剧情介绍

  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".

评论:

  • 巨凯康 0小时前 :

    一个分崩离析的家庭,在笼罩着恐惧的瘟疫背景下,如何拨开云雾找回阳光?

  • 卫立叶 4小时前 :

    孩子又那么不懂事顶嘴叛逆。弥漫火药味,动不动就爆炸。

  • 宰璠瑜 6小时前 :

    优点是镜头运用和段落衔接做的很舒服。但林嘉欣的表演没有层次,父亲的角色没有分量,反倒是小女孩儿,有那么点出彩。把故事交给争吵,看起来吵的很热闹,其实冲突感并不深刻,家也像盘散沙,没有太多家人的感觉。

  • 巴宏伟 6小时前 :

    不是自己导演亲身经历拍不出这么多家庭和学校的细节,但是一代台大学生的美国梦到底是怎样的,全片就一句话带过,太可惜。(预感到十年以后可能大陆也会出现这种进退两难美国梦最后一家人团团圆圆的电影)

  • 所绮梅 6小时前 :

    三星半,一個下輩子想當男性的母親,和一個下輩子想投胎成馬的青春期少女,面對疾病、疫情、狹窄的住房空間、文化差異、校園體罰等等現實問題,必然導致不可避免的代際衝突。只是從女權主義的角度來看,這種女女的被迫成長,本質上還是男權社會帶來的潛在影響和傷害。另,本片主題和《瀑布》有點像,但作為長片處女作,明顯稍遜一籌。期待導演的下一部新作!加油!

  • 勤书萱 7小时前 :

    这一代应该刚好是侯孝贤镜头下天天说去美国的那代人,以及他们的孩子。很多跨文化或者说移二代的文化冲突细节,就好像在开上帝视角看一家人过日子。然而总觉得少了点什么。

  • 尹建元 8小时前 :

    林嘉欣好会演。小演员非常赞。但是有几场戏处理得不好,最遗憾的几场是在小女儿入院隔离到被通知只是普通肺炎这期间的故事,这部分是整部电影的高潮,也是解决家庭矛盾的关键所在,可惜的是故事的表现力很弱,形式也很单一,没有足够烘托出煎熬的气氛。如果能够将Sars这一线索强化,会把情绪堆叠得更好。

  • 卫浩曾 2小时前 :

    移民二代被迫回乡遭遇的认同危机、母亲罹癌引发的家庭危机、背负全家经济重担却面对妻病女闹的父亲面对的中年危机、中二少女成长过程中与母亲日趋紧张的情感危机,这个家几乎每个人都有那种在“兵荒马乱”的日常生活中接近崩溃的压力与紧张,燃鹅每个人在困境下无法言说的负累又很让人心疼。只是在剪不断理还乱的困顿中,缺乏杨德昌那种深刻而犀利的社会切片分析,从美国到中国那种文化冲突的刻画又缺乏李安那种细腻温良的描摹,所以到最后只能用一种温吞而欠缺说服力的方式完成暂时的和解,格局上落于下乘,但是一些充满了时代性的元素也会让人共鸣,无论是情怀还是对林嘉欣本人的喜爱,都可以私心加上半星。

  • 怀宛秋 5小时前 :

    华语文化圈特有的家庭关系,心有白马的我们逃不脱亲情的温暖与束缚,爱与恨确实一体两面,两个女儿的英语真地道啊!

  • 左丘丹翠 4小时前 :

    一届金马怎么会有这么巧的同题作文,也很喜欢这一部。两个泪目的情节,怎么也套不上的马鞍(能代入自己),和小女孩向妈妈示好用的是“可以帮我掏耳朵吗”(太真实的细节)。希望林嘉欣多出来拍电影!

  • 应怀绿 0小时前 :

    5.0/10.0。浅尝辄止,我觉得这部电影是拍给青春期少年看的。

  • 买承恩 4小时前 :

    家有两女,如有两宝。女主演的真好,依旧喜欢林嘉欣。

  • 全微婉 0小时前 :

    选的话题很犀利,但却都没挖进去

  • 妍晨 2小时前 :

    2003年非典爆发时期,母亲带着两个女儿从美国回台北治病,但大女儿非常不情愿回来,造成她和母亲的矛盾冲突与日俱增。

  • 介凝丹 3小时前 :

    1.全篇色调过于阴沉,使人感觉太压抑

  • 徭鸿煊 3小时前 :

    和《瀑布》有得一比,类似题材,疫情时期,母女关系。但总是差了口气的感觉。

  • 延冠玉 6小时前 :

    故事:7 情感:7 结构:8 节奏:7

  • 卫建国 1小时前 :

    就算这女编剧整个剧本写的全都是“刻板成见”四个字,也不见得比现在的会差到哪里去。

  • 丛蕴美 3小时前 :

    她的恐惧会成为我的恐惧 她的软弱会使我软弱

  • 振皓 3小时前 :

    和很多台湾电影一样,好像一直在平铺直叙地讲生活琐事,但又因为细致真实,让人无法不沉浸其中

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