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".
这话痨片绝对值得二刷。五味杂陈。法庭群戏特别好。«Ici, il n’y a pas qu’une vérité mais deux perceptions d’une même scène.»这种辩护简直让我冷汗直下。Farel这家子真是典型。小夏母子再次共演Yvan爸爸导演的片子，飙起戏来相当过瘾。这种题材很难不偏不倚，本片倒是始终如一地保持了客观。
果然是被好导演熏出来的 好好练练出来拍长片吧
这是一场审判，对数千年来形成的 历史惯性的审判。伤痛和罪责的纠葛，落在具体的女主和男主身上。 可是导演有没有ta自己的倾向呢？ （近期看的最好看的电影）
只能说TV的底子太烂了才显得这部sp略好了一点，中村优一我一看你就不是好人www黑化造型好看很多很多（皮套也好看）儿砸这个客串简直是无效客串，全程被削弱不说还被塞雷布罗附体？！遥辉被附体管你泽塔什么事啊！（🙄️
一种文明下的不同文化/丰富的感性借由理性的逻辑呈现
在本片中展示的女性视角和男性视角几乎拥有着平等的镜头时长，不仅仅是男女主，也包括那些让这部电影饱满的像大炮的肚子一样的其他角色。说真的，看这部的庭审戏比看av更让我兴奋。说真的，插叙的节奏让我下定决心憋尿。说真的，电影的结尾是无限的。说真的，黑屏后出现的电影名字简直画龙点睛。说真的…
"沉默代表同意吗?不是的,沉默代表痛苦"
章子怡那一篇看得我哭个不停，小男孩在房间里抖孔明灯那一幕好美
如果是你的女儿被强奸你会怎么样？杀了他。一个事件，两种认知解释。
《诗》里面那个哥哥跟个神经病一样，在一般中国家庭的大哥哪有这种莫名其妙的除了闹就是闹的，穷人的孩子早当家，这种环境下成长的孩子自觉的会承担家里的部分责任，哪有家里下雨进水还闹别扭的。为了浪漫而故意制造的矛盾很违和，编剧和导演完全不接地气。
把TV摁在地上摩擦，剧情节奏虽然紧，但不像TV一样乱，打戏虽然多，但看的爽，最重要的是这部剧场版把TV中忽略的“人”这一元素充分体现出来了，算是为特利迦的故事画上了一个圆满的句号。
后面节奏太棒了，没有直接展开说事件完整真相，甚至到最后也没讲
👧：男主长好丑
Il n’y a pas de vérité. Il y a juste des perceptions. 我的男神女神都老了 Mathieu kazovitch, Charlotte Guinsburg
很詫異這次只有吳京的抗日神劇是認真拍的，如果時長夠，有能力延展成類《七武士》。章子怡那兩下子也敢自稱「詩」，還不如《祖國》的陳凱歌，造夢題材被用來講教育簡直是暴殄天物⋯徐崢的海派紅利用到第二年匱乏也就算了，照搬韋斯安德森是認真的嗎？至於深圳⋯⋯算了，一股膠味的科創成果表彰就差把「人傻錢多」四個字寫在臉上
一个罗生门的故事，双方的行为都符合既定人物个性和生长环境的逻辑和语境，大量的时长拉满了人物的复杂性和故事的迷雾，但其实就是简单的两个人和一件事而已，庭审上证人女孩的发言或许最能说明这个案件的痛点，许多性侵犯因频繁发生而被所有人视为“正常”，当有女性感觉这“不正常”时已难以论证。
好的表演就是毫无表演的痕迹，让人跟随剧情的深入仿佛就在看一场直播的庭审现场，看到了女性权利与法律甚至道德的相互拉扯。
在新生代剧场版里可以排个第三，可以看出武居的进步
比前两部差的有点多，最好的居然是出人意料的章子怡单元。徐峥稳定发挥，昊霖弟弟真是眼瞅着就长大了啊。沈腾的还是走好笑路线的，放眼未来也不错，就是心疼李雪健老师啊，声音听的我都好难受。吴京单元没什么说的，就挺吴京的，而且他对旗子是不是有什么情节啊，分分钟以为是战狼3，吴磊的演技怎么回事怎么越大越回去啊
章子怡那个故事很戳心，徐峥水准一直在线，吴京那个拉胯了，沈腾那个就是爆米花电影
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