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".
好莱坞乏味改编一则，演员选角现实性及整体表演大加分。
作为“美式青春片”还是可以的，吹过了那是肯定的 圣丹斯大奖肯定是过誉了；导演能把法式小品改编成纯美式青春片也是蛮不容易的，一点法国风情都看不出来，中间某段很明显就是《金属之声》转场；《贝利叶一家》还真看过，并没有比原版出彩，哥哥还有点占了妹妹空间；Ferdia这酱油打的干脆，咋看咋不像美东那边的；Emilia脸确实圆了，演的很不错，手语打得很可以，唱的嘛就那样，就凭这进伯克利太不信服了，不过能看见Emilia营业还是很不错的……
其实影片很多关键情节都来自原版电影，翻拍的《健听女孩》则带入更多叙事角度去深层次挖掘这个设定，对相同的故事做出了不同的解读和延伸。
过于工整了。突然无声那段好评，但总觉得视角混乱。
在一般的父母對遠行子女既感到欣慰又不忍放手這一層之上，又增加了殘疾人對健全親屬的依戀一層：後者充當了前者的發言人和同世界溝通的唯一紐帶，母親所言“你出生時，我甚至希望你不是健聽人”引人深思。令人印象深刻的三個橋段：匯報演出一段模擬聽障人世界的消音設定，父親輕撫女兒聲帶以“傾聽”女兒歌聲，比賽一段女兒打著手語為家人歌唱，均來自於法國原版。本片屬於那種給出具有原型性的設定和簡潔明快的議題的一類電影，只是對於我的觀賞習慣來說，仍不免嫌其太過簡單、普通和保守。2022年4月13日深夜於禮崗荷花閣——廣州此輪疫情的惘惘威脅下，“禮崗影院”時隔143日再度“啟幕”。
即便放在今年也不算特别有BP相的电影 场调 人文 甚至剧本都和领跑的「THE POWER OF THE DOG」不在一个段位上 但颁奖礼实在太久没有这样温情的家庭剧作参战了 上一次有印象的甚至要追溯到12年前的「THE BLIND SIDE」一家人因为身体的缺陷去经历 去克服 去扶持 几场冲突不长 也结束得很快 看得眼泪一波接一波 既自私又无私 既温暖又现实 满怀爱的故事配上扎实的表演没法让人无动于衷 更何况在当下 在此时 “在一起”就是最大最难的主题 照这个势头还挺有可能走到最后拿下BP
彼此倾听，相互和解，这样的亲情真励志，真唯美，真掉价。这故事最大的bug是开头女主被伯乐光速识见的历程太顺畅，不然什么也说不通。
女主是locke & key里的 男友是sing street里的~ 脸熟 两位都不错 有潜力的年轻演员。一家人的三位演员都是聋哑者 老妈还是史上最年轻的奥斯卡影后 厉害。要看的准备好纸巾~
呜呜呜好治愈好温暖🥺🥺🥺好喜欢Mr V!!!
虽然猜到影片某处必然会有以听障人士角度展现的戏份，但真到了那下猛然消声后的寂静，还是被狠狠触动到了，实打实的感同身受。其后父亲用触觉感受歌声，以及边唱边打手语的段落，都特别动人，这是一部充满关怀的电影。8.5/10
现在看什么好莱坞电影都觉得太模式化了，我怕是有什么大病。全片看完就是一部很工整的美利坚主旋律电影，颁奖季少不了这种类型的。
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。
题材新，虽然翻拍，但是改编很接美国剧情，被家人团结一心所感动，一起都会好起来的。
最有感觉的是ruby在车背后给老爸唱歌的那段 老爸摸着她震动的喉咙 我眼泪刷就下来了
一顿暴哭，无数个戳人心的细节。我们在健全人的世界中直到合唱表演被掐断声音才能瞬间感觉到拥有听说能力的幸运。小镇起早的打渔少女、唱歌的少女、跳水游泳的少女，每个形象都充满健康青春的美。
因为后来的封城MIFF估计也落花流水了 自己在网上找到资源看了 3.5/5 很流水线的主旋律电影呀 和佛罗里达乐园差太多了 | MIFF排了但我买不着票 哭了
很多人惊讶年迈的奥斯卡竟然把奖给了这么“小”的一个片子。它是某类圣丹斯or美国独立小片儿的样子，自然熨帖，真心觉得比《驾驶我的车》里那种无甚卵用的互文和辗转反侧看起来要舒服得多。渔夫设定确实好，带着海风的气息和潮湿（包括患病），这些怪咖之感搭配点到即止的感情拉扯，再次印证了“不整事儿”的真诚。总之爱是幸运爱是奇迹值得被一再书写。
淚目...想到自己背井離鄉海外求學，媽媽第一次出國飛來參加我的博士答辯儀式，其實也是那麼孤獨的坐在人群中完全不懂我和周圍的人在說些什麼，也是看著別人的反應開始拍手鼓掌...I miss them dearly
{★★★☆} 对青春期的孩子而言，成长比人生任一阶段都更意味着象征义的剪断脐带--在叛逆与依恋、家庭与梦想面前，他们不知何去何从。以其本质道之，这只是又一部笑中带泪的青春电影；但它的英雄，善良而艰辛的Ruby，却已经成人。无论电影的基调如何轻描淡写，梦想之踌躇与家庭之责任于她都远远沉甸过了大多数同类故事中的虚构困境。如果你也认为The Best Day是Taylor Swift写过最美妙的歌曲之一，那么Sound of Metal该让座了--这是一部好得多的电影。
很溫馨感人的Teenage少女歌唱勵志故事，可惜歌曲並不動聽。
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