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".
把《Spencer》划入传记片的门类恐怕并不恰当，毕竟这只是对戴妃短暂人生中一个剖面的截取，并用无休无止的管弦乐和茫茫白雾来向那个时期的戴妃投以后人的猜测。她不是那个漂亮而优雅的戴安娜，而是脆弱的、深陷恐惧的、几近崩溃的，渴望突破钳制并回归自我的斯宾塞。这样的戴安娜只存在于后人的话语中，没有图像没有记录，模糊不清却又令人心碎，于是我们看到的只有意识，而非故事；如果这是传记，那它不止是一个人的传记—它诉说的是所有为婚姻所钳制的女性最深处的恐惧。
a combination of porn and comedy
[3.5/5.0] 黛妃在海報上的動作原來是在廁所嘔吐，有點悲傷。
戴安娜本人有太多影像资料存世，尤其前几年还放出来一些更私人的自述，对于像不像这件事，个人其实不是很在意，就当一种阐述看就行。可是KS的演技尽力是尽力了，被人质疑“矫揉造作”也能理解批评的点。不过这个毫无共情点的剧本，我也想不出有几个演员才撑得起来。
KS演什么都像她自己，why always扭来扭去？
导演拉雷恩摒弃那些历史的细节，而从人物心理状态入手，着重展现英国王室繁杂的规矩章程对戴安娜脆弱身体与心灵的摧残
摄影和配乐是超神的，调度很库布里克很《血色将至》。但剧本无论台词还是情节都太干枯。安妮博林的安排太刻意。大美k太紧绷，像女豪杰上阵杀敌而不像王妃脱离pua
这其实是黑戴安娜的吧？大篇幅拍后厨费劲准备食物，然后戴安娜糟蹋食物；皇室规矩折磨戴安娜，然后戴安娜折磨皇室社畜…她的服装师be like：我都要睡了结果就因为你换衣服不肯拉窗帘（真的好没自由哦），现在我要跟个傻子似的在这缝窗帘
有些镜头还蛮喜欢，但是小K演技确实不大行……
神烦这种电影为了格调，配上一堆unsetteling的弦乐渲染，人物对话和行动动机塑造的莫名其妙的神经质。完全忘记storytelling的本性，而是搞些所谓“文艺片”的噱头们。
配乐和节奏极佳 服饰和pd也太美了 前半段觉得有点乱 但从她和两个孩子一起玩游戏开始就泪流不止了 孤独和无助在让自己更加渺小的皇宫里变得无边无际 kk的表演痕迹还是重 但某些momenta好像和黛安娜的感觉很像 害羞drama童真倔强
小K唯一一部演技颜值同时在线的电影，一开始还会觉得她矫揉造作的姿态未免太端着了，后面反倒觉得这是一个被压抑至极不得不端庄，又有些病态的女人。但是电影实在太过于从屌丝窥探贵族的角度了，完全就是从八卦杂志上面剪切了一些新闻做成的文本，一点也不清楚本片的意义在哪，而最后的收尾简直收得我“老人地铁手机”。唯一的亮点是王妃与幻觉交错的那几个镜头剪辑，以及郭敬明只有在梦里才能拍出来的高贵大气的服装秀。
运用各种方式进行过度的情绪堆积，却毫无故事和人物。看完只会觉得戴安娜是个"spoiled kid"，这才最可怕。胶片真美。
要用三天的短暂时间线轻巧地揭开黛安娜压抑孤独的婚后生活，需要主角非常绵密细腻的心理表现，小K的表现起码90分以上。我猜豆瓣分应该不会匹配烂番茄的，看中国吃瓜群众有多共情王室痛恨梅根就知道了😅
小k搞不好会凭借此片拿个奥奖最佳女主提名。电影展现的是戴安娜王妃和查尔斯结婚十余年，距离婚只有几年的那段时期，感觉还没到她与查尔斯正式分居的1992年底，不过也快了。戴安娜不仅与查尔斯感情破裂，而且在王室生活极其压抑。每天都不得不强迫自己表演，可能有一定程度的心理疾病。小k演得还不错，会让观众怜惜这个美丽脆弱痛苦的女人。电影的结局似乎戴安娜得到了呼吸的机会，心情也一扫阴霾。可是现实是痛苦的，她并没有活成斯宾塞。整体还是偏文艺的表达，并不是写实传记片。
不再说她著名的死亡，又处处与她的死亡关联。应景的女性题材，皇室教条是社会给女性的压迫的夸张版，喜欢台球桌那场戏，复杂的对峙，既有愤怒又有理解，但有的人秉性可能就是烈马，驯马人会在战争中死亡，老朽的事物会衰败，而那匹马依然使人铭记并“震惊”。问题还是内容设计得有些简单了，隐喻显著，技巧套路。看完会明白为什么会选K来演，因为想要的就是她骨子里的劲，K就是这一代最不驯的女演员。
传统是让一种行为得到自然化的意识形态与权利，就像入住前的称重仪式，就像每一套迎合不同场合的服饰，它是某种具有宗教仪式感的教条化的行为，而这种教条化的行为与不得不伪装并归顺的自身也构成了其压抑与焦虑之所，另外这种对教条与伪装的固守也并非王室独有，在社会中它是一种普泛化的运行机制与规训系统，遵守纪律，学会以多张的面孔包装自己，而不是根据自己的情绪选择服饰，这就像戴妃的孩子们最后都必须经历的杀生，这一阉割的成人礼。
#It's not just me who loves you ! ——♡Maggie#
救命！！这部电影最好看的地方就是那张海报了吧！虽然说不应该这么对比，但是真的我怎么又看了一遍第一炉香。。。（看到短评里有提到这两部的选角:) 还有一个短评里提到的“讨好又疏离，用力又随意”，怎么这么会形容！可能就真期待越大失望越大吧，不期待可能会觉得还行，期待了就觉得好难看，再也不期待了
戴安娜真的总迟到吗?那女王脾气还真挺好的~。
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