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:

  • 萱枫 6小时前 :

    整体的叙事安排都挺好的,女主的颜我也是吃的,但就是唱歌段落的表演,摆脱不开glee和歌舞青春的影子。

  • 震梓 2小时前 :

    非常典型的美式励志片,没有太多惊喜,但是也很好看。“失落的主角”是一个聋哑家庭里的健听女孩,在帮助家人和实现自己梦想之间徘徊,父亲摸着女儿的声带那里感受她的歌唱挺感人…

  • 苟和泰 7小时前 :

    一看制片人是Jerome Seydoux,蕾老师的叔叔,一想果然还是很懂老美的口味,颁奖季以黑马姿态取胜。片子没什么好说,就是个普通改编糖水片,只是天时地利人和。当然,也适合改编成中文版,如果能更多给予聋哑人群体关注,其实是一件很好的事情。

  • 轩柏 1小时前 :

    可视的声音、可触摸的声音,静默在其中远比讲话更有力量,“力透纸背”,势如破竹。同时又是那么温柔、美妙、蓬勃,充分地去相信爱,相信和解。

  • 青凯泽 9小时前 :

    我还是喜欢法语原版。不过改的还是不错的,完全脱离了原来的节奏。好莱坞的职业编剧们的流水线还是很专业。

  • 邛智纯 7小时前 :

    所以拯救女主的是她的天赋,如果她没有天赋,她就应该留在那条船上吗?受够这类天才拯救计划了

  • 茜雪 2小时前 :

    庆幸没有在还没看的时候就跟风说一句“不配”。小故事小人物小题材又如何呢?反正是有实实在在地触动到我。将一个乍一看并不吸引人的故事拍到这个地步已经够啦,很好的作品。

  • 玥雅 0小时前 :

    美式家庭的独立与开放加上温情的故事实属清新

  • 芝妍 9小时前 :

    今年最好哭的电影,打动我的不是女主角为家庭负重还是任自我飞翔的纠结,而是听觉障碍下形成了家人之间更细腻的观察习惯、更直白的沟通方式,以及更强烈的情绪表达,反而帮助他们跨越了代际鸿沟,女主角太招人喜欢了,连“唱街”男孩都在她的高亮表演下暗淡无光。

  • 罕兴庆 6小时前 :

    很温情,So many things I would have done,

  • 邬诗丹 8小时前 :

    1.无声的戏让我窒息

  • 雨珊 5小时前 :

    爸爸妈妈和哥哥的角色都是聋人演员饰演,还是很有意义的!能够找到自己可是不容易的事情(另外结尾男孩卡壳了也算妙笔

  • 闫法文光 0小时前 :

    《贝利叶一家》结尾面试的歌曲比本片强,但《贝》明明比本片短依旧觉得它冗长。。。

  • 材驰 9小时前 :

    很平稳,很顺畅,很清新,按菜谱既定的原料配比熬制的口感很好的一碗鸡汤。题材很好,切入点也很好,抛出了很多值得深挖的议题,诸如偏见、语言、沟通、表达等等,但都浅尝辄止。两次演唱戏的点子很棒(消声的聋哑人主观听觉和用手语演唱),但导演处理得较为平庸,力度应该可以更大的。片尾字幕出来才知道是翻拍,那么大概基本上的亮点都是源于原作了,并没有看出改编后更契合当下美国语境的独特价值。那么可能独属于这部影片本身的亮点只剩下几位聋哑演员的表演了。

  • 月颖 2小时前 :

    非常典型的美式励志片,没有太多惊喜,但是也很好看。“失落的主角”是一个聋哑家庭里的健听女孩,在帮助家人和实现自己梦想之间徘徊,父亲摸着女儿的声带那里感受她的歌唱挺感人…

  • 腾迎海 1小时前 :

    露比是家里唯一听力正常的人,她需要做的,是精通手语,为家人传译,做家人理解范围内的事,自我的部分只能被掩藏,当她有机会追逐音乐这个梦想的时候,抉择摆在了她的面前,也摆在了家人面前,结尾的家人相拥纵然让人感动,却也标明了故事的俗套。

  • 查怡悦 7小时前 :

    有声和无声完全是两个世界,幸好还有手语架起了爱的桥梁。

  • 露洁 3小时前 :

    先给4星,回头去看原版。按理说翻拍电影拿奖应该是演员有超神的发挥,但却不给Emilia小金人,只给了爸爸一个男配,为了给BP又给了一个最佳改编剧本……这届奥斯卡真是没法看,一切以zzzq为原则……不过Emilia演的是真好,完全没看出来是oneday里的小姑娘

  • 淑妍 4小时前 :

    华彩之处消声确实是厉害手法,但想想也是预料之中的处理,它在提醒观众,你们认为的主线(摆脱桎梏追逐自我)是个圈套。实际上被视为桎梏的听障家庭里的价值才是导演表达的基本盘。对于听障者的描摹不如《金属之声》来得专一,毕竟女主是听力正常的。听障者不是残疾人,他们与听力正常人是两个不同的共同体,这个母题被淡化得只剩下了一句(手语)台词,恰巧也是我认为最棒的一句:哥哥说,操,公司我们家开的,他们想卖鱼,过来学着和聋子讨价还价啊!

  • 礼涵韵 5小时前 :

    非常典型的美式励志片,没有太多惊喜,但是也很好看。“失落的主角”是一个聋哑家庭里的健听女孩,在帮助家人和实现自己梦想之间徘徊,父亲摸着女儿的声带那里感受她的歌唱挺感人…

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