里我也喜欢这部影片的黑白摄影，它让朱迪丹奇脸上的皱纹更加深刻清晰，展现了苍老和岁月的力量，不同于兰心里我总觉得黑白是为了掩饰巩俐作为本身的年龄和生理状态，智齿利用黑白摄影是不太精致的布景变得更有风格，这部电影的摄影匠心独运。最后丹奇的送别戏和别告诉她一比较高下立显。
导演是不是想拍《乔乔兔》版《罗马》，这精心设计的构图镜头时刻提醒我是多么刻意；竟然镜头都精心设计了，叙事能不能精心设计下，整个叙事就是想一出就一出，完全没啥逻辑。动不动就bgm狂轰乱炸，导演我不想知道你的歌单。
2.5 年度最差真人电影吧，基本就是个无底线低配《罗马》。想不到英国主流电影现在已经到这种地步了，导演要是看了《纪念品》还能苟活于世吗？幸好没去电影院看他翻拍尼罗河，不然又得感受一遍根本不知道该把摄影机放在哪儿的尴尬。
也就是正常的动画片吧，不过这个画风倒是不怎么习惯呢
m21304：边界一直存在(派别互害)。家庭与周遭给与小巴迪的品质，让他不会像被涂污的鸟般成长。多处拷问：你想要什么? 很多人逃离，很多人留下，很多人迷失，地球依旧在旋转。
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四岁的娃第一次看电影，全程不吵不闹，看懂了。宝宝应该会打5星。情节还挺不错的，大人也能陪着看下去不觉得无聊。
不如期待的好，也不像风评的那么差。大时代的背景和小家庭的故事都有了，三代人的态度都在了：孩子有哭闹和纯情，大人有理想和歌舞，老人有无奈和眷恋——最后差了一点张力把这些都捏合起来。类似题材的《罗马》实在高出太多啦。
配乐很不错，里面出现的电影也很有趣，如果说是以孩子的视角表述这个故事，是很有童趣的，只是里面夹杂了一些很复杂的东西，让这部片子看起来也很复杂。如果只是讲家人之间的情感，同学朋友之间的小故事，邻里之间宗教之争，对于生养之地不想离别之情，这没准会是一部更纯粹好看的电影。
贝尔法斯特没有通往香格里拉的路，看电影那段爆哭，就是那么纯粹地爱着电影，因为你在我很小的时候就改变了我的世界，一直引导影响着我。我怎么能不爱你呢，
可还是忍不住回想，因为是家，是故乡。
总得来说就是导演肯尼斯布拉纳的一部童年回忆录，相比阿方索卡隆类似题材的大师之作《罗马》，这部《贝尔法斯特》显然更加通俗易懂，但通俗必然会导致艺术性的缺失。无论是故事题材，镜头语言，黑白滤镜的运用都有模仿《罗马》，却远不及《罗马》的影子。在现实意义层面上，影片对动荡局势下普通人的描写十分打动人。在俄乌战争的大环境下，真心希望那些鼓吹战争的人，能从这部电影中看到政治斗争对于普通人来说意味着什么。
#TIFF 2021#每个人心里都有一座叫故乡的城，对阿方索·卡隆来说是罗马，对肯尼思·布拉纳来说就是贝尔法斯特。那些离开的游子，那些留下的故人，在时代的洪流里显得那么微不足道，但总有人写点什么拍点什么，当打开历史的小盒子，里面满是珍藏的私人回忆。朱迪·丹奇得奖时刻再现。
这部罗马/上帝之手/乔乔兔/四百击等等等等的劣质仿品，有独特的历史和political issue，有漂亮/心碎/英伦/小四的台词，有最melodrama的流行可看性——具备优势，却成了最虚假的。
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