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".
在文化和传统的祠堂重压之下，如何变得步态轻盈？石之予的答案是：绕过父亲的阐释，与祖先直接对话。
看完没别的感受，就是想急着包鸭。如果鸭都这样的话……
一个双向救赎的故事，个人还是觉得挺感同身受的，因为能在角色身上找到很多共鸣，我们忍受着教育方式的弊端所带来的痛苦，但仍然继续履行，让人无奈，所以当后面女主摆脱束缚时竟有一种痛快感。当然，电影并非是在批评，毕竟什么都是有利弊的，但无论是何种教育方式，前提都要让对方有自己的选择
福瑞控怒赞，美美作为三代移民其实已经是离开华语文化圈的黄皮白芯香蕉人了，但她的母亲还有她的外婆亲戚们作为二代移民显然还保留着过去生活的影子，这里的红色小熊猫诅咒再过去是在那片土地可能是为了生存为了福佑子孙的祝福，但到了现代社会里就被当成了代际诅咒甚至是“遗传厄运”了，美美在现代文明圈子里在正值青春张扬个性的年龄时，要的是充分的自由表达，体内的红色小熊猫代表着其人格的完整性，而约束它甚至封印隔离它都是错误的，要学会和小熊猫共存，而不是让它清0消失，外婆妈妈们已经回不去了，但美美们还可以有光明的未来。好电影。
我永远达到不了我妈心中的标准所以要让我的女儿达到我的标准，很典型的东亚母女关系。红头发太可爱了🥺
小熊猫真是太可爱了，胖胖的小女孩也是怎么看怎么令人怜爱。不同年龄段的人看这片估计感受差别很大，我这快三十岁的老阿姨只觉得生了个逆子，妈妈与其说是接纳的女儿的叛逆和自我，不如说是在和自己和解，劳心劳力为了女儿(除了wsj那段太刻意)，还要尊重孩子个人的愿望，奉献自己，成全儿女。
小学全校第一升上市重点中学，随后认识了人生最好的一堆朋友，开始沉迷流行音乐，注意力被完全瓜分，学习一落千丈，家里很失望。有一次好朋友打电话到家里，我妈直接跟他说不要带坏我。这电影可以映射出很多记忆。
太太太太可爱了！皮克斯永远不会让人失望！情感的递进也毫不生硬。
我选择成为我自己。这个世界比较没用就是情绪宣泄，比如说什么你知道又能怎么样呢？仿佛你真的知道了一样，所有的东西你都要先知道了再说，在你不知道之前，你不需要任何的表示，我现在不和人争吵了，因为开始意识到，每个人只能在他的认知水平基础上去思考，以后有人告诉我2+2=10时，我会说，你真厉害。”
11.3 故事写的也太棒了吧！！！相信每一个传统中国人好孩子都感同身受吧。小熊猫激萌。。。
我咋觉得有一点点教中国小孩不要听妈妈话的意思呢🧟
期待值过高，没有很喜欢这一部，这样的parentchute让我脚趾抠出别墅。不过那个devon的名字一出我整个爆笑，最近认识的部门男神也叫这个名字。。。
小熊猫还是很萌的，故事依然很俗套，刻板印象不少。
前面卖萌还行，就后面流行歌曲和宗教仪式混搭感觉挺诡异的。好奇这个仪式的粤语台词到底年的是什么
emmm…可能看之前被灌输了很多，所以看的时候少了很多惊喜。定位低领化，我也能接受，所以就很顺畅的剧情。虽然最后有被燃到，又燃得有点刻意。
很可爱，也很青春，想起了以前那些叛逆的时代。
改变成长，诚实做真实独特的自己，但也关爱家人朋友！... (⁎˃ᴗ˂⁎) ♥
这是皮克斯？看完只觉得儒家文化圈太tm累了
对于文化的深刻反思，虽然熊猫那么可爱，却觉得如此沉重到要落泪的程度，我们终其一生都无法摆脱他人对自己的期待，尤其是亲人期待的目光，那用爱铸成的枷锁，片子还结合了另一个话题，如何面对我们自身的不完美，与自我和解。最近几年看皮克斯总有种命题作文的感觉，可能是想要表达的都太高大上了吧。其实结合得还蛮好的。
fury迷双眼冒泡泡，好想rua。但这部片子的细节其实做得比较粗糙，为什么在祠堂，以及家人交流还要说英语呢？不应该是粤语嘛。还有，对于中国孝道、内卷、宗族、神灵的展现有些单一和刻板了，甚至有些扭曲。
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