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".
如果停留在Joy走进贝果，石头滚下山坡那一刻就好了，放手也是一种和解。太喜欢石头静默的那一段了。
1.全体亚裔都是什么鸟语，听中文得看英文，中国人比美国人难受
相当搞笑也相当感动，最后20分钟响起Claire De Lune的时候哭了。即使没有你的宇宙我会过得更好，我依然欣然前往你的宇宙；即使时间尺度上一切都会奔向虚无“nothing matters”，我也愿意和你在一起，那些你我存在的宝贵时光是有意义的。作为厨师、歌手、演员，作为洗衣店老板娘、作为母亲的每一个宇宙，都涉及到至少两代人的纠葛与和解，女儿的lesbian和热狗宇宙中母亲的lesbian桥段非常有意思。横亘宇宙的爱，在没有生命的岩石宇宙都能义无反顾地陪女儿坠崖。
喜欢的人可能会很喜欢。
披着东亚的皮，核心还是美国人的情感价值，隔靴搔痒
平凡主妇逃出躯壳，平行宇宙如同cosplay，砍瓜切菜脑体开挂，眼花缭乱love&peace。剪辑和节奏好像怪怪的，闷闷的，有些凌乱的感觉，没爽透。
broken English，功夫，长辈对晚辈不切实际的要求和期待。为什么2022年了亚裔电影里还是这些元素啊？我想看别的了！！另外，恶趣味一点不有趣，只有恶心！！画面令人晕眩，像做了两个小时的过山车。如果这是AAPI representation, I don’t wanna be represented! 平行宇宙的东西我更喜欢看《降临》那样的！！
真正尊重女性的电影，是不用任何标签和任何想法叠加在她身上的，只需要把她丢进生活里。你知道你为什么会变成了活成这样吗？因为你在这个时空是最烂的你，因为最烂的你所以分裂了更好的你。所有天马行空的想象远不止于想象，我在最烂的平行时空做最烂的自己，也请平行时空的我做最好的我。所有想象与剪接最后归化为东南亚家庭无奈的和解与原谅，和解自己，和解家庭，和解亲情，和解爱情。热狗手还有脚能弹钢琴，石头也能开出解语花，爱你，不分宇宙，因为我是我，我是女儿，我是妻子，我是你妈！！杨紫琼是一个非常奇特的存在，《艺伎回忆录》的章子怡和巩俐就压不住她，所以当她拿回属于自己的剧本，而别的人拿不到的时候，她就已经干死一大片了，期待杨紫琼阿姨顺利奥提！走遍大大小小电影节！2023年华语女星第一名！剧本写的真漂亮，剪辑也很棒！
亚洲导演拍亚洲人好像都开始迎合一种论调，长此以往，ALM不远了
“很多人认为欧洲的过去会是亚洲的未来，事情或许是，亚洲的过去才是亚洲的未来...”
天啊！暂且先不说它把“天马行空”这四个字讲得怎样，或者有没有把Asian在美国的处境描述得当，或者说一个家庭里的矛盾和裂痕要怎么展现、弥补，一个人回溯她的一生会有什么思考会不会后悔如果不会后悔她会怎么会和解等等，暂且先不说这些了（可能电影创作者本身也这样走偏了哈哈哈），有一个问题起码是讲清楚了的那就是——美国人此生最大的痛苦就是报税。他们能想到的最浪漫的告白，就是“下辈子我也要跟你联合报税”。这个痛苦之大、给人产生的幻觉之多、伤痕之不可愈合，我体会到了🥲
7分，其实去掉那些花里胡哨的，本质就是一部功夫喜剧。母女的话题其实讲得并不算太好，有点来的生硬也去得随意，不过倒是可以跟《青春变形记》对照着看。其他那些多元宇宙、穿越来穿越去的噱头都是佐料。最大的意义就是给杨紫琼和关继威更多的表演空间，其实更喜欢关在片中的表现，显然他更抢眼。
美国亚裔真惨。。。被歧视就算了还被套上精神枷锁，如果有来生，下辈子还开洗衣店。。。我也是醉了。如果有来生，亚裔为什么不能参政议政？为什么不能请选美国总统？为什么不能开公司，开工厂进入美国富人人群？
两块石头对话那也太酷了 导演的脑洞真是大的出奇 杨紫琼在这样的年纪能遇到这样一个角色 真是一个演员这辈子都梦寐以求的事
本以为是超级英雄工艺品，谁知是一个迷影风格狂欢品。作品不仅风格魔幻，剧本扎实，人设也是有趣有泪。尤其是母女关系的呈现上，完全戳中泪点。最后落脚点在爱上，很多人为此诟病。但如果人到中年，就会发现虽然俗套至极，但也确实只有爱能抵御虚无。
“妈的多元宇宙”整个想法都很绝。妈妈们值得，不是吗？她们应该得到她们值得的一切，她们值得每个宇宙最好的东西。包括最好的孩子。
可以把那些自称空想的浪漫或者平行宇宙的垃圾扔进垃圾桶了，当别人还在惊奇于另一个平行宇宙的自己时，本片已经在通过平行时空解构亲情，爱情以及命运的抉择与永恒，并能不甚说教地带给人欢乐，感动与思考了。
Loved the dilido! Loved the butt plugs! Loved that 最后credit里亚裔主创们都把自己的中文名字也写了上去！中间笑笑死我了，第一次在影院疯狂失控大笑
那两个石头坐在山谷里的点子真好啊。如果能不这么大团圆，看看虚无Bagel摧毁一切的样子就好了。
我们真的需要用这么多不断更新的技术形式去诠释那些陈旧的、俗套的故事吗？即使拥有穿越平行世界的能力，人类的想象力也依然只能局限于回归“美好家庭？” 我不理解，但很多梗确实挺好笑的。
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