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".
多少年过去了，美国人眼中的中国人还是没有什么变化。不知道该感慨美国，还是感慨中国。
其实还好，可能期望值过高，本来想给三星，四星鼓励吧，毕竟国内这种电影少
还是那句话，看书要看古书，现代畅销书就是渣渣。看片屏蔽好莱坞，拒绝评分诱惑，吃菜要避免连锁店。总之，直觉还是更管用，拒绝一切宣传与评分，垃圾才需要宣传，精品都需要淘。
华裔小孩的家庭冲突，和朋友们的冲突，女性成长为女为母，初潮变红的设定乖乖的。
没有烂俗的抖包袱，着实呈现了一个青春期亚裔女孩的成长故事，和负面对峙，与伤痛和解，原生家庭的牢笼几乎是每个东亚人必须面对的一课，那些成长路上的分歧为我们带来羞耻感和压抑，成年后的人生便是与其斗争的旅途。在这样的动画里，母亲会和孩子道歉，孩子也带着母亲探索更多的可能，而在现实中，我们只能孤单前行。
万万没想的，最后最贴近华裔、亚裔的片子不是花木兰，也不是尚气，而是这部由皮克斯出品的《青春变形记》。
everybody has their inner fear or problems. perhaps a better way to deal with them is to accept them, make room for them, translate them, and live with them. life isn't perfect, so is every one of us. to be a perfect self is illusory and will only drive us to the abyss we set. accept who we are, good or bad, with no judgment. love and peace can be found in the present and the present is the best moment.
含辛茹苦的养育，望女成凤的期许，无微不至的照顾，感激的同时也有压力。有求必应的孝敬，强颜欢笑的压抑，无处藏身的秘密，默许的同时也想逃离。长大成熟是一种变形，是小小的身体向往大大的天地。亲情绑架是一种扭曲，是暖暖的疼爱却有冷冷的锋利。请带我一起感受青春和活力，千万别把我困在祠堂里。以传统中式家庭的霸凌式教育切入，用轻松笔触画出少女的青春期焦虑，红熊猫是月经初潮的隐喻，也是自我意识的觉醒，这种觉醒必定会伤害到母亲（奶奶脸上的伤痕)，现实可不只是看演唱会：她开始渴望拥有自己的QQ空间，好友群，期待收到同班男孩的语音电话。所以红熊猫所代表的寓意是成熟也是尊重。而且如果真的按照2000年的时间线，那个时候我周围几乎所有的女孩真的都在追男团，后街，西城，H.O.T，神话，说不定这就是导演的青春纪念册吧。
好可爱好感人，好像所有中国人感受的母爱都是窒息的，真的神了奇了，这就是我们的传统文化吗？动画太可爱了，没有人不喜欢熊猫……想埋在红熊猫肚子上fufu
最后是爱豆带着粉丝拯救了generational trauma 这说明什么 还是要倡导追星自由（我觉醒得太晚了
看出来了导演是真的有父母造成的心理阴影。这次迪士尼在亚裔文化上的表现是OK的，对相当一部分亚裔二代来说应当很有共鸣…虽然看完也不知道为什么是小熊猫但是后面念咒和流行歌合二为一的时候真是非常好笑。
经历过令人窒息的宗族式家教，都会感同身受！母亲意外撞破女儿的恋爱幻想对象，并前去质问，是在致敬《盛夏未来》啦，可惜那个店员小哥后来直接写丢了，倒是另一位看似蠢直男的同学是真姐妹。
和《心灵奇旅》一样是一部共情力超强的作品，抛开了奇幻的设定，我们看到的是真实的人物，真实的情感、真实的烦恼，笑中带泪的青春。片中的母女情可以看成是《包宝宝》的变种，不过显得没有这么刻板印象，我也相信就算是欧美国家也会有这样的亲子关系，而最后的和解格外打动人，和《魔法满屋》一样非常值得和父母一起观看。另外，小胖闺女和大红熊猫真的是无敌可爱，无法拒绝！
zzzq太多了 倒胃口
哭成泪人了 不想让妈妈失望不想让妈妈伤心怕不是中国女孩的default setting 那些谎言 那些挣扎其实只是为了安抚妈妈罢了 即使最有个性的女孩也摆脱不了“不想让妈妈如何如何”这种思维 我们自己内心禁锢了自己 觉得妈妈不会接受这样的我 挣扎一番发现 父母对自己照单全收 由此和父母和自己的关系进化到新的一层/最让我惊讶的是 最归驯的妈妈 内心的小熊猫反而是最大的 竹林中妈妈和meimei一路走来 从叛逆少女到穿着蓝绿色旗袍的贵妇 眼泪止不住 想起我妈妈说的“最幸福的时候当然是做女儿” 可最后还是变成了为了孩子而循规蹈矩的成年人 里面的小细节太抓人 午餐盒 学校窗户的偷窥和羞耻都让我感同身受 看完只感觉 好爱妈妈啊
我说我怎么这么喜欢男团那首歌，原来是碧梨兄妹写的，体育馆那段流行乐+诵经绝了。中国风元素演绎的很棒！
中国的小孩通常要靠外界来治愈家庭带来的伤害。
东亚女看Turning Red需要一个Trigger Warning，虽然狠狠共情但电影本身真的好俗套普通， 拜托这可是皮克斯。我不需要再看一部完成度较低的《勇敢传说》或者时长增加到100分钟的《包宝宝》。
｜22.04.12半个多月前就已经看完了，后劲一直绵绵密密持续到今天。第一次和红熊猫分离时meimei挣扎着拒绝和暗处的那部分自我做交割，我从那里就开始一路抹眼泪，放映到最后几乎是扯嗓子嚎啕。turning red的历程和东亚女性的成长、我的母亲、我的青春期何其相似。接受自己的emotion好难。就像《神奇动物》里的默默然一样，我们（东亚女性）每个人的身体里都有一只红熊猫，它当然也可能会变成有严重自毁倾向的默默然。
《青春变形记》今日上线Disney+！这绝对算得上是近几年皮克斯出品动画的天花板之作！简直好看到爆炸！！！影片由《包宝宝》导演石之予执导，虽然聚焦在多伦多唐人街，却有着满满的中国风！大红熊猫真的可爱到爆，影片细节也是极其考究。故事设定在2002年，祠堂里日历上清楚的显示着马年，家庭风格与唐人街设计也十分还原！影片借助焦虑会变成红熊猫的设定去表达一些青春期的问题，对此影片的人物刻画的非常到位，切实体会到了青春期那段畅想、叛逆甚至焦虑的时光。不断的成长，克服道路上的困难，认识自我，理解家庭，这部作品用高质量的动画诠释了这些概念。准备二刷了！
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