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".
想討巧，用歐洲中世紀的故事、羅生門的方法來展現metoo的主題。但Ben & Matt Damon參與的劇本和Ridley Scott的拍法都弱化了Jodie Comer本人最重要的視角和人本，比如強暴場面不用拍兩次，完全可以用其它鏡頭代替；不用以好母親作為化解。到頭來和故事裡兩個充滿toxic masculinity的角色一樣自以為是地展現所謂正義。如果不是Jodie Comer，這部電影會更失色。
三段式有点冗长，但是真的，有毒的男性气质真的祸害前年
很满足的观影经验，雷德利斯科特很少叫人失望，整个故事被分成了三个POV，以不同视角去讲述同一个故事，非常罗生门式的叙事方式。我个人更喜欢前两个part，娓娓道来，缓慢，克制，在叙事的同时还展现了13世纪风土人情，衣食住行，风土人情，如何坐卧，如何战斗，如何向领主效忠，如何进行婚礼，仪式感的铺陈让一切都特别具有真实的美感，战斗场景的碰撞感和残忍更是爽快淋漓，两位男性在不同视角中的自恋与选择性遗忘也让人莞尔。第三部分稍微有点崩，我理解主创借古讽今的女性叙事，但我真的真的已经疲倦了用廉价的愤怒感去撩拨观众情绪，就像导演把你捆在椅子上使劲儿抽你耳光一样：气不气？气不气！你咋还不生气？非常predictable也非常无聊
2.法庭一场戏，真证实了，“浪漫”的法国没有一个男人！
三个章节从三个主人公的不同视角解构了这场关于权力、荣誉的争夺战，历史由胜者和男性书写（history、his-story），被“强行补充上”的第三章女性视角 在如今这个cancel文化盛行、性别冲突对立问题格外敏感，依旧以男性为中心的父权体系社会 有着更加复杂的时代含义。
大手笔还原中世纪领主、骑士、守卫的服化道令人震撼不已，着实让人回到了十四世纪封建庄园时代。qiang暴戏和最终决斗都令人揪心。内核故事却角度清奇，美丽的少妇和行事粗暴的丈夫，外加俊美的对手，演员演技炸裂，衍生出了极其容易令大众误解的窘境。其一，当代的性犯罪取证何其困难，一场中世纪的强奸案更是难以获取证据。其二，影片狠狠嘲讽了sex事中不知取悦女性的男方。其三，面对强暴，敢怒直言的女性值得敬佩
不是罗生门，是多视角。一场极为复杂的胜利。
质感果然没令人失望 人总是倾向于抬高自己 聚会和解Jean的版本是他主动 le gris是他主动 marguerite的版本是她促成 男人的自信真是膨胀 Jean觉得自己怜香惜玉和妻子一见钟情而在妻子眼中他们的关系开始于婚礼前的财产清点 之前的含情对视根本不存在 男人觉得女人多看他一眼就是想献身 女人只觉得他愚蠢 女人的美貌和智慧不过是点缀 财产和繁殖功能才是根本 决斗确实精彩过瘾 结局一个万人推崇一个宛如牲口 人算是什么东西
年度最佳观影。雷导亲自出马，好莱坞终于对《罗生门》动手了。不同于原作四段故事的云泥之别，本片更多还是把侧重点用在了微妙细节的对比上，从而观影时更能沉进去发现差别、思考留白。结局虽然选择了最解气的一种，超级决斗看得人两手心冒汗，但各种欢呼与沉默的对比镜头处理以及女主痛苦的表情都丝毫没有让影片的深度因“解气”而大打折扣。事实证明，大部分女性对自己同胞受难时只会表现出嫉妒、无知、歪理和假慈悲(即使是最好的闺蜜)，能为自己站出来的都少之又少，更何况她人……而时至今日的我们，依然有不少男性觉得马特达蒙不惜妻子代价的决斗真他娘的正确……朱迪科默也是大器晚成，无愧演员表一番。
六百多年过去，女性的处境有变好一些吗？并没有。而世界不会变好，才更应该在每一个具体的历史情境中，为了自己而坚强地抗争。
太直白了，直白到挤不出第二句观后感的程度。
中世纪女权电影，罗生门的叙事手法。虽然没有天国王朝的战争场面，但是一个好故事也足矣给观众留下深刻印象了。
一场强奸演两遍，废话连篇复述三回，还满口真话的《罗生门》肥皂剧。如果黑泽明在世的话，会骂斯科特无耻吗！84岁斯科特只拍了20分钟决斗好吧！前面两个小时的废戏从来都是斯科特不擅长的。美英联手蹭法国700年前的女权，别扯淡了。4
章节标题字幕淡出的方式道出了作者所认为的the truth，即玛格丽特夫人口中的才是真相，然而“The truth does not matter”。怀孕的科学依据更显时代荒谬，高高在上的国王则一直在以看戏的态度来检视这场决斗。最让我着迷的是电影“平淡”的剧本。保守之中见真章，相比于末路狂花，我更喜欢这一部。
Alex Lawther演的真好，比一众主角演的都妙！Adam Driver真的是靠观众缘活跃在银幕上…老雷从流水账开始拍，一路匠气十足，拍到最后终于有了该有的张力！
外国导演眼中的女性：《最后的决斗》。中国作家眼中的女性：《三体》
雷德利斯科特的三重结构电影，第一层是中世纪决斗，看了开头的百年战争风貌可能会劝退一大批人。第二层是罗生门式三段叙事，两男一女同一故事不同视角三段讲述，三个主演演技炸裂，台词跟表情细微的差别映射三个主人公内心。第三层也就是真正的内核是女权主义，也就是玛格丽特的故事后面的truth意味。虽然是中世纪背景，但是故事里的男权控制（强奸犯最终也认为自己无罪）、夫权压迫（马特达蒙始终只关注自己的尊严）和社会的高压（法庭舆论、婆媳讨论还有塑料姐妹花）到今天也不过时，疯王查理六世说：我不背锅。目前看过最好的女权片，也完爆今年的奥斯卡提名。
几个世纪以来，那盆女性火刑架下的炭火从未熄灭。
这里面的男人不是禽兽就是垃圾，都去死吧……
女性追求自身权利的壮举最终变成男性重建个人名望的工具，只得结尾一声叹息
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