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".
3.5 比起阳光我更加喜欢这一部 逐渐撇掉过去的一点一滴 最终突破重围 有新的开始 情节的确有拼接感 可是瑕不掩瑜 两个女性角色也演得特别好
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前半段贾静雯的表演真的有够吓人的，呆滞、怀疑、反复，似乎脸上的褶皱、凌乱的发梢也在述说。蓝色的帷幕与面前的口罩交相辉映，被巨大不具名所笼罩的身体和内心，也像是瀑布所坠下时的蔚为壮观。从女儿开始照顾妈妈之后，剧情的走向变得不可预知，原来电视后面的蛇是真的，看似油滑吹嘘的中介经理竟然这么正直，小静出事的时候出租屋的煤气灶正好被浇灭，紧张啊，剧本真有意思啊。
以及我终于想起来陈以文像谁了，远藤宪一。最近这几个片看下来感觉他演得真好。贾静雯和王净的表演也都很吸引我。
疫情下的荒诞故事的确很适合用情节剧去表现，通篇温柔的光影和流水般的情感有女性主义的意象，加上母亲的主题仿佛在看台湾冷感版艾慕杜华的《论尽我阿妈》。“每个人都有难堪的过去，只是大小不同而已。”快要崩塌的结尾用刻意的反高潮给人一丝生的希望，对照台湾目前的防疫现实，有理由认同钟孟宏关于“你永远不知道明天和意外哪个先来”的悲观，因为海峡对岸和导演作为摄影指导的另一部作品《同学麦娜丝》的主演一样“吴铭添”。
蝙蝠侠这个ip就不要做大众共情了，有钱成这样，他的所有苦难在观众看起来都很悬浮。而且，快3小时的戏，可能就五场戏是白天，为什么啊？主角是蝙蝠，我们又不是，我们白天真的不懂夜的黑，好嘛？！
全片的氛围就是俩字，装逼！蝙蝠侠，谜语人，一个比一个能装，就不能好好的讲个故事。猫女也是如此，一点也不优雅，言行中始终透露着婊里婊气，妓女出身的黑人形象倒是对原著还原度很高，还有那个指甲实在是看着恶心。戈登和企鹅人就是个工具人，连装逼的资格都没有。最离谱的就是哥谭市的大反派法尔科内，如同弱智一样。
没懂这个结尾的意义？感觉要是开头穿插一下结尾的画面做一个吊胃口的引子会不会好点...整体氛围非常舒服，很喜欢钟孟宏镜头下对生活气息的掌握，平静的海面之下隐藏着暗流的那种感觉。色调舒服的画面有种现在和过去交织的那种氛围感，尤其配上台湾的建筑和街道，别有味道。音乐和光影也大大提升了电影的氛围，戏剧感的配乐太赞了!前半段母女关系的张力太棒，对比之下感觉后半段有些平。总感觉有些地方不够充实。总之很值得一看！！王净的表现太棒了 故事感很强 水灵的眼神带着一股狠劲
瀑布=跌落。“你还好吗？”——这两年改变的太多了，很多刚进入中产的家庭一夜回到小康生活了。在一年多的对疫情影响歌功颂德或喜剧处理后，能看到讲述职场女性一夜被打回到原地的故事，总归是有触动的。觉得剧里面的男性角色写得又好又不好，男性仿佛没有被疫情影响一般，人物换到几年前也成立。但某种程度上，女性受到的打击确实更大。
本想冲着刘冠廷看的，结果出现没两分钟，电影里所有人面无表情并且做作，都在背书的感觉，而且画风十分诡异，不理解为什么会有这个分数，难懂。
这是一部很cinema的超英👌。（救命我好喜欢这版又年轻又青涩又苍白又脆弱又凶残又阴郁的蝙🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
三星半，我个人还蛮喜欢的。很有共鸣，摄影很有凝视的感觉。
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整体观感很突兀，剧情是割裂的像一个个场景强行拼凑在一起不流畅，贾静雯和王净的戏都不错，不过她们俩的情感转换站不住脚，最后的瀑布也点题有余主旨不足
而我们的世界正在哥谭化。
有时割舍过去，才能迎接更好的自己。生活很糟，但也没有想象的那么糟，还是可以生活得下去。
看完感觉……就这？？？这也能拿金🐴？？？钟孟宏越拍越回去了
有被治愈。生活无常，上一秒想好好生活，下一秒就有洪水猛兽。好在最后会变成溪流，静静流淌。疫情背景加星。
光的轨迹令人不安：危险的气味从黑暗向有光的角落漫延；侧光打在人物脸上，刻出一道明暗交界线；刺眼的强光如审讯般射出银幕，晃得我们睁不开眼，是搜证时的电筒、追凶时的蝙蝠战车、爆炸后的漫天火光、淹城后燃烧棒闪烁的血色。蝙蝠侠从黑暗中走来，却无力代表光，他在飞翔时失去平衡、肉搏时疲态尽显、暴怒时失去理智，而侦探的身份也只是串联起证据与线索，助谜语人完成一次案件重演。“犯罪动机”已不再重要，真正让蝙蝠侠痛苦的是他的“破案动机”，他以何种道德伸张正义，又以何种武器肃清犯罪。没有一个英雄能够代表所有人，蝙蝠侠与那些监牢中的罪人不过是光与无光的区别。光究竟来自哪里？在这个由真实世界的污点构成的虚拟城市，只有天蒙蒙亮的清晨能够给你答案。走出影院已近午夜，感觉自己也湿透了，路灯车灯太刺眼，由着冷风先把我吹醒吧。
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