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".
如果没有后半段这只是一个三星作品 就是一个更思辨英伦风满足我们幻想的东西 只是提供乐趣的对象变成了男人 但有了后半段 这就是一部有人文关怀 坦诚的两性关系讨论素材 介于童话和现实之间 因为我实在不相信30岁以前的男人会懂女人overthink的魅力并把她拆解并一一化解 30岁后的男人懂但overthink此时在他们这里就不那么有魅力了 这就是男性或者人类的悖论/无论如何安抚 无论如何解释 还是觉得这种纯为愉悦和幻想 转瞬即逝的关系有过于残忍的一面 但又要承认性满足过于强大 能挖掘出人自己都不了解的一面 让人做之前从未想过会做的事情/整部电影最感人的不是高潮也不是俩人对话 而是看到魔鬼身材的男主 背面全裸 屁股上的stretch mark 太抚慰人心了 对话简直是人类学培养范本 我应该考虑转行
男主到第三幕开始已经明白要怎么配合雇主了，就是建立亲密关系的某种平等。女主袒露自己，自卑、痛苦的过去，她渴望在男主的身上重建自信。性其实不是最重要的，人格的完满才是重要的，而人类建立平等的某个途径就是知道对方的秘密。男主最终提供了一个有可能是假的私人的故事，获取了女主的信任和兴奋。鱼水之欢在暂时的道德共赢下变得圆满，钱花得很值。但最终高潮是女主自己完成的，事实上也说明了她真正要的不是性而是人格的完整，哪怕是幻觉。这也回答了很多人觉得结局过于完美的问题。那种卡点卡得特别设计的。什么美男子猛回头找手机，含泪诉身世。这种都是非常明显的叙事诡计。如果上当了，说明还是情海不可渡之人。
2022年了，就这…一个退休奶奶，丈夫去世孩子独立，花钱找了个好像是出来完成博士论文实践的鸭鸭，最后对着镜子看了看裸体接纳自己找到自我，什么过时的自嗨锅剧情，我不知道从这里如何可以看出来深刻思考精神世界，甚至不如去看一下欢愉。
老修女有少女心，野小子有破碎梦。当一个缺性爱的人，遇上一个缺被爱的人在一起时，不是享受欲望，而是聊聊天，喝喝酒，跳跳舞。一次是感官刺激，二次是了解与深入，三次是沉默需要，四次是海阔天空。我不再是宗教学古板女教师，你也不是石油钻塔的野男孩。当爱情与欲望都可以用"亲情"来解答时，那些文艺的台词，觥筹交错的碰杯，都可以是另一个层面的洪常秀来解答。我只是一个渴望爱的女人，而你是一个sex worker。承认自己比较自私吧，祝你好运，也祝你好运。
全程以对白推进、小成本大作为的典范。四次约会，从羞涩到深入的相互了解，情感递进如此自然和流畅，凸显文本的成熟。那种微醺和微痒，就如一只只小鹿，不断碰撞观众的内心，引起共鸣和共情。洁净简约的场景，适当的配乐，还让人倍感舒服。
主题其实很不错，讨论性交易的伦理，讨论欲望和主体性的建构，男主的颜和身材当然也很不错，只是和艾玛对戏确实还是太弱了，几乎没有火花。想到霍普金斯和瑞克曼，他们和艾玛对戏的时候那种表面不露声色，底下暗流涌动火花四溅的情感和性张力，真的差太远了。啊，难以相信她都六十多了。
talking..太贴心充满抚慰，寻欢作乐并没什么不对，毕竟付费了的
安全词的重要性。
剧本太牛逼了，一定是女性写出来的剧本，太懂女性了，以及雕刻出一个现实里绝对不会出现的符合女性幻想的男性形象。艾玛汤普森简直fascinating！！女导演的ig账号一眼误以为铁T（stereotype了私密马赛）其实是个已婚已育十几载的直女，真不错。各个层面爱这个片子。
要勇敢诚实的面对你自己。艾玛汤普森演技绝了
从becky开始 我就狂笑 一直到im glad you“came” 最后居然哭了 看着emma Thompson抚摸自己的身体 欣慰的一笑。
看完后激情推荐给好朋友，虽然我并没有达到解放的程度（看到最后几分钟，还要拉上窗帘，因为和隔壁男生宿舍的窗是相对的），但很开心看到这样的影片，世间还存在里奥这样神奇的男子，即使没有付出行动也能明白身体愉悦会给人带来的巨大改变。
Wow，多么大胆、真诚而又温暖的电影！
男主到第三幕开始已经明白要怎么配合雇主了，就是建立亲密关系的某种平等。女主袒露自己，自卑、痛苦的过去，她渴望在男主的身上重建自信。性其实不是最重要的，人格的完满才是重要的，而人类建立平等的某个途径就是知道对方的秘密。男主最终提供了一个有可能是假的私人的故事，获取了女主的信任和兴奋。鱼水之欢在暂时的道德共赢下变得圆满，钱花得很值。但最终高潮是女主自己完成的，事实上也说明了她真正要的不是性而是人格的完整，哪怕是幻觉。这也回答了很多人觉得结局过于完美的问题。那种卡点卡得特别设计的。什么美男子猛回头找手机，含泪诉身世。这种都是非常明显的叙事诡计。如果上当了，说明还是情海不可渡之人。
再再次，亲密关系不限于为爱鼓掌，每个人的需求不一样，可能只是倾诉和被倾听，过程获得关注和认同，但结果都是获得安抚。更高质量的可能是双方彼此为镜，看见未被自己发现的优点，照见自己的视差之见，纠正认知偏差，获得更好的自己，心理生理上都come。
1. 对性和欲望的坦诚，让我欣赏又感动。最后女主向学生的道歉和坦白，更是应了那句话：只要自己不尴尬，尴尬的就是别人；2. 是一部很有《爱在》气息的话痨电影，每分每秒都看得津津有味，毫无倦意；3. 性工作者请向男主看齐，除了脸蛋身材还要有出色的文化水平、服务意识、情商、倾听能力…；4. 啥都别说了，想办法多攒点钱；5. Find your pleasure, and honor it. Why can’t it be SEX ?
有点像亚隆写的心理学小说，咨询师和访客相互治愈什么的。整个交互太像心理咨询了，作为性工作来说就太假太理想化了。一切哪有儿有那么美呢。作为美好小品类的电影来说，裸露也没必要(要露就多露点，男主角的居居只露了0.1秒，看都看不清。)
3.5 想逃脱的困境与孤独 不想坚持的墨守成规 在几次会面中得以释放 互相救赎 Goodbye ，Good luck！告别的时候还是还是掉了眼泪的 ～
表面上看似乎在讲中老年女性对于爱欲的向往，曾经迎合丈夫的假装，永远无法达到的高潮，对青春期希腊记忆的念念不忘，她将性愿望清单寄托到了拥有年轻肉体还能制造隐秘幻想的性治疗师身上，然而为人师表的一世安分让她产生了罪恶感，她矛盾的渴望着骑马穿越沙漠，又自我囚禁在母亲的身份里，而两人真正从肉体到心灵的交欢后，她终于发现性爱并不可耻，曾经骂那些穿着短裙的学生荡妇也并不是保护，不该用上一代的思想去看这一代的人，这也恰巧是里奥与母亲、她与儿女间所面临的困境，而让生活能够高潮的本质首先要正视自己，哪怕岁月已老，芳华不在
是不是只有gay和sex worker才会如此尊重女性
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