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".
熊猫女孩很可爱，熊猫女人很威风，多元的氛围真美好
2022-03-17
4.5 在圣丹斯大量的coming of age stories中最能共情的一部，对不涉及情爱的亲密关系一次真诚而温暖的描摹。四次会面，重新认识自己的身体，审视与亲人的羁绊，走出对性、对欲望和欢愉的迷思与羞耻，分享彼此的vulnerability…一切都拿捏精准，无需增减一分。emma thompson又一次伟大的表演（她在Q&A说最后在镜子里看着自己身体的场景表演起来非常困难，因为她从来没有过可以如此毫无负担观看自己的时刻（有一丝心碎。从场景到剧作都太适合舞台了，好想蹲一个emma现场。
【7.5=】不光是在讲“成长的烦恼”，这层太常见了。真正属于中式家庭的问题是“归顺的遗传”。强控制欲的照顾总结起来就是“不要耍个性，不要抖机灵，不要以为我找不到你”。竹林里小女孩牵着妈妈一步步从青春走到中年，却始终看不见笑容。如果变红真的是在讲女性的成熟，那么这部电影其实是在告诉大家应该做个什么样的女人，不是被传统禁锢的、为家庭牺牲的，而是可以勇敢反抗的。长辈们已经无法回头，但至少下一代可以坚定地在门前停下。在迪士尼那，这主题很正确，而在我们这，这很危险。
青春叛逆的故事。小熊猫是蛮萌，可是少女们的春心实在是让人尬到脚趾扣出地板洞
延续了皮克斯原东家苹果公司的思路——新产品的秘诀是换壳。既然黑白色的功夫熊猫那么火，那就再在来一个！配合加拿大的枫叶红，整只红色熊猫，不会有人不喜欢吧？一只干脆面不过瘾，那就满屏干脆面jiong jiong跑。飞檐斗拱，祖先祠堂，道士法术，川菜竹林。标准件似的中国元素一锅拿下，这些只是卖相，无关紧要。关键是要做好故事核心。以女孩不再为了追求家人眼中的完美而违背心愿，最获得独立人格为主线，讲述了13岁小姑娘的成长。就这一点就足以让本片脱离低幼动画的范畴，这也是迪士尼高明或说鸡贼的地方。不过，拿中国妈妈，姥姥三代人来做丑角，虽最后和解，但也有点含沙射影，不太舒服。
皮克斯出品的话真的欠太多，不明白为啥这么高分。
J’adore!!!!!!一开始就觉得很有年代感、跟自己的小时候非常relatable，尤其是たまごっち和班里女孩都在追的boy band，到最后meimei说一切都发生在2002年的时候才恍然大悟导演是在回顾自己的coming of age，一看导演果然只比我大上几岁，算是同一代人。熟悉的环境熟悉的设定让我的心情跟着主角一起坐过山车，想知道妈妈爸爸和婆婆背后的故事～～
这一次给鸡娃上头的我洗脑，怎样才是真正的爱，怎样才是真正的快乐。
咒语太洗脑了！
影片重点描述青春期中国式家庭的压力，像这样逼得太紧张的家庭，全球都有，有的是父亲严格有的是母亲，或者全家包括亲戚都严格，这种现象只不过亚洲比较普遍。
剧本太好了！！！！！！数度泪目。女性的困境，孤独的困境，出身的困境，年龄的困境，都被编织成一条线。难为艾玛·汤普森在镜头前做出的巨大奉献，非常勇敢，我们都值得在赤裸面对自己时感到美丽与自信！！！
full of f*cking stereotypes
我认为电影把许多东西给具体化出来，很多比如说女性的羞耻心，中国传统道德约束，女性的压迫，家庭束缚，甚至是女性月经等等，不论是不是意有所指，但确实有意或无意地把这些问题展开来进行探讨。至少，放到台面上，理性的客观的开始去正视。小熊猫非常可爱，走的是讨人喜爱的画风，剧情转折也衔接得非常棒非常自然，不会觉得尴尬或者抽离。ps：我喜欢的原因之一，是电影的主题跟我的想法很接近，我以前说：我心底里藏着一个恶魔，它总在唆使我……接纳自己是一个普通人，接纳自己有黑暗面，与自己内心深处的魔鬼和平共处。
情节让人有共情感，大熊猫很可爱，没想到小熊猫也这么可爱，加一星
Stereotypes 太多了，吴珊卓加一星
full of f*cking stereotypes
It’s fine to be wild sometimes.
导演用情绪失控变身小熊猫指代生理期失控设定，变身只传女不传男，控制的方法则是放轻松，从朋友到最后家人都在激励着她。
这一次给鸡娃上头的我洗脑，怎样才是真正的爱，怎样才是真正的快乐。
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