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".
总之，这部还挺现实的，，同性恋并不是单纯的幻想中的bl和百合这样，，
种族隔离制度是所有人的噩梦，所有不平等的制度是人类的噩梦。
“evening”
自由的代价，是一切。 RIP Silverton Trio
What's the price of freedom？Everything.
整体还是挺温柔的，就连跳楼这本该是情感爆发的情节，都感觉是那么的收敛。那段哭戏，男主妈妈那个角色其实挺打动我的，从门口做好心里建设，进门后开玩笑缓解氛围，但最后忍不住转身哭泣，每一个动作都很真实。比男主那种得不到认同的哭泣，会显得更悲伤。其实男主整部剧里所反映的三观，我是接受不了的，因为他始终想要过正常人的生活，娶妻生子，可这明明会伤害到爱自己的人。对于想要成为自己成为不了的人，我觉得还不如做自己。对自己和解才是正确的。好在最后结局是分开的。
神尾枫珠老司机也下海，不过感觉没有在恋之月里那么投入情感。（都22年了依旧沉迷恋之月。（话说好多靠脸老师里的同学演员啊，神尾一会学生一会老师的，真的可以啊。（如果有BL星球，那神明一定磕疯了。（还有就是BL是BL，现实是现实啊……
遗憾挺大的，张力十足的故事，过程却表现的有点平淡，甚至那段种族对立的历史背景也被几个充满博爱的白人角色所淡化，直接模糊了劫持者的面目，这样的影片真的好吗？
这男的简直是疯狂蹦我雷点，人家多好一姑娘啊！道理确实很简单，然而，要去理解彼此依旧艰难，但，致所有为这一美好理想添砖加瓦的人，理解，万岁！
同样最具震撼力的几个字依旧是“根据真实事件改编”。对于一般民众而言，殖民地被殖民的关键不在于军政大权被掌握，在于文化殖民的“书同文，车同轨”，前者抽象、遥远、无法形成身份认同，后者则使用宗主国语言文字并嫁接全套文化系统，所重建的思维模式将同步共享，并对土著文化清理、驱逐，令人不寒而栗。若是殖民时期，平权观念很模糊、或者仅秘而不宣地被特定人群使用；后殖民时期一来，西方基督教文明跟随工业革命、近现代科技的发展而同步更新成一套更为进步的系统，显然，殖民地的传教者与被传教者势必会遭受矛盾观念的冲击：如果人之为人的定义是确定的，一个种族不可能主张平等博爱的同时却认为另一个种族低人一等。如此一来，被剥夺一切的黑种人中会产生献祭于错位观念的黑人领袖并号令跟随者来向伪善的白人至上主义进行血的控诉，在情在理。
超棒！觉得有启发我很多点，让我思考新的东西，以及“复杂”才是现实，不要逃避，不要伤害，不要简单化。
本片讲述在执行一次破坏加油站的重大任务时，三名自由战士意识到他们惨遭陷害，警察已经做好了随时逮捕他们的准备。警察对他们展开了激烈的殊死追捕，他们被迫躲在银行内避难。这三人一致认为，也许他们中的一人出卖了团队。但问题是，这个人会是谁呢？在银行里，他们之间的压力和紧张感越来越强烈。所有参与其中的人都有一个共同点：为自由而战。三人意识到他们唯一的选择是被捕或死亡，他们决定就释放纳尔逊·曼德拉进行谈判 。
崇高的理想，尴尬的结局，看看南非现在是什么样子……。克里斯汀真是天真善良的女孩纸。对抗kbfz，不要妥协，不要娘娘腔，干就对了，第一次出门直接干翻就对了
只能说一句，导演牛X~~~自由的代价大到超乎你的想象
居然改编自真实事件，反种族隔离的三人被迫劫持银行，只为了自由而战营救曼德拉。当时现场情况肯定比影片精彩！
“是啊，我是黑人怎么了，就不能呼吸了吗？”
看到片尾字幕就伤心了，“曼德拉于1990年出狱，并最终当选南非第一位黑人总统……”于是南非就成了现在这个鬼样子。当年前赴后继的黑人兄弟们，他们的愿景真的是现在这样吗？
“没见过这么多不怕死的人质，个个都是戏精。”关于南非的风土人情的介绍很给力。控诉了种族隔离的制度。把钻石之城介绍给了世界。
从影片中可以看出，导演和编剧带有一定的倾向性，落脚点是对种族运动的支持和同情，因此，对三名参与者在行动过程中所采取的行动，具有一定的美化意思。选取的几个角色也各有特点，三个为自由而战斗的“同志”，一个对种族问题有同情心的警察队长，一个司法部部长的女儿，具有深切的宽容、同情心，还有一个极力掩饰自己人种的混血儿等。影片的主题是把一场预先谋划的袭击案转化为一场不可预料的种族问题讨论会。
黑人因为变成美国人所以尊贵，恶心的政治正确，以及曼德拉释放南非彻底走向水深火热……😅😅😅
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