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".
初看那张惊艳的海报真的以为主题是聚焦于女性朋友权益母职家庭相关的内容，结果是从个人悲痛上升到国家的黑历史的痛苦，虽然都是寻找与错失命运无常的伤痛，直面与新生，看得出想弄大格局，但是两个主题「个人与历史」的结合至少在这个故事里很生硬，搞得两个主题都没表现好，最离奇的是女主知道孩子可能被医院搞混抱错了第一时间竟然不是去找医院，而是默默忍住，这点非常站不住脚啊。
男主的妹妹好可爱呀。小小的。雨天黄雨衣是在致敬小丑回魂嘛。
太棒了，依然是我喜欢的阿莫多瓦，并且引向了历史深处。结尾处的引语耐人寻味:“历史永远不会沉默。不论他们如何诋毁，不论他们如何篡改，不论他们如何伪造，人类的历史都拒绝保持沉默。”
两段故事。一个关于生命的未来，两个母亲两个孩子，被抱错之后产生的羁绊；一个关于生命的过去，被遗忘的乱葬坑里埋着逝去的祖辈。死亡与新生，历史与现在，阿莫多瓦举重若轻，没有过度诠释，轻盈的色彩更显美丽。
历史永远不会沉默 无论他们如何诋毁
不太行，drama部分和拔高部分有点割裂，结尾显得有点莫名其妙。但是女主真的好看，配色真的好看。
这…奇情有了 lgbtqia有了 大面积鲜艳的红黄有了 结尾都是女性在执着乱葬坑挖掘 这些看起来都像阿莫多瓦，但整体感觉怪怪的，尤其落脚在历史上很奇怪，被迫收尾没写完的样子 PS.骚潘真是美啊
借描写女性孕子的物理事实，透视女性眼中的不同男性（存在的意义和作用），思考父系社会的女性力量，深度挖掘了女性群体的社会遭遇和女性主义的多样性，引申到孕育人类历史的人物/女性，并由换子真相无法掩盖引出最后的“历史真相无法掩盖和篡改”的议题。
老阿的电影，永远都不缺狗血的故事，永远都不缺伟大的母亲，缺席的父亲。某程度上是23年前让他蜚声国际影坛的《关于我母亲的一切》的情感上的回归。
初看是一部探讨独立女性如何平衡职场以及母亲的责任的电影，老套的抱错孩子桥段+意想不到的同性情节又让它多了几分抓马。本希望两女一子组成的其乐融融小家庭可以延续到最后，但是该来的转折还是会来，而影片结局彻底转入乡土寻根文学，似乎和前文割裂了些。
问题主要集中在中后段两人形成全新却又陈旧的关系后，情感出现断裂不再流动自如；内核表达/叙事动机的过于暴露削弱了表层抓马应有的反作用力（前半段真好看…
jump scare比较老套，但是整部电影充满着一种古怪的温暖。完全可以理解为不存在这些幽灵，是男孩的一种自救。小男孩很特别，霍克这配戏都没怎么露全脸
差一点就拍到了点什么，然而被电影节产品的思维惯性彻底摧毁。
布景精致色彩艳丽亦如戏剧性的剧情 配乐情绪也跳跃 双女主能发展出肉体感情在我意料之外 很喜欢这种奇妙的相遇 把人们相连的羁绊 新生命降临是两位母亲不再平行的交叉点 阴差阳错后便有了双倍的爱 真相的声音是亲人的呼唤 终会落叶归根
阿莫多瓦序列里不算最好。但是今年看到最温馨的作品。那个年代下，西班牙女性的故事，从年轻人到老年。有意思的是上一部犬之力是女导演拍男性的险恶，这部是男导演拍女性的善良。
两名单身母亲是平行的，一心想要实现挖掘乱葬坑的Janis/Arturo与那些已进入耄耋之年的祖辈亦是平行的，它们来自不同的时空，但前者通过母爱的本能而联结，后者都把事实上早已远去的家庭记忆看作自己生命不可分割的一部分。两个故事本质上都在讲我们和这个世界从一出生开始就建立起的不可逆的情感联系，而所有的放下和向前看，都是对这种联系在某种程度上的复刻。影片用温暖的笔触为我们轻轻剥开每个人（或者狭义上，每位母亲）生命里不得不去面对和克服的宿命，它没有用传统的性别视角去讨论母亲角色，而是反过来尝试用母亲的视角去感知和构建世界，仅凭这一点就已经超越了很多家庭情节剧。
本来只感觉这个梗对于阿莫多瓦来说也过于小儿科了，实际看完才明白其实是缝合了两个看似不太相关的主题，在轻巧和狗血中含了很多温柔的关怀与思念。
阿莫多瓦新作，克鲁兹凭本片加冕威尼斯影后。1.最有政治与历史色彩的一部阿莫多瓦，将讳莫如深的内战创伤（国族历史）、惨痛的家族过往与个人及后代的未来生活交织共融。2.核心是直面过去，探掘、还原和道说真相，而非遗忘、掩藏与逃避往昔——而这恰是片中大部分未曾现身的男性的行为态度，女性角色则既有勇气担起全部责任，又足够坚韧独立，并相互学习，共同扶助，甚或组成不再需要男性的新型家庭。3.克鲁兹的那场分娩戏，片刻镜头便已传达出[女人的碎片]24分漫长长镜的苦痛与欣悦。4.作为摄影师的女主，开场即以多台相机捕捉与凝视男主。5.三次开关门（匹配剪辑）的段落，将过去、现在与未来圆融迅捷地并置，透出独属于电影的魔力。6.精妙转场与绝美配色。7.以小孩视角呈现乱葬坑里的真人尸体，喻指隐秘历史在新一代眼中变得鲜活可感。（8.8/10）
各方面都很敷衍。可以理解西班牙为什么不送奥外
奇情部分依旧好看，但整体还是偏温和，与历史相连的部分显得有些突兀。。不过阿莫多瓦是随便拍拍就很厉害，人物心理变化非常细腻，房子好漂亮。。
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