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".
奇观遍地的走马灯里，所有宇宙最后都没有被改变，它们只是各自开始尝试另一种新的解题思路，就像悬崖上两块风化千年的石头也可以拒绝这种无聊的“永恒”、而是壮烈地坠落一样。杨紫琼在主宇宙里的选择才不是感化、受教，她有血有肉地对父亲、丈夫、女儿都完成了自己的情感控诉，这怎会是个受绑架的对象？“爱”在这里不是万能公式的最优解，而是所有非死即伤的疮疤都还在撕裂作痛、等待愈合的唯一解。
无法言喻的震撼感，不仅这是关于多重宇宙的平行世界线的世界观，也融合了华裔移民以及原生家庭，亲子关系夫妻关系各方面的一些思考，以及自身价值的结合。父女→母亲→女儿这些不一样的角色所蕴含的身份所代表的的痛苦以及快乐，太多令人深思的对白可能性，每个宇宙里面的背景，还有这出神入化的剪辑手法，上次震撼的还是《梦之安魂曲》真的太绝。
是谁前半段目瞪口呆，后半段边哭边笑，看完又哭了半个小时停不下来？哦，是我啊。各种意义上直戳我内心，看完想坐着高铁冲回家里抱抱我妈妈。
最厉害的地方莫过于正真做到了天马行空，各种可能宇宙之间的来回切换看着过瘾。至于这让人喘不过气来的生活，无奈，想要逃跑，何尝不想想要与自己，与世界和解呢，但真的太难了
中式家庭伦理混搭千奇百怪类型元素，想象力超凡卓绝。场景调度/变幻、蒙太奇剪切、叙事技法炫到飞起，高概念体验式模拟人生游戏不断冲击视觉感官，包括那些插科打诨的笑料与荒腔走板的迷影致敬，最后再以极其温暖的方式回归原始母题，即家的核心是爱。见证过多元宇宙的每一种命运还义无反顾坚定当初的选择，相信所有东亚母亲都应该深有共鸣。
第一次去税务局时杨紫琼船长就在怀疑瘦版成龙可能要把事情搞糟，然后第二次洗衣店爆发后也在这么想，结果并没有。女儿该怎么样还是怎么样，必须let her go才能成就对方。
华裔移民迫切地需要对自己身份的想象力,不然就会像片里这样在无数次平行宇宙迁跃中变化的只有职业…建议买张高价机票回国体验一下真正的平行时空
在那些眼花缭乱、恶趣味、飞来舞去的里面，其实还是那个亚裔家庭的美国故事，我甚至觉得它跟青春变形记如出一辙。
①「平行宇宙」和拯救世界的梗不過是一種形式主義的膚淺，很多觀眾卻以此為樂此不疲的有趣，頗為狹隘；②劇情幾乎是小兒科式的，而且西方環境下對於東方文化的「家庭困境」式解讀與理解也儼然成為當下的「流行」；③總體上電影符合一種「抖音」式低廉，包括關繼威的鹹魚翻身難道不是因為資本看中其「酷似成龍」？
期待挺久的，没想到是这样的电影。难得的华裔多重宇宙电影，希望华裔电影能够单独发展成一个门类吧。简笔画宇宙很好笑，香肠手看起来有点恶心。普通话粤语英语三语混杂交叉的电影，幸好没去电影院看，不然有些地方可能因为语言问题看不懂。海外华裔的问题就在于不能直面最核心的问题，而总是去挖自己母文化的边边角角来批斗，乃至攻击自己的族裔身份。美国华裔男找不到女朋友，怪自己父母把自己生成了亚裔。看到白人少年能够享受族群特权，活得那么“自由自在”，华裔少年自己不能，就怪自己是Asian。华裔女觉得妈妈管得太严，怪这是东方文化导致的。唉，然而这些都不是根本问题。根本问题是不能团结向上，不去争取族群福利，不去争取集体权利，所以只能被人欺负的地步。
引经据典，信手拈来，一次类型片的大杂烩，影迷梗天花乱坠，香港电影（尤其是动作设计）或成为最大的养料，作为一个曾经的香港影迷真的会感动。多元宇宙，荒芜世界，颓废人生，唯爱可cure。👩🏻👧🏻👨🏻👁👩🏻❤️👩🏼👨👩👧
人类太渺小了，但是你，我，他，是tmd的整个宇宙！
没有时间旅行者改写历史，看佟湘玉解锁葵花派制服赤焰狂魔莫小贝
整个片子所有想象都出乎意料，确实是《天马行空》，但确实在某方面抓住了东亚家庭的矛盾，在这个层层压迫的父权社会下，每一代人都难以跟平庸的自己和解，都认为自己是失败的子女，在这方面选择把母亲作为主角而非父亲，因为这个时代的女性一方面接受着进步试图步入社会有所成就，另一方面又备受传统的家庭义务的压迫，于是才又如Evelyn这样感到自己在各方面都失败的女性。这两个丹尼尔可能确实戳我吧，《瑞士军刀男》也是莫名其妙一个片子看到根本抑制不住地哭一晚上。
两块愚蠢小石头滚落和星球撞击的无数瞬间都是生命真谛 再次感叹有电影真好
1、这片子的最佳对照物其实是《你好李焕英》啊！2、绝望主妇在飞驰的过山车上一边上心理分析网课一边玩吴桥杂技，还要把所有踢出去的盘子（主题）接回来，编导技术性一流。属于必须在年富力强的时刻才能拍出这种聪明又缜密的片子。3、想象力超一流，但以此刺激亚裔中年女性复杂而疲惫的多角关系身心，诞生了一种又爽又不爽的体验，男编导让女性走传统男性英雄升级模板，却又竭力维持平衡，很不容易。4、明显看到亚洲各种文化符号在美国的流行度和刻板印象的糅杂。
这片让人感到电影作为entertainment的fun，打光、剪辑、亚文化趣味和多重宇宙是一回事，一种时间的霓虹，every moment all at once，电影就是这种共时性魔术，尽管在科学上是错的，神经元控制不了量子尺度，石头不说英语，我们不能超越rules，但亲爱的，在这种错误里有让人情感激荡的东西，那是对你是你的错觉，也是对我是我的幻觉，正是这种对连续性的认知缺陷，创造了所有那些高光与遗憾，像个黑贝果一样（或42一样），连接你和我。
2.8星。确实很“瞬息”碎片、很“多重宇宙”，不明白为什么要扯这么多没用的，闪来闪去变来变去，一点都不高级，反而让人看得很累。本质就是一部家庭片，披着奇幻科幻外衣，如何处理亲子关系，诚实面对自我坚信，大家可以再简单点的，不用在那么复杂的宇宙里把简单事情更复杂化。
我泪点很高，最后都还是绷不住了。
从《爱情神话》到《瞬息全宇宙》，我再也不想看新人自编自导的电影了，以为自己是伍迪艾伦，妙趣横生？玩结构，玩概念？不过是一些刚开始发育的人给黄口小儿拍电影看罢了。
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