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".
观感像《甘草披萨》和《花生酱猎鹰》。我算是摸透了这几年Dakota的选片套路了——诡异奇情的惊悚悬疑片或者清新文艺片。而在后者中，她总是一副气若游丝、人淡如菊的样子，情绪很激烈的时候也能淡淡地笑着哭，明明应该很没存在感却总让人觉得扎眼，可能这就是一种“婊气”？男性最爱吧！学习了！
看到有人解讀片中男性形態之一的穢語 又看到評論區有男性大概感到被冒犯而對電影本身投擲各種空洞難聽的髒話 還蠻有趣的
淡淡的惆怅，每个人都很可爱，女主酒后笑嘻嘻含情脉脉的眼神，谁能受得了
《恰恰丝滑》是由导演库伯自导自演的一部影视作品，讲述了刚刚毕业的安德鲁面对自己的人生感到十分的迷茫，找不到前进的方向。影片的名字同样让人浮想联翩，简短的四个字，将影片的主题立意表达的淋漓尽致，一语双关，不仅具有艺术特色，情节精彩纷呈，更重要的是，通过一种隐喻的方式告诉人们，影片中的主角们从彼此的生活中经过，最终回到各自的轨道。这部影片所呈现的语言是不可缺少的灵魂，对于细节的处理拿捏精准，画面感丰富，配乐精致舒缓，情感表达真挚细腻，唯一的不足之处在于剧情过于寡淡无趣，平庸乏味是这部影片最大的硬伤。
爱而不得写的蛮好的，男孩子走心了，因为没有包袱所以爱得决绝(毕竟不知道养家糊口的后果），女人知道一切但是没耐住一段fling，最后那段话真的蛮真实的。达妹我真是第一次get到她的点，风骚主妇，可以可以。男孩子眼睛有星星可惜嘴型一般，用想把他往月光骑士年轻版本靠拢，没得。
淡淡的惆怅，每个人都很可爱，女主酒后笑嘻嘻含情脉脉的眼神，谁能受得了
7.5/10分
女主太美，但看完最大的感慨是找到内心peace前不要生小孩啊！
3.5 I want commitment and to be firmly planted in adult world, but you, you are full of possibilities.
属于卡司选角很精准的那一类“学生毕业作品”；以及很羡慕国外人在跨越了物质忧虑后，对人的精神和情绪的细致关照、勇敢表达
我承认，男主同时也是导演，太可爱了，how adorable，一开始完全不能专注看片啊! 继续拍啊继续拍。片子有点僵硬也没关系，just the right vibe
虽已成年，但依然是个孩子。学会了接受妥协和遗憾才真正的步入了成年人的世界。
【Sundance22】这种“温情治愈”片很合圣丹斯的口味，在这里首映再合适不过了。但是白男作为美国最easy的模式，拍这样一部找不到工作、“女友”去西班牙之后甩了他这种自怨自艾的半自传片总会让人觉得有点矫情过度，而且我对这种穷小子爱上成熟少妇的剧情真的不太感兴趣。PS，片子里是不是音乐用太多了，连讲个话背景里都要放一首歌，不得不让我质疑一下导演的品味。PSS，这片是真的很白很白，这个就更让整部片子显得矫情了。
竟然好感动，妈妈真好，孩子也好暖心，男主也好nice，好多好多的爱呀
我觉得一个早孕的单亲妈妈不会让一个陌生男人跟自闭症女儿待在一起然后自己去洗澡。其次自导自演的导演你最好本人也这么sweet，不然太给自己贴金了哈哈哈哈
fucking soulmate，男主确实很cute，但最后女主好像没必要讲什么“你的人生还很长blabla”讲两次吧，管你屁事，可能人家只是为了好好告别，感觉我的视角都已经不正常了，sad
觉得多米诺的演员很Normal People
3-，算是典型的插曲介入型成长故事，人物关系、发展都很老套。
3.5。很新奇的年轻人的电影，看的时候好快乐好甜蜜，20岁时候的活力，天是蓝的，水是绿的，即使难受了也很快治愈了。
1.You can have more than one soulmate. God puts them on your way of growing. 2.my memories aren’t going anywhere. 3.Farewell.
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