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".
#TIFF2021# 应该是Jessica Chastain最接近影后的一次演绎，果然这种biopic最能展现演员的能力，惊喜的是“加菲”经过剧场的锻炼这次的爆发力好了很多。电影看上去是四平八稳的传记，但是Tammy Faye 身上的复杂性，与Christianity在美国如何渗透以及影响重大的历史变革，形成了一种奇妙的allegory。不论她最后是怎么走向LGBT activist的道路的（访谈的这段戏太棒了），Tammy Faye终究是一个因信仰而“失明”，却也因信仰而获得信念的女性，她身上的power和powerlessness可能也是她双眼中的光芒与矛盾之所在。
D— / 结尾不这么用力可能还会加一星...
怀念以前的哆啦a梦呜呜（有的地方好好笑啊哈哈哈）
很少能对角色这么感兴趣了，五星献给劳模的表演，看完打算搜搜Tammy
结合了星球大战，进击的巨人以及在曹县拍的机器猫。领袖头像眼睛装了探头，街上开两排坦克，这样的镜头居然没有被剪掉。必须给到三星，哈哈哈。
只能说在美国任何事都可以当成生意 as long as you make yourself believe first and sell it very very hard. 在这点上ellen show, 玛莎斯图尔特, 奥普拉还有Tammy Faye都无一例外，性取向、家政、种族、宗教都可以拿来挣钱，无可厚非；傻的只有在电视前热泪盈眶的沙发土豆罢了。
劳模姐的演技很好，但是电影拍得够莫名。加菲尔德好像还没有从倒数时刻里走出来。奥斯卡最佳女主角可以提名，但是拿不下来。好吧，拿下来了。
那个年代保守派基督教女性另一种面向。影片营造的浮夸感开始会令人生疑，到最后经历过身心的跌宕，能够确定Tammy始终坚定并真诚地相信上帝爱众人。Jessica的表演非常投入，要好运啊！
一对出身贫寒的虔诚的基督教徒，拼命努力向上，用独特的方式，赢得了教徒的信任，倾尽全力构建了自己的“传教网络”，成为福音界的传奇。但人性的贪婪，宗教界的倾轧，让他们跌落神坛，重新归零。“眼看他起高楼，眼看他楼塌了”一个典型的从创造传奇，到迷失初心，最终破产的故事。女主表演精彩，年龄跨度大，出神入化。
这个影像视觉上也太陈旧了，总是有一种给我看以前的烂片前言不搭后语的感觉，影像逻辑彻底支配了文本逻辑。劳模姐演得真好，她的第一场戏我是有点不太相信的，毕竟她演她的宣传做得很猛，但是越往后就越有一种酣畅感，我喜欢她是因为她在演戏清楚准确的同时，又能够有一种融会贯通的大气，一方面是她的意识，另一方面来自于得天独厚的一张脸，这部戏有难度，她易了容，改变了肌理，等于是改变了表情的含义，但她最后演出了一种复杂的天真（在此时我还有私心希望AA也可以挑战这个角色），她很棒，精巧的技术、强壮的意志与纯粹的热爱组成了这个表演。你看她，那种只有失败的人才有的兴奋，太好哭了。同时，妈妈也演得太好了吧，做布偶的一场戏，试衣服的戏等等，几乎场场戏技艺超群。
劳模姐真的很拼，所以也很可惜，影片流水账式的叙事实在拉跨
演员，表演，故事，各方面都挺OK的，居然才6.6？
纯为了捧女主角的电影，并不好看，而且逻辑很混乱
在选题上比《朱迪》更胜一筹（当然仅限于学院的喜爱程度上而不是票房潜力），剪辑很差，剧情也实在不喜欢，但给劳模整容演技加一星
纯为了捧女主角的电影，并不好看，而且逻辑很混乱
2.片子所有编排都在为颁奖季度身考虑。
纯为了捧女主角的电影，并不好看，而且逻辑很混乱
解除封控后影院第一刷！
情怀也弥补不了 剧情的低幼了，我可能过了这个年纪了
这再拿不上影后就没天理了，就是为拿奖量身定制的，劳模姐又劳模了，一年演两次“婚姻生活”，应该也是演麻了。宗教一出山就是保守势力掌权，从这点说肯定是想影射特朗普，但结尾明显又想骑墙，好像是个主旋律又好像不是，整个片子弄得温温吞吞的，远没有亚当·麦凯黑死整个美国的勇气。
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