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".
以为是貌合神离的夫妻，正准备说诡计多端的男人（海上啤酒摊版），竟然真的是sister。放弃名利的原因还是知道自己时日无多吧，在海边找到了平静，真是和1900一样沉默，急死个人。2022.7.17
观感是好的，镜头语言和蒂姆罗斯的表演撑起了70分钟的时间，结尾点出癌症作为收束难免给人一种期待感落空的感觉。导演在片中表达的疏离与虚无感是挺成功的，但这样的表达也并不新鲜。
本作は東京で生きる若者の“人生最大の恋”、そして何者にもなれぬまま大人になっていくことへの葛藤を描く青春譚。
@ Film Center, PFF 30. 很克制。最后的医院场不知道是解释还是延续，如果理解为后者会更好一点。
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冰山一角 即使是步履缓缓 表面平静 角色带来的巨大信息量灌输在演员身上 破碎的故事 何尝不是生活的样子 讨厌但是无法否定久违的感觉 我很喜欢
一个身为曾被称作日不落帝国的男人的日落人生。有符号堆砌，比如猪，衣服，甚至某些人物本身。有莫名其妙的调度，比如步行与空镜。还有一些弗兰克一贯不高明的叙事技巧，比如隐瞒内情，比如突然暴力。这些枪击抢劫的暴力，又可以看做是阶级话题的残片，但如果拿前作《新秩序》来比的话，这部完全不是墨西哥主题电影，而是描写范围更广的，关于资本主义秩序下某个代表性个体淡然的溃逃。蒂姆·罗斯无疑是资本主义缩影，断然要剥离一整个社会关系，包括新情人，而很可能的原因就是癌症。患上癌症的资本主义本身就在暗示经济危机，所以这是一部彻头彻尾的资本主义批判电影——用存在主义和虚无主义做影像的合法性依据——非再如以前那样立足墨西哥一国的社会问题。但弗兰克若想将这种批判执行地更生动彻底，还是要多学学布努埃尔和奥尔特曼。
全片工整，观赏性强，但像是个没有结束的故事（这不叫开放式结局）全片的反转很微弱，最后也没有什么大招儿，更没有大反转。全片克劳斯特也没招受到应得的报应。不要说他妻儿死了，那是他自作自受，既然知道自己妻子像个破碎的水晶，即便助手是真的在勾引他，他也不应该去亲她。照他以眼还眼的理论，对于他的性骚扰，露西亚娜应该加倍偿还。片中还屡次引用圣经，好像是个什么信念一样，可对女主就太不公平了。感觉导演想把克劳斯特塑造成咒怨、死神来了那种强大不可战胜的反派，然而并没有那种感受，只是觉得还有很多方法能扳倒他，但女主莫名奇妙就放弃了。
本人喜爱的小格局枪战片，尤其喜欢变态杀手微冲扫门那场戏，故事本身不算出彩，女主角酷的不行。
头尾照应的两句“也要当胜者”挺戳人的，听了确是会喷咖啡。不景气下的年轻人
看不懂是因为对西方宗教的这些故事不了解，开头和结尾的雅典人书店穹顶名为《和平》的画已经说明了一切，作家用创世纪该隐同态报复法的故事暗示了女主是凶手，作家在教堂毫不掩饰的跟男主说泡了女主未成年的妹妹也是同态报复法的一个手段，也就是他在书店里解释新书的那一段话来证明了报复的正义性，即片名的天怒。说实话，最后这一幕是引起了我强烈的不适感的，别看这些人衣冠堂堂的，其实就是借着冠冕堂皇的借口来行一切毫无底线的恶（导演是不是在借机暗示宗角反思？），嗯，这又属于另一个范畴的问题了，如果在公开场合讨论这个问题我怕会被关小黑屋
what a gun shot...it's been a while not seeing intensive gunshot in some cop shop.
pff30 原来我以为充满无法一言以蔽之的意象、有耐心和张力的节奏、撒点聪明的黑色幽默和见微知著的人物剪影就应该能生产好电影，但当一位墨西哥导演也用这种欧洲auteur的格式做作品的时候，我就会多想……我就会想啊Franco你到底是要干嘛，你是要讽刺还是被白老头们同化了。这片子值得看，不过在家看还是去电影院看都没差……
开头用镜和色彩都很吸引人，剧情弱爆，格局小了 2022年1月3日 rs pro2
总的来说算是不错的小结构动作爽片，设定很好，节奏不拖沓，全程无尿点，就是拍摄上还是差了点意思。
观感是好的，镜头语言和蒂姆罗斯的表演撑起了70分钟的时间，结尾点出癌症作为收束难免给人一种期待感落空的感觉。导演在片中表达的疏离与虚无感是挺成功的，但这样的表达也并不新鲜。
它仅仅是一支平平无奇的笔，但它被一次又一次的换上崭新的墨囊，重焕新的生命，它看似平淡无奇，但它却被成百上千的人用它那拙劣粗糙的笔尖去抒发那令人多愁善感的百变情绪。——心翼文学社·王婧
日式爱情片，画面很美，有一股忧郁的，破碎的美好。
中二套路烂梗小聪明的大集合，而且还相当自以为是。
迷你型《五路追杀令》+《血溅十三号警署》；最好的段落都围绕着托比·哈斯展开，反倒是格里罗和巴特勒两位男主皆未能突破既往形象；对动作片倾注了巨大的创作热情，且在精心设计动作场面外还保持着足够的叙事趣味的乔·卡纳汉，此次的发挥只能算是及格。
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