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".
重点在决斗，看得我捏了一把汗，三重视角的罗生门，男性们重复的地方太多了，看的有点疲劳，倒是Jodie的表演很精彩。
分两次看完全片，前两个视角过于沉闷导致观感索然无味但铺垫详实稳健，最后玛格丽特的视角才真正升华了全片，也是电影的高潮和点睛之处。雷老爷子宝刀不老，用大制作拍小故事，服化道还原到位，战斗场面处理得依旧犀利震撼。好期待雷老爷子再拍一个中世纪的冷兵器战争片啊。
开罗人真是个神奇的演员，上一秒钟我还在想这也太丑了，下一秒钟他脱了之后又觉得“咦，丑到一定程度还蛮性感的”，不过片子里的几位夸他chaiming又handsome的，这是啥眼神……
电影是好的，但当下这种气候，这样的叙事也过于安全保守了吧~
罗生门视角揭露人物的心灵运作：从莽夫的视角看到委屈，从弄臣的视角看到征服，从女性的视角看到禁锢和失声。近乎同机位来比较记忆的偏差，男性自我美化的过程暴露无遗，保守示好曲解为媚眼如丝，狼狈丢鞋曲解为欲拒还迎，而男性的一切行为都恪守了荣誉。为什么拼死上诉这一段，回应了metoo质疑者的问题。听耐观影说历史上女性发起上诉没有记载，但我不反对一切历史都是当代史。
【B+】口口声声称爱我的人将我强暴于无人之室并命我缄口不言，倘我发声只引杀身之祸与玷污之名，他称对吾爱欲噬其自身，却以爱之名蚀吾身；供养我保护我的主人即吾夫日日将我囚于室中，夜夜与我行床第之事责我未尽妻行，他娶的是我父亲的土地，嫁妆是我的身体，聘金是他给予我父亲的清名。吾夫疑我通奸，请愿决斗以明其志，吾娘责我发声，她也曾被侵选择缄默，吾友叛我真心，上报法庭我曾唤他英俊。他们说强奸不会导致怀孕，是有科学根据，他们问我是不是自愿通奸，有没有感受到欢愉，国王同意决斗，因为上帝会决定谁在撒谎，若吾夫负，我将被剥尽衣物套上铁环活活烧死。我为了真相坐在法庭上，望着无尽的男性，才明白我的命运不由我的真相决定，不由上帝旨意决定，却被决斗中先倒下的那个男人决定。我这一生都在被法律制度专为女性设立的道德而强暴。
大银幕看的第一部浪客剑心，原作里我最喜欢的情节，也是我喜欢的演员出演。几场动作戏依旧非常出色，还原度都很高，从漫改上挑不出毛病，抛开漫改依旧是一部非常出色的动作电影，太满足了
中古欧洲题材常为冷门，且开端时间跳跃，云里雾里不好分辨，但片子是佳作。
emmm，如果为了女权而打高分的话，就不值当了，电影本身略显笨拙
真tdd看笑了 啥都是女人的错 要点脸吧 第三部分持续发笑 现在看来 RS的确是伪平权的代表人物 patriarchy几大要素 1、女人是男人的附属品 地位低下（各方面 包括话语权决策权等） 2、女人的首要任务是生育 3、 普信男妈宝男泛滥 4、（大）部分女人跟着男人欺负女人 / 笑死 有男的说这部片女权给不出高分 两边不讨好的电影是真的少见
14世纪的一桩强奸案，超强的卡司，三个视角的叙事，最后扣人心弦的决斗。有时想，不知同样的故事发生在古代中国会怎么样，大概其不会有决斗，也许女主会自尽，或者是男主一怒杀了奸夫。几个主演的表演都很棒，影片色调也很有味道，明显调成了暗色，尽量去除了彩色的鲜艳感，让人看去有古旧的味道。
三次重述并不会感到厌烦，每一次都有微妙的差别。用现代的眼光穿透历史中的性别结构，很有意思。拍得稳得一匹。越来越爱雷老爷子。
7.7/ 尖锐的、让你质疑历史叙述者的电影。反了所有古典英雄主义叙事，没有悬念，没有阴谋，所有在曾经文学艺术作品里这类所谓“复仇史诗”中英雄的“正当利益”尽是丑陋，所有浪漫主义都是虚伪，他们以上帝之名决斗时，最高贵的也就最卑鄙。吸睛的、提供类型爽感的是最后的决斗，但在整个叙事上，最没有意义的也是最后的决斗，被浪费的精力就是最大的讽刺。主创和选角也是亮点，不止是雷德利·斯科特，这也是达蒙、司机和本阿弗莱克对于他们自己以往荧屏形象的彻底嘲讽。雷德利斯科特在1977年第一次决斗，2000年第二次决斗，2021年最后一次决斗。相比于曾经他镜头下的蕾普莉、塞尔玛路易丝、女兵简，这次不再把女性按照男性刻板印象强硬化，应该算是男性主创团队下所谓女性主义电影的进步了。
文戏的高潮是对玛格丽特的法庭判决，其令人窒息和揪心程度，甚至比卡鲁日、勒格里那场生死决斗的武戏，还胜一筹。雷老爷永远值得期待，全片2/3乃至4/5的铺垫，最后发现都是值得的！
达蒙的角色写得比想象中精彩，很多主事件外的隐喻（比如育马一段）还可以。三段式即有统一事件的不同角度，也有信息互相补充。可是大概电影的不完美也在这部分上，即使是pov模式，过于跳跃的细节导致电影前半段并不太引人入胜。而且我也说不清，不知道是一些细节还是主演的原因，这电影的年代感并不强烈。整部电影里的人都在夸司机如何潇洒帅气，我笑到爆炸。
前两段叙事略显冗余，只有两处对比比较有意思：一是卡鲁日与玛格丽特对于告知被强暴那天晚上的记忆，二是勒·格里与玛格丽特对于强暴当天的记忆。
中世纪的“罗生门”，增加了现代的议题。不浪费一丁点时间，深刻！雷公真是人民的好导演！
Judie 尽显大女主风采，每一个特写都那么美；Matt，Ben 和 Adam 的演出精彩纷呈；看完此片，只想祝雷老爷子电影艺术生命无限延续~ Long live Ridley!!!
お疲れ様でした。十年間ありがとう。
个人年度十佳！斯科特老爷子功力依然精湛。两位男主最后的决斗，堪称近些年银幕上最令我牵肠挂肚提心吊胆的一场搏杀，然而，这份动容却不是为了场上的两人……
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