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".
抛开小说原著独立来看，《犬之力》整体的镜头语言非常克制，导演简·坎皮恩用尽可能内敛的方式呈现了一个并不复杂的故事。西部的荒原又一次成为了一种叙事语境，在这个广袤而又封闭的世界之中，人们的行为动机似乎变得不那么难以理解了。性压抑成为暗流之下缓缓涌动的源头，在极度平缓极具耐心的故事之下，《犬之力》以高明的做减法的方式，留给了观众一片模糊和暧昧的地带。
导演真的太克制太含蓄了，又是同性又是谋杀的，换别人拍分分钟给你拍成爽片，但我们的导演愣是连个拥抱亲嘴都不给你看lol
拍得挺色情，卷福一出来就是各种性暗示，比如野蛮地揉碎花蕊，后面编皮绳儿也是，嗐，没法儿说。人物状态很有意思。卷福演的这位牛仔，粗鲁暴躁满嘴芬芳，爹味儿扑鼻还不爱洗澡，阉起小牛儿来跟割韭菜似的那么利索（我一女的看着都有幻痛），直爽真爷们儿！结果唻？反观澳大利亚小哥演的那位少年，肤白貌美弱不禁风，喜欢无意义的装饰，动不动就热泪盈眶，骑个马能给他笨死，这能叫爷们儿？结果唻？这里讨论的显然不是谁赢谁输的问题……重点是撇开性别枷锁，对对对，男性身上也有枷锁——所谓男性气概啊，完全是自欺与欺人，刻板印象本象，双向骗局本局，偶尔有审美价值，大多数时候就是一坨狗屎，谁踩着谁摔屁墩儿【喂】总之，各位老少爷们儿，咱们实在没啥必要为了这种可有可无的玩意儿而压抑自己的天性。女导演和女观众言尽于此，你们慢慢悟【喂】
非典型的西部、男权、同性题材，可谓反传统的精妙之作。视听元素的张力十足，使简单的故事情节推进地极其有力。最终对伦理的颠覆隐忍却很有重量，在我看来也是富有争议的。
但看一场好戏上演，就像兔子落入少年的陷阱一般。
对这片缓缓打出一个？ 另外这个角色完全就是个马修麦康纳式的角色，卷福来演属实跳戏了是
海史密斯一般的《犬之力》对西部片的解构发生在对男性气质和人与自然关系两个层面上，而二者结合于那座狗模样的山上，要接受而非试着征服，这是这个性别政治和环境议题的年代最主流的认知。两位男主角之间的较量发生在是否接纳自己身上女性气质这一点上，最后把温柔活成人生风格的“雌雄同体者”以精准的出击战胜了试图对此进行压抑的“有毒男性”，进而保护了完全弱小的女性。这里没有道德上的对错判断，也没有性格悲剧喜剧的剧情构建，只有不动声色的铺垫和准确的打击。坎皮恩对影像的精确控制让观众也只有在被毒蛇咬到之后才反应过来，进而惊呼其控制的全方位。但这样的控制牺牲掉的是四角关系中的另两角，母亲与弟弟成了完全的被动者，没有太多angency可言，也就在剧情构建中丧失了大部分意义。
这部片子最牛逼的地方是导演用了一群男人讲女权和抨击父权
我一度以为是《断背山》，菲儿与彼得可谓对男人银幕形象的两种经典凝视——阳刚与阴柔，没想到最后竟然来个冷血murder。不明显的同性暧昧，这文本更像是一个女性视角下的窥探，但全都是表象。叙事极其克制，主要靠细节推进：侮辱焚花、误解、咒骂、解刨学、死牛、性暗示、感染、去世、会心一笑，貌似最强悍的反倒最脆弱，最柔弱的反倒最狠。尤其值得一看的，本片摄影和配乐运用极佳，西部草原远景辽阔壮丽，透光云层，内景调度，窗口视角，暧昧镜头，简坎皮恩太用心了。都说是今年奥斯卡小年，我个人更看好此片拿BP和BD。8.2
奇异博士的农场生活，结局埋伏的好。大部分段落故事性不强，铺垫太长。外景不错。
克制又残忍，看完有种心头一凉的感觉。但是不理解母亲到底遭受了什么样的待遇，她自己的堕落和不堪为什么都要归咎于别人？
抛开西部、同志、伦理这些标签先不说，这是一部女性视角的非常独特的黑色电影啊！蛇蝎美人变成蛇蝎小鲜肉罢了，因为大量的留白成分让这个故事和各位角色都有了很多解读的空间，可能甚至太多了吗，我倒是希望要是能多讲点，但是也说不上来哪里需要更多一些，简坎皮恩的确是一个视角和语言都超级独特的导演。里面Rose练琴被人在背后弹一样的调调嘲，完了没练好还让在客人面前表演，我可真是痛苦得感同身受🥲这真的是学乐器之人都会有的噩梦吧啊啊啊
仿佛性转逆向的《贤者之爱》我觉得这个形容才比较准确 还有就真的恐同即深柜 真理颠簸不破//并不喜欢将“同性”单挑出来作为标签 这个标签对于这部电影来说几乎是扰乱了观众视线的存在 在这部电影的范畴中 更多应该是人与人之间力量和情感的博弈 甚至是最原始的以命抵命 冷静克制的风格配合从结果才能倒推回起因的故事是会在电影落幕之后让人不寒而栗的//在尤其强调男性气质的西部农场 最具有力量的一般不会是那个全副武装的人 阉割自我情感绝不是变得强大的捷径 或许对于“我”的存在而言接受比抵抗来得更有效
我一度以为是《断背山》，菲儿与彼得可谓对男人银幕形象的两种经典凝视——阳刚与阴柔，没想到最后竟然来个冷血murder。不明显的同性暧昧，这文本更像是一个女性视角下的窥探，但全都是表象。叙事极其克制，主要靠细节推进：侮辱焚花、误解、咒骂、解刨学、死牛、性暗示、感染、去世、会心一笑，貌似最强悍的反倒最脆弱，最柔弱的反倒最狠。尤其值得一看的，本片摄影和配乐运用极佳，西部草原远景辽阔壮丽，透光云层，内景调度，窗口视角，暧昧镜头，简坎皮恩太用心了。都说是今年奥斯卡小年，我个人更看好此片拿BP和BD。8.2
LFF2021。整体架构是在的，但在细节的处理上根本看不到坎皮恩当年的原始而又有生命力的影像才气。高清数字摄影机拍摄下的这一切都“脏”得太干净、太假了。网飞调色精准得跟国家地理杂志似的。有无数场戏试图将角色的情绪与荒野自然交融，但呈现出来的效果很温吞，就心想这要是PTA或者李安或者多米尼克拍该多对味啊。大家中规中矩的演出让人怀疑是不是casting出了很大问题。
真是直白又“隐晦”，叙事掌控仿佛半放弃一般，但又必须在这种放弃之上，调度才能尽显功力，回看故事即便有些单薄，也很是有韵味了，赞一个。
对这片缓缓打出一个？ 另外这个角色完全就是个马修麦康纳式的角色，卷福来演属实跳戏了是
恐同皆深柜…故事很好隐藏了许多情绪，也因此难以代入角色。人物设定，钢琴等延续自钢琴课，表现西部旷野与新西兰小岛的美学风格不同，但一样被坎皮恩抓到精髓。勇敢正义的西部精神得不到延续是因为渐渐被恶意取代
一个阳刚男同被娘炮收拾的故事，我男朋友看得很生气，我看得有点爽。
用当下的眼光回看1925年的故事，你会不自觉地带着很多假设和偏见，一味同情之后被反转打脸。谁才是最真诚和真实的那个，你永远也说不清。也许没有什么强弱、对错，没有真正的“善”，但是却有真正的“恶”。每个人都被身边的人影响并且造就，Phil和BH，Phil和George的野蛮与世俗对比，母亲和儿子的脆弱与偏激对比，每个人都被一条命运的缰绳牢牢捆住。
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