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".
学识渊博的情人，硬不起来的丈夫，平庸多余的孩子，低智的意大利黑帮……要素太多，看得出仍有埃莱娜的影子，太过于自恋了。
各种意义上的现实为客而自恃为主，秩序的扰乱者正是秩序的制定者。救助行动看似为了疗愈，实则是有心无聊的玩笑与挑战。是一种勇敢的不完美的女性主体的书写，对女性的身体性被母职与年龄所束缚的焦虑与反抗，对男性年轻肉体的殷羡与求而不得的嫉恨，对自我情欲的主导和把控，至于是否有“我不是一个好母亲”的愧疚与羞耻，应该说当成年女儿的形象全片缺失时，和结尾的回归，这已然表明是一种常态的妥协。一场旅途并非为了母女关系的试图修复且再次被刺伤，而是“懒惰又自私”的自我锚定。削出的果皮，和洋娃娃嘴里的秽物是无法切割的衔尾蛇。丨女人一眼就能分辨出亲疏，而那种谨慎的观察并非内疚，而是不解。丨金棕榈最佳剧本。
比起每个孩子平均拥有十多名成年看护人的母系氏族，在现代社会当妈确实是地狱难度。（我好爱Jessie Buckley 但这部真的meh）
事实证明，伍佰的歌真适合去酒馆听。
应该是NYFF59最爱 maggie首作的女性视角就可以如此细腻微妙 sentimental主线辅悬疑阴谋双线叙事 一些出人意料的情节安排在我眼里有了点奇幻的意味 剧中男女的化学反应又可以被多次解读并推翻 性张力 母女 母子 激情 dynamics来回变动但不乱 但对我来说又很主观 年轻leda对女儿的态度也在剧情慢慢展开后变成了谜 背后的精神分析因素实在太多了 但一场戏让我彻底折服：leda离开家给女儿剥橘子那场哭成了泪人 我想每一个女性或有母性的观众都能感受到那种五味杂陈/和57’的婚姻故事在我心里同等的地位 应该是年度院线最爱了 电影音乐品味太好
11th 科尔曼打破奥斯卡影后魔咒，优质女性角色资源一部又一部接到手软，同期提名的格伦克罗斯又再度查无此人
真的糙。下载的版本还是个粤语配音版。。高捷迷人，出来混就要跟高捷这样的大哥，陈浩南山鸡哥不行。配乐也棒，林强和罗大佑合唱《皇后大道东》，炫酷。
养育过孩子的人会被影片的情节唤起各种不适，经常在不可理喻、暴跳如雷、惊恐委屈、追悔莫及间不停切换。当然也有亲慈子孝，但谁也不敢说正面情绪和负面情绪哪种更多。对影片来说，要探讨的恐怕不是亲子关系，而是强加的女性角色的枷锁。莱达逃脱了母性的现实枷锁，却也逃不出自己心中的围笼。7
今年份恐婚恐育！原来原著作者是Elena Ferrante。题外话，我一直无法判断这个故事发生在哪里，不知道为什么这一点始终非常让我出戏，包括里面每个人说话的不同口音。
上周五看《从零开始的女性主义》提到托儿所不是所有婴儿都能入托，周六下午去一个残障女性职业展去听重症肌无力女性的生育，晚上去看《暗处的女儿》。不同的女性，相同的生育。但这么多活动下来还是想说，求求你们，别生了，没有生育，就没有伤害。
【Netflix】电影开场就展现了女主死亡的镜头，伴随着背景音的电话占线声，同样对照结尾的画面，背景音为等待对方接线声。整部电影也多次闪出女主倒在海滩上的镜头，感觉影片更可以看作是一种近期回忆+过去回忆两部分的交叉叙事来回顾女性的痛苦，而且两部分有极强的对照性。女主对照Nina，教授对照Will（开自己女儿和Will三明治的玩笑也是强），Bianca对照Elena，这些对照也对于女性主义有较多输出的。片中大量使用手持特写镜头，在“现实”与回忆交织的中 镜头的摇晃及故意把主体置于画面之外，都让画面带有强烈的追忆感。
剧情有些空泛，几位英法意半老徐娘东拼西凑，幸好有埃德-哈里斯提振一下 。
叙事更完整，美术更丰富的《风柜来的人》。中间过于冗长的叙事拖累了整个故事。我以为的少年吔，安啦！是暴走族一般风驰电掣的故事。实际上配上男主角阿兜不标准的国语，影片大部分时间恍惚是一部城乡结合部的非主流故事。罗大佑，林强《大家免着惊》是影片的分水岭，也是最大的亮点之一。
结尾解释了前面所有的混沌，意味深长的结尾。里面铿锵有力的插曲仿佛也像是一只有力的大手想要安抚迷茫的少年……
喜欢这部片子拍的街景，主题曲和罗大佑客串的《大家免着惊》还有它们配合的片段是真的能把人带入那种中年回望荷尔蒙时期的怀缅加洒脱
真女性电影呢，表现女性在成为母亲后，面对熊孩子时“暴而走之”的情绪，这才是人性的真实，正常人是可以被母性克制的，但是这就是不应该被说出来的邪恶吗，所谓虎毒不食子~~~哎呦喂，我站着说话不腰疼，但是也许经常冒出想啃了拉倒想法的母亲也真的可以理解。
剧情的发展有拖沓，剪辑要是能重制一下就好了。
题材是讨喜，但拍摄手法真的太堆砌以及故弄玄虚了，看得想咆哮。
全剧有一个很令人着迷的节奏，但是偏偏结局坍了，这是腹部脂肪太多了，还是无中生有变出一个橙子更令人迷惑。
Pub里的林强和罗大佑，皇后大道东，少年非道天涯路，关于台南黑帮的命题，作为编剧的侯孝贤和陈国富随后延伸出各自的《再见南国》和《只要为你活一天》，电影很文艺，都不像徐小明拍的。
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