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".
Sex is amazing! Enjoy ourselves!学会接纳自己什么时候都不晚。不知道是不是一部话剧改编的电影，简单的场景与运镜，多数是靠台词支撑，真的更考验编剧的能力，还好撑住了。四次会面中间部分有点boring.但最后一段在咖啡馆艾玛的独白真的是让我泪目。PS：独居人士看完有点春心荡漾。虽然小伙子永远不是我的菜
很感动！开始感觉可能有点闹腾，而且因为每个演员都担任了好几个角色，会有点错位的诧异感。不过最后那种厚重感和爱的传递的正能量还是传达到了，尤其是从那些人起飞离开后开始，那种怅然若失，挺戳人的。
一波好几折好巧不巧终于在今天云看上了，剧里的主角说着911十周年纪念，我在剧外已经是911二十周年纪念了；也许正如我和CFA曲折的缘分一样，每件事都是有自己的时间吧。
此外还很喜欢关于不同族裔的部分，地球村的故事就像一个真实存在的童话。不需要懂得同一种语言，因为我记得上帝曾在某一编码处说过各族坚信的圣言；口中祷词有着不同的词句，但全心去爱吧，这是我们通行世界的准则。
（黑女穆同LGBTQ+齐活了）
疫情前看的最後一部音樂劇，緊湊又聰明的結構。最愛On the Bus。
现实中可不会碰到用单次服务的价格就买到高质量的情绪价值的机会哦，看看日本花魁喝酒陪聊的收费，幻想就是幻想。
男主真是好性感，就像女主所形容的，简直就是sex saint！诚然这部电影就像一场巨大的意淫，但是关于女性对自身欲望的探索和释放实在是太真实了。我不知道还有多少女孩会对性感到不洁和羞耻，但如果这种性压抑像片中的女主那样伴随大半辈子，未免太可惜了。其实男主说的很对，在这件事中我们应该卸下那些现实身份，性需要的是fantasy，这和我们生活中做什么职业或是扮演什么角色都无关。不过中间略感到尴尬的是女主试图和男主“交心”，这里的窘迫在于打破了一种去现实化的fantasy，把现实身份引入了性中。试想一下如果我在做爱的时候对方突然问我在哪个公司工作，应该也是挺让人下头的。当然了我不否认有这些时刻存在，但对于我来说最好的体验的确就是专注，就像坐在电影院里沉浸式看电影那样，just enjoy it！
一个时代创伤被用这么温柔温暖的笔触抚慰 大哭一场的同时也感觉被治愈了
我真的是太吃音乐剧了，尤其是这种在舞台、道具极其简陋的情况下，完全依赖于演员超稳定的发挥、极强的信念以及精密的编排所营造出来的代入感。12位演员用相同的道具场景不停歇的完成16000人的五天生活，在一气呵成的2小时内分饰多角不出错之余还能将所饰演的角色塑造的如此鲜活丰富，太厉害了。这种彻底的塑造也落实到了现实当中，女性机长的天空之歌、躲藏的同性之恋、被排挤怀疑的种族歧视，这些都没有去刻意遮盖，而且用甘德小镇的美好真诚去突出大城市甚至是大国的狼狈。最后，以群体去片面的筛选个体虽然不公但确实是最高效的。
这个小男生治愈了这个女人，但是他的治愈还没有完成，也许永远都没法完成。这个小男生在浴血黑帮里就挺好看的，美貌出众。
短小精悍的独幕音乐剧，群戏很过瘾，在911事件的20周年之际，因为疫情出了流媒体线上的官摄版。小岛是纽带，在大西洋的边际，去链接那些迫降的人们，普世意义的互助与爱再次被唤醒。挺喜欢《Finale》里的一句歌词“Tonight we honour what we lost/but we also commemorate what we found”911后20年的故人如此，身陷疫情困境的今人亦如此。
纵然有名有利如艾玛姨，感觉也是本色出演，身为女子的烦恼和压抑让人一开场就感同身受不禁泪流。后段从单向疗愈变成双向疗愈引发矛盾就有点破坏这种宜人小品的恰如其分感，稍有点刻意。但总体是很值得看的，男主是真帅啊！
这部影片显然对性工作者做了过于完美的演绎，但有一点是无疑的：对于买来的性，都是从突破自己的道德防线开始，然后是对性工作者的好奇打探，然后成为一种游戏周旋。当然，性是需要启发的，不论这经验从何而来，只要利用得当，它就不会只是生活的点缀那么简单。
电影本质上跟男主是一样的，提供一种幻想服务，重点是 find your pleasure and honor it
一切都太像一部话剧了，顺理成章的职业与压抑，顺理成章的身体羞耻，顺理成章的冲突与和解，几乎就是一篇命题作文。因此尽管它提供了一个很好的观照视角，它仍然很不真实。更何况，由一个年轻貌美谈吐优雅的男娼来“解放”一个中年妇女的叙事看似惊世骇俗，实则保守（一种老男人嫖雏妓的对位叙事）。男主的形象亦颇为扁平，我们无力分清他的言行举止有多少真情实感，又有多少只是出于“职业道德”（毕竟敬业的色情演员简直不要太多）。艾玛·汤普森的演技精湛到了可歌可泣的地步，但本片的深度也就止步于此了。毕竟诚如戴老师所言，“我不相信消费能提高女性的地位”；钟点一到，女老师裸身自鉴无比洒脱，然而这究竟是“犹可脱也”还是“不可脱也”？
这是疫情前最后一张票，也是疫情来临第一场被取消的票。
纵然有名有利如艾玛姨，感觉也是本色出演，身为女子的烦恼和压抑让人一开场就感同身受不禁泪流。后段从单向疗愈变成双向疗愈引发矛盾就有点破坏这种宜人小品的恰如其分感，稍有点刻意。但总体是很值得看的，男主是真帅啊！
I'm an islander, and No Man Is An Island. 2021年的最后再来看依旧哭唧唧，依旧为这部作品所鼓舞，依旧最喜欢那首汇成同一个旋律的信仰之歌，我们如此不同却又如此相通。
最近看过最好看的电影了 我真的钟爱话痨片 男主好有魅力 我如果有钱我也点他！
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