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".
Olivia真美。社会规训没得跑，女性在这样的结构内究竟能如何，所谓“天然的爱”真的是规训意义大于本身的。但是我也会想，生育不养育，或者不生育，就能解决大部分问题吗？好像也不是，自己内心要怎么面对呢？生育吊诡如人生：不经历不知道里面的苦痛，经历了就无法回头。
Colman真的太强了，穿插着回忆的自说自话，在没有安全感的生活里飘荡，神游的状态倒是像极了独自在海边的夜晚
我同事说她很喜欢孩子，以前在大街上看见小孩就走不动道儿，所以她很早就选择了要孩子。而且到现在也一直把养育当成生活的重心，怎么说呢，每个人追求不一样，还是要明确自己的需求。
没看懂，也不理解女主的行为，讨厌女主和她的行为and her face.
碎片化的叙事一如按下不表的情感，甚至来龙去脉都不再重要。直观地体验那份焦虑和抓狂。配乐非常加分！对Maggie刮目相看~
人生每一步选择，都进一步导致更多不同的选择。有时殊途同归，但过程各自曲折。
整个就挺莫名其妙的，没有get到高级，就觉得乱七八糟。
喜欢，作为处女作可太棒了！片头和配乐都很惊艳，奥利维娅影后级演技，艾德哈里斯出场竟令人十分感动，这老小子还在演戏呢！故事讲得曲折迂回却不失真情，也没有过度陷入在琐碎的日常里，吉伦哈尔家出息！
费兰特也算是整体比较熟悉的作家了，我没法儿把这部当成独立的新电影。片子给我感觉有种说不出的奇怪，我再找时间看看书吧
子女就像连成一条线的脐橙皮，散发着清香的小蛇，缠绕、箍紧...
真正的“平行母亲” 最开始只是用视线连接两个不同代际的母亲而不让她们出现在同一画框里 再到闪回出现后不同时空的母亲 用相似的遭遇连接几个出场人物来描绘一种具有普世性的女性境地 视线匹配之后接续的始终是特写镜头 浓缩住平行人物之间共情的饱满情绪 人物塑造很厉害 最后也并不是进入某种陈旧的和解状态 而不过是再一次“自私地”想她们了而已
this is some actual horror 另： Paul Mescal真的好帅🥺🥺🥺
真正的“平行母亲” 最开始只是用视线连接两个不同代际的母亲而不让她们出现在同一画框里 再到闪回出现后不同时空的母亲 用相似的遭遇连接几个出场人物来描绘一种具有普世性的女性境地 视线匹配之后接续的始终是特写镜头 浓缩住平行人物之间共情的饱满情绪 人物塑造很厉害 最后也并不是进入某种陈旧的和解状态 而不过是再一次“自私地”想她们了而已
好至郁。女人如果能和男人一样过得自私点，可以省去一生中至少90%的烦恼
（我小时候基本是爷爷奶奶带大...不过感觉我以后可能也会经历这种痛，那还是算了）
本来想打4星，为女主的演技。片中说她离开了3年，在俩女儿5-7岁的时候，后来呢？又回去了吗？按说离开3年不会有这么大的内疚感吧，一直以为她是离开了没再回去。如果没再回去就可以理解她的患得患失了。女人育儿真的太不容易，如果身边没有人帮助，真的会疯掉，事业、学业全完，抑郁还没人理解。无论怎样，最后可能还落一个不是合格母亲。片中的女主年轻和年老时的性格差距有点大，又是教授，阅历丰富了不是更应看清楚过去，而不是变得神叨叨吗？
三点五星。虽然作为一部电影很多地方都有些平庸，但我反而也不排斥非常聚焦于情绪的表达。我觉得至少Elena Ferrante的风格很明显。Motherhood. Womanhood. So precise.
典型的奈飞，只有一半时间用来说事儿，另一半用来解释“呐～你看～我这么讲故事其实很合理～”——但观众们都知道，在没有橘子的情况下剥橘子难度要比直接拿个橘子在那儿剥高多了～
明处的女儿呢？一群所谓女拳的自high，我承认电影的气氛渲染很抓人，我也承认女主的演技很好。但是我还是不能理解一个偷洋娃娃的人凭什么指责别人观影不文明，一个偷情抛弃女儿的人凭什么指责丈夫不负责任。
Walking deep into the sea of self. 我觉得最绝的地方就是女导演让观众直面一个事实：当一个被婚姻困住、被生育束缚的母亲，被问到在女儿三五岁的时候选择离开的感觉，她可以含着眼泪说It's amazing.
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