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".
片名turning red的双重含义注定这故事关乎长大成人的阵痛。严格的家庭管束、孝悌文化下的殷切期盼、压抑的个性和自我、叛逆期的挣扎反抗，令本东亚女孩狠狠共情。我们心中住着一头怪兽，即便努力压制着负面本性，难免脱缰爆发，千改变万克制，还是希望家人能包容不那么完美的自己，只有爱才能中和兽性戾气。美美和红熊猫的表情都太生动了，表情包预订。
剧本绝了 台词功力很了得。片子的调度巧妙运用了舞台式的戏剧格挡（比如跨越人物中心轴线的运动镜头完成时间调度、静安区街边小店的水平运动构图、美术馆里三人红底的一场、扫墓后一行人从纵深掠过后退镜头直到剩下男主）当然最绝的是老乌和罗兰了 片子的基准瞬间就不一般了：一个谜一样的男人生活在了自己的神话里吹一辈子牛 一年英国硕士回国吹一辈子牛 更圆月亮的外国神话和文青眼里的电影神话也都可以吹一辈子牛，而只有看穿神话的男人女人最终会走到一起 爱情是神话吗？是也不是
旧时的祝福却成为现时的诅咒，世界的守护却成为自我的惩罚。在竹林里牵起痛哭女孩的手，告诉她可以不用追求完美，取悦母亲，但她还是选择封印了红熊猫。你的野兽又脏又臭，怪异又与众不同。但它也可以让你飞檐走壁，带给别人快乐。你的自我本是上天的赐福，却被规训被压抑被教化，长成藏起尾巴的大人。
和包宝宝一样充满令人不适的刻板印象，所谓变红和初潮的隐喻也生硬尴尬，哪能联系得上啊？功利心太强，是做不出真情实意的东西的。
这也太可爱太好笑了，笑到肚子疼……一开始觉得是来姨妈的隐喻，后来又觉得是PMS，后来才发现是在说所有东亚女性被压抑的一切对自由的渴望和需求吧（包括性压抑），不能释放情绪，凡事循规蹈矩，做一个克制温柔的贤妻良母，但其实包括外婆和七大姑八大姨在内，每一个女性内心都有不甘，而在必要时刻还是会释放出女性的力量。想象力惊人啊，好看！
我疯了，谁不想变成红熊猫啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊？！！！
东亚小孩是东亚父母的奴隶，直到其中一方死为止。
只能说迪士尼没有心，这么好的片子不走院线走流媒体，真的是瞎了眼。观影过程每分每秒都被萌到，你可以永远相信皮克斯，用变身成可爱的小熊猫对应青春期的成长，最终成为自己想成为的人。真的好好看啊，狠狠的爱了！！！
啊这就是我日常约会想要看的那种轻盈灵动又愉快的爱情电影哇，而且也不乏深刻的部分。饭桌那场戏妙句频出，话里全是机锋，有互不相让的部分，最后又全都不动声色地化解掉，很上海，或者很想象中的上海，“爱情神话”的主题也点得真好，故事真动人，神话也是可以在我们这里发生的呀。
5/10。前有纽约女孩养大红狗，后有华裔女孩变小熊猫。又萌又闹腾，东方式家长的控制欲被无限放大，阻止去看演唱会而毁了足球场，明知是动画的夸张但就是不舒服，这个问题和短片《包宝宝》是一样的。最后的落脚点是卖熊猫玩偶。
原来变红有初潮的隐喻，变红是blessing不是curse，是关于成长关于叛逆关于寻找、接纳、释放真实却不怎么被看见的自己。很多关于中国式家庭传统的东西虽然夸张但很有共鸣， 很喜欢那句“i m 13, deal with it”。ps：毛茸茸胖嘟嘟的red panda真的过分可爱了我要买周边！！！
红熊猫真可爱，毛茸茸的我也想要抱，牵起少女时的妈妈那段看得我流眼泪，说这部里的华人家庭是刻板印象之类的影评，只能说都是幸运的人
虽然全片都在说方言，但是剧情与套路却像是我看的那些欧洲电影。倪虹洁姐姐实在太好看了，我也想成为她那样有钱有闲的成熟女人。总的来说，是惊喜之作~
我们的创作者真是卑微啊，有点社会责任感的就被拉黑名单，有点钱的就只能造些空中楼阁来聊以自慰，在这片土地上拍电影就跟在火星上种菜一样。然后到最后就剩下这么样一团破烂坐上了“年度华语电影”的位置。我们的观众也实在是卑微，生活在水深火热中还要在嘲笑西方政治正确之余面对这种电影腆着笑脸保持着精神小资和政治太监的复合人设。什么叫一方水土养育一方人啊？中产的，太中产的。
“我们都有潜在的野兽，我们都隐藏着一个邋遢、吵闹、怪异的自己，只是很多人从没让它暴露过”
东亚ru圈高级黑，刻板印象实锤。但是说是纯刻板也没那么认同，制作班底里很多华裔。宗不宗祠的大家也都不是傻子，这种完美控制型鸡娃可能仍旧是上一代乃至Z世代“体面”父母里的典型。片中母亲对于闺女各种隐私边界的僭越超有感触！公开场合让小孩颜面尽失真的很伤人且伤害不可逆…除此之外，小熊猫的设定真的很可爱ww（多数人面对furfur的东西大概就是草履虫反应XD
最开始的设定让人想起勇敢雄心，最后发现原来是皮克斯版的绿巨人，用李安的话说，每个人心中都有一只红熊猫，代表那个曾经叛逆的自己，当好朋友都觉得酷时亚洲妈妈则执着于把这只红熊猫赶走，真是人间真实。那咒语怎么听都像是小兔子乖乖把门开开，有些出戏了。
很可爱很搞笑，但我却看得直落泪。我们女性一直需要做自我规训，剥离老天送给自己的礼物，变成为他人着想，失去自我的生物。尽管有些桥段看得我觉得尴尬，但我仍旧认为，我们海外华人群体，终于能慢慢站在舞台中央，开始讲述属于我们的故事，属于华人女性的故事。我们一代又一代地成长，终于学会接纳自我的每一面。东亚女性的故事，用这样一种不那么严肃负担的方式讲述，是我未曾想过的，却也是出人意料的好。女性成长的烦恼，并不会随着年岁的增长而消失，我们那部分被男权称为“歇斯底里”的部分，是老祖宗送给我们的礼物。接受她就好，接受自己就好，为自己骄傲，爱自己的“红”，爱自己每一面。
好看！可爱！哪个小孩看了这部电影不想要一个毛茸茸的同学呢？看起来就很好骑！！
石之予真是个人才，能把不同时空文化的邪教糟粕全都津津乐道地捏到同一个片子里，她创作的亲子关系还总是透着一股吃人的寒意。广东话念咒语简直恐怖片串场。以及Shaman这个词在本片中遭到了莫大的侮辱。
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