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".
如果不是真事改编就一星。
训练期长 职业生涯短 能有多少个4年
三星半，港式煽情太多了。少年和青年苏桦玮演的太好了
经过短暂的《岁月神偷》之后，迎来的是松散凌乱的《阿甘正传》+《奇迹男孩》。作为影片，跑道是从“小子的神奇妈妈”到“妈妈的神奇小子”，没跑完。
因为把噗我才来看 结果真的遇到了把噗！
Fame is a fickle food, it never last. 为了生存对每个人来说都是肯定要屈服的。我现在也被单位解聘了，要重新找工作。电影都是要渲染，要烘托情感的。我稍微查了一下这位真正“苏神”的资料。其实他现实中家庭条件倒不至于那么那么惨。后来不是还成为了刘德华公司的文员吗？电影最后结尾剪辑进去几秒钟人物原型苏桦伟真实的比赛影象，让我瞬间破防泪崩。我还真是只管看励志类型的电影啊，喜欢在影院里哭一鼻子。
时间点选的恰到好处，更高更快更强的奥运精神其实在残奥会运动员身上能体现的更加励志而令人感动。在赛场上跑是个体的胜利，什么时候我们能做到“同工同酬”的这个群体的胜利？每一处情绪都踩的相当稳当，三个阶段演员的表演都很令人惊艳，尤其是少年时代，奉献了最阳光的阿伟也奉献了最燃的比赛戏。
看完像和自然一起做了场冥想，山里的雾在银幕上像是被罩出细小网格。牛铃铛在山里的回荡环绕在前两次徒步中体验过，真的太舒服了😭只是这次去的影院椅背挡视线真的难受
北影节最后一站，视听享受，渐入的铃铛声和洞口传递的足球，感受到最初电影的魅力
记录式镜头观感很好，也很让人犯困，以至于前半段我都在半梦半醒间。但一旦理解了蒙太奇连接的洞与老人，片子顿时变得有意思了。然而我理解的洞穴探索者是“自然不敬的闯入者”，被片尾说探洞是伟大创举的文字推翻了，我又蒙了
#BJFF 探照灯光和草原的绿交织，自然与人类并置，入地又入心
啊，城镇长大水泥丛林里长大的孩子对这种稍不做作的贴近自然的影像就有天然好感…为绝佳的视听效果加一星——感谢反派影评的推荐，一不小心看了部新片的亚洲首映~
比较意外的是并没有在残障励志上下功夫，反而在运动员的职业困境以及母子间的亲情连接上做足了戏，很多个瞬间还是颇感人的。我觉得吴君如还可以演得更好，剧本限制了。
#2021BJIFF 影片开始的时候字幕提示本片没有官方翻译，可能会与之后实际上映的版本不一致，结果全片字幕不超过十句。之前在 b 站上关注的 up 主做过很多关于洞穴探险的视频，大概探索与征服自然是人类天然愿景。牧羊人手背上的血管律动慢慢慢平息，探险者终于抵达地底 683 米，二者以一种很自然的方式重叠在了一起。雾从广袤的天慢慢将植被覆盖的画面真的好美。
2.5/5 青年和成年苏桦伟的演员选得挺好的，长得很像。不太喜欢这部片可能是因为它一直营造一种悲情催泪的氛围，回避掉许多现实问题的呈现和答案。比起苏桦伟，其实我更想知道为照顾他而出生的弟弟的故事，那会是怎样的人生。
镜头不错，什么玩意，睡着了，风景挺美，不行，太无聊了，提前退场
電影感人肺腑、窩心動人，但絕非強行突兀煽情，它以真情實意打動無數觀眾哭成一片，為香港人獻上一碗正能量滿溢的心靈雞湯，筆者印象最深刻是蘇樺偉奪金後對蘇媽的「金牌承諾」，母親含辛茹苦養育兒子長大成人，背後辛酸有誰知？眼見兒子日漸成長，懂得為自己著想，相信是天下母親最大的願望。
3，我永远都喜欢运动片，不管有多少套路，我都可以从中看到力量。
2021北影节。这片子只能在大银幕上看，在家会完全看不出效果。放映遇到一些小状况，观看体验不是很好。像纪录片但又不像纪录片给你展现一件事的全貌或者重点，这片子更像是把一些体验抽离出来按时间顺序再剪辑在一起，从始至终都带着对美的理解。片子没有解说，只把最纯的画面音效展现给观众，整体色调剪辑都挺有意思的，确实像一个艺术作品。
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