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".
电影煽情感过重，母子矛盾是亮点，父亲的处理太奇怪了，一度以为是单亲家庭。
在心里屡屡和小田香的《沉洞泉》进行对比。单说这部影片的话，很喜欢这部影片的结构，自然、地质和生命、肌理的交缠。越是到后面，导演越不想隐藏自己的迷思。生命的轮回和对世界认识的刷新，指向的都是一种可体验的无穷。
在港隊剛剛奪下東京奧運會「一金二銀三銅」戰績的夏天，聚焦殘奧運動員窘境的影片來得更有意義。影片改編自殘奧冠軍蘇樺偉的故事，但更多的筆墨不是賣慘他身體的不如意，而是聚焦呈現他對跑步的熱愛以及現實生活的窘迫。跟隨主角一步一步走到領獎台，也讓大部分觀眾第一次知道，原來不是一枚金牌就能改變命運，原來奧運冠軍需要送快遞補貼家用，原來金牌和金牌不一樣。尤其是今年正值奧運年，各大財團紛紛給獲獎運動員送房送車，我們才更理解殘奧運動員的「同工不同酬」。所以電影在完成了人物故事的基礎上，還想讓觀眾關注、思考殘奧運動員的處境。導演本身和彭浩翔合作多次，又有多年廣告底，在腳本和鏡頭上都很成熟，節奏也不錯，讓觀眾又哭又笑。選角成功，少年和成年的蘇樺偉，惟妙惟肖，舞台劇出身的梁仲衡功底的確扎實。金像獎最佳男主期待一波。
北影节第五场，合生汇寰映。太喜欢了，太奇妙了，我的本次北影节最佳。人与洞，蜿蜒连绵，流淌狭长，直至尽头。大地如人体，在自然环抱下，冥昼，起风，降雨，牛铃，是生命的呼吸，最后大雾弥漫，老人赶牛的声音再次传出，无法不泪目。看完之后，连日熬大夜不太舒服的心脏都通畅了，是某种完美的电影
南欧与关于驴的意向。平静且悲伤。
以纪录片手法复原1961年意大利北部山区地洞的探险历程，全球第三大地洞687米，号称地球的阴道。双线叙事，当探险完成到达洞底之时，也是山地牧羊人摔伤去世之时。优秀的摄影水平与良好的画质营造的临场沉浸感真的很棒，像这样优秀的电影要能引进国内就太好了，而不是在北影节上极少场次的放映。
舉家之力和舉國之力一樣，都是悲劇，比如説弟弟就不見了。
题材本身还是挺值得鼓励。片子做得过于用力了，音乐和节奏都是。没错这样的片子是有被打动的预期的，但是一直催着说你要感动你要感动就会有点奇怪和pushy。打算把12秒58拿出来也看看
一般的运动电影，有点刻意煽情，但是题材不错，有一些段落也比较出彩，还是值得一看
洞里某些时刻真的很像阴道内壁哎。
全片没有台词只有声效推进，从洞口不断下探687米。随着勘探的终结，老人的生命也走到了尽头，是电影语言的比兴，是诗意。
接着松露猎人看的这部，继续大银幕饱览意大利风景。中间又睡着了。可是意大利片情节如此松散，睡睡醒醒也是看的挺舒服的。
北影最后一场：于是人生就在此开展画卷，从升起至向下，到达某个深处，工整且诗意。它随风散去，沉默着。
剪辑很顺畅，感觉有吸取《夺冠》的东西。最大的问题还是剧本，整个就是鸡汤文化，把成长标签片段的展示出来，但和苏桦伟真实的有些东西有差距，努力在表达“同工同酬”，始终只是点到为止。苏桦伟现实中在刘德华公司工作，以及训练给到的待遇，电影里全无体现，非常可惜。
#BJIFF 2021 寰映（杜比厅被换）
#BJFF 探照灯光和草原的绿交织，自然与人类并置，入地又入心
故事十分感人，但煽情切入显得有些早，对整个家庭的表现，爸爸几乎隐身，只在剧情需要转折的时候出现，弟弟的存在也被弱化，就会产生生活里他们是母子的工具人电影里他们还是工具人的感觉，总体来说不够细。
今年刚好大陆香港都出了一部同类型且有真实原型的电影
创意很有趣 有意向有深入 可惜没在最好的厅观看
看到这电影的名字，我还以为是通往什么地方的入口
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