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".
用剧作者自己的音乐剧来拍音乐剧传记片实在是再适合不过了。Jonathan的天赋是无可比拟的，他的悲剧为Rent更是蒙上一丝传奇色彩。加菲的表演有功无过，尽管唱功跟专业歌手比还是差了点。影片里能看到不少之后Rent的影子，比如What You Own，La Vie Bohème等等。对Sunday in the Park with George的致敬也很妙，还有很多惊喜客串（林漫威，Hadestown里饰演Hermes的André De Shields，Hamilton饰演大姐二姐的Renée Elise Goldsberry和Phillipa Soo，还有Helen Mirren）。整体而言十分动人，旁边的观众几度都要落泪了。
一边是默片重获新生转为有声电影，一边是老妇人离世，另一种形式的死与新生。
看到老太太走了忍不住了TAT 老人走新人来 唐家屯里的每个人都能有自己的归属就好了
太美了太精彩了，所有细节都特别走心，英国贵族的魅力真是难以抵挡，结局差点就要飙泪了，亲情的温暖真是瞬间让人融化。很开心能在电影院里看到。也想起19年12月在电影院里看唐顿庄园第一部，那时还不用戴口罩～
气死我了！删了5分钟Barrow和男演员的同性戏！呃呃呃呃啊啊！！（深呼吸）Anyways, 神秘的5分钟，四个月后咱们网盘见吧。我觉得这一部无论是叙事还是摄影都比第一部更好，很喜欢拍电影的情节，但不太明白开头婚礼后Tom和Lucy不是离开了庄园吗，后来怎么又一起去了法国？最后应该是ultimate ending了吧……唉，Granny R.I.P. ps呜呜呜想在大银幕上看大表哥丹叔，不过能看到休叔也很满足了～好，我这个假粉决定开始补剧啦！
删减了将近六分钟，说是有一条LGBT线，但有两个地方我也感觉不连贯，一个是老太儿媳妇得病那里，一个是电影男主演去找那个侍者
第二部双线发展，法国那部分非常好，狗血、喜剧、煽情，甚至加上了一点小悬疑，是一如既往的唐顿味道。大宅部分的剧情从女演员的自白到Molesely的写剧本天赋到Lady Marry配音都很刻意。尤其是Marry和导演那堪称画蛇添足的感情线，当她说出“in a way, you remind me of him.”的时候，作为老粉的我感到了莫大的不适。
大部分演员们都老了，可还是希望能长长久久拍下去。
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偏向话剧，对白N多的家庭伦理电影，象征时代更迭，家族传承！
Cora阿姨，我会一直follow你到The end！
和一个直男朋友一起看的，他买了最后排的座位。本想摸摸他腹肌而已，没想到把他弄得洪水泛滥——这样有趣有意思的事，值得写进记忆。 “很多人在得知自己身患重病后都会感叹虚度时光，但我不会。”As I am。
傲娇又不羁的大小姐，成为坚韧又睿智的当家；别扭又拧巴的二小姐，成为了职业家庭双丰收的独立女性。原本冷冷清清、四分五裂的克劳利家族，成了儿女成群的大家庭，仆人也各自有了好归属。
最后，男男CP（管家和男演员）给我惊喜！给我好好在一起！！！哦对，配色也很好看，经常是橙蓝，饱和度也高
编剧真的很暖，从剧集时期只是隐隐表现出来对Thomas的善意，到了这一次毫不掩饰的给Thomas安排了一个美好的未来。大小姐最后送Thomas的那句话真的是太好哭了。
A well deserved farewell.
2022.6.14，可能因为双线故事相比上一部这一次的电影有些不足力，但是看到那个人都更幸福的美好结局，非常治愈
现实向我反复确认的是 时间是抓不住的 人会老也会死 没有什么会永垂不朽 我必须要直面这个现实 你看 老奶奶走了 其它人也都老了 我不也是吗
她们都老了，可能这就是系列剧的意义，剧里的人，也一起和我们变老。如中所说：生活，就是接收意料之外
每个人每个片段都那么温暖人心 很多女性角色都各有特点 喜欢Cora的眼神 第一部让我深刻领会尊严教养英式优雅与尊重的影视 但观看时需要电视剧相关背景
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