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".
已夸了一篇大作文。补充一个小不满，巴演员头太大了OTZ导致那幕共度良宵后两人披着衣服赤裸相拥只露出头的经典一幕佐藤健的脸看着小很多，画面不够美了。佐藤健凭此系列就可以说是演艺生涯一个高峰了，就是那么精彩，活的剑心，完美演绎。真人版五部前后十年，有幸都是在电影院看的，感谢命运的相遇，一个完美的句号🙏
千年世界轮回，究竟几何变化。
其实是精彩入胜的电影，特别是结尾，不足的是中间武打战斗太少，如果能多安排些惊心动魄的打斗或者战争场面，那本片将是经典。
电影讲的是呆萌的老婆被司机性侵了，司机不认账，呆萌要和他决斗。从三个角色的角度看这件事，谁真谁假没有《罗生门》般难以推测，事实上真相如何也无所谓。
然而电影的重点不在此，而是对三个人物进行的细腻描述，这种章节形的叙说简单却深入人心，把各种细节以最好的方式呈现（个人认为最好的章节式电影）这种形式就像是黑泽明的《罗生门》，何所谓真相？在那个年代这种真相重要吗？
女性视角真的太强了！完全推翻了前两个的男性视角，前两个视角也充分体现了普信男的心路历程。在丈夫眼中美满的婚礼，不过是她眼中的物物交换，丈夫眼中幸福的婚姻生活，不过是她违心的敷衍。而强暴者对她的示爱，在她眼中则是粗鲁又无礼。当强暴发生时，强暴者眼中的是她的欲擒故纵，但她却实实在在的受到了伤害！最后还要被强暴者冠以爱之名！针对此事的审判可笑至极，竟然是讨论和丈夫的床帏之事，以及“被强暴时是否感到愉悦？”，最可笑的是600多年后的今日，有女性被强暴的案件，仍然和中世纪一样，受到质疑的是女性，问题也差不多，例如“是否有勾引他？”。估计这也算是借古讽今吧。
罗生门叙事好评，结局大好评，人生不过三大喜，升官发财死老公。女性视觉尤其嗲，那赢了也不过是一句叹息，赢了依旧是一个展示的物件，却因为最后文字的结局让人觉得真是一个完美结局。雷导NB！！
“罗生门”结构的呈现，三个视角下是统一的主线和因立场不同产生的微妙差异。从妻子视角，明确呈现了时代背景下女性的财产属性。最令人印象深刻的镜头，其一是卡鲁日与玛格丽特的爸爸谈嫁妆的场景，其二是决斗时树上黑压压爬满的围观人群和决斗结束后山呼海啸的“万岁”之声。这欢呼声中我能听出两种不同的声音，来自兄弟的声音意思是“干得好，哥们，打得精彩”，无论谁获胜，都是一样的欢呼；来自姐妹的声音，我相信这才是由衷的欢呼，是为一位受到上帝保佑免于被烧死的姐妹的欢呼。
罗生门与中世纪女性自我觉醒 如果作为悬疑故事的话 剧情尚未结束但比起导演另一部中世纪史诗巨作《天国王朝》还是差了点距离
感谢豆友提醒，忍到这部出资源才开始看最终章；虽然村花真的不是我心目中的雪代巴，也演不出和砂糖的姐弟恋感，毕竟最适合剑心的砂糖在这部也很难再有十几岁的少年感（这可能也是为什么影版的剑心和OVA版迷惘的状态和角度不太一样）；虽然电影和OVA走了不同的风格，但几乎完整复刻原作的拍法以及得当的调整让文戏完全立住了，刀与刀鞘、小人物在动乱年代无论怎样都守护不住微小的幸福。多颗星给我当年最不看好这部能被拍出来没想到却被打脸，以及给我最爱的没能在乱世中守护住幸福的巴和剑心。
-“雷爷爷厌男” -“他是厌男还是厌人” 😂😂
没想到现在还有大投资做这样的中世纪故事，好久没有看到这样的题材了，很喜欢。第一个故事讲到一半才想到，应该还有另一个男主的故事，第二个故事看到一大半，突然觉得女主的视角还会有，很喜欢这样捉迷藏的感觉。其实前两个故事下来，虽然不错，但总感觉和几十年前的叙事没什么区别，有点缺乏新意。最后一个故事才是让整个剧亮起来的原因。我们习以为常的英雄视角故事，在女性的角度来看竟是如此的反常。以至于最后竟然会觉得不过是两个半斤八两的货色在较量，还以为自己多么英雄豪气。而为此冒着名誉和生命的代价的女主没人关心她。不过女主在片尾好歹看到了一切，字幕顺利的送给了她荣华富贵，子孙满堂，再不用伺候男人的幸福下半生。虽然本片的格斗场面，并不是大头，但是场场让人热血沸汤，导演实力还在啊。
小变态演的好。看完以后我才反应过来:婆婆是大傻
黑暗中世纪就这操行，这种能把观众气背过去的情节比比皆是。魔改罗生门已然是看的津津有味心里飞蛇走马，居然最后又来一段荣耀战魂，简直冰火两重天爽到爆炸
大历史拍小电影，怎么看都觉得高开低走，想拍出骑士道的另一面，又不够到位。想拍女性的命运，又过于专注在一个案件，格局没打开。
所以说姜还是老的辣，剧情逐渐高潮，那场最后的决斗很精彩，Jodie的古典装扮美极了～还是祝愿老爷子长命百岁，把异形的坑填了，哈哈哈
小变态太美了，马达扮相好凶好丑，司机很欲，大本一头黄发吊儿郎当满嘴fuck笑的牙龈都看到了是怎么回事阿
其实是精彩入胜的电影，特别是结尾，不足的是中间武打战斗太少，如果能多安排些惊心动魄的打斗或者战争场面，那本片将是经典。
记得梁雪村在谈日韩矛盾的时候讲到，韩国之所以在慰安妇问题上死死抓住不放，并不是因为这段历史伤害了韩国的女性，而是因为这段历史伤害了韩国的男性。“如果你们真的那么在意女性的痛苦，现在就应该平等地尊重女性。” （想一想为什么“cnm”比“f**k you”的侮辱性更大）
感觉一般，并没有高分给人感觉的那么好，不要因为是雷老爷子的片就给高分好吧？拍出来的质感当然是好的，特别是战争戏、强暴戏和决斗戏，最后的决斗戏真是非常的精彩，干净利落，血腥刺激，让人看着紧张得血脉喷张。但是，同样是一个故事分不同的视角去讲，重复的情节那么多，虽有罗生门之感，怎么去年的《金刚川》被骂的那么惨，这部咋就没人骂了？还给那么高分？仅仅因为导演是雷德利.斯科特？也太双标了吧。。。另外，中世纪的欧洲人真是野蛮肮脏又愚昧，竟然用决斗结果来断定上帝的旨意，真是服了。。那么多人围观决斗，距离国王和大臣们那么近，也不怕有刺客吗？王权的威严何在？决斗场地像牛圈那么小，哈哈哈。。
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