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".
很久没看到这么满意的一部同性片啦，相比现代背景下充满校园、青春、高颜值的甜甜耽美恋爱，我还是更偏爱以人物传记或某段历史、社会背景下的故事为原型的同性电影，或许在更为压抑、沉重的情境下，对他们感情中的真挚、痛苦、纠结也更感同身受吧。想到了本尼的《模仿游戏》，虽然讲述感情的部分不多，但也是表现出了一个迫害同性恋者的社会带给他们的伤害有多大。影片最后虽是开放式结局，但我觉得在当时的社会背景下多半是BE了，唉......
网飞制作，这个题材如果就那么单单说极权政治对同志的压迫就太枯燥了，加上这么一个直变弯的同志爱情故事要好很多，但又会觉得不真实，偏偏是警察局长的儿子被掰弯了。。。
所谓影像风格化的流水线生产作业，不需要太多艾格斯马利克洪尚秀王家卫朴赞郁等等等等的后起之秀“接班人”。
3.8分。 这位导演学了不少泰伦斯·马利克的电影手法啊！浅焦摄影，广角镜头配搭大量的升格效果，以及掺入大量的主角内心独白，去除现场音，当然，还少不了神叨叨的叙事手法。这些都在马利克《隐秘的生活》里大量出现。 不过，本片用19世纪马其顿乡村作为背景，讲述一桩离奇的女巫故事，倒像极了A24的作品风格。如果说到影片的核心表达，在我看来有两点，一个是对于女性的历史处境再次披露。当然，这里便是噤声、附属和工具等表意。而第二个则是对于身份的寻找和确立，这块其实片子在叙事结构上还是颇为常见，即两代女巫的人生选择，一个选择了怨怼，另一个选择了救赎。
虽然有故事情节，但节表达方式和节奏实在喜欢不来
如上，本片不只象形各种神话性质的事实或建制；它还会意intelligence的心灵\灵韵，它渴望揭示，在人类生活的不同时代\世代，这颗心灵相信过什么、思考过什么、感受过什么。
父欲控制下。渴望自由做自己。罗布斯就是其中一个分子。而广大群众在这个社会环境下举步维艰。也渴望自由做自己。
一定有两个男生时时刻刻都在一起
二刷，四分钟内安排的线索情节营造氛围很到位，在阴暗灰蒙的背景下，两人就像风信子一样颤颤悠悠地摇曳。
同影的一个小小突破吧，谁说同影一定要文艺浪漫呢？
emmm…it's not for me…
在灼烧与刺痛的世界中感受生命的流动。是一个奇情故事，但又感受到了生命与爱，很奇观化的叙事和风格杂糅，不过不算我的菜。
人物塑造算饱满 但过程冗长有点无聊 快睡过去了
导演肯定是泰伦斯马力克的信徒，诗性镜头与沉默的疏离感轰开女性隐秘的心灵之门。玛利亚其实代表了一种狂暴的反抗的女权力量，她让女主失去了语言的权利即剥夺了其自我，让女主只能承受她那份狂暴的传承，也只能以他者的身份去活着。而女主所践行的路是这种对立的解，即真正的爱。所以虽然开始和结束都以这种女巫的传承结束，但所要传承的东西却是完全不同的，女主找到的答案也是玛利亚永远无法找到的，玛利亚也终将成为历史的灰烬。
这部电影演员的演技都挺不错，拍的也很现实，剧情是可以的，最后应该算是开放式的结局。
在宏大历史和难以直面的社会现实中寻找一种表达方式，来关照同性情感的发展与蔓延，是电影最大的亮点。导演对于主角的感情表达是克制的，但是确是最真实的。
第一眼看到小卷毛男二，就想到了Calvin Banks……
和中南海之恋不同，这部电影设定确实是更倾向悬疑片，经常破案破得我都快忘了还有感情线，也许译为“风信子行动”更妥当。
年轻女巫人间体验记🧹女人、男人、孩童……果然是男人活得最简单快乐啊（笑）女巫的爆麦式内心独白很有创意，也着实吓我一跳👂💥
就是因为7+分才去看的，结果演的啥，感谢浪费了我2个小时
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