剧情介绍

  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".

评论:

  • 康驰 2小时前 :

    4分。虽然大家都知道印度电影尺度大,很多社会深层问题政治阴暗面都敢呈现出来,跟韩国电影一样,莫不拍手叫好,虽说也知道这些问题还会一直存在,拍完不会有丝毫改变,但看的过程就是很爽啊,我看也一样。但从另一方面来说,这电影时间冗长,很多唱歌片段也有点跳戏,结尾警察反转真的有点为了反转而反转之嫌,一些不好的地方也该是看到的。

  • 五情文 3小时前 :

    抛开政治抛开法律,光一个种姓就够喝一壶了,国内的阶层压制至少不是明面上的,种姓于印度,贱民不如狗。

  • 初珠 7小时前 :

    什么时候内地观众审美这么开放了?居然能容得下这样悬浮文艺视角下的中年爱情故事?女权台词这么多也没被冲?全上海话台词也没被喷?这种欧洲风格作者电影明明只有豆瓣er才爱看!江女士评价此片:男女还是他妈不公平。你看徐峥胖得跟猪一样还有片拍,剧情还是三个美女围着他转。你看吴越,倪虹洁和马伊琍一个比一个瘦,腿都跟筷子一样。一看就是为了能有戏拍没少饿着。

  • 乘安 1小时前 :

    出乎意料,居然真的能在过俗和装逼之间找到了一个平衡点,把上海小男人的中年危机拍的趣味盎然,无奈和心酸都很克制但又能传递到位,台词写的尤其好,确实有《繁花》的味道了。影片里的上海不是现在的大上海,而是上海人的小上海,没有高楼大厦,只有小街小巷小弄堂里的咖啡馆和家务事,确实精致。几个主演演技都了得,除了唯一拉胯的黄明昊。

  • 厍思雨 1小时前 :

    大学教师被奸杀,大众愤怒;警察说这是犯人,但是有人要保他们,大众又愤怒;法庭上又说你们被欺骗了,然后大众又愤怒。。议员总结的很到位,政治家最厉害的武器就是大众的情绪。

  • 妍旭 7小时前 :

    2小时30分,再次反转,之后应该没有反转了吧,律师果然是男主。

  • 圭访曼 1小时前 :

    ps看过的第一部没有传统歌舞的印度电影

  • 圣语薇 6小时前 :

    市井上海人×明星意大利人,门到一股海派米道。周野芒的故事如电影般迷离梦幻、亦真亦假——人生如影、影如人生。

  • 合易云 3小时前 :

    爱情在哪?神话在哪?也就只有索菲亚罗兰扣题了(这是诽谤)。。。

  • 安雅柏 6小时前 :

    讨论的话题非常有意义,剧情反转的设置也很爽文,但就一个问题,印度的法庭是可以这样随便一人show的吗?

  • 居翠琴 5小时前 :

    一万六的Jimmy Choo亦真亦假,中年人的爱情要素描心动更要目的地无差;

  • 敏尔柳 1小时前 :

    印度片最让我不满意的地方就是太长了,导致前部分都是提速播放,整体看下来还是挺震撼的,虽然反转已经不算是新鲜的方式,但中段开始的法庭戏比较吸引我,节奏也飞快的,近期值得推荐的一片印度电影。

  • 季山菡 9小时前 :

    社会意义还是很好的,但作为一部剧情片有点乱乱的

  • 宰父和悦 4小时前 :

    电影让世界更美好。这片子太屌了,五星起步。

  • 卫国璋 0小时前 :

    轻巧但不轻佻,浓厚又不沉重,玩形式也不让人跳戏,这里藏一点文艺的小梗,那里再玩一点戏中戏,快到矫情的禁区线时,就安排角色先自我解嘲,把开始变重的东西消解掉了,劲儿很巧妙。导演看起来没有负担,不背负,不隆重,反而让观众也一起松弛下来。这一年里,院线电影实在让人提不起兴致,年底这一部小小的,轻轻的东西倒是一点点惊喜。

  • 卫镇宽 8小时前 :

    反转很精彩,但剧情稍微有点拖沓,尤其上半集为了煽情而煽,前面节奏有些松,加快点就更好了

  • 婷锦 5小时前 :

    将近3个小时,真的太长太长了。不得不说印度真的很敢拍啊,他们难道没有那种类似广电总局的存在吗?

  • 俞翠柏 8小时前 :

    最好一场戏是两男三女第一次围桌,

  • 厚沛若 7小时前 :

    印度敢拍是敢拍 但他们从来都不改 每15分钟就有女孩受害也太可怕了 他们的种性制度注定他们民主不起来 瘸腿律师在法庭上说的话以及事后的处理证明了这一点

  • 尹嘉石 3小时前 :

    豆瓣特供版《小时代》。不懂男人,不懂中年男人,更不懂上海,全是自以为是的猜想,虚妄的符号之下,空空荡荡。

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