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".
我喜欢这部电影，为了这部电影，我将手机扔一边，全身心投入这个故事里面。没有给五星是因为这部电影给了确切答案，如果朱迪·科默的那个版本也是真假难辨，这部电影就非常高级了。不同的人代表不同的叙事视角，早在七十年前，黑泽明已经玩过了。雷德利再这样搞， 至今已经不新鲜了。给女性发声，并不是新鲜的表达。
以中世纪为背景的女权电影，一个女人被强奸了，她希望说出真相、使罪犯获得应有的惩罚，而在她之前，更多的女性如果不是全部女性在他们的保护人不在场时或许都受过这种侮辱，而她们的选择时沉默，因为说出真相或许意味着更大的伤害甚至付出生命的代价，幸好我们的主角是幸运的。
六百多年前女主敢做的事，现代人不一定人人敢为；她婆婆与闺蜜的观念，六百多年后仍随处可见。女性觉醒、男女平等，任重道远。
同一事件的真相从当事者三人的角度各自讲了一遍，只有女主所代表的章节才是真的真相。可以说是罗生门式的叙事，从某种意义上讲也是金刚川式的。
如此大手笔，就拍了这么一件“小事”，值得赞扬！值得支持！电影3星，题材加1星！本片最大减分项就是color grading……好比tm美图秀秀滤镜一般…现在的润色师们能不能好好多看看几遍斯坦利和塔可夫斯基！尼玛连个白天的光都调不好！
换人物视角，看似一场metoo大戏，但编剧对事件的悬念不感兴趣，讲男人和女人如何看待事件，而上帝总会站在正义的一边。老雷拍这种历史剧也是好莱坞第一人了，功力毋庸置疑。
罗生门的故事先要看的是剧作吧，所以我现在还没明白老司机的仆人是怎么知道那天马特达蒙家里只有他老婆一个人呢。本来以为是婆婆的一个大阴谋，三个人又在阴谋里各怀鬼胎，所以现在的剧本看起来太寡淡了，落脚点也模棱两可，女性主义的东西我从这个结局里反正是看不到。
三位主角都贡献了不错的演技，但故事还是传统的罗生门，也符合当下女权的主流价值取向，值得看的好电影。下午我又想想，导演也投机取巧啊！加个机位，换几句台词，剪三次，半小时的故事就成一个半小时了。牛逼！
這種類似 羅生門 的故事，是需要高超的敘事技巧的，明顯 雷導演 沒有講好。
教士可以摆脱强奸案的控诉？繁殖癌的困惑。
以前“强暴不是对女人施加的罪行，而是侵害她男性监护人的财产。”真可怕啊
决斗戏真是揪心极了，乌合之众对暴行的荒谬审判增添了现实张力。警谕当代世界的残酷历史剧作。
开头确实有入戏困难，利摩日战役什么的，对中世纪那段中法历史实在不了解。另外本来也不喜欢章节体和不同视角叙述这种形式（咖位倒是借此平衡了，哈哈）。被美术带着走，渐渐看到职场权谋、看到男性友谊，当然最精彩的是最后一段女性视角。Jodie Comer减重后相当适合古装！角色的复杂度上来后，她的演技也获得了可发挥的空间，感觉这次要得奥斯卡！影片里中世纪生活的细节相当丰富，有些段落有种纪录片+游戏的感觉。 女性主义的细节也照顾得相当好，甚至群演，比如那个法国王后听到玛格丽特法庭供词后的表情。不愧是《末路狂花》的导演！觉得素材的取舍和视角镜头略有问题，但愿意为其他亮点加到5星。挺遗憾本和马特没有演成原来的CP。从制片角度讲，这部影片确实很难商业定位，喜欢古装历史动作的男性看到最后会不爽；女性观众则对历史部分难以共鸣。
对Jean，Margerite只是他的所有物；对Jacques，Margerite只是他的被征服物。一群教士以伪科学为标准审判Margerite如同当代键盘侠。《不是中世纪的最后一场决斗，是从古至今的女性哀歌》这篇影评写得很好。
11.2 剧本写的好，电影也拍的好，朱迪科默演的也好。女性觉醒，但是女主没有做任何不符合时代背景的事情。两位男性的视角恰到好处的展示了为何女人难以被听见。真的是非常的妙了。其实并不是很喜欢把这个片子比作罗生门，因为罗生门是多方在有意说谎，而这部片子三方陈述的都是自己心中的真相。前两个“真相”则更衬托了第三个真相的悲凉。
三部电影的自反，当选择用这样的方法去叙述的时候，也就选择了最危险的创作。摄影机被绑架，我们被构陷，最后一起为第四幕的last duel狂欢，而不再关心（她说的/被强调的）truth. 慢点为第三幕的真相叫好，当(这个故事里)还是也注定要回到以男性斗争决定走向的时候，truth的女性视角就已经被消解了，摄影机甚至处处在暴露自己局外人的身份，回看第三幕的种种甚至是一种残酷的影像剥削，而庭审戏则是剥削的顶点。人类真的是几百年没什么长进呢。真相都是胜利者/权力方打扮出来的小丑，谁说这电影不是呢？
可能是我看到过的，由男性导演拍摄的最为真诚贴切的女性视角了。在这个“女权”被当作“财富密码”的年头，这种非口号式的非符号化的表达就已经是对于女性的极大尊重。多人物视角的形式虽然已不新鲜，但影院的大荧幕极为有效地放大了精心设计的细节，也多亏了优秀的演员，让我有了沉浸式的观影体验。这是其他屏幕做不到的，一个微小的动作或神情，稍微走点神就会错过，也白费了剧组的付出。原来除了动作片科幻片等大制作，叙事片也可以很适合影院啊。
其实并不如《异形》和《末路狂花》那么有力量，算是借古讽今的作品。朱迪·科默值得一个影后，这片子男主换几个人貌似也差不太多，但女主功力差一点点都不行。一个有意思的点：第三段标题出现后，“The Truth”一个词比其它几个词多停留了几秒钟才消失；结尾字幕也够讽刺：Jean几年后在另一场决斗中丧生。
三位主角都贡献了不错的演技，但故事还是传统的罗生门，也符合当下女权的主流价值取向，值得看的好电影。下午我又想想，导演也投机取巧啊！加个机位，换几句台词，剪三次，半小时的故事就成一个半小时了。牛逼！
難看，看了個寂默，女權可以用別的方式呈現，用睡好友老婆的方式，真的太爛。
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