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".
“为什么你不去香格里拉，奶奶？” “因为贝尔法斯特没有通往香格里拉的路。”
整体太松散了。演员阵容太强大，不明白为什么编剧反而得奖。
Go. Go now. Don't look back. I love you, son.
a slice of life/是对童年和故乡的眷恋。女演员很不错，那场讲她为什么不愿意离开belfast的戏很好很好，但更高级的方法难道不是通过视觉表达他们对这个城市的眷恋吗，更希望多看到些小男孩的快乐瞬间就好了。
纵使世界乌云密布，走入影院的那一刻，我的世界依旧色彩缤纷。
肯尼斯拿出了他的《阿玛柯德》 北爱尔兰问题 一场同一种族下不同信仰带来的问题 虽然现实却是那样残酷 但从一个小孩儿的视角拍摄出来 显得非常童趣与乐观 开场直接从现在的彩色转到了69年黑白的贝尔法斯特 （中途插入的彩色电影及戏剧效果拔群 分割开两个世界）当被爷爷问是否愿意离开时 他的回答充满着漫浪以及对贝尔法斯特未来的憧憬 电视上放着《双虎屠龙》贝尔法斯特则上演着手足相残 信仰问题贯穿电影 老中幼三代人对于信仰的看法也是大不相同 朱迪丹奇饰演的奶奶常常把上帝挂在嘴边 父亲则站在漩涡之中 小孩则被则开着天主教与新教的玩笑 配乐也是一大亮点 大量充满阳光且积极的配乐 代表小孩子的视角下 残酷现实离他们的距离还是很远的 缺点还是内核太散了 高潮的点推的实在太低了【VUE】
和《罗马》相反，布拉纳是以一种温情的目光回望历史，回望那个安土重迁的故乡，在感伤之外裹一层幽默的糖衣，试图去治愈一切。异时空的彩色画面，出跳的西部片音乐，也给这个黑白故事附上一层反讽调子，可惜这些都是从外部去带节奏，和人物本身的关系不大，那些正面呈现的冲突打斗，华而不实的运镜，也是商业片拍多了的毛病。丹奇贡献了两个泪点，去不了的香格里拉，不要回头望的瞩望，两场戏都是不对称对话，将遗憾keep to herself，这才是含蓄的力量。
每年都有这么一两部使用黑白色彩的，每一帧都是美好的画面，海报让我想起了布列松。黑白灰度的质感，真的适合童年的回忆，一个艺术家可以用艺术的手段去回忆自己的童年，
4/5 第79届金球奖 电影类最佳剧情片提名
原来是五十度灰男和outlander女主演的。去年读过Say nothing之后才对这段历史有概念，所以看到电影有一种“亲切感”。儿童视角和黑白电影的表现方式有一点老套路了。
视角相对的单一保证了一份私密化，而在这份私密里，故事不乏趣味和温情，但也过于着墨太深，落了表演痕迹，这部分的冲突，导演像是完全不在乎。
回家之后就要挑一些 PG-13 的电影和爸妈一起看，看之前先去 IMDb 查 Parental Guide。这部电影总体比较私人化，奏鸣曲其中的一小段喜怒爱乐变奏旋律。有几处仰拍、特写给影片添加了一些滑稽感，但感觉场景的编排和剪辑仍然比较随意。
3.9 《罗马》的黑白好歹是精制品，以至于痛苦被掩盖了，这里的黑白就是仿制品，甚至带有化学毒性。至于悲痛？已经不需要颜色来插手了
1.作为对故乡的私人回忆，从孩童的角度以黑白影像展开，就差不把Rome的tag打在credit里了，可惜这两部电影在段位上没法比较。但是相比之下这部电影对于情怀可能更拿捏地到位，这也解释了影院里很多Old White ppl都非常沉浸 2.从六十年代末开始，北爱尔兰的暴力冲突问题就一直没有完全解决，直到98年，动荡年代里也贡献了很多流向外地/海外的migrants。电影approach了关于离开还是留下的dilemma,最后选择了从以小见大的家庭故事展示一个相对温暖的怀旧出口，可能最让人动容就是影片结尾的几行“献给”了 3. Judi Dench stole the show.如果没有她三星妥妥的，但是有她的scene都如同在发光一般，成为观影中印象最深刻的部分。
虽然很一般，但是看到最后我还是有点莫名其妙的感动。
有才华的人真是让人嫉妒，可以讲述自己的故事，多好！
的确有点像《罗马》，都是黑白，都是回忆性质，但整体质量还是有差距
历史上的北爱尔兰冲突，是九岁孩童眼里一场迫使他们举家迁离的沉痛记忆。但即便在这样一个随时有暴力枪火的环境，那段童年时光里依然有着初恋、电影、亲情等等让人莞尔一笑的生活小美好（里面的彩蛋很有意思）。这部半自传式的作品，是Kenneth在疫情lockdown期间的回思感悟，对爱尔兰人身份的追根溯源，也是一封致以家乡满腔柔情的告白信。（Q&A期间导演一度潸然落泪呜呜）但话说回来，查了一下发现北爱问题依旧存在，那么导演在这里是否带有偏袒某方的个人情绪了呢？另外，很难不把这部跟Roma作比较，而后者在我心里大大胜出。电影的镜头语言虽有炫技嫌疑，但这些刁钻的构图，非常戳我的审美。最后表白一下小演员Jude Hill，选角太出色了呀，好想抱回家！
不同于罗马的审视，只是一个小孩子的回忆。另外妈妈为了教育孩子带孩子回被looting的商店这种行为只能让我送上一句sb
Kenneth Branagh有一个金子般的童年，父慈母爱，学习好还有漂亮女孩子喜欢
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