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:

  • 苦依晨 3小时前 :

    奇异博士的农场生活,结局埋伏的好。大部分段落故事性不强,铺垫太长。外景不错。

  • 祁柯燃 9小时前 :

    隐晦而克制,俄狄浦斯,兄弟同床,忘年不伦,母与父,兄与弟,叔与侄,牛与犬

  • 翠雪卉 2小时前 :

    在女性视觉下男性的权力!!!

  • 邹锦诗 5小时前 :

    其实最先想到的是同在威尼斯获奖的《希斯特斯兄弟》,首先都指向文明的更迭,相较于那种显山露水的社会学符号的陈列,本片把代表西部世界的男性气质的式微融入了更具体细微的人物关系或者情结里,比如henry既是时代象征又是精神意义上的父亲,主题和故事互相促进的同时又是平等的、相互独立的。

  • 祁伊海 5小时前 :

    忍受两个小时漫长的、克制的、碎片的剧情,然后回味两周

  • 葛振国 5小时前 :

    !很久没看这种 纯电影的节奏 从缓到急 然后戛然而止 给你回味

  • 靳嘉美 8小时前 :

    几乎可以提前预定为年度最佳了。看片的过程像饮一口纯酿,或是欣赏一支香水,拥有极之丰富的内涵与不同的调性。故事经得起推敲与解读。拍摄的手法更好。虽然没有所谓的高潮,但是张弛有度,好几场戏都令人屏住呼吸。很有张力的电影,演员都出奇的好。上一次看到家庭之间这样撕扯的戏,还是威廉·惠勒的《小狐狸》,相比起来,小狐狸更深刻,而这部更浑然天成。这个世界需要女性的眼睛,温柔坚定也美好。

  • 檀向南 1小时前 :

    点到为止的叙事,简单干净的画面,却后劲十足、细思极恐……

  • 速永长 9小时前 :

    文明与野性,夺子—弑父—成人

  • 驰辰 4小时前 :

    太失望了。无可挑剔的画面,无聊的故事,只有音乐让螺丝拧紧。不懂为什么要分段。

  • 狂景明 7小时前 :

    7.4 在我看来,全片最具代表性的一幕是弟弟叫哥哥上桌吃饭前先洗漱洗漱,拾掇拾掇自己。完美诠释了电影的复杂气质!你说他这话说得直白吗?可他的确先扭扭捏捏、支支吾吾、大作铺垫、废话连篇了。你说他含蓄吗?你丫还不如他妈的开门见山呢。

  • 琛云 7小时前 :

    恐同皆深柜…故事很好隐藏了许多情绪,也因此难以代入角色。人物设定,钢琴等延续自钢琴课,表现西部旷野与新西兰小岛的美学风格不同,但一样被坎皮恩抓到精髓。勇敢正义的西部精神得不到延续是因为渐渐被恶意取代

  • 驰锐 3小时前 :

    我作为铁粉超级爱前段,人物侧写的段落几乎让我回到钢琴课和淑女肖像里那种细腻有力,时刻被撩动心扉的感受里,我特别期待这种东西继续交织成最后高潮那一下,也准备好了心碎。但最后那个结局让我难受极了。放在其他导演那里也是极精彩的,但真的一点都不坎皮耶,不是爆发和充满命运感的,怎么说呢,就好像看了个哈内克……心是碎了,但没爽到

  • 耿英韶 5小时前 :

    暗藏晦涩的情愫与谋杀,压抑收敛的精妙表达。多处心理描写细节回想才能发觉,人物特征没有表面上看的简单,后劲足。

  • 鲁丁兰 9小时前 :

    整部电影几乎没有波澜的情绪,却又数度以试探的方式挑动着观者的神经。隐晦的观感,配合着电影里各种压抑的情绪,让观者跟着电影里的每一个人行走在情绪的边缘,跃跃欲试又欲言又止。每一组镜头都有自己独特的用意,每一个人物都有一种此时无声胜有声的悲怆。

  • 长虹彩 4小时前 :

    开头以为它和《双虎屠龙》一样,是为一个已然消逝的时代所吟唱的挽歌;中段顿悟原来这是另一个《断背山》啊;结果最后发觉这居然是个西部版的《沉默的羔羊》?一波三折确实是有了,但总感觉对于这个零散而空洞的主题而言,又显得全无必要。

  • 池筠心 0小时前 :

    一场精心策划,还是过河拆桥?都是成年人,我想彼得一早看出菲儿的本心,妈妈以为是菲儿引诱了儿儿,其实我想是彼得请君入瓮。

  • 运家 9小时前 :

    整体感觉太拖了,能感觉到一些东西,但感觉藏的又太隐晦了

  • 汤隽雅 0小时前 :

    海史密斯一般的《犬之力》对西部片的解构发生在对男性气质和人与自然关系两个层面上,而二者结合于那座狗模样的山上,要接受而非试着征服,这是这个性别政治和环境议题的年代最主流的认知。两位男主角之间的较量发生在是否接纳自己身上女性气质这一点上,最后把温柔活成人生风格的“雌雄同体者”以精准的出击战胜了试图对此进行压抑的“有毒男性”,进而保护了完全弱小的女性。这里没有道德上的对错判断,也没有性格悲剧喜剧的剧情构建,只有不动声色的铺垫和准确的打击。坎皮恩对影像的精确控制让观众也只有在被毒蛇咬到之后才反应过来,进而惊呼其控制的全方位。但这样的控制牺牲掉的是四角关系中的另两角,母亲与弟弟成了完全的被动者,没有太多angency可言,也就在剧情构建中丧失了大部分意义。

  • 歆橘 3小时前 :

    还是钢琴课的简导,永远可以相信她!选角是一绝,那段纸花的古钢琴旋律可以超过the heart asks pleasure first了,刚柔并济,情色内敛化了内核却更张扬。就是这部片上网飞吃亏,受众是广了吧,网飞的格调实在配不上…

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