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".
5大学看过一点2012年的《鮀恋》，方言听不懂，情节矫情，弃了。
当时代在进步，我们止步不前都在噤声不语，比后退还要让人窒息，谁才是压抑的民族呢
影院里另外7个人我猜应该都是潮汕人，作为唯一省外代表听着潮哥潮姐们洪亮的电话与嬉笑怒骂声，声临其境体味潮汕另一种“文化”也挺奇妙。作为一个去过汕头超过10次的喜爱潮汕的外省人，蛮失望的。镜头没有拍出汕头10分之一的美，故事呢很潮汕的没有超出一毫米的套路情节，暂也不必强求之，但都2022了能不能不要用10年前的镜头拍20年前的机场狗血离别。能想象导演真的很用力把家乡讲给大家听，但除了祭拜，粿条，小公园，和厝里大嗓门的男男女女，这些堆砌的符号的功能仅仅是带我又出差一次汕头一样，好吃好玩之外记不清什么，也留不下什么，也许是要求太高，或是这些要求甚至只是凭空想象，但允许一个喜欢潮汕的外省人，期待潮汕人的精神，崇尚着潮汕人的信仰，热情于潮汕人的传统，甚至那些嘴里喊的，大家听的所谓封建，也值得一探究竟。
剧情有点无厘头的幽默，但最后的骄傲游行还是让我眼泪直流😭😭😭😭😭
1.“这种事为什么发生在我们身上呢？”估计这是大多数父母的心声吧。2.“之前结婚是因为你们，现在是因为法律”。电影很美好，生活很现实。
严防死守！都是骗你先结婚，结婚就万事大吉了吗？生孩子！生了以后呢？二胎！再生一个以后呢？三胎！剧是皆大欢喜，现实中有风险需谨慎。（ps：女二好像张钰琪啊，嗓音也有点沙 “你真的要抽血吗？还是我们可以去喝咖啡？”）
我本人不是同性恋，甚至觉得有点恶心。
蓝导这次明显比上一部电影有进步，质感更好了。有几个镜头有将角色的情绪恰当地渲染开。妈妈若有所思的镜头很好地击中我。
这部电影很多地方会让潮汕人和接触过潮汕家庭的人会心一笑——在外拼搏的潮汕人一旦用方言对上号就是自己人，什么事都好说；非广东人统称为“外省”；老爷保号让我抱个男孙；潮汕传统妇女为家庭操劳一辈子，孝顺公婆伺候丈夫子女简直是刻在基因里的使命；时刻都在忙拜神，你不好说这是封建愚昧还是有信仰和虔诚。潮汕因为故步自封本地经济很差，但是在外的潮汕人够团结反而很容易成功，有说法潮汕人拜的神多所以台风天灾都绕着走，潮汕夫妻关系和睦全国离婚率最低…这些都不是刻板印象，这些依然是现状。这片说着外人轻易学不去方言的神奇土地，让无论是在那里还是离开了那里的人，都染上一种病，这病像男主对他妈的感情一样，既想抗争独立，却最终还是自觉回到她的身边，贴上属于她的标签。可能，圈子和身份认同真的让人欲罢不能。PS.妈妈演得真好。
纪录片看得我觉得印度也落后差劲了，电影又让我觉得印度的未来也太光明了吧。
love is love🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
影片笑点很多，印度都已经涉足形婚这一题材了，国内荧幕是不可能看到了。其实现实中很多异性的婚姻，与形婚又有何区别呢，很多也只是像室友一样，搭伙过日子罢了，真爱只与爱有关，与性别无关。被影片最后游街一幕破防了，泪目，男主也终于有勇气卸下枷锁，无视他人眼光，面对真实自己。
笑死了，看自己熟悉的方言、习俗的潮汕剧。细节捕捉到位，不能说有点像，简直一模一样。千万不要被我妈看到这部。前喜后泪，写满了“可惜”两个字，有被触动到。影片拍摄可见比前作《爸》成熟，也专业了许多。★★★☆/7.5
真好看。中途很搞笑（喝醉了）、后面pride戴面具那里真的很感动。最后的领养仪式也很不错（想起面子的结尾）。
两个半小时也不觉得长，故事叙述感很强。用轻喜剧展现给我们没出柜的Homo婚姻压力和全世界女性都一样的生育压力。电影里这种是完美结局了！游行的时候在彩虹旗下牵手一秒回到了泰剧not me！一想这是印度拍的，就值得多加一星。因为我们还是拍不出来。
谈恋爱的镜头像MV，也没有什么火花…但和家庭的矛盾方面就真的刻画得很好。动容的镜头一是男主终于卸下防备，戴上骄傲节的面具；二是男主说出实情后在天台的哭泣，而后妈妈慢慢过来抱住儿子，轻拍儿子…后者更甚。唉，能坚持走下来的人、和去理解的长辈们都不容易，都很伟大，值得骄傲
男主打电话告诉女主他对家人讲出来了的那块，实在太好哭了呜呜呜
tags: 2020s / 中
很难相信，一个大环境下还靠硬件匹配程度来由家里人匹配结婚对象并指婚的国家能时不时的拍出几部这样题材的电影。更难理解的是，我们一边嘲笑人家一边固步自封（退回封建）。
20220125@周二晚票价十八块，几乎包场，字幕走完清洁阿姨才走进来还问我就你一个人？错过免费场，还好最终没错过。好看，撑大粤区好电影给配乐和他妈加一星，原音方言版当然。
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