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".
体育或者传记片本来就容易扑，这部体育人物的传记片，隐隐约约就是最无聊最公式的那一种。
国王理查德，但却没有把这个理查德的人物立起来，大小威更是宛如没有性格的工具一样存在，种族议题大于性别议题，但却偏要加入母亲的那段演讲，难看
美国的传记电影好在愿意把主角的争议摆出来而不是一味高大上。另外，那些花钱把小孩送进各种培训班却坐在外面玩手机的家长真应该向人家学一下，你要求小孩变成什么样的人，首先你要成为这样的人。
第3492-身为主演的威尔史密斯没有学到理查德这一点：隐忍着奋斗，用事实让别人改变态度。
其实有些矛盾，但也许这才是人生本该有的样子。
觉得男主的教育方式真的不咋地，之所以还能成功，完全是因为大小威天赋太逆天了。换句话说，要是大小威没有成功，那他只是一个自以为是的控制狂父亲。
#8999. 2022柏林评审团大奖。洪常秀柏林获奖三连。7分。这部齁得我这个洪吹都有点看不下去了……招大概都是前面用过的，聊得东西也有点浅。而且一部电影非得结合八卦看，不然理解不了剧情，是不是就有点太过了自我沉溺了……不过新东西还是有，比如洪常秀的片很少这么火气大；以及用换影像材质破次元壁（洪常秀亲自声音出场），用彩色破黑白，那个时刻的情感浓度很强也非常有效，包括结尾电影院这个几重套娃处理（金珉禧扮演的角色看自己出演的电影）和出字幕的方式其实算是《剧场前》和《独自在夜晚的海边》的一次有效升级。
韩国电影有奉俊昊，有朴赞郁，有姜帝圭，有可以和整个世界缱绻的风声和暴雨
理查德除了保护女儿之外，他的性格复杂又矛盾，固执、冲动、聪明、隐忍、坚强、自信、自负、温柔、周密、独断。
该如何看待影片与现实的互文呢？如果观众相信“我爱你”是在撒狗粮，“浪费生命”是在反讽并鲜明地表达自我态度，“故事不需要引人入胜的情节”是创作观，那么，“我写不出来了，大概是江郎才尽吧”就也应该被视为夫子自道。在我看来，这个说法和他近年的持续高产也并不矛盾，更进一步说，因为独此一份，所以他拍得好或不好，也已经没有那么重要了。
出戲院時像電影最後金珉禧迷惘，這不是一次向外宣洩兩人身份的證據與證明，以銀幕向大家作見證，但不得不說，洪常秀最後做法一如往常一樣狡猾，還保留了一點餘音。不能不重新思考洪常秀和金珉禧的關係，一直堅守的虛構界線突然被衝破，無法再視他與作品再可以分開理解，至少今次的創作中，不可能將兩者分析出來，那些永遠做錯事的無能男人，渣男渣女相愛相殺，對上一輩人的怒火也消失不見，洪常秀從頭到今依然是那位想得到愛情的人，在這片歲月靜好的日子，人人樂此不疲地在金洪關係中打轉，但越來越像暖男的洪常秀究竟還可走多遠，這位多產DIY大師 （prolific DIY master，Jonathan Romney 語）確實是同代人中創作最自由的一位，但這份自由是不是觀眾、舊影迷們期待和欣賞？要全世界藝術片影迷和你兩口子一同 Love Love Love，只能以中指來回應。
有这么个自大偏执控制狂的父亲真是惨，最后成功只是恰好女儿真的有天赋罢了。
非常不喜欢这片的视角，影片呈现出的这位父亲与所要传达的意义相悖，整个观影过程极度不适！
还鸠巢鹊占了梅西教练的学院
父亲在大方向上是睿智目光长远且坚定的。运动类的传记片总是很容易带动人的情绪，如摔爸，如此。
7.0 麻麻得，大小威鸡娃史。在处理比赛的影视化呈现时并没有创新和电影性的适应。好在故事本身的流传度和最后开门一刹那不胜之胜的表现力。
剧情流畅，执着的相信，培养大小威的过程，改变孩子都命运，片尾有点刻意升华到黑人、种族这些美国的常态……不过，放大了的是父爱，缩小了的是私信和踩踏
前面部分也喜欢，但最后真的是太next level了。首映看到真人走出屏幕但如此自洽又是加强版体验，也可以说是一种元宇宙了...
#95thAcademyAwards# 全程都是饱满激昂的情绪…女儿从出生前就被决定的命运，Richard Williams总让我想起水树奈奈的父亲。
大小威和richard选角蛮成功的，史皇总算不演自己了。其实大V这一路都算顺风顺水的，编剧选取的几个时间锚点展现williams低谷都没有引起太大的波澜... 第三幕还是靠体育赛事的魅力本身，同样是励志题材确实不如Coda - 7.4
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