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".
[3.5/5.0] 杜篤之，廖慶松，洪興文。
悬疑感营造不错，但其实不算悬疑片。一开始就告诉观众女主身负重伤倒在了海边，然后小岛上的庞大家族好像有不可告人的秘密，接下来女主还有些匪夷所思的行为，比如偷了小女孩的娃娃，玩具娃娃体内还有不明液体，再加上穿插了很多女主回忆过去的碎片，让我觉得这部电影一定有很厉害的转折。然而没有。这就是一个抛弃孩子的母亲见到别的母女时产生焦虑和矛盾的故事。虽然没有等到想象中的转折，但知道真相后也能理解女性作为母亲的不易。
時間在往前的，人其實還是那些人，八+九沒在變的，但是為什麼片越拍越難看了。真的是能拍出少年質感的黑幫片，現在怎麼救出不來了呢，sc的原因嗎 小馬是真的帥，此人只會天上有？
比起每个孩子平均拥有十多名成年看护人的母系氏族，在现代社会当妈确实是地狱难度。（我好爱Jessie Buckley 但这部真的meh）
影片中女儿的哭声听得我心力交瘁，如果离开孩子们两年时间会怎样？48岁的母亲残忍地说出了真相：会特别特别爽。但是爽的背后肯定是无止境的自责与煎熬，并不是每个母亲都可以狠心缺席孩子的哪怕一段时间的成长，而父亲的缺席就很理所当然。费兰特的作品真的很能触及到女性的复杂性及不被看到的另一面。
影片中现实与回忆形成镜像，女主角也与年轻女人成为镜像。女主角年轻时对母亲责任的放弃，并未让其生活轻松，反而让其难以面对自己。从影片开始时的貌似优雅，到结尾时的狼狈不堪，恰是其心理体现。故事不错，情绪到位，但讲述太啰嗦，镜头过于讲究。
D / 既封闭又自我的电影，很不喜欢，能把手持特写电影拍的这么无法靠近人物，导演水平也是够差的。
风格类似《南国，再见南国》，无比贴近现实而且又带有鲜明的时代特征，相比前者还多了一层对于青春无畏的伤怀，阿国的死既是时代的悲剧又像是一种宿命，唉！少年阿，何时才能让骚动的内心安静下来……
母职作为创伤性经历。今年两部女演员导演首作的视听风格似乎都明显着重于「亲肤感」，而这种亲肤感在体现女性生命体验时非常重要。
3.5 世上没有后悔药 前半段恐育拉满 后面又被结尾女主释然欣慰的表情莫名感动 希望真的是可以有不论曾经后悔过多少次但每当看到听到他们的脸或声音时那种后悔的感觉就能消失不见
where soundlessness is~ 风尘塑像～
配乐台语歌👍👍 罗大佑和林强那段好劲 谭志刚好帅……… 戏里戏外叹口气
那还是一个靠影片第一个镜头来决定影片质量的年代，真的是船过水无痕
愤怒迷茫又不知所措的青春，用流星烟火或匆匆开过的花来形容都不贴切，它并不美丽也不特殊，就像一团野火一簇野草，倏地开过，不知所以。侯孝贤作为制片人，是不是技痒才有了后来的南国再见。这两片内核上是一脉相承的，更何况还有小高作为纽带，一个同样是很义气很暴脾气，以为自己是大哥很罩，其实终究无能为力。本片的气质上更粗粝狂野，而南国则有了分量更重的女性角色而多了一分细腻。罗大佑的客串真是惊喜。
永远不必怀疑费兰特和科尔曼讲/演故事的能力。三星给吉伦哈尔的处女导。
玛吉的处女座，水准还是蛮高的，女性导演独特的视角给母亲这个角色赋予了可信的复杂性，奥利维娅的表演朴实又自带十分戏，并有很多可解读的空间，她从妮娜身上看到了自己当初的影子，她私藏娃娃也是为了弥补当年被粉碎的情感，女儿从未从她的生活中消失，而是变幻成了各种生活景观，时刻冲击着她。有时候我们会用尽力气去竖起一道道隔绝之墙，但又有时候只需要一通电话，便可完成不可能的救赎。
全是怼脸的大特写，也能把握的很好，女演员就是女演员👏👏👏看完以后Netflix给我接着推荐的是Emily in Paris 2，这不对🙅♂️
小格局的文艺片，聚焦的是女权和母性之间微妙又错综复杂的摇摆。透过本身就有巨大文学性的女主角来呈现，则显得迷离又令人窒息。权重过于偏向表演，但也是女性编剧和导演独到的细腻之处。喜剧演员出身的科尔曼的正剧表演功力令人动容。
#启明会观影节#6/10。前面可以，后面就泄了。主要还是因为导演水平不行，太愚蠢了！逮着匹配剪辑用起来没完不说，还拍那么多暧昧不清的镜头，要做甚？
8.2/10⭐️太野了。风柜，阿孝，牯岭街，总还在现实的框架里，但这部的少年，张狂得不像话，像狂风，野狗，霰弹枪打上天，爆裂而注定短暂。另外澄清了对《五月之恋》的误会，刚出道不久的伍佰——片尾职员表还叫吴俊霖，同台演唱皇后大道的林强和罗大佑，还有侯导献声……喜欢用音乐做青春的bassline，从这部已经确立了。
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