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".
前两段的铺垫，把最后面的决斗弄得我血脉膨胀，想把司机弄死的情绪非常强烈。在最后一段真相中，导演似乎在诉说着，女性即使在自己面对着侮辱还坚强着自己的控诉，发出自己的声音，即使可能面对自己的生命危险。然而到最后的胜利，也只是把胜利的果实交给了男性，而女性只是男性的附属品，所以最后女主也只不过在这一片欢呼声中，无法寻得正义胜利的快乐。
感觉大本和司机拿错了剧本，这里的大本子感觉帅回了2000年，虽然我很喜欢司机，但是姑娘们对着司机的大长脸都称赞“英俊”有点太过分了。看到后面真的想让那两蠢货双双狗带，女主一人独美母仪天下就好了，事实上，当踩着猪粪浑身臭汗和血液的马特回到家里还要摆臭脸的时候，我已经开始想象女主毒杀亲夫的画面了……
4.吵什么女权的真的太恶心了，总说歧视女性，你拿着中世纪的十万八千里外的改编故事硬要套在整体男性身上，我也不知道自己曾做错过什么，走到哪都要被歧视，被鞭笞一番，好似我是个强奸犯，再不济也是个帮凶，即使我像男主一样上场厮杀，为女性呐喊，我也只是个为了满足自己高尚价值观的自我满足感的伪君子。
所谓的三种视角叙述不过是给男性实施暴力的借口，男人看到的和女人看到的有什么不一样？根本没有不一样，真相只有一个，事实也只有一个，男人不傻，人为制造这种认知上的误区，是留给犯罪的余地！
雷德利斯科特老爷子的影迷有福了，如果你喜欢《角斗士》、《末路狂花》和《罗生门》，那么这部卡司堪称豪华、编导演俱佳的《最后的决斗》不容错过。个人年度十佳预定。
兩個半小時不覺得沈悶，縱使故事講了三次，再看第三個故事的時候還是聚精會神。女性真的是最堅強的存在，無論如何都被看低和拿來作為籌碼，反抗需要莫大的勇氣。女主長髮好美，最近真的很常見Adam Driver。
作为历史片带有立场，作为女性主义片仍不如近年三大的女性导演有力。拍的工整，另一种说法就是没啥亮点。心血来潮的2k部标记
强奸案是由于涉及两名骑士的决斗才被记录下来，仅仅以男性的角度记录显然是不完整的，案件的受害者失语才是整个社会的疾病。
基本事实是清楚的，真正的罗生门是人对自我的认知。最后那场决斗拍的真好。
刚开始看出结构的时候会想为什么要在中世纪背景下拍一个这么普通的故事。看完觉得，为什么直到今天我们才看到这个如此普通的故事。
第三章和前两章的对比还有第二章和第一章的对比让我知道了臆想是真的存在的千万不要自己给自己加戏 人家完全没有care你。强奸戏两场都很让人窒息 引起不适。jodie comer演技大赞 太有灵气了 情绪细节处理得太好 古装英气好看
故事比想象的简单，但最后决斗戏拍得太好了啊我的天。科莫妹子绝了
好顶赞，雷导终于也拍出来：“根据真实事件改编”
2021.12.02 父亲的交换筹码 丈夫的泄欲工具 风流男的高级猎物 丈夫赢得荣光与民意 她什么都没有 #女性苦难
非常有趣且有深度的作品。大体模式类似黑泽明的《罗生门》，同一个事件，但三个人讲出了三个不同的故事。且并不止于故事，还展现出了那个时代的政治系统，交际状况，查理六世的无能导致法国的混乱，还有那个时代女性的困境。虽说故事在最后还是如《罗生门》一样没有定数，但也正因如此在值得细细品味。
庆幸如今社会有进步。然鹅感觉两个男主活到了现在。
本想在前两天就完成的，没想到还是成了新年的第一个；是在理斌车上听抓马讲完后半部分内容的；没想到是雷德利斯科特导演的，说是票房惨败，也确实，前三分之一确实挺无聊的；就是服化道依旧挺考究的说是花了不少钱；罗生门式的故事，最后Jodie的部分最精彩；我Jodie的美最终被发现了，从小银屏到大银幕了，早就用于百度头像了。
斯科特的史诗片是才华的黑夜，没有月亮、没有星星的天空。所谓罗生门的道德困境，不在于女主的性别，而是在于每个人都会面临的地位尊卑。无论是决斗过后众人对丈夫的礼赞和对妻子的无视，还是片尾字幕所说的夫死妻荣，其目的都无非是在迎合女权而已
渐入佳境，重拳出击。没有前两段的对比，就没有最后的重击。自始至终，男人的眼里只有美化的自己。女人，再有才华和抱负，都只是可笑的财产和工具，哪怕是一场付之生命的声讨，也只是男人的手段，别人眼里的一出好戏。从头到尾，只有羞辱，没有正义。看到结尾的那几行字，心里不禁大呼：爽！
这是本年度参与感最强烈的电影格洛丽亚一人带着脚镣独自一人站在不胜寒的高处，干净的脸庞，凛冽的寒风，坚定而又希望的眼神，一袭黑衣，他的男人正在决斗，结果决定着他们的命运。这是一个末路狂花般的女性，勇敢，独立，拼命的女性。老爷子用了三个角色视角，逐渐还原事件真相，人物非常丰满，马特达蒙演技太赞了，科莫的颜我醉了。无论中国还是欧洲的古代，统治阶级都十分残忍，社会特别黑暗。无论骑士是为了爱，还是为了荣光，为了尊严，走向角斗场，他都是英雄，他妻子更是英雄。人的情感在最后的决斗中彻底爆发。这片子太惊艳了。
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