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".
没有把篇幅过多地放在表现赛场上如何热血，而是让一场场比赛成为主人公成长的背景，有母子亲情，有师徒情，也有懵懂的爱情，也带出了关于残障运动员谋生艰难的社会话题，总体上既温情励志，也带有反思意识。饰演苏桦伟不同年龄阶段的演员们都很好，吴君如继《岁月神偷》后再演贫苦妈妈，还有卢海鹏、钱小豪、车保罗等多位港片老面孔。
一部风格、题材、形式都颇具纪实性的非常规剧情片，无对白，弱情节，回归自然。剧情与纪录，当然不是完全对立，但本片融合的结果有点难受。
众人知道苏炳添奥运会刷新成绩的光面，又或许，这次会让人记得苏桦伟的暗面。
格调悠扬，走神难免，好想知道洞里的场面是怎么拍出来的！
同工同酬 哎～
"你天生残废没人会怪你，只会怪我。"
巨幕，好的音响，音画俱佳，值得一看的新作，北影节结束了。
残障儿子是母亲不得不背负一生的负资产，儿子残疾别人不会怪儿子，只会怪母亲，所以她控制、强迫，也满心伤痕。电影把这种极度矛盾的心理表达出来了，最后的比赛成为儿子母亲终于互相理解的化解，整体挺感人的。
其实全程就一个问题 到底怎么拍的啊啊啊？？？
前20分钟睡了，后面70分钟沉浸在无对白无配乐的安静质感里，大脑没停过想着别的事情。
北影节一天之内的第三场了，看之前还在担心会不会睡，结果什么啊简直看着太抓眼球太爽了，用镜头语言跟极牛逼的音效把地洞里促狭，深邃的空间感表现得淋漓尽致；在巨幕看4K摄影机拍的意大利风光简直不要太过瘾，绝对是我今年看得最大饱眼福的一场电影，不看白活！
巨幕，好的音响，音画俱佳，值得一看的新作，北影节结束了。
回到電影本身，亮點和重點有點抓不住，感覺想講的很多又都沒有講清楚
跑步不能跑一辈子，热爱不能当饭吃，就好像一切都找不到答案却又是答案。你只管跑，你永远是妈妈的神奇小子。
又见这种含辛茹苦式的母爱，沉重到想替男主深呼吸，但好在有个体育励志的主线，能够有终点线这么一个纯粹的目标，所有委屈和负重可以甩在身后，男主不同时期的演员表演得还不错，吴君如一般了，钱小豪就是个工具人吧，怎么每一部歌颂母亲的电影里父亲都形同虚设。
@高先电影院，纯粹是听了几个三姑903的访问才想看的，讲到苏妈眠干睡湿凑大个仔，曾经被陌生人兜口兜面闹说都不知道前世做了什么会生出这样的儿子，再回到电影里的逼着孩子走，他们只会怪我，好心酸。很多地方刻画得相当现实，比如不愿接受街坊同情之下的帮助，母亲分配不均的爱，运动员退役后的生计等等，而不是一个人人大爱的虚假故事。社会歧视仍在，同工同酬未有，要多一些理解和支持。
吴君如的表演有层次，从泼辣的妇人变得沧桑，疮痍，世俗，崩溃。
没有所谓剧情，有的是不断演进的事件，关乎事物的存在与状态。身为岩友，我看得心潮澎湃，因为这是一种逆向的攀登。向下，再向下，到达底部的时候就是到达顶峰，而到达底部或顶峰无关征服的豪迈，只意味着一个身体参与其中的事件的圆满结束。
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当一支探险队踏入一座无人洞穴，一位年迈的山民就此逝去。这位山民终日俯瞰山间草甸，宛如关照群山的神祇。探险队测绘洞穴，理性取代了神秘，所以神自然要离开。结尾时雾里的吆喝，正是神明在向群山告别。
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