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".
虽然有些瑕疵，但是小姑娘的歌声还是蛮感人的，笑点也不少，三星半吧
上一次看到那种干净的眼眸是《天才少女》，甄选时打手语唱《Both Sides Now》瞬间被溶化了
看之前觉得估计一般希望打脸，看完比预想的还更不咋地，就这还是翻拍，想看原版了，既不好笑也不感人…戏剧冲突本身就不合理，那个女孩明明每天都需要帮家里做事，一旦有别的安排，从来不通知别人，这合理吗？？尊重别人吗？？
由于是翻拍（贝利叶一家），珠玉在前，扣一星，剧情没记错的话比法版多了点青少年高中生爱情，总体来说不过不失，歌曲和女主法版都更显优势，可能是法语听起来更动听吧
看到最后有一种美国音乐版《垫底辣妹》的感觉，一家人的羁绊很深我懂，但是总体给人一种不够深刻的感觉。全片最触动我的点是小姑娘说：别把一切怪我头上。作为失聪家庭唯一的健全小孩承受了翻译，劳作，保卫家庭的义务，自己的小我被牺牲，这如果是我，早就窒息了。没有资格去自私任性的青春是我心中的题眼。不过片子没有放大这样的矛盾还是让她顺利追梦去了。比起这条故事线我对哥哥和女同学的恋爱很感兴趣。妈妈真是太美了！
叙事很传统的励志片，触动点在音乐会上爸爸的无声视角和哥哥的那句“你没出生前，我们这个家都很好”，其他整体还是规矩了些，惊喜不大。
市长竞选变成了经典缴税
4、影片中有这样一个段落，女孩在台上唱歌，她的家人坐在台下，这个段落是无声的。我被这个段落深深打动，心里想到的第一句话，便是“此时无声胜有声！”
虽然很喜欢，但想不明白这种一板一眼的小妞电影是怎么得最佳的……
最少的声音表达出最动人的情谊。很多个场景安静到没有一点白噪音，太动人了。
奥斯卡的评委基数决定了这是普选奖，这个局面像是又回到2009年金融危机后《贫民百万富翁》的狂欢，世道太差了，至少电影里还有美梦。coda拿BP是普世价值的胜利，也是世运的失败。
在一般的父母對遠行子女既感到欣慰又不忍放手這一層之上，又增加了殘疾人對健全親屬的依戀一層：後者充當了前者的發言人和同世界溝通的唯一紐帶，母親所言“你出生時，我甚至希望你不是健聽人”引人深思。令人印象深刻的三個橋段：匯報演出一段模擬聽障人世界的消音設定，父親輕撫女兒聲帶以“傾聽”女兒歌聲，比賽一段女兒打著手語為家人歌唱，均來自於法國原版。本片屬於那種給出具有原型性的設定和簡潔明快的議題的一類電影，只是對於我的觀賞習慣來說，仍不免嫌其太過簡單、普通和保守。2022年4月13日深夜於禮崗荷花閣——廣州此輪疫情的惘惘威脅下，“禮崗影院”時隔143日再度“啟幕”。
年度十佳备选，圣丹斯剧情片评审团大奖，选取聋哑人这一社会边缘群体构筑起一个典型美式家庭青春逐梦的故事，健听女主则是作为整个家庭与外界沟通的桥梁，原来丑国对渔业的打压也快赶上欧盟了。人物关系上不同于《爆裂鼓手》里的魔鬼师徒，而是如《放牛班》般的良师益友。导演能把这样一个略显俗套的故事拍得朴素动人，父亲将手放在女儿的声带位置“听”到音乐，几乎不需要刻意的情绪渲染就能达到“此时无声胜有声”的高级感，对于聋哑人声音设计的构思亦能让观众感同身受。据说拍本片时遇到的最大难题是买《Starman》的版权。
梦想是多么的珍贵啊！在美国，每一个个体，即使最底层的残障家庭当中，都能实现美国梦！完美！关于梦想的题材我都是破防的！
极其细腻、有趣、动人。在我看过的那么多音乐片里，本片中的两场歌唱戏份都可谓独树一帜。虽然没看过它的法国原作《贝利叶一家》，但我怀疑原作能在整体上比这部处理得更好。至于女主Emilia Jones，不但表现力过人，唱功也着实惊艳。事到如今，假如缺少了这些英国演员，美国的电影工业恐怕要逊色许多了吧。
这剧情怎么这么熟悉
獲不獲獎誰在乎，就是最傳統工整的電影的樣子。多給的一星是給New England的！（Cape Ann到Boston其實也就一小時嘛
青春期喜剧居然得了奥斯卡，可以和绿皮书竞争近二十年最接地气的奥斯卡最佳影片。好看的确是好看，但我觉得Coda比不过近年类似题材的其他佳作，比如Lady Bird, Edge of Seventeen
泪水如潮涌的电影，我理解大家所说的平庸，但是说好故事配好音乐已经很不容易，更何况女主的每一个情绪都有扎实的铺垫，她为自己的每一个选择负责。我作为独生女很难感受家人的负累和全体的支持，尤其感动她和家人相互依存的关系，以及关系的转型：在她的牺牲中家人得到了安慰，选择了成全。
仿《阳光小美女》的家庭戏配置，视线导向聋哑人似在暗示着美国真人秀泡沫破灭后，重建社区共同体的迫切需要。尽管视听质素平平，但明亮、幽默的叙事口吻拿捏，确在圣丹斯平均水准之上。校园部分的剧作略拖后腿，以及整体冲突走向都太好“猜”，此外女主和家庭成员单独的互动拍得还算不错， 凸出了人物各自的立体面，当然刻画最高光的还属父亲（合唱团汇演消声和摸声带听女儿唱歌），也正是此类细节上扎实的打磨，拉开了本片和其他工业鸡汤的距离。
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