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".
后半小时睡着了 我不懂艺术 不懂诗电影 我只觉得画面太暗 配音不伦不类 剧情一整个稀碎 // 两星给镜头 太美了 不愧是国美
这些短评在干嘛 来团建的？当时很期待来着，结果剧本不知所云 映后语无伦次 口口声声说要做什么不一样的战争片 那映后还有访谈里为什么一边“生命的意志在于时代的信仰”一边看不起这个那个装大逼？主角的生命意志么没看出来 混沌的战争控诉么没感觉到 这两星就是为漂亮的画面打的 整个团队的立牌坊行为不仅体现在剧本上也体现在映后的言语中 建议没话说可以不说 没钱拍可以不拍 搞得故事讲不好 主旋律主题也蹭不上
《蛇之拥抱》既视感，越肩视角拍摄，低饱和摄影，方言对白催发出非一般的艺术腔调，剧本还是简单，抽出骨干不太能打，但作为主旋律战争片的新尝试，值得肯定和赞扬。
当我们放弃贩卖某种廉价情感而从“人”出发，寻找诗的味道……它让我看到某种希望
艺联发行，美院作品，BJIFF天坛奖&最佳男主&最佳摄影，才知道幕后有这么强大的班底保驾护航，本片摄影极佳，有点对标1917和索尔之子的意思，我也承认有些段落确实独具匠心很厉害，但成也摄影败也摄影，于我而言电影艺术不仅仅是美术艺术，有些暗景的灯光似乎要亮瞎我的眼睛，让人视觉疲劳，更多的时候还是如坐针毡。
只见其美，并无诗性。这种美感是摄影带来的，雾色在光影中间穿梭，确实很漂亮。但好像只是为了去拍一个好看的镜头，并不服务于剧情，人物。导致剧情松散，人物单薄，没有令人动容的地方，这些都是与摄影脱轨的
将战争视作实现愿望的工具的自己，
生命的定格的瞬间凸显战争的残酷
抱着不高的期待去，开头部分蛇意象的表达还不错，溃散的残兵绝处逢生，虽然美术部分也值得点赞，但是中段直至最后就持续拉胯，剧作方面的“如有神助”太不自然，《云霄之上》只是一人活的战局，红色的雨也只是迟来的颜色，拯救不了全片那难以逆转的灰色执念！最大的槽点之一不吐不快，这些红军战士的身体如此白净，甚至在镜头前极其明显地展示，可谓对战争某种程度上的失实与歪曲！
#2021 青年导演海上影展 很惊喜很喜欢 第一次看到如此诗意这么清新脱俗的中国战争电影
并没有想象中的难看，放在新主流的洪流里，是十分独特的红色诗，真正回归人的生之欲，没有一往无前的勇气，只有深山丛林间的生存法则；怯懦、贪生、失准，更让我觉得是有血有肉的红军。有些如梦似幻的情节，让人不愿去深究其符号含义。就感觉是一种纯粹的个性表达，这是大多数主旋律电影里未曾见到的。
(ps：刚开始一个人在影院看这个片，冷气配电影贼阴森，后来来了个大哥在前排狂嚼爆米花，有人气多了。
“怎么把焦点融入到叙事中，怎么用焦点的这种摄像手法来讲故事，是我们在拍摄时候就想探索的东西。”“从拍摄到后期调色到声音，我们一直在探索，是希望能有一种探索的，哲学上的，美学上的探索。” （打分就不打了，问就是我爱美院（喂
一部反商业的写实战争片，没有矫情的段落，没有英雄主义，存在的只有表现战争中最正常的事情---死亡。全片将画面的色彩调暗消色，用灰暗的色彩表达一个灰暗的时期，仅有点点彩色的微光能够照亮脸庞。画面的构图非常漂亮，但人物的调度上似乎有点问题，比较凌乱，再加上画面的亮度，看起来有点吃力，但亮度也避免了一些表演上的青涩。电影也使用了非常多的留白，这让前半段的节奏还是有点拖沓。最后落下的血雨是点睛之笔，自由是由一个个鲜活的生命换来的。
叙事的全面崩盘造成了影片内表现主义的构建转变为一种浪漫化战争的手段，可惜的是自然风景并未如《细细的红线》那样对人心做出叩问，甚至连对“白匪威胁”的战争气氛构建都没有完成。经不起推敲的作战细节与不符时代的台词使得整个故事都如电子游戏般按部就班地进行着虚假的表演；放不下对庸俗战斗的执念促使制作者们在90分钟的片长里不得已完全放弃向内的人心挖掘，也因而让黑暗的消色处理也完全失去了它的恐怖效用而变成哗众取宠的空壳。历史的全程不在场终于让片尾的奋起与反思都变得矫情做作与低劣——这种在意识形态上的失语使得本片（这种更应当做成摄影展的声画作品）在本质上跟院线里那些商业主旋律并没有什么两样。
一部反商业的写实战争片，没有矫情的段落，没有英雄主义，存在的只有表现战争中最正常的事情---死亡。全片将画面的色彩调暗消色，用灰暗的色彩表达一个灰暗的时期，仅有点点彩色的微光能够照亮脸庞。画面的构图非常漂亮，但人物的调度上似乎有点问题，比较凌乱，再加上画面的亮度，看起来有点吃力，但亮度也避免了一些表演上的青涩。电影也使用了非常多的留白，这让前半段的节奏还是有点拖沓。最后落下的血雨是点睛之笔，自由是由一个个鲜活的生命换来的。
（0604来福士主创见面会）前面睡着了，真枪实弹段落才醒过来。我果然不太适合诗性电影，但这种尝试还是值得肯定的。映后分享有几点印象比较深刻，①zf当年想要的原片名是《挺进吧》②导演觉得很多普通观众审美不行需要教育，所以很多好片子票房不好③国美电影教育偏诗性电影风格。
美术功底见长影片的通病：画面颇具美感，剧情处理粗糙。结尾的血雨设计有画面冲击力，但主旋律和诗意难以共存的问题仍然没有得到调节。后期方言配音是最初的设计还是为了中和演技的不足？/现场交流难受得让人扣一分
三星半。有几个场面挺美的。但是真的…剧情一般，人物也没立起来。
深影5号厅银幕右侧十分之一明显更亮，观影感极差。
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