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".
「死者的死是為了生者更好的活」非常適合套用在五人組，感人至深的劇情。
榮譽[Made in NOLA] 建議有被娃搞得手足無措的創傷的家長慎重決定要不要看。尤其是娃還在10歲以下、正扳著指頭數還有幾年、念著“大了就好了”的家長朋友。不用謝。……沉澱了一天，終於知道要怎麼寫觀後感了：如果你覺得別人家的孩子怎麼這麼好，首先那是因為那是別人家的孩子，ta不會在你這兒耍把戲、散德性，你們的交流也就在那麼短短的相處裡面，而且你面對別人家孩子的態度也是你自己不散德性的時候。所以……嘿！想什麼呢！什麼狗屁“以面對別的孩子的態度就可以促成改變”啊，屁咧！！做夢都夢不到那麼好的事情啊！！哈哈哈哈……相愛相殺就相愛相殺吧，只要不放棄比昨天多一點點點點努力，不要太難為自己，也不要太難為小孩就好了。最後還是要誇獎一下，把紐奧良作為解決問題的地方是很正確的決策。嗯！很好！
大人小孩在面对一些解决不了的问题时 都会有情绪障碍 这时候只对自己说加油是不够的 你需要找到一个“朋友”
朝着essay film拍的。有清晰的论述路线，有个人观点的抒发，但是完成的还不够出彩。文笔优美但不有趣。总体上看还是太过平庸了。一星给华金，一星给新人Woody Norman，一星给Robbie Ryan的摄影。华金不必多说什么了，给出了极其自然的、生活化的表演，整个人无比松弛。片中还穿着他最爱的帆布鞋。要不是因为华金主演我肯定也不会专程跑去影院看。Mike Mills编与导的综合能力实在欠佳建议就别再尝试编导合一的身份捆绑了。以及能不能别乱用德彪西的moonlight啊，一开始以为只是预告里用了两下，没想到正片也这样…
如果有人问我明年还去看吗？
3.尊重孩子，不去灌输“标准答案”才能培养出独立人格。
恰巧和《暗处的女儿》一起对照，一个是无形的记忆，一个是有形的相处；一个是割舍的悔恨，一个是陪伴的关爱。孩子们朴实无华的采访语录在清透的黑白画面里五颜六色得跳脱出来，"you are my best friend"是我听到一个孩子嘴里说出的最纯粹的真言。
4.0。同樣存在大量以被採訪者形式出現的人物群像，卻是從頭至尾都比《無依之地》更為真摯的敘述。這種真摯無關階級身份，而是對於每個人脆弱一面的揭示和留存。
有些电影像一锅煮着煮着就软烂了的小红莓酱，酸甜黏糊，天天只吃它肯定要被酸倒牙，但吃烤火鸡这种硬菜的时候，却少不了要伴着吃一点解解腻。
你们口口声声说毛利兰很幸福，有一个很棒的男朋友，但你们有没有想过毛利兰可以为工藤一直等待
摄影、剪辑、声效沟通营造的影像质感非常棒，想表达的点亦甚有价值，但文本本身的单薄致使表达缺少张力和趣味，更有些地方给我以迫不及待欲穿杂许多“正确价值”的感觉，终究个人不够，其实孤独不足。
再多说一句，希斯莱杰演完小丑之后也应该接一部像这样的戏
为我的童年打上五星。好难过好难过。从小学就开始看柯南，现在我都快20岁了。人生有几个二十年呢。好羡慕柯南他们，永远都不会变老。 零好有魅力。结尾的歌曲我也在循环播放。柯南，永远都不要完结。
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怎么说呢 比之前稍微好点？ 5人组穿插的不错，女性角色好苍白。。。
常常因为我总是会被这样丧到尽头便是温暖的电影不讲道理地打动而感到自己无药可救。不仅仅是关于亲子共处，也是关于城市、关于亲密关系、关于少年与成长。和解是一件太困难的事，但我多么希望，我至少能够与我这fucked-up的生活坦诚地谈一谈，嬉笑着，怒骂着，或是泪流满面着，都可以。正是因为点题的一句台词是从9岁男孩的嘴里说出来的，让我感到分外的难过：生活就是，期待的事情从来不会发生，发生的事情从来无法预料，可我们也只能对自己说，C'mon C'mon C'mon
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