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".
真的非常非常惊喜的一部电影
中年，渴望、期盼和受伤，全都丝毫不减。人在爱情里永远不会老。也许你对爱情更有经验了，同样的也知道是多么珍贵。当你看到爱慕人的信息，你的心还是会悸动。中年的爱情，更宽容更慷慨也更细腻———也更急切
有某种稀缺性，演得“灵啊灵啊”。但就像出字幕时白老师和李小姐一路语带双关的微信对话，挺鲜活也有意思，但就是显得装腔作势，显得矫情，显得洋泾浜。
文本最入木三分的提炼是父亲角色在被父权催化扭曲的母女关系中主动隐身的描写，他面对「女人问题」的禁忌退避三舍的模样，仿佛看到无数男性终生视异性生理问题为洪水猛兽的集体病症。红色熊猫的家族血缘诅咒隐喻青春期月经羞耻和性欲萌动，少言寡语操持家事的父亲默默回避幕后变成某种支持结构，而自身未能和解代际撕扯的母亲将累加的怨怼投射外化成怪兽类型电影中穷凶极恶的反角。丑陋的中式家庭纽带是移居海外都不会改色的土壤，正如面对市场选择仍未舍弃的刻板东方文化符号，处于复杂流动传统和当下夹缝中的亚裔群体又该如何以一场「封印仪式」和体内剧烈拉锯的两个灵魂休战？与怪物共生从来不是恐惧的缘起，问题出在命名情绪和欲望为凶煞的遗传系统，由此变身设定也不仅是为东亚家庭量身定制的诊断疗愈，自有「异类」规训枷锁下解放再造的普世意义。
居然精准捕捉到了东亚母女之间又有毒又有爱的羁绊。可惜真实生活中撕下乖女儿面具的一刻一般都发生在女儿30岁以后而不是13岁时
段子集合很好笑，在这届年轻人眼里人到中年和工作就是生活之重了，写出了一个sitcom版本的理想梧桐区
红拂夜奔。紧扣web2.0脉搏的都市电影，轻灵并精准定位某类观众痛点。放在北京拍可能就是女性视角下的《非诚勿扰3》了。倪虹洁现在驾驭起角色也越发的行云流水了，gloria的底色某个侧面还挺祝无双的。
说你不贴近生活吧，把字打出来又删掉，看到别人给点的赞立刻心花怒放，这事我都干过。说你贴近生活吧，一个大老头子，天天去喝奶茶，就算是上海老头子也跟开玩笑似的。
在给四星还是五星中间徘徊良久，看了下8.2分想想还是打了个五星。作为2021年的影院结尾挺好的。来上海整整六年了，虽然不会说上海话但是从小听到大还是挺亲切的，一些当代词汇还是很贴心地用普通话表达着。无比熟悉的剧院小马路咖啡馆图书馆画廊小天井复古单车临期商店，这确实就是生活在上海的文艺青年日常。但在当下这个时代我也会自我审查说这个片子会不会有一些人觉得被冒犯，觉得自己离这样的生活很远，觉得文艺向的审美就是高高在上秀优越感。回到剧情本身，我很享受这样缓慢流淌的节奏。人到中年，就算离婚了人也有娃，喜欢可以慢慢来，有精神追求的人总还是需要懂的人灵魂共振
就因为这部电影
《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！
这几年的女性/ 爱情题材影视剧，都是热搜体，也就是所谓的「泛社会话题」倾向很明显。而《爱情神话》却用一种清新的笔触对爱情进行了一次形而上的探讨，并且还满满都是烟火气。
放映厅和电影里的欢笑声交织在一起，竟让我无法分辨
以及旁边那个哥们观影习惯令人发指，一边看一边说话，数次想要骂人🙂
好看啊，文青最喜欢的那一卦，灵，有腔调。几个细节：
下学期的《艺术电影赏析》就从这部电影谈起，原本想谈《南方车站的聚会》来着
有阅历的人才能编出的片子，演技在线。虽然用的是沪语，需要一些上海文化背景才能更好地理解里面的梗，但我觉得不熟悉上海文化也一样能看得懂。各种细节，微信对话里，几行字，几次修改，其中小心思让人会心一笑。不让停自行车，主人客人说之精妙。全片无尿点，幽默平实烟火气。小皮匠给老白讲其中道理前后两段都极妙（这女人你养不起和这女人可以的），参透人生。就是有两个细节有点狗血，台湾老公被绑架和看土耳其机票多少钱，难不成真以为被绑架了，真打算去救火“赎罪”。
生活里哪有什么爱情神话，生活的格调才是最重要的。画画、打鼓、写诗和做菜，然后是爱与被爱，徐峥和马伊琍等一众上海人把这个上海伪爱情故事演的妙趣横生，灵了灵了。
人物、故事和城市高度融合的作品，好久不见。虽然还是一个夸张化的上海，但真的能感受到静安那种味道。三位女演员撑起了这部电影，周野芒值得一个最佳配角，宁理依旧很灵光。我最喜欢的居然是老乌和老白吵架闹矛盾那段，老朋友的吵架。
已經記不得多長時間沒去上海了。我一說起我對這座城市的感情。多數人的反應還是不解。上海予我有著不易啓齒並非同凡響的意義。其它的城市。好一點的是像一個城市。不好的是在模擬一個城市的樣子。而上海。它就是一座城市。有下不完的雨。走不盡的路。看不夠的人。。
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