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".
Oh, man. Eerie but fascinating. Actually loved it. And, are you kidding me, Zaddy Dev?
天啊 浅薄的我完全没看懂这部电影。。。。。。。
这个片子最搞笑的是几个配角设定，艾米丽的同班男同学富二代欧文活脱脱一个马云幼儿版，压扁的五官，透明塑料边框的啤酒瓶底子眼镜，欧文他爸是刘强东，注意看额头的那撮白毛和说话时挺胸抬头的气质，生物基因公司的大反派老板，直接就自称扎克了。整个猛一看，还真有点像那货的坯子。
8.7 写给至亲的悼词，死亡的意义被描绘地举重又若轻，人们或是嬉笑或是肃穆的望向死者不断改变的象征之物，二者实际没有任何区别。第三幕笔锋一转，以对未尽之作毫不完善的演绎总结这一波三折的"魂归故里"，在粗糙的背景板下略过了人生的跨度，乡愁中更增添了许多遗憾。
不会有手下留情的仁慈
文本过于私人，看得一知半解，但阻挡不了我对大师级手笔的它的喜爱。在走向海滩撒掉骨灰，由黑白转入彩色，似乎到这里已经是导演私人创作的圆满，但最后掌声响起，镜头定格在顶上的圣像画才是给大家一个戏剧的落幕。#2022十佳。 @2022-06-18
《与绿骑士对赌：深入浅出成为一个骑士》设定和镜头都很棒，就是流水账叙事太催眠，属于西方文化的故事，看起来还是有距离感的。
很爱，我就是爱儿童片咋了嘛，我寻思三到五岁也不一定看的懂吧，明明立意很好啊，有的人看不惯别人与众不同。
#柏林影展 #EFM 本屆柏林影展少數打起精神觀賞的主競賽片。透過舊資料畫面搭配黑白攝影，甫一開始令我想起柏格曼與費里尼。一趟骨灰之旅，彷彿一位影人之死；尾段的歡快與全彩，慢慢將故事帶往另一趟未知的旅程。當他在墓地前刻下了名字；當他老邁地坐在墓前，四季交替，人生宛若一場即將告別的演出。
摄影上自然光的运用很出色，但过于有板有眼，配乐聒噪，叙事悬念铺垫还可以，故事矛盾产生的自然，但未在叙事中解决，而是用公路手法转移注意力浅尝辄止，拿来和巴里林登对比会发现缺陷很明显，到了后半段简直灾难，已经是在圆一个故事，结尾莫名其妙，导演悟性的问题
大型古裝奇幻山路電影，光影拍的真的很漂亮很有特點，但故事有什麼寓意麼？沒看出來…
7/10. 只想要爽片和动作大场面的观众还是洗洗睡吧。本片灰暗，缓慢，带着六百年前原著的道貌与荒诞。导演通过非常艺术化的影像语言，用高文爵士的荒野奇幻冒险为外衣，表现的却是其自省与求索的精神内核。
[Berlinale Competition] L'Avventura
儿童，宠物，童话，降智的永远在抢夺路上的反派，嗯套路雷同也就算了，但是演的真的有点差啊，演技呢演技。。。
电影本身又严肃又可爱，就像一个老先生站在你面前，你本以为他要用大道理教训你，没想到他讲到最后却是一个童话故事。骑士最后一刻如果选择软弱，即使能够当上国王也终究是一个再平凡不过的普通人，只有他知道他的骑士精神已经被自己辱没了。既然人终有一死，不妨大胆一点去迈向你的使命，成为你最想成为的那种人。
看不到大银幕有点遗憾，影像包括用光都很棒。
美术就值4星了。画面，配色，构图，真的好。
摸过 沼泽深处头骨的嶙峋
这个片子最搞笑的是几个配角设定，艾米丽的同班男同学富二代欧文活脱脱一个马云幼儿版，压扁的五官，透明塑料边框的啤酒瓶底子眼镜，欧文他爸是刘强东，注意看额头的那撮白毛和说话时挺胸抬头的气质，生物基因公司的大反派老板，直接就自称扎克了。整个猛一看，还真有点像那货的坯子。
成长故事，影像很好，故事立意很简单，塞了很多故弄玄虚的东西。
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