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".
很温暖的片子，小镇风光不错，女主歌唱得真好。
比较套路的剧情。最触动人的还是无声的那个场景，把观众换位到聋人的世界，能感受到他们在这种场合下的局促不安和无奈。而本身设定上的反差也增强了戏剧张力。最喜欢的点是父亲能有勇气去面对自己完全不清楚的领域，尊重女儿的选择。
剧情无感，说教就更没意思。卞约汉水下那一段最好看。
上次听歌听得这么爽还是皇家酒店谋杀案里 合唱团那些学生个个都是一流水平有两个很有新意的桥段 把手放在你的颈部你的胸膛感受音乐的跳动 在唱歌的时候打手语
“你读书是为了什么？” “我想活得像个人”。
照着翻拍，还贬低原作者没用真聋哑演员就是无法展现聋哑人生活，但是你倒是拍个真实生活啊。这样的毫无电影技法、还是嚼二道沫的竟然能拿奥斯卡bp？激情改一星
《兹山鱼谱》和《思悼》这样的电影，完全应该由中国来拍，唉…不会再为这种事伤心了，谁有本事拍好谁来拍，历史和文化是属于全人类的。
有一种你当像鸟飞往你的山的感觉，飞不出的的港湾，女主角都是受困于原生家庭，但是拥有美丽的嗓音。流畅感人的好电影，治愈且温馨。
山下兰芽短浸溪
有反思，有哲思，有文化，有格局。为什么很多能把中华文化拍出骨髓来的，总是日本和韩国...
真的越来越看不懂奥斯卡了 这是什么甜宠文学
好感动 愿每一个人都被温柔以待 生命里都是美好和爱
但如果拿到奥斯卡的话，这部也算是平庸的
这些问题由遥远的历史中飘来，直到今天，答案也仍在风中。
虽然知道刻意的美化，但还是很感人，两难选择中有一方妥协，就会很温馨。
看了开头十分钟，就知道后面一个半小时会演什么。比起贝利叶一家，差距还是相当明显#2022奥斯卡阅片倒计时#
是一部文学性与视觉表现都很好的作品，用渔夫的淳朴上进去对比官府的腐败堕落，对于东西方观念、人和人的相处、官和民的关系的呈现虽然表面直白，但有一定批判性。青鸟、乌贼墨、鱼之道等等的比喻贴合故事主题还很有诗意。
有一种你当像鸟飞往你的山的感觉，飞不出的的港湾，女主角都是受困于原生家庭，但是拥有美丽的嗓音。流畅感人的好电影，治愈且温馨。
这几年奥斯卡就是喜欢这种返璞归真的片子，没什么新奇的故事和高超的手法，跟《绿皮书》一样，最佳影片甚至没有获得最佳导演的提名。导演是谁不重要，重要的是剧本和表演，再加上真诚的创作态度！
可能是我岁数大了，再看这种励志音乐小甜片难免有点觉得有些浅，倒退个五年十年的可能我会非常喜欢。音乐部分悦耳但是欠点冲击力。原生家庭的问题挺全面，但都浅尝辄止。青春爱情这部分动线几乎断了，不过这应该也是主创故意而为之，毕竟几处对手戏男配甚至用了背景虚化处理，这就是个搭配元素，而男女的嗓音也不是很搭。我觉得像是爆裂鼓手，初恋这首情歌，贝利叶一家的混合翻拍。哦对了，其实没什么存在感的小哥主演的初恋这首情歌更好看。
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