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".
以为是英国版的《罗生门》，讲不同立场的人有不同的趋利避害行为，但没想到最后话锋一转，讲的是女权，主要包括在欧洲中世纪女性被看作是男性的财产和生育工具，被强奸的案件数不胜数，多数男人会因为是教会神成员而享受赦免权，少数案例如果男人身份高贵，则由皇帝判定可以通过决斗来获得胜诉，男人决斗失败，则女性会享受烧死的刑罚，男人决斗胜利则获得家族和个人的荣耀。只是感觉这么长的电影时间，讲的故事有点老套，压缩到100分钟会比较好。
以一个罗生门的故事，讲述了女性在男权社会下的处境。前两番以男性视角来叙述，最后转到女性视角，这种视角转换本身，或者说叙述者身份的转变，已经表明态度。
蒙昧、宗教、令人厌烦的性、男人、血与禁锢；一个吃绝户的大老粗，一个风流成性的马屁精(四个不同的场景说他帅真的笑死我了）最恶心的还是司机的角色，幻想着她生活得水深火热，以爱之名行强迫之实傲慢又恶心，到死都不认为自己做错了，向上帝祷告也只是告解“通奸”，customary protest my ass，强迫一幕还和之前与大本两个炮友一起嫖的场面完全一致，no means fucking no！; the book of love是《爱经》么？餐桌一幕谈到女人和男人会爱两个时候的静默和大笑也很有意味
最后的决斗是 Marguerite 庭审时为真相与众人丑恶嘴脸孤军奋战，Jean 和 Jac 的对战只是“伪君子”的脸面之争罢了。
罗生门？还是金刚川，不明白一个故事演三遍有啥好处，反正时长是翻了三倍
受害者有罪论不可取 维权成本过高 代价太大 如果结局是马特达蒙输了 又会是何种景象 但是明知不公 依旧不能停止发声 只有争取 才能有获得公平的机会！！
没孩子的时候什么都不怕，有了孩子反而接受了不公的世道。丈夫打败了强奸者，朱迪科默眼里的层次，足够女演员学个十年八年了。
重点是在那个年代，女人只是男人的财产。她是呆萌的生育工具，是呆萌向司机示好的方式；穿衣暴露被呆萌说是娼妓，反抗不动被司机认为是自愿；得知她被侵犯后呆萌的第一感受是“为什么司机总是欺负我”，而不是心疼自己妻子；国王根本不管事实的真相如何，“谁决斗赢了，谁说的就是真话”。
自私傲慢虚伪的男人们啊。在女性被强暴只能作为男性财产被侵害为理由进行诉讼的时代，审判过程简直荒谬，看客们为械斗而沸腾，受害者要经受滚钉板的煎熬。而现代女性类似的困境虽有缓解依然存在。三段视角看到最后，内心只希望这俩男的都能快点儿死掉。Jodie诠释的坚毅与脆弱更加深观感。雷导真的是什么题材类型都能拍且拍得好，一定要身体健康接着拍电影呀！
西部片里经常决斗。
老头84了精力真不一般，Drive都能演帅哥了，以前我觉得他特别好，但最近对他的话剧腔真的有点不感冒……
追忆篇在我心中是神一般的地位 其实剑心真人化系列还算可以 尤其是初登场 但是追忆篇水准明显不够 平淡乏味 ost也不行 还故作深沉 仿佛在看默片 然后基本就是照抄ova吧 就像是cosplay摄影一样 关键是佐藤健在这部剧里的颜值 拉远景的时候有点被丑到了 你不能改编总吃原作粉福利啊 单拉出来也得能让人看懂么不是
中世纪中女性的沉默在现今才真的被看见。“孩子需要母亲多于一个正确的人”，男人要为荣誉名誉而死，而女人想要活下去，但这并不是被贬斥的贪生怕死啊。
-“雷爷爷厌男” -“他是厌男还是厌人” 😂😂
两个男人视角有多无趣多少算计，玛格丽特视角就有多鲜活多痛苦。几百年过去了，被强奸的女人顶多只是不会被处死，舆论境遇并没有改善太多。但庆幸现活在现下，玛格丽特至少可以选择不结婚。镜头确实有点偷懒的感觉。
真tdd看笑了 啥都是女人的错 要点脸吧 第三部分持续发笑 现在看来 RS的确是伪平权的代表人物 patriarchy几大要素 1、女人是男人的附属品 地位低下（各方面 包括话语权决策权等） 2、女人的首要任务是生育 3、 普信男妈宝男泛滥 4、（大）部分女人跟着男人欺负女人 / 笑死 有男的说这部片女权给不出高分 两边不讨好的电影是真的少见
只看最后三十分钟足矣，叙事效率在老雷面前是个伪命题。罗生门的厉害之处不是不同视角下含混的真相，而是真相毫不重要：乱世里活着最重要。少了这层意味，只剩下对旧社会封建礼法对女性残害的无声控诉（参见达蒙凯旋后bgm突然的静音）。高光要属决斗场面，惊险刺激但并不激烈，和十字军东征一样，表面上骑士精神，实际流氓械斗。
最后的决斗是 Marguerite 庭审时为真相与众人丑恶嘴脸孤军奋战，Jean 和 Jac 的对战只是“伪君子”的脸面之争罢了。
开头以为是军事史诗片，看到后来像是悬疑片，最后原来是一部女权片。
看完了，能不能加一星。
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