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".
基本没什么叙事，而且小孩熟过头的表演很没有说服力，A24的独立气质一如既往，华金·菲尼克斯的表演依旧看点满满，可惜影片既不是纪录片，作为剧情片又太稀松，十分尴尬。
《呼朋引伴》绝不是引人入胜的影片，甚至有时要“忍耐”一下平静和沉闷的叙事节奏，才能进入电影所包裹的温情之中。
和墨尔本豆瓣基友顺利面基一起看的片子。情绪美好又治愈，中途还默默看哭了一下。To visit planet Earth, you will have to be born as a human child. You will grow up, travel, and work. Over the years you will try to make sense of that happy-sad-full always-shifting life you were in, and when the time comes to return to your star, it may be hard to say goodbye to that strangely beautiful world
Mk2 Odéon 小侄子和片中被采访的孩子们都十分打动我，这些稚嫩的灵魂在各自独特的环境中努力寻找和理解自己在这个世界中的位置。片中平和隽永的咏唱响起时，好像我幼年落寞不安的情绪褶皱也被揉平了。大人们凭着经验信誓旦旦地说着成长路上必经的关卡，而孩子揣着属于他们的真挚、忧愁、愤怒与莽撞，对着一无所知的未来也毫无惧意，对它说c’mon c’mon
之前剧场版该有的元素都有，
So gentle. 喜欢这样一种影调，它不会让你觉得生活美好的夸张，但也不会让你在城市的黑暗中痛苦沉沦。把话筒递给所有人，也把话筒对准自己。
这次的主线剧情又是什么呢？
“小孩子真实直接又残酷。”
So fucking Bad 不真诚 the worst kind of tone-deaf NPR self congratulatory fake-inclusive elitism shit
20220109le。寡淡文艺片，文艺中年带娃的几天。
比《二十世纪女人》还难看，不工作的无聊男人，不上学的欠抽小孩。整日拿着麦克风满大街采访，问东又问西，躺床上聊，坐家里聊。毫无重点，没有逻辑，漫无目的。这就是当下西方人的心境吗？巴拉巴拉巴拉......3
属于我不喜欢的那种类型电影，基本是以对话形式带动剧情发展。演员表现很自然。可能因为不想听太多大道理了，所以看的很乏味。
Mike Mills的片子总是如此，影像质感十分出众，但是气质又相对独立，以至于在颁奖季会显得有些曲高和寡。但anyway，说不上为什么，静静看完，明明似乎什么都没有说，却觉得获得了某种疗愈。至少在当下，personally，我很需要这样一部片子。也是我今年颁奖季目前最喜欢的一部片子。
好久没有看这么有流逝感的作品了，不记得第一次看到语音旁白和无声影像结合的片段是在哪里。看前面以为是讲孤独的，全看完发现只猜对了三分之一不到。兄妹、母子、叔侄(忘年挚友)以及夫妻，构成牢固三角和一线段的图形关系。四个点都有自己的问题，他们在一定程度上怯于表达真实情感，逃、躲、假装无视、敷衍差点毁掉宝贵的亲密关系。然而他们没有放弃，在信任、试探、发泄、原谅之后加增了爱，它或许来自血缘但超越了它。访谈内容巧妙地引导和呼应着主线剧情(同时也喜欢疑似是树叶夹带的私货)。严重怀疑饰演Jesse的小男孩是本色出演，太太太自然了，倒显得其他所有人都不够“去雕饰”了。眼泪自己涌出来两次，具体位置不记得了。
世界真的很糟，但是在黑暗中看到光明始终都是好的吧！
美式小清新重构 黑白摄影很好 太多熟悉场景
挺有意思的 两个人之间的互动也非常自然 华金真会演
具有强迷惑性的概念匹配——假想父亲对照失职母亲、城市氛围映衬人物境遇、大小演员的成熟表演方法与紧密对白节奏形成代际对抗，在欲扬先抑中水到渠成，交付某种普世且“当下”的亲密关系。So Boring！感觉当代好莱坞作者把力气全部用在了如何不声不响地掩饰说教，让作品的爹味显得没那么冲。
有几个点特别抓人，starchild和结尾各自独白。有些还是传统教育理念，都能猜到，当然能做到就很不容易了。不是特别喜欢黑白处理，羡慕华金的发质发型。
有趣，承载了我：1. 跟着纪录片导演巡游；2. 巡游美国的各个城市，跟能欣赏的人一起 的梦想。
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