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".
理解，但基于个人立场不喜欢，提供高质量情欲体验的圣人和言行举止非常维多利亚时期的白人女性，这样的梦幻组合就像少女浪漫爱情文学那样不现实，甚至会作为坏榜样，但有其治愈性。again，基于个人立场的偏见。
勉强3分多一分都不行，所有分数都给大胆追求性爱和快感的立意，并且，这样的男孩有谁不想点！
全世界的女性 哪怕是英国女性 都没有得到解放 你凭什么觉得够了
这不是一个therapy嘛，当然主要还是对于Nancy来说，我喜欢两个演员，喜欢长篇的对白，喜欢对内心世界的挖掘，喜欢郑重其事地把性讨论开来，也喜欢冲突的设置和结尾的对视。命题并不复杂，剧情设置也不难猜，但是真诚而可爱，我50几岁的时候还能不能直视自己镜中的身体、面对自己内心的欲望呢？男主角不得不说，挑得太好了（我猜我愿意为此倾家荡产？）如果说他拿出和我同款音箱的时候我还只是笑笑，但他开始按摩肩颈的时候，我已经想给他打一个巨大的笑脸feedback了。另外，oh poor Becky!
主要就一个景，剧本其实还是遵循了经典规律，所以在剧本和表演扎实的基础上，主要还是男主太性感，真是无敌的选角
啊 真没想到这电影居然能把我看哭 第三次会面把前两次理想状态拉回到现实 与人交往自身的丑恶 私欲展露无疑 却接着在结尾回归理想甚至更深一层 不过其实从一开始 leo的出现就是个理想哎 女性就是太容易自我反省 被动和主动自我压抑了 转性的话 可能只会是苦妓回忆录而不会good luck to you啦 最后感谢汤普森的优秀演出～
什么女性情欲，什么亲子问题，都给我放下，只为小哥哥满分，就想问几钱
温柔静谧的对话空气像音乐盒的flow。最后一个镜头女主看镜中自己好美丽。想流泪。
不会再为了肉欲而失控，只会为了灵犀而泪涌
一场年轻人与老一辈人关于性方面的交流，从性进而延伸到整个人生。性是人生的一部分，同时也应该在人生当中永存，获得愉悦也是每个人应该有的权利。Nancy束缚在宗教的框架之中，惧怕接受未知的体验，认为性欲是罪，是一切破坏的源头。Leo无法面对自己的真实身份，厌恶过去的自我，对家庭感到自卑，渴望抛弃过往，展开一段全新的人生。四次会面，四次交流。谈话的内容虽然很多都以忘却，但不可否认的是，两个人都比从前活得更加有质感。不伪装，用真实、开放的心态去迎接这个世界，其实也没那么不堪。到最后，即使对方只是自己漫漫人生路当中的一个过客，没有被给予上帝般的救赎，但只要能够互相认同彼此之间的不完整，毫无遗憾地与之道别，就是与自己一场成功的和解。
一边胃疼一边看完了这部期待已久的电影，但是看得入神我都忘记了胃疼，结束之后痛觉仿佛才回到身体里。绝绝绝！果然需要治愈心理疾病才能迎接生命的pleasure。追求什么完美呢，快乐最重要，对吧？
婶美晕了我没有心思看其他的什么台词剧情或者男主，太美了太美了美到令人感动的那种，完完全全超出表象的美，和电影的思考产生了联动。剧本还是挺细腻的，第一次碰面写得特别精确。
四次sex体验，四次女性心理疗愈，结论，能让女人快乐的一定是女人自己。还得是女导演来拍！
电影是写得弱了些，架空的白日梦，然而汤普森演得真的太好。社会建构加诸女性思想和身体的规条实在太多，难以摆脱，连幻想都摆脱不了亲情修补。弯女类似题材的《脑震荡》倒还可以看看，也是白人中产阶级的幻想
虽然过于理想化，过于干净和体面……但是内核，关于女性的自我探索不受年龄的限制，这一点很重要。
性满足感+正视自己的欲望+自我认同。
正视一切，也悦纳经历，开始舞蹈
6.28 没想到竟然是一部室内二人转话疗片，最喜欢的两个镜头其实是艾玛汤普森在卫生间，男主角百无聊赖发呆的状态，呼之欲出穿透屏幕的空虚
是我最近被宠坏了么？我竟然觉得女性找寻自己的这种电影略有俗套。
怎么有一部作品可以将伴随女性一生的厌女及厌女的窒息感、性压抑、身体解放、亲子关系、代际差异如此自然地融合在一个故事呢？文本故事丰富而有力，即使场景单一台词繁多，看到最后已经深深地与两个人物共情了。或许都没有十分特定的情节，但人物关系的变化套路仍是一个不少。一个在心中已经死过多次的、知道自己活得单调乏味且因此痛苦不甘的女人，一个被家庭抛弃的、自小知道自己有所不同的男人，无关年龄，他们是彼此需要的。对于痛苦的个体来说，相遇已经是种解药。最后的分别时刻还怪感动的。（虽然仍有俗套的部分，但还是喜欢！
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