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".
臆想症到了极致的人怕不就是这样的吧？到处乱约，见人就上 还偷东西。。真nice最后车祸居然没死也是coooooool
演员表演精湛 镜头情绪到位 配乐贴合动人
摄影、音乐、剪辑、表演都太强了！真的太棒了！每一个声音都精准地踩在人物的情绪点上，时空的切换就像节奏的变化一样，从压抑到失控，完全不留痕迹，也丝毫不觉得混乱。女性导演女性演员创作出这样的作品真的毫不为怪，人物内心的各种矛盾，自由与责任、理想与现实、激情与温情、自私与愧疚，种种种种，完完全全就这样被拍出来了。结局太震撼了，那海浪的一击以及黑场时瞬间的鼓点几乎让我震颤，很有悲剧意味的处理，多年前对女儿的伤害如今以沾着血渍的手一如往昔剥着橙子，然而那些鲜血无论如何也无法填补伤害了，只有在绝望和死亡时，人终于和自己和解。
“母性光辉”对自我的刺杀，成为母亲、成为自己，或许只能二选一。大量情绪化大特写以及暗喻一层层揭开作为母亲虽然羞耻但不得不承认的“伤疤”。
本来也看不来费兰特的书，影像处理又不如让-马克·瓦雷，实在实在看不来。没可能只要和某些议题挂勾就拿高分的，和政治正确有什么差别
怎么讲呢 五味杂陈吧 女儿和母亲的关系本身就很难描述 是一种极其特别的情节。爱 嫉妒 恨 眷恋 牵挂 参照物 又十分想要避免被别人看出来有彼此的影子。这个女作家的小说本来就很不好改变，电影拍出了女性复杂又无解的心理状态，但同时这不是一部拍给普罗大众观看的电影，因为它需要很多的心领神会。
Btw我也好想去海边度假噢。
我同事说她很喜欢孩子，以前在大街上看见小孩就走不动道儿，所以她很早就选择了要孩子。而且到现在也一直把养育当成生活的重心，怎么说呢，每个人追求不一样，还是要明确自己的需求。
随机波动对谈作家凌岚提到的电影 幸好我不会有孩子
逃离这个轮回有什么错？
好片子，但看完我是不敢生小孩了。（以及对学术圈的描绘也过于真实了，一博士生每天省吃俭用边带小孩边科研还要烦恼于阳痿老公硬不起来，吃了这么多苦最后还不比学阀在学术会议上随便提一嘴你的文章，或者…能被大佬看上睡一晚，哈哈哈fuck！）
在关于GAL的出色母亲教育和其他等消息刷屏的时候，看了这个电影，感觉和恰逢其时的，不必歌颂完美母亲和母爱，承认其琐碎和自我的不适。生育对女性和母性而言是责任和天性，但承担的依旧是生育之苦和惩罚，去接受它甚至挑战，像过好人生一样把它做好是选择，但承认它是剥削是痛苦是对身体、性格和生命极大的盘剥，也是非常正确和诚实的坦荡。真好，女性慢慢不再被伟大母亲、生娃完整、不生有罪有病论所绑架，更坦诚地面对责任和痛苦，更坦诚地独立。
旁观她人的失控，偷拿的洋娃娃就像一个开关，只要不归还一切就回不到正轨。
闪回镜头还是有点多，要是能更多地给到Leda现在的部分会更精彩，尤其是偷偷藏起娃娃的这个情节。毕竟是处女作，可以看出导演的镜头感更多是围绕着演员而非整体服务。Olivia Colman表演的感染力很强，可以让观众在任何片段下快速进入到主人公的情绪。
Olivia Colman每个眼神都是一出戏。
音乐好听。Paul Mescal，Jake Lacey后新一代男花瓶？
Attention is the generosity 我认为不存在无私的母亲 我们看到的只是尽力无私的普通女人 一个女人是尽心尽力还是畏缩逃开 only the daughter knows only the mother knows
特别是年轻的时候。我们认为社会会包容自己，可是不管逃到哪里，怎么去忘却，当到了一定年纪，依然会被过往折磨。
不看到最后，你可能不知道这终究是一个什么样的故事……性、自由、责任、回归……说白了这是一个老套路。讲故事的方式还算新颖，里面的几个主要角色都是代差，母与女、父与女……只是给中年莱达大量性暗示镜头多少让人感觉有些发腻。达科塔·约翰逊的身材还是这么好，象征意义强烈，也让中年莱达看到了自己。片子的最终是回归的，并没演绎出一场悲剧。有点味道，但也有点刻意。
她好像终于原谅了自己。可当时如果不逃离那个环境，就再没机会拥有自己的人生了。
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