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".
感觉是一部明星的人生流水账。看的是导演剪辑版，不知道其他版本有什么差异，但是我看的这版实在拍的一般。好像是纪录片，却还不如纪录片。没拍出一代传奇歌手的拼搏和成长，仿佛一切都是天赋的才能和天赐的机遇。绯闻事件却花了大篇幅在讲，但又没拍出真实的“渣男”形象和故事。还有就是王丹妮的选角，虽然有些气质和演技能有几分神似梅艳芳，但人也真长得不像啊，那些复刻的场景就真的很出戏。明明有更像梅艳芳，也更有演技经验的选择。导演也不知道怎么选的，为什么不干脆邀请关锦鹏来导演，梁乐民感觉完全不擅长这类题材，既然“梅艳芳”对香港人如此重要，为什么选角和制作给人感觉这么草率，看不懂这背后的用意。
看完后走出影院，眼前还一帧一帧掠过银幕上的画面。作为一个之前对梅艳芳毫无了解的人，看了这部电影，已然爱上她。
包场看的原因，特地坐到第三排，开场眼眶就湿润了，到结尾《夕阳之歌》哭得很累，结束影院阿姨说她也很喜欢梅姐
男主真的好像小狗🥵但是剧情没有很能打动我，感受最深的倒是最后他和妈妈的那一段对话。无法共情的原因也许是因为男主人设是异性恋中产白男，属于美国最privileged的群体了，导致整部电影有一点点矫情。
角色扮演和记录片段构成了对撞而不是对位，也不好多苛责什么，正片和片尾的对比感受神像乔峰对阿紫说：“你哪哪都好，可你终究不是她”。着墨太多不如以小见大，照本宣科交了作业。(好后悔选的太匆匆没看粤语版，这就叫雪上加霜)
趙文卓劉華的缺席雖是意料之中，但江湖事也能被擺上明面，才是這世道真正讓人不解的。理應擔心的不該是選角和化妝，而是梁樂民抄捷徑的問題，選擇素人（劉俊謙被選上時未出名）的原因竟然是他不想調教專業演員，原話大意是“要專業演員暫時抹除過往，成為他人並且具備此非本人的說服力是很難的”，不知道是不是祇有我對這邏輯一頭霧水⋯顯然，重現梅張生涯的低谷及轉折，僅靠學舌是遠遠不夠的，當然也不全怪演員稚嫩，而是梁樂民作為名義上的敘述者不得不做無謂取捨以避嫌，大方向塑造一個僅剩“仗義”二字的Mui，當跳躍成為常態而不做任何修飾，對觀眾說“Mui也是人，她也有七情六慾”這種空話顯得尤為可笑。安樂信不過王丹妮，是寫在臉上的，尤其在Mui復出後的部份，大量穿插新聞畫面，甚至直到婚紗謝幕秀，都沒有以她本人的演出收尾。
好似半神游地俩人把这片子看完了，好久没有的观影体验，其实我们年轻时也看过不少这种轻松的片子，不知道是我们不选择看还是这一类型片子的产量是少了
电影看完还是很感动，觉得女主还是演的不错，只是把近藤给美化了，还有演张国荣的演员气质还是差了点。
情感拿起又放下，亲密又分开，人类文明走向永远都需要学会控制情感。
九泉之下，梅艳芳一定要被气死。各种情节衔接的莫名其妙去，如同纪录片各种散的片段，张国荣演员选的太差
理智上知道表演还太表面，知道导演太传统，知道故事太单纯美化，但感情上却在听到梅姑真实歌声时落泪，看见哥哥走时崩溃。才听懂她的歌声里有这么多故事，香港女儿。
我降临人间，我芳华璀璨，我绽放缤纷，我孤独悲伤，我匆匆离去。Christan，快快成熟起来吧，如果你想长大，什么时候都不晚，可以是今晚，可以是明天，可以是十年后，可以是临死的前一天。明天开始，不要受到任何情绪的影响，人非圣贤，善恶只在一念之间，小人戚戚，君子坦荡，我问心无愧，我不能独自背负道德的枷锁，我应该捍卫的是自己的尊严。作为自然万物的一分子，你不需要忧愁，你不需要快乐，你只需要像植物一样，像动物一样，遵循生老病死的规律，完成造物主设定的亿万个循环当中的微小一段。（this sentence is just for console，tonight is awful，tomorrow is anther day）
两分辛苦分。又是一部原型本身的光芒远远大于影片的传记片，流水账式的回顾并不能深刻展现梅姐身上所有美好又宝贵的品质：善良、勇敢、义气…她对香港、对人类社会的责任感和馈赠远远不止给露宿者派盒饭这么简单。所有的触动都来源于梅艳芳本人人格魅力的唤醒，而模仿复刻的表演只是见皮不见骨，就像看到高度还原的香港旧景也只会令人徒增唏嘘。希望你们这班香港人能真真正正拍一个「香港女儿」的故事。
基本就是流水账。没有深入发掘人物内心。对比阮玲玉就知道了。如果对梅艳芳不了解不热爱是很难共情的。很一般。不过也可以理解。相关人士都还活着。实在不太方便拍
到后面真的好怕来个车祸俗套收尾，还好大家都很理智move on
曾遇上几多风雨翻，曾遇你真心的臂弯。对“香港的女儿”的缅怀，要客观评价不那么容易，有遗憾，作为传记片手法上平淡，但原型已经足够耀眼，夕阳之歌唱响每个瞬间直让人唏嘘。王丹妮年轻时期表演更具体，做到了形似而有自己见地
相信现在这个分数应该是感情分居多，这部电影本身完全就是流水账，对于梅艳芳的人生每一个节点都是蜻蜓点水、一点而过，她的粉丝相信应该不会买单吧？最后身着婚纱的告别真的是直击泪点。
拍的很不错！但是男主有的时候给我感觉用力过猛hhhh
络腮胡稍稍让人跳戏 但总的来说是可爱大男孩 比起甘草披萨 我更喜欢这一款诶
唉真的很唏嘘。为什么找个秃子演张国荣啊我不能接受。
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