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".
7.6/10 #第9th金帧2022奥斯卡专场
大段大段的情绪表演差点让我弃片而去，而看到后面意识到这似乎是导演有意而为之——让观众成为情绪宣泄的对象。一旦接受了这个角色似乎也是一部有趣的电影呢。
聚光灯都打在她的身上，压得喘不过气。当戴安娜王妃迷路时，所有人都只是看着，没有一只手指向她需要前往的地方。不过至少最后，她和那群雉鸟都逃出了这高高的，隐形的宫墙。小K演得像不像我不敢妄下定论，但我至少知道，她的一颦一笑，都有足够的感染力与说服力。
比想象中好好多~特别后半程 (开头还在想K和Sally间tension好棒，后面简直啊啊啊哈哈(๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧
戴安娜本人有太多影像资料存世，尤其前几年还放出来一些更私人的自述，对于像不像这件事，个人其实不是很在意，就当一种阐述看就行。可是KS的演技尽力是尽力了，被人质疑“矫揉造作”也能理解批评的点。不过这个毫无共情点的剧本，我也想不出有几个演员才撑得起来。
画面用躁点和柔光的效果模仿年代质感，室内自然光场景让我想到了库布里克的《巴里·林登》，也很耐看。
不要坦然接受那死寂的旋律，不要卑微沉默着低下头颅，不要被生命闭锁的时态所困窘。那些让人完美赞叹的食物和光鲜华丽的衣饰从未如此扼人咽喉，能够捆缚住手脚的绝不只锁铐，那些恐怖机械化的皇室牢笼，恰是更加丰腴了斯宾塞对美好自由精神的向往，那些渴望逝去的记忆，恰是填补透视了未来的景观。要去剪开那封闭带刺的栅栏门窗，要去拯救那空乏的肢体，要去拾得沉睡已久的自我。望着独自在墙内孤寂抚慰自我的“王妃”，拉雷恩同样被异化的创作姿态通过不断裂变的语言释放出一种持续不断、急不可待、且随时可能爆发的能量，仿佛不停在暗示我们需要和她一起战胜这虚伪的景观。每天她都在美梦中醒来，却撕碎了眼前一切，鼓足最后的力气去迎接噩梦般的现实。在未知到来的爱意和归来复辟的速度面前，她终于可以不惧深情地承认——“是斯宾塞，而非戴安娜。”
7.2 很精致，人物的还原度很高。只是选取了圣诞的这一部分并不讨好，让王妃看上去真的像精神分裂者，而不是被规矩囚禁的金丝雀想要逃离牢笼而从内而外的反叛。不是一部传统的传记片，更像是表达了一种艺术处理后的情绪。
王室的束缚，逃掉才是自由。
小k的英音惊艳了我，这些年在独立电影界的摸爬滚打成就了她，一个好的演员必然要走上演技磨练的道路，现在她的演技可以算是炉火纯青的地步了
乍一看太像EmmaWatson了吧，让她演说不定也有一番看点，通篇不敢大声说话真的看得人要抑郁了，那个whisper的氛围真的压抑，太堵了
影片最成功的地方就在于定位准确，导演不想拍普通的皇室传记片也不想探讨太复杂的问题，反而呈现了一部压抑焦虑的psychological thriller，用人物情绪推动情节发展，运用了大量的隐喻和幻想场景，这点上就比很多什么都想拍什么都拍不好的传记片强太多。KS的表演也很贴合人物心理状态，越往后越渐入佳境，几处重点戏的眼神非常动情细节处也拿捏到位(用力过猛之处在于英音的吐词，还得模仿戴安娜压低嗓音)，另外摄影和配乐也是一流的，艺术观赏性上很强。
符号不会比人更生动，角色也未必就比现实中的人更鲜活。第一点是意识问题，第二点依旧关乎意识但更多则是技术问题。这部第一点做的还可以，第二点就离生动鲜活相去甚远了。
Royal Festival Hall, LFF2021｜压抑痛苦绝望神经质到流不出眼泪的观影体验。小K的表演实在很好，极致的美丽和彻头彻尾的破碎，成年人的崩溃和孩子气的任性，同时被囚禁在同一副面孔、同一具躯体上。戴安娜，她自身，就是被强行缝合的窗帘，铰不断的藩篱，塌陷的旧居的楼梯，项链上没有了光环的珍珠，逃不开枪响的鸟 … 配乐、摄影都很完美，so fucking sad，以及她真的好美。再以及，看完我也去Waterloo地铁口的肯德基吃炸鸡了。
事实上是完成了一次《闪灵》的再造，空洞的大宅、幽灵、梦境与幻象。爵士鼓点与运动长镜思及《鸟人》——相同的焦虑感。沉稳的封闭性空间构图以及在戴安娜的近景与特写镜头中不安分的摄影运动，嵌套的蒙太奇确实加强了阶级与皇室贵族的限制力量，戴安娜强烈的渴望挣脱牢笼的冲动同样在观众这里得到了感受，直至最后我才意识到这是一个发生在90年代的故事。可将问题的解决与自我家族血统的认同相联系的处理方式似乎感觉略微轻浮。最后，克里斯汀的表演始终是没能深入到我的内心。她很卖力了，但遗憾就遗憾在我看出了她的卖力。
在王妃光鲜亮丽的背后是一整套严格的体系。为了保持王室的品味，不同时段需要穿特定的衣服，规定的时间要做规定的礼仪，一切宛如流水线般严丝合缝。但日常的，真实的，中产阶级不那么潮的生活才能够真正感觉到活着的质感。当黛安娜王妃扯下项链的那一刻，也是在为生来注定要戴上皇冠的命运作斗争。只可惜的是这部片子拍得不尽如人意，配乐太多太大声，情绪自始自终都被压着，感受不到叙事的节奏，对真正的黛王妃的取材也不够，只有最后一段蒙太奇暂且可以称得上是精华。
拍的过于矫情和神经，真的没必要……ps满屏香奈儿是怎么回事……另外小K如果只是拍cos照片是挺像，动起来就是另外一件事了
王宫像天鹅绒纱网，人脸像苍白柔美的塑像打上粉扑，魅影一样的质感。
哟感觉这不就是青春期未完结拒绝现实的我自己么hhh 感觉拍的很一般。不交代缘由的焦虑压抑很依赖演员，她还是太靠直觉和感觉演戏了，有很感染的时刻，但不确定换个人我是否也有此耐心。【全程看腿看衣服，以及亨利八世和安博林硕大的画像好出戏
在圣诞假期里，戴安娜意识到她受到了冷暴力的精神凌虐，度假宫殿仿佛已成为囚牢，一想到童年时的快乐时光她就分外想重新得到自由。
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