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".
可以说将 《如父如子》《夹边沟》 拍成一部电影 阿尔莫多瓦 了不起（所有83年以后生人的中国青年都可以看看
依然女性关怀. 都挺好, 但也不惊艳. 只是真的很不喜欢片子的配乐.....
B+. 平行剧情的推进略微拧巴，但还是为它的情感厚度所折服。一边撕裂，一边愈合，在Penelope的强悍演绎下，演化成近乎官能性的情感冲击。阿莫多瓦用情节剧式的剧情起伏，去拟合个人伤痛与族群创伤的纹理：我们总要撕开视而不见的谎言，直面痛苦，寻找新生。女人如此，西班牙亦如此。结尾那场戏，目睹历史被诉说、出土、骤然醒来，忍不住地哭。
Hmmm so so 覺得不好不過 所以兩星 沒有哪點比較印象深刻
C+ / 抛去情节设置与编排的合适与否，以连贯的语气进行类型的变换（女性－时尚－奇情－政治/历史）已炉火纯青。早在「活色生香」时就呼之欲出的后弗朗哥民主思潮的表达如今更为直接和强烈，平行母亲，亦是联络女性对被掩藏的平行历史的追溯。
DNA验证和遗骸科考都可以象征现代人对身份和历史的拨乱反正，但这个故事依然像是阿莫多瓦不小心拿了琼瑶的剧本，并试着对此进行强行升华。
不算恐怖 但是好看 尤其是最后一段 燃起来了
这片子围绕着两个关键词展开，一个是血缘，一个则是历史。两条平行线，却在杰尼斯这里产生了焦点，从曾祖母到杰尼斯再到她的女儿，这条血缘是一脉相承的。她执着于推动乱葬岗的挖掘，和她经过反复的纠结把真相告诉安，从逻辑上也是一致的，就是延续血脉的正确性，尽管现实很残酷甚至很痛苦，但是“对”这件事更重要。而在历史方面，阿莫多瓦显然是更有野心的，将历史中的种种元素嵌入分布到现代的环境之下，达成对于历史的还原，再结合对历史真相的还原，对历史亲历者的拜访，从而达到了穿越时空的统一。历史尽管已经过去，但后人仍然在乎，也绝不容忍任何粉饰，这就是导演想对观众说的。这样一个七十多的导演，还在不断突破，坚持自我的表达，用自己的地位和力量来展现一个现实，放在现在这个时间段，显得弥足珍贵。再想想远东某国，只能一声叹息
想住进Janis的家里！配色构图都太太太好看了，阿莫多瓦就是信手拈来！两个主题稍微有点不太和谐，怕偶像骄傲扣一星吧！快拍下一部！
虽然展现女性育儿的艰辛取舍，异性的伤害和责任等方面，但框架还是俗套的未婚先育，初尝禁果，出轨抛弃等狗血内容。影片里相互的关怀让两人拥簇，意外的失误让悲伤易位，一开始我就害怕从正常剧情片变成姬片，果然还是发生了。主线虽然是人文考古，但其他元素都有掺和，没有太多冲突，故事性不强，有些无聊。
西班牙革命记忆可以单独剥离出来，剩下的就是we should all be feminists.男性缺位造就的独立女性，几组母女关系的相互对照，意外降临的伦理困境，矛盾，拉扯，纠结，至于解决方式就非常的阿莫多瓦了，也将女权贯彻到底。
阿莫多瓦这部文艺远＜狗血剧情，剧本毫无悬念，在每一情节都可以猜中的前提下，阿莫多瓦的母性绘写和议题仍一直勾引着我（主要是女主太好看了！！！）主线只是为了引出暗线，阿莫多瓦的《痛苦与荣耀》算是自传般的回忆个人人生，这次，作为西班牙如今最重要艺术家的阿莫多瓦“记录历史”，把其变成了超越其个人表达的重要社会责任。记录西班牙的历史。西班牙人需要知道父辈尸骨累累，也需要知道那一堆单身母亲。
有点扯 但是还是好看的 设定太感人了吧呜呜呜呜robin出来我差点流下眼泪
看起来是一个抱错孩子的老故事，但放在寻找记忆的脉络里就有了其隐喻作用。再加上短暂而动荡的同性情节。导演似乎要说，失去性别的任一方都会让血统的传承丢失，而这个小镇的每个女人经历着这一失去。
阿尔莫多瓦这剧编得绵密，他们挖的那块地，可能埋着《老处女罗茜塔》的作者，安达卢西亚人加西亚·洛尔卡。
一次伟大的互文，如果死者没有被安葬，那战争就没有结束。
《平行母亲》，乍一看集狗血之大成。出轨男主老婆癌症，女主独自生小孩，和女二孩子错抱，其中一个宝宝还死了。女二的孩子是被同校男生强迫怀上的，父母为了女孩的声誉选择默不作声。女主和女二喜欢上了彼此并同居……可是，竟然也不觉得突兀。阿莫多瓦的电影最可贵处大约就是不评判，不说教并且永怀善意。我们总要撕碎谎言，直面痛苦，迎接新生。影片的色彩真美，而贯穿其中的长枪党屠杀乱葬岗挖掘事件，大约才是导演的真正意图——这部电影是对年轻人叙述的一种方式，他们必须看一看过去。
和阿莫多瓦相见恨晚。爱很简单，上一幕分别，下一幕就相隔一年，重新团圆；多么轻盈的创作。阿莫多瓦电影里的人物冲突永远是简单的，可以解决的，就像他电影的后景一样简单，大块的颜色，简单的家具。改日重看
慢热型，四十分钟以后。小男孩不就是玩密室逃脱游戏的你吗，不住的打电话求助场外npc。妹妹这个角色很失败，让整部电影的基调失去了惊悚感。爸爸这个角色应该是时长缘故被片方最后舍弃了。
乱葬岗中是冤魂的哀嚎，乱葬岗外是深切的追思。历史印刻着过往的沉痛与真相，所有的努力都是为了敲响命运的警钟。历史的车轮不断向前，渗出的伤痛还在蔓延。我们拥抱淬炼而出的新生，我们携着无法抹去的疤印。唯有亡魂得到安宁战争才会结束，要记住今日的繁荣皆是昨日悲怆洒下的鲜血。
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