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".
标题译得很好，一方面点出了“成长”这个皮克斯几十年如一日的母题，另一方面也呈现出文本上与卡夫卡的暗合。
一部属于上海人，属于年轻范的电影，不是我的style；一部属于了解法国幽默，了解费里尼，了解本国乳化的电影，不在我的理解范围；我的状态和电影最后一模一样，困，无聊，不知道看它的意义以及带给我的感觉.but 很女权，徐峥代表男导演的道歉
因为小贾去看的，结果很惊喜的电影。台词有趣，又颇具温情。比心倪虹洁姐姐！（顺便小贾弟弟演的美妆达人敲可爱，支持男孩子化妆）想做一只快乐的野猫。
如果13岁的我能看到这部电影，也许会暴风哭泣吧？成长的不安和压抑、庞大到让人无处可逃的原生家庭、必须奉命扼杀的爱的萌芽、剥离母体的疼痛、在身体的变化面前手足无措、为了满足所有人不惜牺牲最闪亮的自己……那个渺小卑怯的我、那片一旦逃离就不愿回望的黑暗世界、那段被封印在身体里的蜕变之旅，将在日后时时点醒我：红色小熊猫没什么可怕的，关键是，你终于接纳了你自己。
三星给制作 故事逻辑太差了 还都是刻板印象
相当混杂的观感 从皮克斯 甚至从迪士尼正常的水准出发 我大概都给不到这片合格的分数——随意的高概念 不讲道理的剧情逻辑和缺乏说服力的结局落点 让我非常质疑这部电影的诚意；但另一方面 这种极其典型的亚洲式家庭逻辑 又切实让我有一种无奈而尴尬的亲切感 很希望能有机会 跟海外华裔小伙伴和自幼在海外长大的歪果女性朋友聊聊这部电影 看看能不能找到什么新的视点和共鸣吧
神赋予祖先新怡变红熊猫击溃敌人的神力成了世代麻烦，需进行红月驱逐仪式。对超市男幻想被妈揭，羞愧早变红熊猫，妈以为初潮跟踪掏出卫生巾社死。想到好友而冷静切换自如成筹4Town演唱会票的筹码，她也获得了前所未有的欢迎和快乐，日期撞生日派对攻击人。爱女心切的妈因女儿留下红熊猫而发飙成巨熊（自责和过于苛求完美的积压情绪。外婆不让她和爸在一起，她伤害过外婆。），姨子变熊协力挽救残局。沉默而关键的爸。
5/10。前有纽约女孩养大红狗，后有华裔女孩变小熊猫。又萌又闹腾，东方式家长的控制欲被无限放大，阻止去看演唱会而毁了足球场，明知是动画的夸张但就是不舒服，这个问题和短片《包宝宝》是一样的。最后的落脚点是卖熊猫玩偶。
实在太圆滑了，算计过多。现在我对肤浅的girl power、所谓的多元化、自由对规训的胜利以及一切毛茸茸的萌宠非常厌恶。而且，本片对华人家庭的描述充满着偏见式的、标签化的描摹。与同时期的《雄狮少年》相对比的话，我第一次判国产动画胜皮克斯。
看出来了导演是真的有父母造成的心理阴影。这次迪士尼在亚裔文化上的表现是OK的，对相当一部分亚裔二代来说应当很有共鸣…虽然看完也不知道为什么是小熊猫但是后面念咒和流行歌合二为一的时候真是非常好笑。
我们在心理咨询工作中，协助困境中的人们能建立或恢复独立且又互赖的功能常常非常艰难。这其中，需要辨识认同或反相认同，反复体验从原生关系出走，否认和撕裂拉锯的种种过程，这些远比我们想象中复杂很多的情绪和感受，需要一点点抽丝剥茧。而纠缠其中的能从关系的分离中体验孤独和完成悼念，又是走向自我成熟，走向关系和解最艰难的一个步骤。每个选择背后藏着个体生命的差异性和非线性发展，需要检视。
已经被可爱晕了！大胖闺女！我命运般的大胖闺女！接女宝啦朋友们！！！
▫️因为是线上流媒体发布没有上院线，这部长篇肉眼可见透出“预算不太够”的味道…比起这几年已经看习惯了的皮克斯迪士尼大制作，环境建模让我以为这是2010年出品的动画（Sign……稍稍有点可惜了！Pixar第一位长片女性导演加油！未来可期！
故事很简单，矛盾切中现实，风格依旧是皮克斯。50分钟过后，但是，叙事水准急速下跌，刺破了所有未得精心照顾的逻辑，跌入，，，跌入迪斯尼的感觉漩涡。由工作吐槽切入管理认知领域的我，对皮克斯何时被迪斯尼同化得失去灵气这一话题非常感兴趣。眼下，皮克斯依旧拥有优秀基因的惯性，《寻梦环游记》《心灵奇旅》印证着我的判断，不过其下滑的迹象与一七年后的巴塞罗那俱乐部很像。“江山代有才人出”，咳，皮克斯的风骚还有多久呢。
可能改变世界的最后还是女性吧，可能改变中国的还是女性吧
6.设定有趣，抽象的情绪外化成实体红熊猫，极富想象力
有点可爱哈哈 青春社死物语…turning RED的多重意义 青春期的另一个我 拥抱自己的怪兽还是顺从家族/文化传统将它祛除/压抑？实际上结尾依然是一种西式自我迷思的胜利 如果有续集 有了长大的美美 这就不再是一个二元对立的选择题。挣脱束缚的那一步是重要的 但我们会慢慢发现这道题目本身的虚假。
关于青春期，过于共鸣了。拿着两把梳子给自己梳毛让自己冷静下来真是太可爱了。
作为上海景观挺好，作为爱情故事挺好，作为电影还是感觉缺一股劲，没能完全入戏，像最后看着爱情神话在吃散装零嘴。玛雅最好，配乐最差。
确实耳目一新，但跟《包》相比又让我失望。红熊猫作为核心意象其所指并不连贯，虽然经血-(女性)青春期-女性特质-(自由主义语境下的)个性发展四位一体尚可接受，尤其片名直言「变红」可能是皮/迪首次如此直接地面对青春期给女性身体/自我带来的变化。可这四位一体结构不但在高潮部分让人有点一头雾水，更把这些移民女性长辈的选择置于新自由主义西方文化的对立面。虽然能感觉到母亲冲出寺庙、女性长辈们释放红熊猫是有意突破刻板印象为这些角色设定的局限，但关于她们的展开太少了；母亲的红熊猫为何那么大，只是因为外婆最严苛所以她的情感压抑最深吗？移民叙事讨论到今天，将发展个性、抱持自我与「融入」挂钩从而将压抑女性特质与「东方」挂钩是否太草率？选择压抑红熊猫与移民经历、亚裔在西方的遭遇是否也有直接关系呢？
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