剧情介绍

  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".

评论:

  • 党盼雁 0小时前 :

    值得你深入思考的一部电影,关于性侵法律是如何界定,随着案件法院庭审的不断深入,围绕性侵一层层剥开,直到结尾最后的判决,似乎还有许多在法律之外的东西悬而未决……电影《人间世事》

  • 巫阳云 2小时前 :

    片子不管是男女主案件还是男主父亲与实习生的展现其实都是在挑战观众的道德观,任意的评判和站队行为都会被结局所否定,这也回到了针对现实的反思:我们在面对真实事件时所做出的道德判断几乎都是不理智的,我们以为我们站在某个公理的角度在看待事情,但这个“公理”到底源自于哪里?或者“公理”本身就很值得怀疑?

  • 孟令梓 5小时前 :

    按时间顺序的编排,抗日战争→航天发展→改革开放→现代科技。第一第二个看得好煎熬,吴京的最差,好久没有看过这么假的战争片了。徐峥的最好,查了一下中国第一支广告还真就是参桂养荣酒。沈腾的有几个段子挺好笑,但是整体来看多少有点偏题了。

  • 振运 4小时前 :

    邪恶特利迦复刻一波邪恶迪迦,遥辉被赛雷布洛附身后还是有些惊悚的,本以为最后永恒核心的力量全给特利迦后会解锁新形态呢,没想到还是闪耀特利迦。不过打斗场面相较于武居导演之前的作品有了明显的进步,文戏也是相当的不错,比TV不知好了几倍,如果TV照这个水准,起码不会被骂这么惨。剑悟和彰人果然是真爱啊,有点期待武居导演的《德凯奥特曼》了。

  • 孝令秋 4小时前 :

    8.不是非黑即白,本片塑造了灰色的男女主人公,整件事都是灰色的,两个背景性格截然不同的人互相伤害,一开始都不知道重点是什么,直到案件开始,然后一点一点追溯之前的事情,涉及法国的司法,me too运动,移民,迷人的地方在于不紧不慢的剥开一层层东西。最后作为观众都很难下判决,毕竟世界是复杂的多面的。

  • 加侠 0小时前 :

    这部电影不仅在探讨性侵事件中的性别议题,同时也是对观众的一场考验和审判,它是如此值得被探讨,以至于它如果让你一度持有怀疑态度,或能让你进一步反思制度,或者更坚定自己的立场,那都是一种进步。

  • 庚萧曼 5小时前 :

    每个故事都没有什么亮眼的地方,节奏缓慢且无趣,第一个故事甚至有点痛心。0127-夜

  • 巴俊誉 4小时前 :

    一场诉讼,两家人的悲剧,最后两位律师的结案陈词太精彩了!

  • 乌雅思洁 6小时前 :

    好片;

  • 天辰锟 0小时前 :

    法律的局限性真的是发明他的人类自觉留下的bug,跟人斗,法律早死翘翘了

  • 旭涵 8小时前 :

    章子怡那个有点跑题吧

  • 彩菡 7小时前 :

    本片从男女主,及其父母,辩护律师的角度

  • 允晶燕 0小时前 :

    比tv好看多了!!!彰人:烦死了!23333

  • 剑代蓝 9小时前 :

    什么是道德?或者什么是政治?法律从不存在。

  • 帖若翠 7小时前 :

    片子不管是男女主案件还是男主父亲与实习生的展现其实都是在挑战观众的道德观,任意的评判和站队行为都会被结局所否定,这也回到了针对现实的反思:我们在面对真实事件时所做出的道德判断几乎都是不理智的,我们以为我们站在某个公理的角度在看待事情,但这个“公理”到底源自于哪里?或者“公理”本身就很值得怀疑?

  • 仆明诚 2小时前 :

    怎么说呢,两位律师站在各自当事人立场所提出的质疑、发言都说得很有道理,本墙头草听了也觉得都很对,但是不太喜欢这种故事框架——我给你织了一张迷网,也给你提供了一场优秀的辩论,最终怎么看取决于你。现实中已经有太多模棱两可和各种理中客了,如果把双方律师的论点深入挖掘,会不会更直观更有剖析价值?

  • 尉迟白山 6小时前 :

    庭审戏太精彩了,台词量大的戏一般不爱看,但这部精彩到想要二刷。真相是绝对的吗?真相难道只在每个人心里吗?

  • 候沛凝 4小时前 :

    四分给徐峥拍的第三个故事。前两个故事立意宏大,看太多,毫无新鲜感,估计是位导演都能拍,是个编剧都会写这样的故事,完全是印模子的故事。最后一个故事看似新意,但已经猜到孩子与机器人的关系,西洋镜拆穿,食之无味。唯有徐峥的故事非常讨巧,恰好我做过文案,有共鸣,还有就是故事也有新意,从孩子的假作文到父亲的「鸭先知」,生动有趣,小演员很给力,感觉比徐峥演的还好,四个故事,后三个的主旨是失败不可怕,放弃梦想才可怕。同样的立意,徐峥的故事小巧灵活,幽默风趣,选材独特,印象深刻。

  • 宏映雪 9小时前 :

    哭的哭,笑的笑,我猜在影院里也是这么鲜明的上下半场。我们今天的幸福真的该好好感谢先辈们默默的付出,前人栽树,后人乘凉,我辈更该自强,不负这一生。最后一个短片里的小孩二号简直有喜剧天分,未来可期!

  • 全新翰 6小时前 :

    《诗》这一单元是最打动我的,叙事节奏编剧演技都很细腻出彩,特别是两个小演员,很灵。章子怡和黄轩,黄轩人设很好,但是感觉被章子怡压住了,她站在黄黄的风沙里就有一种故事感。

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