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".
有的人刚遇到就爱上了 很温柔很舒服甚至不需要激情也足够
尽管整个剧组已经用最大的诚意来致敬原型了，但打动观众的仍然是那些高糊画质的影像资料。
🎯主题主旨：
电影四星 剩下一颗星给那个年代 那个香港乐坛 送给Leslie 送给Anita
这种比较近的传记电影是免不了有些流水账，毕竟有些人和事不能全拍出来，可以理解。电影没有胡乱夸大编排，给了梅姐充分的尊重，但是情节不够细腻生命力不足略显平淡。
从圣丹斯期待到现在来看还是有点失望，社牛姐控的爱与成长青春往事。主要是类似题材从《毕业生》拍到我RL的《各有少年时》，97年的小兄弟又没拍出啥新东西，实在有点审美疲劳。给Lola当保姆其实本可以是条很有趣的叙事线，社牛小伙vs自闭症女孩，可惜着墨不多。厕所换衣服那场戏算是全片巅峰了，情感张力很足。
传记片时长所限 加上不少涉人涉事的关键节点无法在片中呈现 只能说乱花渐欲迷人眼；旧时街景的还原比较上心 《夕阳之歌》是最好的告别；；五集导剪版有多一些院线不方便谈的事件和张国荣更多的戏份
太治愈了我的心里又充满爱了。年轻真是太好了，有着地下泉一样无尽又免费的爱不求回报地供应给这个世界。
（其实一开始觉得王丹妮太甜美，没有印象中梅姐aggressive的感觉，但是看到片尾老照片发现她年轻的时候真的很甜美！丹妮演到后半段蹙眉和嘴角向下的时候已经非常神似了，下了功夫的。非常感佩，一半为梅姐，一半为老香港演艺圈的真情和义气。）
移情成为人物传记作品的襁褓与护盾，
我好喜欢那条评价：为什么不边看百度百科，边听梅艳芳的歌呢？
ppt流水賬，蜻蜓點水地回顧一生，典型的情節單薄，情深意切，但沒有具體的情節烘托輔助，再多情感都顯得空洞。麻煩主創睜眼看世界吧，傳記片拍了那麽多年不僅連1.0的傳記片《阿甘正傳》沒達到，更不用說什麼《社交網絡》《大空頭》了。
开始敬佩梁乐民了。他好像在用接头暗号告诉你一样，呢个就是我地钟意嘅香港精神。想到了很多人和历史事件。最近在读陈寅恪晚年的文章，所以看了电影真的很悲痛。胡人和汉人不管谁统治中原的时候文化都从来不是割裂的，谁又不是胡化的汉人和汉化的胡人呢。奈何这些有责任感的作者只能用自己曲折的方式传递爱、民族信念和家国情怀，还要背负世人的不解。朝气蓬勃的时代落幕了，作为一个精神符号，香港人需要梅艳芳，我们所有人都需要梅艳芳。
其实对于梅艳芳来说，她的传记片来得还太早了一点，但对于现下的香港来说，一部关于她的电影又是必要的，但看看这部电影的样子，是现在的香港需要的吗？起码得等那些该死掉的都死掉之后再说吧。香港的女儿，去世之后还要继续燃烧自己照耀香港吗？因为是梅艳芳，所以她值得一部更好的传记片。大概是因为太想把她一生的故事都讲得圆满，也因为创作者和观众都离她太近了，那么多人物，那么多波折，那么多介意和限制，反倒都描绘得不尽人意浮光潦草了。也因为是梅艳芳（和张国荣），任谁来扮演也只仅得一分形似，却无三分神似，因为他们是独一无二的芳华绝代的，反复出现的影像资料，才是电影最精彩的部分。
sad, Andrew is just fictional🥺
看起来很轻松，户外散步路过老房子拍的真好。妈妈是和boyhood里面的妈妈一样好
纪录片片段与歌，才是本作的灵魂——王丹妮终究只能演出形，而撑不起神。看之前比较担心，136分钟，哪能够演绎出梅艳芳风华绝代的一生。后来，担心出现，情节取舍上，一言难尽，整体并不顺畅。缺点突出，但终究情怀光环。
想象一下梅艳芳上《艺术人生》，本片就是这样平白而无趣。倒是众多男演员，林家栋、白只、刘俊谦、中岛步（尖叫！！！），一字排开，各展所长，颇有可观之处。衬得女主演戏就是虚张声势、底气不足。不过说到底，巨星是天生的，能演好巨星的，也定然不是泛泛之辈。譬如张曼玉，譬如拉米·马雷克。
非常受用。温暖，细腻。
他只是一个长不大的孩子…男主地性格让我想起了一篇高考文章：《坐在路边鼓掌的人》.也许有些人生来平凡，但他们身上还是有很多闪光点值得被放大和看见.看似活的没心没肺，但一旦动了真情，确实陷的最深的那个人…
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