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".
75Cannes第八部/节奏是对的，是我不对，会再看的，但感到过誉了/眼前浮起家崽坐在沙发上的关于性和暴力的言论，我就走神了
看不懂但大为震撼 柯南伯格脑子里装的到底是啥呢
影片展现出了一种将行动、行动的意识和由两者衍生出的外在于行动主体的他物圈在一起的“作品”，个体通过作品在绝对个体规定论（不论做什么我们都是普遍的个体）与行动规定论（个体的性质会因为行动改变）之间的对抗中消融了空洞的“未来”概念，取得了作为外来现实继续存在的绝对规定之真理性（任何意识都能无条件规定任何个体），个体从其中获得关于自身的真正概念，此时自身行动内容的一切环节都回到自由，自身概念与自身现实也因此相互脱离，“我”和一般个体就没有丝毫的相同之处，但整个过程稍纵即逝，宛如性高潮。
我想点个麻辣香锅，可一个包装盒子要四块五，我又不能吃塑料，这个四块五的盒子对我毫无价值，不点了。//他们吃饭的那个座椅让我想到了我工位上的椅子，摇摇晃晃，吱吱呀呀
人工干预进化的手术改造成了自然遗传，拉马克的获得性遗传（aka用进废退）成功诈尸（现实中被孟德尔遗传学证伪，中学生物应该都讲过），李森科在棺材板下直呼内行。
个最真实的唯一的自己。这段话表明了人的发
冰冷阴森，气质与氛围明显不讨大多数人的喜好。
Hard to get in at first, but not long after you'll realize it's still the 90s classic body horror Cronenberg, which not just those weird biomechanic machines, but the conflict, rebellion, evolution, so on and so forth. It's definitely the most sexualized Cronenberg movie. Everyone in the film is so obnoxious, but ultra seductive, except the black dude. WTF is that acting? Is that a joke?
啊结尾，圣女贞德蒙难记吗..
冰冷阴森，气质与氛围明显不讨大多数人的喜好。
比起《钛》在视觉上更丰富，但整部电影从内容到结构都近似于一个当代艺术馆——我觉得极媚虚无又高傲的东西。柯南伯格是一个对待概念极其粗暴但对待影像又如匠人般精细的导演。
2020年之后终于有一部电影让我瞳孔地震又refresh，就是那种，不舒服但很喜欢的感觉
4.5。廉頗老矣，尚能飯否？失卻了在感官刺激層面的部分鋒芒後，柯南伯格仍舊將自身對於面向未來的「人」之定義的思考，系統地呈現在這部論文式的《慾望號快車》的精神續作。儘管本片未能真正實現突破既有感官束縛的超感官體驗，卻依然堅定地為人類中心主義立場書就悲歌。結尾宛如《聖女貞德蒙難記》的特寫神蹟再臨。
delicate，complex，meaningful
这部电影让我想起了去年同样是在戛纳电影节亮相的电影“钛”，我想起反派影评讲“钛”的时候波米说的，推荐给那些想知道现在的电影已经发展到什么地步的人看的，看看现在大家在讨论关注的东西是什么了。这也是我看完之后的感觉，没有什么特别重的情感宣泄，手术刀隔上皮肤那种应该是非常有痛感的画面，却好像是被打上了麻醉剂一样，感受不到痛，剥开皮肤进到内脏里面，我自己是很怕这些东西的，所以有不适感。手术、性、器官、表演、艺术、塑胶等等，我大概懂，但好像很难深入懂，可能我境界还不够。但这也已经够看了。就是让我知道世界上还有这样的电影，还有这样的表达，这件事本身就很足够了。
没想到会看到一部充斥着概念性诠释和发挥空间极大的文本的片子。而这种文本，也只有这样的卡司才能完美演绎。
在未来人类没有了痛感，可以生长出各式各样的器官，并且还能给这些器官来个专属的定制纹身，整容手术成了在身体上搞出各种丑化的花样，切割手术也成为了新型性爱，从传统美过渡到内在美完完全全就是对审美模式的反叛。而人类的进化居然是吃塑料！这样的异类也许会成为地球生态的拯救者，然而对于手握权利的当局而言这却是离经叛道的犯罪，所以人类未来究竟要何去何从？
身体里面长出来的除了器官，还有欲望；躺在尸检台上取下来的除了畸形，还有人性。当人类变得不再像人，欲望和性爱也随之面目全非。想让你把我割开来，然后我们融为一体。可是割开又愈合之后，人类还是原来的物种吗？虽说是科幻未来，但仅仅聚焦在有限的场景和人物，想要探讨的还是很私人化的问询。除了有直接的解剖呈现，也有全裸和以痛感驱动的似是而非的性爱。蕾老师的裸体很美。
实在话，我是有点不理解也欣赏不来类似钛的那种法国新恐怖主义和这种电影的（在我看来是一类，不过我的评价是比钛强）实在是审美不在用身体涅槃的点子上…
不知道是我欣赏能力降低了还是导演疯了，完全不知所云啊，明明有不错的创意，这就像是新鲜的生蚝生吃很棒，但是我吃的是放坏的生蚝。。。
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
