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".
观感好玩，火力密集，并且没有限制该站某一方或者持某一个固定观点。大概也导致了无法有一个漂亮巧妙的大结局，只能在过程每一个情节的剧烈程度上加码。不得不说可能对演员的要求会变得更高，也会利用到一些自身形象，不过完成得都挺精彩。
剧情是蛮讽刺的，你们欧洲学术派和荷里活娱乐派，一个假清高，一个真浅薄，总之都挺虚伪、自大的。
关于拍电影的那些事。
海边的曼彻斯特是独白，这是群像，社会事件，多米诺骨牌效应，角度复杂多变。古田新太厉害👍🏻
很好笑，非常有意思，也有很多视听上的设计。这就是看电影的乐趣呀。
的确比不过导演之前的杰出公民和蛮荒故事 但是风格还在 看起来依然带劲 用最优雅的演员和最优雅的布景去做最傻逼最真实的事 说到底戏里戏外都在演
挺冷幽默的，但也很留情，也就不刺痛。一个女导演如何导演两大男演员，她除了将自己男性化，也保留一点女性化偶尔微妙糅合。当看到她叫他们把奖杯拿来，并将二人包裹在薄膜时就猜到她是要毁坏他们的奖杯，但没猜到她连自己的也一起毁掉。全片精髓最好的可能是那只唱片机旁边的猫，这不是那种撞击宇宙的音乐，是隔壁男人在钉他的墙，喵了个咪～
冷漠、麻木、压抑形成的恶性循环，可以说是一个非常“日本”的故事，尤其是自杀女司机及其母亲。
这三位老戏骨，演技杠杠的，不需要台词，满脸都是戏
戏如人生 人生如戏
是怎么做到，每一个分剧情的走向都在我预料之外。找到了观影以来第二喜欢的女性角色，我好爱她的洒脱和自由。
双男主的化学反应很优，我的笑点都在学院派那位身上。潘子靠这部拿威尼斯影后也说得过去，眼神戏太到位了。
2022.05.01. PE早场。这么好看的电影，在大片夹击之下的排片少的可惜。戏中戏，都不算是“片场电影”、应该叫“排练场电影”。剧本由前80%的“自我的艺术家+自我的男明星+自我的古怪女导演”的三角【喜剧】，到突然急转直下、再到最终反转，不仅让观众跟随三位“电影主创”体会“鬼才导演+名演员”在电影开拍前所经历的折磨人的排练过程，更在最后跳出了电影、让戏外的两位主演的命运与戏内高度重合，给出【命运弄人】的收尾，很佳。Penelope Cruz真是个天才女演员，她把一个敏感脆弱、“天才魔鬼共同体”般的导演演的惟妙惟肖，时刻游走在喜剧、剧情、甚至悲情戏之间，几次都靠瞬间的眼神特写来给出转变，强的不可思议。62岁的班德拉斯叔依然魅力不减，自我沉醉的男明星角色简直是信手拈来。惊艳的年度好片。
3.5 后半段垮了。这类探讨需要什么新意？只要问题没有受到广泛的关注和反省，就一直有探讨的价值和必要。道德法庭 被动高敏人格 原生家庭 教育体系 公信力滥用 舆论引导 尤其在父权体系下所有的伤害都在倍数增长。像大脑指挥手拿物品，步骤再多也只是社会的基本症结，庞杂但无人在意，它们吸收渗透在每一个条件反射和漠不关心里。比如某个热评。当每一个灰色的人都在通过不同形式的管窥蠡测来追求非黑即白的因果 又或觉得不过是些所有人必然经历的困境时，就是我们最接近毁灭的时刻。
一场两个小时长的表演课，全程极简主义。最大程度减少特写，是用台词和表演来构建起一个世界。可真的好无聊，我完全感受不到它的那种幽默。
3.5吧，癌症那一段我真的满头问号，结果是演戏。老头死的那一段我也是满头问号，虽然事先有些料到。但是他死后我满脑子都是那人居然没被抓，这居然查不出来。最后的最后，老头居然毫发无伤一样，我更满头问号了。老头应该是死了吧，但是这部片重点也不在他是不是真的死了和凶手是不是会被查出来啦。btw，全程得盯着法语字幕真是有点让我不能集中在两人表演上了。
一个中学女生的意外身亡，让许多人的人生背负上沉重负担，有的被逼向绝境，有人甚至走向死亡。一件超市偷口红的简单事件，引起的余波却如此强烈，影片张力十足地呈现了普通人的人生困境。有时候，真相没有那么重要，而原谅不原谅，也许能让人从良心的亏欠中走出来。寺岛忍所饰演的人物有意思，“强行的善意”与“虚伪的公益”，让人印象深刻。
还是很不错的。尽管看预告片大概能够猜到电影的情节。非常日式的电影，可以看到他们心灵的方方面面。故事果然是浓重的忧郁色彩里最后透露出那么一丝光亮的氛围。有一点心疼桃李桑，感觉好多戏里他都是在演这种苦情的角色，就算演坏人也有种苦情感（个人感觉）。人还是要懂得和解，尤其是与自己。
第一次做父亲不懂得爱女儿的父亲在失去之后在抽筋剥皮的痛楚中逐渐学会了如何去爱，可惜一切围绕着这事件的人都已支离破碎。结尾尚有一丝丝的光。为喜欢的古田加一星。
因为这两周刚好在学script analysis 好神奇的观影体验 很灵动！
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