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".
看完1995年的“Carrington”之后再看这个，Emma Thompson真是太棒了
@Sundance 太！棒！了！从头到尾都在跟小伙伴兴奋尖叫。This is the type of the film I wanna make! Absolutely love how much agency Nancy/Susan has in the film, 最后自己给自己的高潮真的只有女导演才拍得出来！！
太棒的一个电影了！我们不要剥夺身体享受愉悦的权利！大胆的去享受吧！
剧本以对镜自照作结，第四段末从性（有目的的、近乎宣言式的、愉快的性）一下转到refresh自我，堪称豹尾，也很大程度上消弭了全片性元素之工具化的扎眼感：如果不是结尾一笔，我会质疑编剧通过分散在四个有设计感、功利性强、易概括、前后有递进感的段落中各类细碎小话题（有的话题被探讨得很好，但有的则浅尝辄）和包含在内的男女主的背景故事是否能达到对性的理解和释然，更遑论全片都没有一个毫无功利性的关于性本身的段落，一切都停留在台词上的认可（尤其是第四幕那个在咖啡馆的关于性的宣言，甚是功利）但既然最终落脚点停留在自我，那被工具化的性和旁枝斜曳的人生话题是不影响整体框架的。这种点到话题就假装达成释悟的片子我愿称之为教学片。Emma表演太有说服力了，在程式化的剧本里依然塑造了完整的有厚度的动人的女性。
话剧式的大段台词让我总觉得在看nt live ，那些情欲，那些冲突，那些唠叨，那些漫不经心，一切都让人微醺，最后彻底断片，午夜梦回时，你又会想起，然后仿佛昨日重现，终究在早上九点的人海里消失不见。
事实证明再简单的剧情和场景还是可以不断挖掘出小惊喜的，两个人的内心世界通过台词不断得以展现，电影在单调的场景内也尽量控制住了节奏，让整个人物和剧情显得愈加有趣立体以及丰满。
四场会谈。男的是真的帅！女主也好棒，60几岁演脱戏，这才是女性电影啊。
喜欢前半段和结尾，中段匠气略重。以及大根的点评真的一针见血：我们女的就连叫鸭的时候都在幻想亲密关系。太可怕了。性就是性，身体上的亲密不必、很多时候也不能指向心灵的亲密。而且真正的亲密不是追求来的，而是当你拥有之后你后知后觉意识到的。以及，性的释放与舞蹈确实关系紧密。夏天到啦，不如跳舞！
以性做为载体，并且全部内景以及依靠大量对白的依托，这都不是作为导演敢于轻易尝试的东西。但是《祝你好运，里奥·格兰德》做到了。四段式的结构干净利落，简洁但是精致，虽然冲突来得有一些过于突然，但是通过彰显功力的对白呈现出了自我认同、原生家庭、女性地位等等我们当下几乎所有人都正在遭遇的问题。虽然电影的首要任务永远不是对问题做出解答，但是《祝你好运，里奥·格兰德》却再一次以一种浪漫并且不失哲学的方式提供我们：治愈是我们每个人终其一生的命题。
leo的眼睛真的太好看了！那些对话慢慢抽丝剥茧出面具下的两个人。Emma这个真的是登峰造极的表演...啊~pleasure~
快五十年前，《让娜·迪尔曼》在对女性的生活、也是身体的封闭凝视里，以最后迪尔曼刺向男客的爆发姿态冲破、拒绝所有看客目光的欲望投射。如今女权主义发展到这部电影里，也有了“反客为主”的类似一幕——南希一边masturbate一边凝视里奥的身体以抵达高潮，最后她赤裸入镜，定格住了属于女性的主体性权力。南希和里奥的四次会面，每一次都在双方愿意向对方倾吐内心后，他们身体的亲疏关系才得以进入新阶段。不仅是女性的，是关乎所有性别的身体解放。电影将所有表达目的都特意摊开在清晰的舞台剧结构和对话台词里，赤裸得几近propaganda film。
The toy will make it sooo much easier, but it will also deprive the fun of interaction and the feeling of being wanted by someone. However, what are the chances of meeting a top tier escort just like Leo? I think I will pathetically stay with the toy…
你很难说它挑战了什么，也很难说它屈从了什么；你很难说它修正了什么，也很难说它强化了什么；你很难不被它的工整和细腻感动，也很难不被它的刻意和回避扫兴。它说了一个无关性的故事，用一种假装什么都和性有关的方式
“Sexual fulfilment is a powerful thing.” And surely we should all have it.
这电影放到中国拍，斯琴高娃和彭于晏演，炸不炸？
不会再为了肉欲而失控，只会为了灵犀而泪涌
四场会谈。男的是真的帅！女主也好棒，60几岁演脱戏，这才是女性电影啊。
一场年轻人与老一辈人关于性方面的交流，从性进而延伸到整个人生。性是人生的一部分，同时也应该在人生当中永存，获得愉悦也是每个人应该有的权利。Nancy束缚在宗教的框架之中，惧怕接受未知的体验，认为性欲是罪，是一切破坏的源头。Leo无法面对自己的真实身份，厌恶过去的自我，对家庭感到自卑，渴望抛弃过往，展开一段全新的人生。四次会面，四次交流。谈话的内容虽然很多都以忘却，但不可否认的是，两个人都比从前活得更加有质感。不伪装，用真实、开放的心态去迎接这个世界，其实也没那么不堪。到最后，即使对方只是自己漫漫人生路当中的一个过客，没有被给予上帝般的救赎，但只要能够互相认同彼此之间的不完整，毫无遗憾地与之道别，就是与自己一场成功的和解。
wowow，性喜剧外壳下的心理咨询。Leo是wounded healer，专注，共情，耐心，积极倾听，不评判客户的各式需求，疗程的重点是让来访关注此时此刻的自己，接纳感受，解决未竟的议题，在生活中获得更多活力和弹性。这再次告诉我们边界设置的重要性，避免过度卷入，当Leo被自己的往事吞没，他可以拥有一个督导来谈谈原生家庭和母子关系么？所幸他们拥有坚实的治疗同盟，可以谈论裂痕和痼疾，相互疗愈，共同成长。其他议题还有死亡焦虑，借由年轻的躯体重拾“世界刚刚打开，一切皆有可能”的新奇。
这电影放到中国拍，斯琴高娃和彭于晏演，炸不炸？
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