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".
瀑布，The Falls，中文含义：流动的河水突然垂直跌落，英文含义：下滑、下落、坠落、跌倒，这个片名相当妙啊！瀑布是夺走生命的洪水猛兽，是不堪重负的生活压力，也是带来压抑与距离感的蓝色隔离布，还是中产阶级努力维持却仍然不断下坠的姿态。影片透过精神疾病患者的视角勾勒出了社会的阴暗角落，这种既特殊又普遍的洞察，带来了心灵上的震撼和反思，这是既属于他们也属于我们的不安与失衡。
6.0 内在外在都缺少感染力，强行植入意向，剧本生硬，心理惊悚尴尬。鸡汤大师钟孟宏。
2.和疫情并没有特别大的联系。
出乎意料地喜欢。不安、未知、突然，像极了我的2021。就是会有很多的不确定性，在原本以为走向平静美好生活之后，突如其来的灾难，多么想找个人问问“为什么是我”，但不是因为是你，而是刚好你在。没有人有那么多的特殊，皮囊、声音、思念，故事在流淌。失语，“不要问我你还好吗，我会想办法快点好起来跟你一起好好生活的”，语言不过巧言令色，母女二人对幸福生活的努力瘦最令人动容的。魏如萱唱歌真好听啊，应该还要陈珊妮的版本？配乐极佳。瀑布之后，还有溪流。
不知为何总感觉类型跳跃，《阳光普照》也是，内心的阴翳被过度放大为令人出戏的恐怖质感，或许和配乐有关？
真的很想说前15分钟很像疫情防控常态化宣传片欸！钟孟宏影调里的家，总是矛盾与爱共存，不同于《阳光普照》对普通家庭的悲剧性命运书写，《瀑布》则是中产家庭的不幸，我更喜欢前作。瀑布的主角只有母女二人，母女角色互换可能是最大的亮点，但片中矛盾的化解、人物的转变都极其的呆滞与割裂，故事也不过是个心理疾病的母亲和孝顺体贴女儿的故事，不够出彩，但能看。唯二的亮点是“铁打的台湾电影，永远不会拖堂的陈以文”和最后10分钟交叉蒙太奇锅里的水和瀑布，前者沸腾的熄灭了火，后者无情的冲散了人。
男人可以从婚姻中快进快退，女人却被困住，困到发疯，女儿也被迫捆住，男人的面前有船走路，女人的面前是瀑布，会掉下去
看前一半还饶有兴趣，看到后一半，就这？台北很美，房价太贵。
场景太过精致，表演形式对白台词都有些许舞台感，就像疫情隔离一样，影片和观众之间也有了距离感。稍不投入，便让我觉得整个影片节奏松散，总想帮它使上一股劲。可能吧，疫情、疾病，都是让我们使不上劲的主题，只能承受。再次谢谢编剧在片尾对主人公的善意，不然我可能会气得生病。
在疫情的背景里，房屋被蓝色防水布遮挡，阴影与抑郁一起袭来，终于，所有的伤痛堆积，她被“病”保护起来，在阴影里舔舐伤口。也因为病母女关系对调，被照顾被滋养。整个过程像一次心理治疗。她还是选择了面对现实。着墨不多的清洁阿姨，超市的主任，住院的病友，都在释放善意和阳光，她可以晒阳光，也有阴凉地休息。
比預期好。攝影、音樂都不錯，對白和意象有些匠氣。母女關係、母親的病情以及家庭的經濟狀況都像瀑布一樣墜落，而且和緩的時候都讓人不敢確定還會不會下降。母親受到的部分壓力被轉移到女兒身上，倒沒看出母親有哪些成長（去賣場工作、有了潛在的婚姻對象就回歸“正常”了嘛？）。魏如萱的演技成功地讓我懷疑她的角色出院後病到底好沒好……鍾孟宏的作品中，常會出現不可知的突然死亡，女兒結尾時平靜地被洪水衝走大概就是這一主題的重現——母親眼中女兒的獲救是幻想還是真實就是一個開放性問題了。2021.11.25，光點華山。
女主之间的化学反应很好，不看不了解贾静雯这么能打。魏如萱……以后请坚守唱歌的本业。陈以文太牛了（大骂“会不会倒车”“考没考过驾照”的时候笑死我了）。有点老套的主线里绽放了很多文本美学，比如借精神病来反诘（中介、蛇、瀑布/洪水），比如瀑布象征的压倒性的压力、执念。正因为主线就是正常发挥，所以疫情并没有过多干预叙事，而是扮演着必要的最后一根稻草。比起《阳光普照》更喜欢这个。
卖房子那一段最好，紧接之后的父女对话那段的女儿也不错。最后一段母亲脑海中的瀑布化作洪水淹没女儿的意指，感受是感受到了，但也太硬了。太笨拙了。
那一张蓝色防水布
不要再问我“你还好吗”，我会想办法好起来，好好地跟你一起过下去。母亲的自愈过程，也是女儿的快速成长过程，小姑娘表现也很不错。豆瓣评分这么低，那么多骂鸡汤的倒是没想到…PS刘冠廷是火神的眼泪片场直接过来客串了一把吧？
开始误以为是精神错乱，后来发现是时间的错乱。为什么钟孟宏总能把一个温情脉脉的故事拍成恐怖片。
新冠时期的母女生活，用惊悚片形式拍摄疾病。
虽然《瀑布》只是将新冠疫情作为了展开剧情的契机，但这并不妨碍这部电影成为迄今为止关于疫情最好的作品。电影从疫情背景下一对母女不易的生活为展开，细腻入微的人物情感塑造以及恰到好处的情绪渲染，使电影真正拥有了让人能为之共情的代入感，生活总会有不顺遂的意外，但也总会有它的温柔美好。
钟孟宏真是越来越生猛，好欧洲的电影质感。看久了大陆电影，差点真以为华语电影没希望了，台湾已经出后疫情现实主义佳作了友友们，我们还在正能量呀！
看着别扭，不得劲。看到陈以文说，叫你倒车不行吗？你考过驾照没有？考驾照有没有考倒车？我噗嗤笑出来了。
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