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".
赌上所有捍卫真相，即使虚伪和暴力横行，这世界从不是你的世界，即使稍有不慎就会粉身碎骨，即使你周围没有同类只有男权的傀儡，即使没有人在乎胜利并不属于你。错就是错，罪恶就是罪恶，丑陋就是丑陋，你不是父亲的筹码、丈夫的财产、生育的机器，不是逆来顺受者，你该有思考、表达、捍卫尊严的权利。当你说不的时候，就是拒绝。
角斗士+天国王朝。向天再借500年让老雷多拍几部中世纪题材的作品吧！有趣的是17年前天国王朝中的两位主角在本片中客串了一把 而女主角又让我想起了西西里的美丽传说中的玛莲娜 生而美丽就是女人的原罪呐。“微笑和好话比赤裸裸的威胁有用多了”玛格丽特是一个具有savvy/智慧的女人；“对男人来说权力是最重要的”母亲的教诲 中世纪与现代的家庭关系有啥不同？至少婆媳关系上看不出东西方有多大差异。本的台词太粗鄙 当看一部fuck不离口的中世纪题材作品总会有违和感。就全片来看，如果套用水浒传，这不就是林冲手刃陆谦的剧本吗，这一点东西是一致的：打我老婆和财产的主意就拿命来偿。从女性的角度能解读更多，但区区短评就不展开了。
电影采用了特别的三段式：却是3种视角，细微的差别，截然不同的意义，从而突出那个属于女性的、受害者的真实版本，而不是那些为了权力和面子的伪君子的。历史是胜利者的书写，今天女性也获得了历史书写的权利，我们活在一个好的时代，这样的悲惨故事才得以不再一再的上演。
那两个男人为什么决斗？公平？正义？尊严？荣誉？家人？真相？……很可惜，都不是。真相令人唏嘘，结尾令人感叹——无论古今还是中外，身为一个女人，真的好难！
划重点：Chapter3—妻子视角。原以为雷导要拍中世纪版《角斗士》，没想到拍的是中世纪《末路狂花》。向雷老Salute！
编剧阵容爱了。中世纪与现在相比，其实也是太阳底下无新事
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。
3.5 虽然【真相】段落很不罗生门，但叙事很稳，内核也好，因为这所谓多数人被牺牲的文明，tm的令人窒息了。当然，比起大谜面，更令人疑惑的是，老司机居然是全片门面担当？？后来才知道，原来这个角色是大本来演的...好的打扰了...
中世纪女权电影，罗生门的叙事手法。虽然没有天国王朝的战争场面，但是一个好故事也足矣给观众留下深刻印象了。
前面两段太老套了，最后一段的叙事视角和决斗场面都很好。70
路途性的消失，动作仅仅是动作的概念和它的结果，也就是场面调度的消失，所以三段叙述理所当然地用上了同样的分镜。在这里，“中世纪”只是一种装修风格。某兔姓友邻嗦得好，“角色不识字，可是导演识字呀”，上一个镜头，发情种马在交配，下一个镜头，Jean扑在Marguerite身上做爱。行吧……拍得很好，下次别拍了。
褒誉过渡，马特达蒙和本瘦了倒是真的，故事内容很一般，三段罗生门的表述区别也不大，甚至谈不上罗生门，我一直不喜欢本的面瘫脸。
当然肯定没罗生门在视听上开创意义大，肯定也没角斗士或者天国王朝那么宏大，很多视听也很旧，但是这种雷德利斯科特永远都知道怎么抓人，永远忘不了在上影节看末路狂花现场有多嗨，谁能想象这片子在大银幕放会怎么样
2021年第28部。这部电影的观影体验可以分为两部分：前半部分“哟，不错，四星有了”；后半部分“wocao，五星！”。有人说这片模仿罗生门，其实并不是，影片不是要讲一个事实的不同表述，而是要展现女性自己的样子，以及在不同男性眼中的样子。在丈夫眼中她是温柔的样子，在施暴者眼中她是风情万种的样子，但都是工具人的角色。而她自己眼中的样子，没被看到过，也无人关心。缺点：最大的问题是镜头语言对当事人的感受表达不充分，不同的人竟然有同样的观看视角；另外我们都在夸女性视角，但女性视角是否也有扭曲有偏差呢；对照史实，电影丑化了丈夫的动机，这是否也算是女性主义下对男人的不平等呢；
There’s never justice for women, only strokes of luck.
如果这只是作为某篇相关权益报告中的用典尚可理解，但大费周章找一个七百多年前的经典一战来拍电影，只在「佐证」当下的这么一点价值观，真的很狭隘。既然都明晃晃地跟你说 the truth了，那还要什么三段，太看不起观众了吧？转场衔接宛若在看国产网大。除了女主外基本没有人物，国王形象也很刻板，嬉笑残忍仿佛照搬权游。自从听过分析中世纪室内戏打光问题后就特别在意，本片可以说还是太亮堂了。还有Pierre 老婆的孕肚，seriously ？不过好像在服化道方面，还有冷兵器geek得到快乐，也算没白拍。
最后其实没有赢家 输了就丈夫死 自己被烧死 赢了说明强奸是真的 那孩子是谁的 可能就是为了应付我这种人吧 老雷最后还给孩子一个镜头 一头金发活脱一个小呆萌 好吧
雷德利斯科特借用本片迴應了他1977年的處女作《決鬥的人》，以決鬥為題材，以十四世紀的中世紀法國為時代背景，雷德利斯科特在歷史資料基礎上再作演藝式創作，以“羅生門”角度敘述故事，但並非模糊真相或者揭露人性本相，而是以細微的動作表情和視點的差異表達出更荒繆的感覺，男性的自大和墮落摧殘了女性的尊嚴也成就了最後的決鬥，時勢造英雄也造狗熊，最後的決鬥之所以緊張不止因為場面調度的激烈，還因為無論誰勝誰負乃止同歸於盡，都無法得到真正的公義。編導用貌似平淡的語調，實際誘導觀眾對最後決鬥產生了一種愚民看殺頭的暗湧張力。
好嘛~电影里决斗，豆瓣评论区里也决斗了起来。这剧里面大本演挺有意思的，他那个发型，真的好现代……
女性的视角，最能体现影片的主题，全世界都一样，古代的女人实在可怜又可悲，而最后的决斗，双方都只是为了男性的尊严，而女人即便有在强的反抗世俗的意识，也只能像一只无助的羔羊，听天由命
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