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".
过满的情绪与表演先行于故事，加之故事本身十分之平，于是产生了非常割裂的感受
越努力模仿越偏离，努力不代表成功，《王冠》近年网飞出的质量最强剧集之一，可以说任何电影想拍出及格的王室剧情，先超过《王冠》为目标吧。两个小时的观影无非是吐槽某一事件，不可否认对戴安娜的心理塑造，道具符号等细节对心理的暗示都是优点，这剧情是外包给外行三流编剧写的吗？
角度挺好的女性主义作品。女性的被禁锢，让戴安娜在男性私欲、皇权和历史里进了一个死局。不是每部作品都需要是“全面的、具体的、有人道主义光辉...的”。就像电影里戴安娜自己说的，自己不过是那只鸟, beautiful but not bright.
展现情绪可以不必那么白描，雉鸡的自喻、对王妃传记的抵制、拒绝出席晚宴以及无尽的含泪侧颜，但抽离掉白描之后似乎Diana这个人就已经空了，建议学习《蓝白红三部曲之蓝》来看看如何拍摄忧郁与压抑。当然，唯一一处超常发挥就是撕扯珍珠项链时伴着音乐的记忆蒙太奇；另外，全片音乐都非常好听。
挺好看，这部传记片的风格是心理电影路线，大胆的加入了很多幻想，比如吞食珍珠、与16世纪的安妮·博林王后神魂相遇，尤其是濒临崩溃边缘那段MV式蒙太奇，拍出了枷锁桎梏的压抑，也拍出了希望。
挺好看，这部传记片的风格是心理电影路线，大胆的加入了很多幻想，比如吞食珍珠、与16世纪的安妮·博林王后神魂相遇，尤其是濒临崩溃边缘那段MV式蒙太奇，拍出了枷锁桎梏的压抑，也拍出了希望。
3.5。拉雷恩努力用視聽、色調和表演呈現「政治驚悚片」的驚悚本色，並讓用以諷刺的滑稽基調一點點從畫框邊緣滲透出來。然而，既有重複渲染的贅筆，也有破局過快的缺憾。
我说这个风格这么Jackie的。。。原来是同一个导演，然而时过境迁，丫哈退步了，意识流到了极致就是发神经，健康的我不太能共鸣了，主要原因除了剧本垃圾还在于小K不及波曼，且丫的英式口音太硬了，还有哪个歇斯底里的劲儿，我是真的听不清她说的啥，当然也是我回国两个月英语变差了 - -！
基本套路和Jackie 一脉相承，但是不知道为什么这个我是喜欢的，可能Spencer的情绪更能get。小k演的很好，完美完成了导演的任务。
综上外因，故事在窒息后的释放和终究未能到来的“未来”才显得格外宣泄与感伤，热衷于的表达风格和对味的影像品味，私心推崇的作品。
@Telluride Beautifully fragile, fragilely beautiful. Kristen Stewart蝴蝶翅膀一样泫然欲泣的性感
音乐和服装加分。k演的这啥？全程地铁老人看手机表情。
喜欢穿Chanel的女主激烈反抗团建且开会总是迟到的故事，仿佛我本人so relatable（The Crown珠玉在前努力抛开其影响勉强7/10
很多大远景，展现了皇家气派和压抑。镜头总体上以静制动，大部分要不是固定镜头，要不是平缓的拉推。和童年的场域连通的那段环绕镜头在全片特立独行，正如黛安娜在皇家的如坐针毡，然后是一些漂亮的蒙太奇拼接，于是高潮诞生。色彩是一种反抗手段，黛安娜服装的颜色总是与周围格格不入，从服从到尝试反抗到觉醒，颜色从翠绿到薄荷绿到大红，从不协调到对比色，在欢快的色彩中她终于找重新寻到了真我。
本来以为会和宠儿一样无聊，没想到全程都看了下来（只能说明，个人喜好真的是个神奇的东西）虽然前半部分斯图尔特把王妃表演的总是缩脖子忸怩作态，但是那种禁锢在大宅门里的困顿苦闷真的就很契合，再加上背景时不时想起来的神经质的音乐，就让人更加入迷。结尾曲风一转至昂扬，虽然那可能只是短暂的一次放纵，但是也让人能感动到他们的快乐。
演得有点过于做作了，纪录片里面的黛安娜看起来也没那么神经质……只能说，黛安娜的性格是真的不适合做皇室成员吧😅
怎么形容戴安娜呢，一个字“作”，两个字“虚荣”，三个字“吃太饱”，四个字“无病呻吟”，五个字“不作不会死”。
呃……搞不清楚皇室和那個比，究竟哪個更滑稽。
[3.5/5.0] 黛妃在海報上的動作原來是在廁所嘔吐，有點悲傷。
看之前期望值超低。本身没有很喜欢Kristen，看trailer也觉得她演的有点做作。结果看了全片觉得其实演的挺好的，那种有点夸张，神经质，略显做作的表情都是电影整体风格的一部分。电影就是拍出一种处处都透着压抑诡异扭曲的气氛。而且很多意识流的片段，大篇幅的近景特写，都蛮考验演员的信念感的。看完对她的演技有所改观。唯一一点感觉可以把在人前表演的再端庄大方一点，就更符合戴安娜的公众形象。
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