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".
近年来编过的最难的稿子里，一个个人名忽然都活了过来，活在了最爱的编剧写的、导的电影里。
艾伦·索金果然很擅长利用台词，外加凌厉的剪辑，把电影变得张力十足，就情感共鸣而言，即便不是太了解它的历史背景，它的煽动力还是很强的，最后念名字的桥段，把我看的热泪盈眶的。再有便是群戏强大，每个人都发挥了自己最好的水平。
They say no man's an island, but an island makes a man.
Newsroom里的索金改变了立场 因为世界也变了
“如果注定流血，就让血流满芝加哥。”（小雀斑太适合革命斗士这类角色了吧，《悲惨世界》的马瑞斯也很好哭QAQ）
诉求是反战，年轻人们要做爱不要战争，拒绝当意识形态的炮灰，是理所当然的诉求。酗酒吸大麻搞性派对，再怎么颓废也是青春的一道阴影，都比喂子弹强。而国家机器的洗脑与威吓一定是号召大家参战，为政府抛头颅撒热血，合理化所有武装暴力，仅仅是少数几个政治寡头拍拍脑袋扯什么荣耀与尊严就宣布开战。而走上街头示威游行不仅不被允许，警察政府甚至直接祭上催泪瓦斯和警棍，你看，受伤的是年轻人，流血的是年轻人，被审判的也是年轻人。除了乖乖上战场把自己送上死路，年轻人再无路可走。连审判的规则，正义或者法庭本身，都被父权制、威权政府所绑架，并玩弄于股掌之中，打一巴掌不准还嘴，还说“藐视法庭”。艾比说，“给我一点时间好吗，我还没准备好会因为我的思想而受到审判”。历史是重复的，年轻人被玩权弄术之流所宰制，却又都被封住了嘴巴。
法律、秩序......犀利的言语，颇具史诗气质的叙事。必将拿下奥斯卡最佳影片、最佳男配角。
审判开始后，也许会很容易忘记，这一切是为了谁。丨“我无心搞文化革命，因为那会让我们分心，忽略真正的革命。” “但我们对胜利的定义不同。” 丨Your life is a "fuck-you" to your father. 丨the possessive pronouns and vague noun modifiers 丨不可欺，不操控。在其位，谋其政。不冲突。stay calm, keep cool, when you have a mic. 丨读说明书要成为习惯。读书要读完一本书。自省。
对于这段历史不了解，但整个影片发展到后期令人热血沸腾，是那种压抑后的热泪盈眶~
欧美律政剧均秉持的同一观点，即:反对政府及其政策不代表不爱国，因为政府是为国家服务的，反而，将党派、政府与爱国高度绑定，对对于前者的监督、批评与质询视为“反动”才是最大的反动。
确实太适合后疫情看了，尤其2020年初的时候。然而疫情这场灾难已经转向了无人知晓的地方，以后谁会来写2022这部音乐剧呢
20201025 60年代再次被当代世界所“审判”，不过这次却是在一个真正的白左的视角之中，同时必须放置在和2020年的对话关系里。艾伦索金讲故事的才能也尽可能呈现了一个多元，异质甚至是芜杂的社会状况，而将主人公定位为汤姆海登而非阿比霍夫曼，更非黑豹党，看看日后几人的政治生命，这无疑也是索金的政治声明——需要通过体制内部的变革，而非颠覆体制的革命，来实现社会正义。而这又成为了Mark Lilla式的，给民主党人在这个节骨眼上的喊话，也缩写了60年代运动的丰富内涵。两场戏印象深刻，一扇玻璃隔开60和50两个时代瞬间让人穿越回《罗马》里家具店那场戏，只不过这次视角被难能可贵地放在了街道上；片尾的反高潮，用念白而非长篇大论，以历史作为最强有力的证言，不落俗套，正是索金的过人之处。
美国电影行业对社会话题的敏感度和创作的速度还是很令人佩服的
60年代的美国还得从一些法律的缝隙里扣出些灰尘审判这些人。看看这里，看看现在，时代是真的不同了，今年是1920年？
这是一场不会在中国朝鲜埃及伊朗等国经过审判的审判 看吧 马丁路德金 纳尔逊曼德拉这些前人的光辉笼罩着大地 法律的光辉照耀着我们每一个人 它在说 不要害怕 也不要惊慌 因为没人能够伤害我们
托尼奖获奖百老汇音乐剧《来自远方》被改编成电影。影片取自9.11当天加拿大甘德镇接纳了6600名意外迫降的旅客，并共处了3天的美好时光。世界大同，却又大而不同。既有9.11的恐袭，又有甘德镇无私的义举。在舞台上的演员，轮流切换着不同的身份，居民或是乘客，落叶聚还散，寒鸦栖复惊。
或许是我笑点低，一直哈哈哈地笑。确实很有趣
应景是一回事，但如果艾伦索金最拿手的台词没有起到作用，那么他就会显得相当平庸，结尾强起的bgm印证了这种无力。除了萨沙的艾比霍夫曼外人物都颇单薄。“把一件事情说明白了”可算不上什么像样的标准。
一连串的辩论看的太过瘾了 言论 结社 游行是国家赋予人民的权利 正义终会胜利
有时候也需要一些温暖的鸡汤，真情动人。对灾难的讲述切入点很特别，技术上很强（卡司也太累了吧）
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