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".
这不是罗生门，是对同一件事的不同角度描述，某些小白不要人云亦云。另外达蒙演的丈夫只是爆燥，不懂人情世故，也许不是好丈夫，但绝对不是某些带节奏的描述是人渣和坏人
一看就不是那种蹭metoo，恰烂钱的片子。服化道投资巨大，中世纪味道拉满，而故事核心居然是现代化的女权视角压箱底，可以可以。有些镜头和对白会留下很深印象。看完又把《十字军之王3》下了回来，游戏瘾犯了。
3.5 美版罗生门，印象深刻的点：science used to say rape cannot get women pregnant, it's not even that long ago. 500 years is a short period of earth time, according to science.
其实是精彩入胜的电影，特别是结尾，不足的是中间武打战斗太少，如果能多安排些惊心动魄的打斗或者战争场面，那本片将是经典。
3.5星，同样的事件一遍一遍不同的细节加深对一件事情的理解。其实有点太过形式化，但还是会为女子感到骄傲！说出来，勇敢得活下去！
雷利·史考特執導戰爭電影就是一把手的工匠等級，營造的恢弘壯烈場面一向有目共睹，最後那場壓軸的決鬥，令人看得呼吸都要停止；但另一方面，他對於探究心理層面的細膩之處就略顯不足，光靠繁複的台詞是難以完整表現吧。
这应该是福克斯在被迪士尼收购前让雷老爷子拍摄的影片，以后这种机会也不会再有了。朱迪科默在片中的妆容很美，但三幕罗生门，不管是从哪一方角度去看朱迪科默都是泄欲和生育的工具，这就更揪心了。票房惨败确实只是时代的原因，就像大泷咏一和millennium在如今真的“带不动”啊，哈哈哈
“rape不会导致怀孕，这是科学事实”44年前《决斗的人》，到现在，雷德利像转换了一种使命。
作为动画党，因为巴在电影中显得比较爱剑心，简化了巴的复杂性和故事悲剧内核而有些失望。 总得来说故事和内容都太商业，没有什么特别出彩的地方。
斯科特导演的女性视角的影片一直都很不错，《末路狂花》《异形》等等，这部也同理。中世纪罗生门式的决斗，简觉得妻子被rape有辱作为骑士的名声，站在维护妻子的立场不过是顺带的，从审判前的夜晚命令妻子上床做爱就能看出来，明明妻子才刚刚向他哭诉，简并没有把她当作独立个体，就是一件财产。勒格里的生活一直伴随着美女主动环绕，天生就认为他与谁发生性关系都是合理的，因此他觉得与玛格丽只是通奸，并不是违背她的意愿，即使玛格丽一直在说no...到了第三段关于玛格丽的真相，她的真相会不会和前两者有修饰或者夸大的地方呢，只知道事实是勒格里rape了玛格丽。她的命运竟然要这俩决斗生死来决定，也是蛮讽刺的。朱迪科默还挺好看的，但最后不得不吐槽，到底是怎么看出勒格里帅的？星战时我就觉得这个演员长得很奇怪，身材倒是挺好。
虽然不完美，但是浪客剑心至今是我心里漫改真人版中的最佳！
自私傲慢虚伪的男人们啊。在女性被强暴只能作为男性财产被侵害为理由进行诉讼的时代，审判过程简直荒谬，看客们为械斗而沸腾，受害者要经受滚钉板的煎熬。而现代女性类似的困境虽有缓解依然存在。三段视角看到最后，内心只希望这俩男的都能快点儿死掉。Jodie诠释的坚毅与脆弱更加深观感。雷导真的是什么题材类型都能拍且拍得好，一定要身体健康接着拍电影呀！
就算末了，你感到幸运吗？是的。可你感到欢愉吗？绝不。
三个视角的叙事其实不存在什么罗生门，强奸一直存在，丈夫的眼里自己是完完全全的受害者，虽然一直生不出儿子，但妻子作为自己的财产受到了侵犯，强奸犯自始自终不认为自己的行为是强奸，曾经的受害者选择做帮凶反倒指责站出来反抗的人是错的，不在乎真相只想追求刺激的旁观者。阴沉的天色也掩盖不住油画般的美，三段完全相同的时间和事件，叙事丝毫没有重复，选角与人物形象高度契合，结束的干净利落。结局值得鼓掌，但八百年后的今天，这些令人作呕的事件依然在发生，没有任何改变。
故事其实非常好，罗生门的角度改编了一个历史真实事件，但是节奏真的慢
准备很久的性侵案被延期了 冲动杀进影院看个中世纪性侵案 第一个视角出来的时候就预料到后面的展开 唯一没有料到决斗结果 作为一个对现世正义不报期待的人 这片儿换我拍肯定要安排一个相反的结局 让观众吃苍蝇那样难受且难以忘怀 (日常体验吃苍蝇的我看到最后几行字真的好快乐哈哈哈哈) 感叹所谓的罗生门叙事 不就是出庭的日常么...the truth is always somewhere in between (but usually closer to what she said)
叙事的艺术，这才是复调叙事正确的打开方式，这才是正经的史诗质感。打四星是因为第三段故事并没有达到预期的那种说服力和震撼，感觉老雷还能做得更好。
自私暴躁的骑士丈夫，虚荣不自知“凤凰男”，以及处处被当作工具的妻子，三个人物，三个视角，层层递进。第三章真正从女性视角出发，展现了中世纪对于女性的压迫和桎梏，女人们永远只是男人追求财富和权力的工具，更有借古讽今的意味。虽然是部中世纪历史片，但我愿称之为真正的女权主义片
虽然理解老雷的用心，但从另一个角度，他的这部电影之后，还原真正的卡鲁日的形象彻底成了不可能……
强暴不会怀孕。陈腐的偏见规条真是可笑又可恨。
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