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".
让自己愉悦是一件很酷的事情。
这调度也太牛逼了吧，一群人几张椅子几件衣服讲述一个5天里元素多到爆的故事，期待改成迷你剧
没条件去看现场的穷人表示这部音乐剧光是bootleg就已经超好看了，默默希望百老汇/伦敦西区音乐剧放出官摄变成常态，为了不影响档期卖票完全可以延后几年再放出来，那些超珍贵的OBC摄影只存起来真的是太可惜了~
多人分饰多角的形式除了经济效率外，在阐释故事的团结和谐主题也有一定的符号化作用。适合放在小屏幕上的百老汇，故事视觉化、篇幅也短。
非常棒！快两个小时一点都不闷！最喜欢女机长和她那段suddenly。爱上女机长！
最后的几分钟有点意思。高端鸭。我更希望这一切都是男主预料之中的，包括争吵以及和他弟弟坦白并告诉女主，目的就是引起女主的共鸣而最后达到高潮。这或许也是他热爱这份工作的成就感。
喜欢，用非常工整的五幕剧结构做了关于冲出禁锢的主题，尤其是第四幕的半开放空间太妙了，滑入第五幕的疯狂和自由时反而看哭了。恐怕只有女性才能深深共鸣，虽然没有生育，也比55岁年轻很多，但是太了解那种性羞耻，内化了评判的感受，尤其东亚女性更能感同身受。为倒数第二个镜头大叫鼓掌，伟大的艾玛•汤普森！看之前其实很害怕，因为和自己脑子里酝酿了几个月的剧本有重合的部分，看完觉得确实有重合，但仍然是完全不一样的故事，值得写的故事，而那重合的部分也只是女性有太多共同的经验。
在糖衣包裹的梦幻之后又拔高到另一个层面了。普通人能够共情的角度太多，说教的态度又非常温和，看到的现实都变得有些浪漫了起来。
天降圣鸭！衰老不是最可怕的，最可怕的是老了没钱请鸭，所以，女人，趁着年轻多多挣钱吧。
非常喜欢影片关于自我接纳和性的讨论，然而Meeting 4的发生显得有些突兀。
喜欢！！（题外话 两个人的发音都好清晰啊 特别适合作为口语听力教材……
8分。这种主要就两个演员，几乎全程都在碎碎念唠叨的电影本来不是我的菜，但架不住本片真的是太有意思了啊。老年妇女的求爱之旅。论做鸭，这一位是专业的！！！里奥算是满足了女人们的各种幻想了吧，但反过来也能看出太过完美而显得不真实。Emma Thompson的表演非常精彩，我觉得是可以放入今年最佳讨论的级别~~那种又想又怕，不断放开心灵的过程真的是绝了~~~~五星推荐啊，哈哈~~
看得我哭哭笑笑的，她牵动我的一丝一毫的情感，笑她的尴尬，哭她的难过，感觉自己也在一点点把包裹的外壳撕开一丝口子。还记得他告诉我，你对自己要求太高了。我总是浑然不觉。我又总是处在矛盾中。但他也告诉我这个过程要自己度过，可以借助帮人的帮助但仍要有自己的力量。接纳自己，接纳真实的自己！他告诉她你可以的，然后变成，她告诉自己你可以的。然后不为了外在的标准放下judge 的态度，正视自己也正视别人。放松，我也学不会的放松。当我看到她真的放松下来，一方面为过去的生活哭泣，一方面为获得前所未有的自由而愉悦。自由，精神的自由，就是生命力的释放。我爱她最后面对镜子里衰老的自己，那亮晶晶的眼神。她不愧是这个世界上我最爱的女演员！
这是一具躯体，年轻或衰老，健壮或瘦弱或肥胖。
For Emma Thompson.从《理智与情感》的姐姐到这个Nancy Stokes，这个女人由她通过对过往的角色的颠覆来完成，格外令人信服。第一次会面的焦虑、矛盾和试图通过攻击贬抑对方获得“道德制高点”上的安全感都太太太真实了。非常工整、正确的室内剧，从内容到形式。所以这个世界上真的有Leo Grande这种男人的对吗？even fantasy？我们工薪阶层的退休金可以消费得起的那种？
在这疫情遍布的鬼社会下，麻木不仁才能不怄气，至少少怄气。
四星给美丽童话，多一星是给共情。看到女主仿佛看到亲密关系中的自己：十分爱judge别人，一紧张反而变得更加硬邦邦，话痨又很强装理性……理性害我！这个角色还必须爱玛来演，她那种聪明劲儿加重了这种对于自己性魅力的自卑，缺一不可。最后一脱真的震撼，面对不再美丽的肉体而不judge自己，真的需要莫大勇气
还是那句话，英国人才能做到这种冷清的温暖。
喜欢电影中二人的每次对话，虽然很理想化，但都是对现实生活的一种提炼和萃取，看完以后会给你一种思考。
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