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".
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忘記mark線上版了。紀念911二十週年上線，停頓了很多次才斷斷續續看完（因為精神上無法承受一次性看完的沉重...）最喜歡的橋段永遠是prayer，大家有各自的語言各自的宗教，但那一刻信仰也可以相通。另外最喜歡後院拿BBQ架子的小段落，一點人性的閃光。舞台調度什麼的因為本來佈景就很簡單所以官攝也沒有太多問題，不過和OBC的卡司相比換了一些我更喜歡的演員😭
终于等到官摄上线，2020年那张无法成行的巡演，等了好久……
讨论话题可以，但是Leo这个角色实在是过于Sex Saint，上一次看到现实反差这么大的角色还是爱很美味的健身教练。
很圆滑，很有趣，群像整得相当好，节奏调度相当好。就是我对合家欢大团圆的这类型剧没啥感觉
在性方面，相对一部分男人都不会克制自己（甚至是非法）的欲望，而大部分女人则太过于克制自己（合理）的需求。女主在婚姻中压抑自己的性需求，从未感受过性高潮，为了男人可笑的自尊心，还要假装高潮，在丈夫离世后，终于按捺不住潜滋暗长的欲望，点了一个鸭，却因为过于自省、压抑太久导致的拘束、保守的道德观念、对年龄、身体的羞耻而不得其法，好在最终还是在打开了自己，得到了快感，而且最妙的是这快感是自己带给自己的（去他的阳具中心主义）。男主真的是完美的性对象，英俊、性感、温柔、尊重对方。反对关于性的暴力，祛除对于性的羞耻，让我们把性还原成一件美好的事情吧，平等、自愿、安全、愉悦。P.S.很可疑的是，现实中的性交易不会这么美好。
前一小时，觉得题材挺有趣，话题也挺有趣，觉得是一部包装成有噱头的浪漫轻喜剧，后半小时急转直下变成了常规化的亲情和解题材，加上结局的超级无聊，立马感受变成了3星。可以想象这在中国如果被报道会有多耸动的大字标题，可以明晰现实中这样展开的不可能性。仍然感谢有人愿意耐心用心真心与一个中老年女性谈心了解其需求，满足其欲望，也希望女性无论什么年纪，都能更爱自己，更关心自己，在不违背道义伦理等基本框架的基础上，取悦自己，活出自己想要的人生。
20年疫情没来成上海 官摄解馋了 舞台简单 表现力却极强 群戏有序转换清晰 单人发挥稳定 音乐不是那么优秀 但也有一两首相对出彩的 比起me and sky 我更喜欢prayer 和stop the world 总之宗教取向女性种族元素齐了 当你孤立无援 你可能只是需要一个一起散步一起喝酒一起讲蠢笑话的人 而甘德给了你更多 wherever you are something’gone somethings‘s missing no man is an island 十年之后再聚首 更加治愈 最后乐队的纽芬兰音乐演奏和真实故事改编加星
疫情前买的最后一部音乐剧门票，结果被取消了，这样一想好像快两年没看过现场音乐剧了。女机长的几首歌都好好听，一人分饰多角也很厉害，舞台虽小但利用充分，虽然还是感觉太普通了。
非常动人。作为一个从高中时代就开始对“大龄剩女”主题电影心有戚戚的三十岁女子，能感受到“nancy”对于性、对于自身欲望的谨慎、渴慕、敬畏、紧张，也能感受到她身上好为人师的强势、打破砂锅问到底的"执着"、看似维持礼貌体面但其实并不关心他人感受的自我中心。有时候会想，她都五六十了，还没有过高潮，这个人设是不是太夸张，其实并不，每个人都是某种夸张的人。。。其实精神内核非常朴实，朴实得不像是电影节电影，无非不就是“悦纳自我”的人本主义，但这个故事本身非常动人。
两位演员的互动和表演极具可圈可点之处，关于亲密关系、母子关系的话题及对性、身体、欲望、情感和需求的探讨也足以体现本片的不可多得性。这是一部让观众尤其是女性正视自己的需要、不用外界的眼光来评判性地凝视自己、解放自己床笫生活的灵汤妙药，和其成为互文的是欧容的《花容月貌》。影片基调细腻、温柔而明媚，二人互相理解开放沟通的模式看得人心旷神怡，我们需要更多这样女本位的影片
爱笑的牛郎技术都不会太差。艾玛汤普森还是很美，表演出色。破除女性的性羞耻和性保守，比起欧美，感觉在国内更有现实意义。and 性心理治疗，只有像 Leo Grande 这样的牛郎才能做到吧。
2021M79/9.0 善意就是哲学最终的那个点
4.5 艺术是永远的精神避烂所！
一个时代创伤被用这么温柔温暖的笔触抚慰 大哭一场的同时也感觉被治愈了
【2021Film55】来自远方（2021）。愿人类都能善待同类和其他的生命。⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
姐姐娶我！
虽然有点太完美以至于不真实，但足以激起无数人的憧憬，大千世界男男女女。
出乎意料地好看 准备拿好里奥·格兰德的号码牌 先排上队再说
明明网易云听了好几遍才来看的音乐剧，还是一开场就泪目。想起来地震后的很多，人与人之间的相互关爱，是世界上最美好的事。
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