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".
今天带孩子来看的，他差不多把狗狗的名字全忘了。因为这是他幼儿园时期经常看的一部动画片，现在都二年级了。全程聚精会神地观看。我觉得有一点不明白，为什么汪汪队在冒险城会有自己的基地，而且无比豪华。事后我问他，他的回答是“汪汪队买了很多自己的产品，赚了很多钱，才能建造一个好的基地。”我想想也是哈。
非常喜欢。以小男孩的视角讲述了那个年代的混乱时局，但妈妈的清醒、果断有魅力加上爸爸努力的寻找出路，还是使人看到希望。妈妈实在是太漂亮了，那种古典的、经典的魅力，爸爸后来也发现很帅啊，有点保罗·纽曼的样子。
本来只是觉得华而不实，一看评价，竟然之前有将至类比“罗马”的，还好没提前看到，不然这个落差太大了，观感就更一言难尽了。电影讲的是北爱尔兰首府贝尔法斯特的一个街区在宗教对持中的一段景。故事拍得中规中矩，镜头凹气质凹得很足，可惜内容撑不起来，类比罗马除了黑白凹造型镜头，应该也有对童年街区的回忆吧，就这回忆就真的只是回忆，有影像没想法，一切就在面上的那些了。
小孩看得很欢乐，有些情节挺緊张的，有时也搞笑
那个时代的无数爱尔兰人选择来了南半球，如今和我坐在同一个影厅里看60年代的他们的家乡。
感觉得出来是导演珍藏的回忆，尽管是个动荡不安的年代，但是有着家人的爱和守护、祖父母的诙谐幽默、对同班女生纯真无邪的情愫，童年还是美好和温馨的。
北爱尔兰的宗教冲突题材 并没有像其他描述此主题的电影如《血腥星期日》那样集中描写冲突的残酷露骨 而是把目光聚集在孩童和母亲和老人身上 温情更足 而作为父亲的男人 则承担了无奈的角色 算是这段历史的情感化描写 有点《生活多美好》的意思 但是情感的表现又远不如 场景过于舞台剧化了 歌舞的加入渲染了一种乐观的生活态度 但在整个片子所要表现的主题来说 其实会消减那种紧张感 两头不沾
音喜糖水片，全片发展标准冲奥模板剧情。作为第一主角的小男孩的表演痕迹太重了，很出戏。女主的两段moment与电影格格不入，简直是为冲表演奖刻意量身打造，正好也主转配，女配提名大概稳的。詹米多南的角色完全工具人，奥斯卡如果连这种表演也提名，真是没必要。
不如期待的好，也不像风评的那么差。大时代的背景和小家庭的故事都有了，三代人的态度都在了：孩子有哭闹和纯情，大人有理想和歌舞，老人有无奈和眷恋——最后差了一点张力把这些都捏合起来。类似题材的《罗马》实在高出太多啦。
29/7/2022 @ PREMIERE ELEMENTS [euff]。雖然部份情節真的太瑣碎，也感覺不到小主角在經歷各種事情後有任何成長，但那種對自己故鄉的感情還是狠狠地打中我。無論去或留也是個痛苦的抉擇啊….
彩色的电影印象，黑白的回忆点滴，杂乱不章，风格杂糅，上一秒还恣情欢笑，下一秒就悲伤难捱，回不去的故乡与回不去的童年。第一次在电影院看到(多次)泣不成声，爵爷Branagh的半自传电影还真是泪点满满啊，更满的是对Belfast的爱。PS 奥妙yyds
这种水平真是浪费了这好演员和好风景。爱尔兰人民拥有骄傲和桀骜不驯的自豪感。是《我的左脚》那样的固执，是《最亮的星》里那样的浪漫，到这给拍成了一个屡教不改的孩子，是天生的小偷是罪犯。
无感，配乐似乎也有些泛滥没有特别的作用。整体来说除了童年的那份回忆外，基本没有什么出色的地方。摄影剧本都不如罗马。。。
流水账到不明所以，再多放几首流行歌配乐就要成功把我逼疯了。
儿子的第一部电影，儿童片里算剧情紧凑流畅的。整个故事线设定比电视剧更具情感色彩和说服力，人物对不同事件反应更有血性。
但其实这片子我还行啊，小男孩超有戏，也有几个漂亮的镜头和调度呢。
第一次带娃去影院看的 我也终于把这群狗狗认全了 没有白看
全篇画面出色，影调细腻，音乐优美，故事视角独特，值得再看。
从黑白到彩色，从彩色到黑白；人们走走停停，生死迁移。城市，却永远驻留这里；怀念好的，也铭记坏的。与《罗马》同根同源的“个人史”，人性美成长教育再到表演交锋…示范高分作文怎么写的意识虽规整，但也在方向选择上略微陈腐。好在Jude Hil的表演才是给电影带来新鲜东西的关键，从首幕开始，任凭共演有多少成熟经验的演员或早已封神的国宝，都移不开对他的关注。
乱世中相亲相爱的一家人，有些东西总是能让人在失望中撑下去，小男孩让人想起四百击，音乐有趣。
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