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:

  • 浩福 4小时前 :

    对话太密,看得窒息。90分钟时间他们用对话屠杀百万犹太人,并且以此为升官发财的数据支撑。

  • 竺涵衍 3小时前 :

    1931年,彼时32岁的雅各布·法比安死于溺水,在他的小本子上写着“我要学会游泳”。

  • 采楠 5小时前 :

    活着实属偶然 死亡才是必然 不过老哥你着死得有点冤 真是荒诞呀

  • 速永长 0小时前 :

    他高叫把死亡奏得美妙些,死亡是来自德国的大师,他高叫你们把琴拉得更暗些,你们就像烟升向天空,你们就在云中有个坟墓躺着挺宽敞。

  • 桃岚 3小时前 :

    晚上困得紧,看了两小时睡了一会才起来接着看完

  • 轩休 7小时前 :

    我今年看过最忧郁的电影。没有什么不合时宜,毁灭是我们的命运。

  • 申屠芮美 1小时前 :

    好惊喜的影片,1931年的故事背景却完全没有时代距离感,反而是触手可及的亲切。散文般的叙事手法将正直、善良、纯粹的男主娓娓道来,三小时一点不觉得漫长。

  • 鸿美 2小时前 :

    2022-02-05

  • 邵如蓉 4小时前 :

    #VIFF2021 拍得真不太行。开场三分钟长镜从现代穿越回90年前,喻示全球加速右转的当下与山雨欲来风满楼的1931并无二异,各种娴熟运用的技法让人着迷。可后面却越来越泄气,镜头也变得平庸,所谓的“渐入佳境”无非就是叙事更主流,再无出彩之处。如果这个故事交给娄烨来拍,起码能短三分之一,也会更有厚重感。

  • 芙颖 4小时前 :

    三个小时的电影,竟然看完了…开头high到飞起的剪辑和表现手法以为又是一部导演意识流作品,结果后面故事反倒渐入佳境…虽然依然不懂导演要表达的东西,但同样入围金熊,我觉得这片子可比获奖那部好看多了…3.5

  • 睢乐蓉 2小时前 :

    扛过前半小时的旁白和蒙太奇就好了。今天连树都更温和了。挨饿都是因为口味挑剔。

  • 辰博 4小时前 :

    在省博聽紅樓夢解說的時候,解說員先說到胡適先生的派別,後又說到王國維先生的派別。她說王國維先生認為悲劇有三種。

  • 邰英睿 5小时前 :

    这会开得真的是解决问题,既优雅又高效。仿佛在讨论一个工作流程!

  • 祁楚骁 5小时前 :

    虽然内容惨无人道,形式上确是平凡常见的工作会议。

  • 让恨真 3小时前 :

    我好像还是更喜欢oh boy。少年希林开始长大啦...

  • 羊舌雪儿 0小时前 :

    喜欢电影的质感,场景的细节体现了导演满满的诚意。然鹅,法比安就是个暴殄天物的“作”家,只有感性,没有脑子。外面的世界在变化他不知道,女友的需要他不清楚,死党的痛苦他不了解。

  • 淑萱 8小时前 :

    一场盛大的死亡,活着只是侥幸,无法随波逐流,我终将溺死在这世界的洪流中。

  • 羊舌飞白 4小时前 :

    不过中途的故事实在是很老套,让人感觉不管什么时代什么国别男青年的忧伤都是那么点事。

  • 晨柏 1小时前 :

    Fabian就像身边已经为数不多的颓丧的文艺中年,郁郁不得志,又放不下自尊,本质是善良的,但爱情还是败给了金钱。放到当今的时代里,这一切的始作俑者当然也可能不是他本人,而是历史。

  • 璐芝 4小时前 :

    前半个小时各种长镜头+插入1930柏林黑白纪录片+Cabaret里的场景调度和分屏 真的是精彩到起飞 之后瞬间沦为了德国的情深深雨濛濛 这也是受小说本身限制吧 不过Labube这个角色真的太棒 演出了喜剧和悲剧的并存人生 抹去了德国人严肃古板的刻板印象 谁说德国人没有幽默? 开头Cabaret那场戏真的太棒了 场景调度精确到起飞 混而不乱 把二战前柏林的躁动不安 心慌彷徨表现地淋漓精致 如果柏林现在的Cabaret还是这样SLAY 马上连夜抬床柏林 一起纸醉金迷 夜夜笙歌 烟雾缭绕 醉生梦死 然后三天不洗澡 四天不漱口 往台上扔酒瓶 在厕所打脏炮 直至精尽人亡 灰飞烟灭😂

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