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".
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牛年推荐《第一头牛》，狗年推荐《犬之力》。坎皮恩真沉稳，有条有理地把人物挨个塑造起来，非常复杂的感情也讲得有条不紊，即便不能全部共情也可以充分并放心地去相信它的存在，正如人都是复杂的。氛围感也做得特别好，两次看到那个山，原来完全不同的感觉，菲尔和彼得一起看的时候那片光影逐渐显现的那一幕，真的是充分表现了自然光影的神奇。如果这是特效做出来的，真是做了特效非常应该做的事，充分发挥了电影的奇观性，令人感动。可怜的男性气概啊，一定要以贬损女性和pua他人来彰显，就单薄可笑以致可怜，所以当抽烟一幕发生时，是有种轻微的以小博大、智取翻盘的快感的。菲尔是典型的充当受害者而不自知再去充当加害者。彼得对生命应该是挺冷漠的，在他眼里的纸花和活兔子应该都是差不多的东西。
叙事都不能用克制来形容了，是藏着掖着，但看到最后再转回来看看开头独白也就全然明白了。音乐起了极大作用，当隐藏的秘密和情绪无处释放的时候，音乐也没能让你放开，它不是舒缓的而是加重不安的情绪，这种小心翼翼的逐渐加深的吊着的感觉一直持续到phil最后躺在棺材里才彻底释放。实在很累。除了配乐，本尼的表演同样精彩，完全契合片子气质，Phil与所有人保持着若即若离的状态，疏离又孤独，佯装坚韧又脆弱真诚，演技出色又未跳脱出电影本身。 Peter接住了本尼的戏，印象深刻。 【同性的标签很影响观影，因为你会刻意去探索寻找片中同性元素，反而忽略掉真正精彩的部分，同性可以不在标签里直接显露，而在观影中逐渐揭秘和体会才是最佳。 】残酷从来都不是直来直去的刀下鲜血，而是隐藏的秘密悄无声息地曝尸荒野。
被嫌弃的牛仔的一生。假如一个混蛋一如既往地混蛋下去，那么不管他遭遇什么，旁观人都能说他活该的，可如果混蛋露出一点点温良的底色，饶是恶人自有恶人磨算他的报应，也很难再狠下心说他罪有应得。看着Phil会很自然联想到Melrose，两个人都有一点带着自毁的目的，把旁人通通推开的混蛋劲儿，只不过Phil会更有一点原始的，不带任何现代社会装饰的性本恶。第一次看BC演这么糙的角色，张力归张力，但是感觉还是稍微差了半口气
这明明是一个心机母子混入大宅门儿，全家人一个接一个神秘死亡的犯罪悬疑片的序幕啊，硬给抻成一部长片，给反派一个深柜恐同男性气概的设定，就可以政治正确地抨击男权，然后拿去哄评委混奖项了，但也太刻意，太生硬了……这几年三大奖的得奖片都已经一点儿意思也没有了，完全是创作者和评委们拿政治正确互相PUA，想说看看只入围没得奖的吧，敢情更差，一样的PUA手段，只不过做得太过，失手了，只能去拿奥斯卡😅。但卷福真心好，给加颗星吧。
平淡午后，僵硬的台词，半吊子文艺，不及格的西部，终是快进了
前半部缓慢的节奏让人摸不着头脑，但又有种其妙的吸引力，所有的情感显得细腻又繁复，交织在一起让人移不开眼。剧情当然值得讨论，但只讨论剧情实在对不起这部电影各个部门所花的心思。
开头和结尾是在点题了，为了母亲的幸福可以做任何事情，让母亲（darling）远离“邪恶”（power of dog）。影片的背景竟然是西部牛仔片，壮丽的风景配合暧昧的同性情愫，让人不禁想到《断臂山》，但是唯美孱弱的少年背后藏着的似乎也是“power of dog”，逆耳的反和弦音乐也暗示了这一点，这并不是传统意义的同性电影。影片用中国老话改编一下便是：“小人报仇十年不晚”。个人认为美中不足的地方有几处：Phil对待Peter的态度转变太快，动机不够。Phil不够邪恶，甚至太过有魅力，死的时候让人惋惜。Rose临时起意，送印第安人牛皮，以至Phil对弟弟投诉Rose，使Peter下定决心，简单随意了点。
好流畅，已臻化境，这已经不是电影，是一缕香魂无断绝。视角找得好，人物也择取得好，这应该是依赖于原著的强大，简坎皮恩也表达得好，她的那种温柔优雅的对于权力对于性别的嘲笑，那种深刻的无比贴近的对于人物痛苦的感受，真是好厉害。看之前我没想到克斯汀邓斯特有如此厉害的戏份，她的表演冲击女主角都绰绰有余，是她对于这个角色的诠释，才好像成为了本片的一汪湖水，她折射了整个压抑的故事，沧桑与纷扰，绝望与不毁，都像光一样折射在这湖水里。
明明知道男主是Benedict Cumberbatch，但就是好几次有错觉那是Matthew McConaughey。
很久没看过后劲这么大的好片了——越咂摸越有味道，简直回味无穷。好电影都有有一种魅力，那就是让你看完还想再看，《犬之力》就是这样的电影。
太绷着了，看不下去。个别场戏还是精彩的。至总督到访，Dunst拒绝弹钢琴处。
州长夫妇和父母的压迫感更多的是衬托本尼的存在吧？我不太觉得那是另一种权利或者力量带来的压迫。
这种极度克制下的步步揭秘实在太舒服了，导演好像什么都没说，却又把所有的事实摆在了你的面前，好像给了你一个转机，却又在戛然而止中告诉你真正的事实。当你望向那座形如撕咬之犬的远山，好不容易敞开心扉，却未想到这是你最后一次去展示软弱——最后的转换把父权社会下要求的“男性气概”打得一败涂地，你的所得所见或许并非如此。
看完就知道不要得罪医生或者懂医学的，任你再牛逼，我只要些许动动脑子你就要嗝屁。有点鸠占鹊巢的意思！什么高评7点几，不好意思没看出来！
平平无奇的日子里因为某些不可控的变量加入反而朝着瓦解的方向快速前进，多少故事都想在这种疯狂的进程中讲好一个人的毁灭史，偏偏毁灭这个牛仔的是一只兔子，一切坚不可摧的伪装都在本能的互相吸引中全面瓦解，于是这个善于庖丁解牛的好猎手，终于遇到了捕获自己的那个猎人。
真好看，所謂男性氣質和女性氣質的對決，外面又加了一層同性戀的套子。看得時候不斷想起黑格爾的主奴辯證法，抑或是尼采對基督教竊取歐洲人精神的批評：「弱者」最終取得了太監般卑鄙的勝利。正如陽剛沒有什麼值得讚美的一樣，陰柔同樣不值得鼓勵。所謂「後世之學者，不幸不見天地之純，古人之大體，道術將為天下裂。」無論Phil還是Peter，把自己固化於某種認同，或者為生命硬要找一個目的（懷念故人，抑或保護母親），都是悲劇的開始。蒙大拿州荒涼廣袤，天地不仁的邊境風光，一如我們華盛頓州東部，今年有機會開車去撒撒野～
片子挺妙，但又没有让我特别着迷的点，感觉更适合用细腻沉稳描述，没有太多被压抑的情绪，也就无所谓克制，向来对这种叙事清淡的片子有好感，想吐槽克斯汀和杰西越来越夫妻相
牛年推荐《第一头牛》，狗年推荐《犬之力》。坎皮恩真沉稳，有条有理地把人物挨个塑造起来，非常复杂的感情也讲得有条不紊，即便不能全部共情也可以充分并放心地去相信它的存在，正如人都是复杂的。氛围感也做得特别好，两次看到那个山，原来完全不同的感觉，菲尔和彼得一起看的时候那片光影逐渐显现的那一幕，真的是充分表现了自然光影的神奇。如果这是特效做出来的，真是做了特效非常应该做的事，充分发挥了电影的奇观性，令人感动。可怜的男性气概啊，一定要以贬损女性和pua他人来彰显，就单薄可笑以致可怜，所以当抽烟一幕发生时，是有种轻微的以小博大、智取翻盘的快感的。菲尔是典型的充当受害者而不自知再去充当加害者。彼得对生命应该是挺冷漠的，在他眼里的纸花和活兔子应该都是差不多的东西。
1. 在挖掘影像更深处的表意。镜头的遥移，景别的深浅，镜头在讲故事。2. 电影成在克制，克制的表演，耐心的叙事，反而制造了压抑之下更深层次的情感爆发。3. 人物关系的暧昧不清创造了叙事的多重可能，例如主角和男孩，父子，情人，杀手，在情欲的涌动之下，一切像远处的山，不知形状，却有乾坤之力。4. 结尾处的圣经点题，犬意味着欲望、邪念、野性、孤独，菲尔教皮特如何控制这个力量，但自己却被这个力量所杀害。5. 虽然主角作为同志，但这部电影并没有建立在当代意义上的同志概念，而把他放到更大的人性光谱上，从而创造了超越同志类型片的片子。6. 结尾处可能的稳定家庭关系是通过除掉不稳定角色达成的，男孩最终成为社会常规的捍卫者。7. 两个故事的互文让主角的死成为命中注定，具有了悲剧感。
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