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".
7.5，算是很好的情绪类电影，只不过有些类型元素插入的莫名其妙，又惊悚又悬疑的。当陌生人旁观自己的生活，回溯记忆去告别，个中滋味只有自己知道。
越长大越多被迫面对病痛和死亡，越感受到造物之残酷。通向衰老的路径必然而不可逆，而这一切带来的只有悲伤。这必然发生且几乎百害而无一利的事，是写在我们基因里的宿命.....
有种在看《黑镜》的感觉。既然如此相爱，为何不坦诚相待？一厢情愿地做了这些决定，有没有考虑到对方将来要是察觉异样得知真相，是否能够接受这些以爱之名的所作所为？—— Panda的2021年度外语电影：5月→《夏日国度》《兹山鱼谱》《教室里的一头牦牛》…，6月→《温蒂妮》《午夜天鹅》《担保》《比得兔2：逃跑计划》《耳光》《漫漫寻子路》《里夫金的电影节》…，7月→《浴火鸟》《花束般的恋爱》《偶然与想象》《埃舍尔街的红色邮筒》《三真集团英语托业班》《哦！文姬》《浪客剑心 最终章 追忆篇》…，8月→《渔业阴谋》《X特遣队：全员集结》《孩子们很有趣》《人生最棒的礼物》《健听女孩》《游戏男孩 电影版》《新秩序》《马卡卢索往事》《如纸人生》《喜剧 爱妻物语》《卡吉尔女孩》《温德米尔儿童》《对我来说非常珍贵的你》《失控玩家》…；…
佳作，可以说同时科普了记忆的主观性和中世纪的社会观念，三次视角下的交叉和分岔都有意味，前者如亲吻、掉鞋、互望，后者如女主视角中的闺蜜和婆婆线，为三人局真相丰富了社会维度，女性财产、little death、强奸不会怀孕之类都可回到封建制下的继承焦虑，最后冷日下的血腥决斗，在视觉上夯实了“荣耀之残酷”主题，三条线也可看成人性的三个侧面，最终汇聚在name这个点，就好像用肉身的易朽，向树上、广场上的the many表演why the few，斯科特和范霍文都借由欧洲中世纪的题材，拍了具有时代意识的片，至少让人看到，很多被认为先锋的事迹，早已有之。
一部借古喻今的片子，用《罗生门》式的三个人的视角来讲同一个故事。但其实看到第二个人的时候，大体就能猜到事情本来的样子，因为这两个男人实在是太烂了：一个为了名声不要命、头脑简单四肢发达的丈夫，把妻子看作财产；一个仰仗权贵、放荡狂妄的强奸犯，觉得所有女性都自动会臣服于他……第三个版本里，把当下女权主义所抗争的女性悲惨处境一个一个过了一遍：讲话没人信、男人说要提供保护其实只是要名声、（政、教）机构偏袒男罪犯、被家庭视作生育机器、被要求当众讲述性侵经历、问“有没有快感”……几乎每个标语都没有漏。借古喻今喻得有些过于简单直白，而古的部分就只剩打打杀杀血浆四溅的战场和一个二不啦唧的国王（他的诸多表情是本片亮点之一）。算是一部好莱坞做出的还算优秀的样板戏吧。
设计还挺巧妙的，重情绪轻讨论的片子，不深入但感受到了。
第三段女主视角时我一度以为男主母亲是故意制造了女主独自在家的条件。。。
极慢的叙事节奏，细腻的人物描写，Mahershala Ali精湛成熟的演出，虽然Swan Song走的不是软科幻人文的新路，但这路走得却格外稳健踏实。
没人在乎受害女主的想法，俩男主只在乎自己的ego，女人只是财产，被强了是女方的错，外人不在乎真相，只想看一场生死搏斗来满足原始本性中的一部分以及获取茶余饭后的谈资……社会地位的根本，是生产资料的掌握……放贷，永不过时，中世纪是地主放贷，随着时代发展，这些世家的后代们演变为银行家、资本家、财阀、黑帮亦或黑白通吃……
挺好的，这真是很久很久以前了。真勇啊。不知道这种想法受了什么主义的影响，总觉得今人当然比古人全方位地厉害。其实美好的品质，并不会随着时间维度的拉长而更多或更少。//but,我看到大本和达蒙在一个画面里就想笑。演员还是应该保持神秘。。。
雷德利·斯科特宝刀不老。电影在不同视角回忆之下保持主干吻合而细节撼动观感乃至事件本质这一点做得相当不错，能看出每个人都在保持大体诚实然后有意或无意地为自己辩解，不过这俩男的在对待女人方面显然是虚伪地美化自己。最后一场决斗戏非常精彩，从三位主角到围观的国王贵族贫民各个立场和阶层的刻画都简洁到位，马达和司机打架的部分也是逻辑清晰剪辑流畅又血脉贲张，结尾部分雷德利拍出来的人情味和娱乐性多一点，我是非常愿意站队玛格丽特的，换库布里克的话可以想象“愚蠢人类”的上帝视角审视会更突出
一段充满谜团的性侵案以罗生门格式的文体叙述的相当丰满有度，层层叠进的视角不断补充情节，骑士、护卫、妻子三者的形象和关系愈发立体，到最后，原本全文的关键“真相”一词似乎变得不重要了，从女性的视角开始，才清晰又惊讶的发觉她只是父亲的筹码、丈夫的生育工具和所属物、性侵者的猎物，受辱却遭受鄙夷，辩解、反抗都像是有所用心和欲拒还迎，而从来没能够是为自己发声的真正的人。最后的决斗同样颇具意味，除了本身激烈的角逐戏之外，她的生死命运居然只是由两个拼死争斗权力与自身面子的男人毫厘之差的胜负来决定，而与正义无关，胜者也非英雄；男人输赢必见，女人没有胜利，没有选择，对她来说是死或者一场叹息罢了。
此片也试图巨细靡遗地以高保真还原14世纪的众生风貌，欣赏原汁原味之外更有诸多细节耐人寻味，比如：①佳人的小黑狗，主人回来会吠，“良人”光临却不吭声；②大帅哥的小跟班在裁判所有一次（爽笑）特写，在角斗场有两次，事后就……最好别……
多重视角叙述用在电影里原来是这种效果，还是有些不必要却又免不了的重复。想起昆德拉的玩笑。
看着它的眼睛听我说，我爱你！！
对于男人而言，就算思想意识甚至于灵魂完全一样，那也是另外一个肉体，这不是简单的爱自己还是家人的抉择问题。
20211205le。莱德利斯科特，制作上十分精良，灯光、布景上还原了中世纪的场景。故事上其实不算是罗生门，只是交叉叙事而已，真相导演明明白白告诉观众了。故事完整，格局略小。
没孩子的时候什么都不怕，有了孩子反而接受了不公的世道。丈夫打败了强奸者，朱迪科默眼里的层次，足够女演员学个十年八年了。
太伤感了。Cameron和Jack吵得要打架时 C突然癫痫发作 J却突然软下心来扶住他，并说“一定不能让她（Poppy）知道这个事”，看到这里突然好感动 原来克隆不克隆 所有的矛盾的基准点都是在不伤害P的前提下 这份爱真的好让人动容。最后C回到了家 和儿子碰杯和老婆最后的拥抱 还有J献给C最后老婆的表白 真的让人忍不住感叹这段感情的美。其实如果是我 哪有那么矫情自私 只要是那个人和自己最爱的人喜好相似外貌相似就已经开心得泪流满面 更别说完全一样了 如果真的有什么遗憾 那就是给那个人幸福的不是自己让人有点惋惜。PS我真的希望导演可以把那句“我曾经出轨”删掉！PPS男主好帅身材好好！
对于男人而言，就算思想意识甚至于灵魂完全一样，那也是另外一个肉体，这不是简单的爱自己还是家人的抉择问题。
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