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".
哇哦，十分！必须满分！这是女性向的电影，它说出了我说不出的欲望，渴望性爱，多么自然的需求，却被羞于出口。25岁的女孩也羞愧于自己的身体，在床笫之间不敢展露自己，对身材的不自信。天呐，这就是我在挣扎的事情，我想要减少自己的不自信，只是一直做不到。这个电影帮我说出来了。
是一个自身无比放松柔软的高维度的存在（Leo Grande）普渡众生的故事？肉眼可见Nancy从一块紧绷的铁板慢慢松弛下来的完整过程。我们喜欢喝酒抽烟having sex，因为，all we need is 松弛。
2019去西区没有看这部，第二年中国巡演取消，听了两年Me and the Sky，第三年终于等来官摄😭
在性方面，相对一部分男人都不会克制自己（甚至是非法）的欲望，而大部分女人则太过于克制自己（合理）的需求。女主在婚姻中压抑自己的性需求，从未感受过性高潮，为了男人可笑的自尊心，还要假装高潮，在丈夫离世后，终于按捺不住潜滋暗长的欲望，点了一个鸭，却因为过于自省、压抑太久导致的拘束、保守的道德观念、对年龄、身体的羞耻而不得其法，好在最终还是在打开了自己，得到了快感，而且最妙的是这快感是自己带给自己的（去他的阳具中心主义）。男主真的是完美的性对象，英俊、性感、温柔、尊重对方。反对关于性的暴力，祛除对于性的羞耻，让我们把性还原成一件美好的事情吧，平等、自愿、安全、愉悦。P.S.很可疑的是，现实中的性交易不会这么美好。
设定很美好，但是说教太多了，我们不一定要和家庭或者身体和解。希望落点在不管老或少，美或丑，在欢愉面前皆平等。
非常完美的、幻想中的、现实中不可能存在的鸭。令人沮丧的是，更多女人就算知道要探索自己的身体，想接纳自己，也没有这样的机会。
1st July 2022。首先要表揚一下只靠幾乎對話表情能撐起整個劇本和故事的兩位角色的演技！其次 作為一個女性觀影 看完之後覺得有點什麼但仔細想要說點什麼 卻啞口無言 想作為自己劇本的主角恍然大悟自己根本沒有劇本好像放在每個人的故事中的npc的一生 遇到這麼一次冒險（有待考究這個冒險的定義）是一次「神秘的禮物」賦予的感動。
一定要去加拿大的甘德小镇旅游。从第一幕到最后一幕，如果说这一天我们失去了太多，那么同样的这一天在地球的某个角落还有这么一群人展现了人的力量。自然而然的，用日漫的语气就是，人类啊，多么渺小又坚韧不拔的生物。
P.S.希望等自己七老八十的时候也能对世界抱有幻想啊～
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男主真是好性感，就像女主所形容的，简直就是sex saint！诚然这部电影就像一场巨大的意淫，但是关于女性对自身欲望的探索和释放实在是太真实了。我不知道还有多少女孩会对性感到不洁和羞耻，但如果这种性压抑像片中的女主那样伴随大半辈子，未免太可惜了。其实男主说的很对，在这件事中我们应该卸下那些现实身份，性需要的是fantasy，这和我们生活中做什么职业或是扮演什么角色都无关。不过中间略感到尴尬的是女主试图和男主“交心”，这里的窘迫在于打破了一种去现实化的fantasy，把现实身份引入了性中。试想一下如果我在做爱的时候对方突然问我在哪个公司工作，应该也是挺让人下头的。当然了我不否认有这些时刻存在，但对于我来说最好的体验的确就是专注，就像坐在电影院里沉浸式看电影那样，just enjoy it！
蛤蟆先生去找心理医生，心理医生也找蛤蟆先生。能理解剧本想法but too cliché，人物想法变化前后衔接不太自然，比较惊讶的是Emma Thompson的出镜，还是好美。
万恶的资本主义社会x行业已经成熟到兼具心理咨询功能了吗？
其实我从来恐惧的是生理性智力的衰退
两位主演的表演也很精彩。Emma的眼神，肢体动作等等把角色的情绪展现得细腻至极，而leo从一开始的神秘到后面的情绪暴发过渡也很自然。
完美剧作！作为中国女性，恐怕直面真实的欲望的那一天，还远远没有到来！所以更显这部电影的可贵！年度十佳！
太过治愈了，导致全程情绪的是一直在盎然向上的状态。整个编排看的出编剧下了很大的功夫，12个人的舞台调度，故事转场人物转场都非常流畅，仅仅是通过简单的换装和舞台转动便实现人物和场景的转化，短短100分钟的时间就让我们记住了若干个性格鲜明的角色，最爱老头和喜欢的人爬上照相那段，外在活动加心里描写，让舞台剧有了电影感。
看梗概就知道会演什么的电影。女性总在渴望亲密关系。她太孤独了，想找人聊天。
男主有点帅，拍得很好笑！确实一些难以启齿的正常需求不会得到正视，regulated and safe太理想了哈哈
因为疫情无法成行的本该2020四月计划去北京现场的音乐剧，官摄大法好，弥补了2020的遗憾。比起最初不小心邂逅的原声带要更好听，舞台灯光尤其是摄影色彩风格正是我所偏爱并在使用的。 911二十周年与疫情解封后的百老汇，用轻松的语言讲述沉重的事情——新鲜出炉的2021版Come From Away。 希望后疫情时期，可以有更多的剧场经典作品，以官摄并转为影片的方式，呈现给更多的人。 还是希望再补一次原班人马的现场啊
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