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".
从头到尾只让人看到一件事，女性的性压抑。别的东西都是泛泛而谈，像男主的肌肉一样空有其型，一个训练有素的ai完成女主设定的程序。但是性压抑性羞耻这件事太值得说了所以多加一星，我现在都不知道怎么合理看待。性是不好的这件事，如果是父权制带来的，为什么没有任何男性受到过这种洗脑影响?又为什么是女性更容易emotionally attached to the sex partener?有待探索。
哈哈哈最近看的最开心的一部片，空气里都充满了快乐的气息。
塑造出完美的“性幻想”，以此为切入口探讨我们身上的束缚、本能、救赎欲、控制欲，所有一切我们认为可以通过外在的某物实现的人生满足心魔其实都在于自我接纳的困扰。电影以猎奇和欲望引入，最后还是归于学院派般的存在主义讨论倾向，枝桠工整之余少了点意外。
简单说三点感想：
勉强3分多一分都不行，所有分数都给大胆追求性爱和快感的立意，并且，这样的男孩有谁不想点！
老阿姨想法哈多，沙大啊
有些让人唏嘘的是女人买鸭都要做五十分钟顾左右而言他的心理建设，而男人可能五分钟就能提裤走人。第一次看到拍的如此干净纯粹的关于性的故事，虽然中间小鸭讲自己与母亲关系时有些老套，但它的确跳出了传统嫖客与妓之间被定义的关系，发展出了一种与肉体有关的友情。
快五十年前，《让娜·迪尔曼》在对女性的生活、也是身体的封闭凝视里，以最后迪尔曼刺向男客的爆发姿态冲破、拒绝所有看客目光的欲望投射。如今女权主义发展到这部电影里，也有了“反客为主”的类似一幕——南希一边masturbate一边凝视里奥的身体以抵达高潮，最后她赤裸入镜，定格住了属于女性的主体性权力。南希和里奥的四次会面，每一次都在双方愿意向对方倾吐内心后，他们身体的亲疏关系才得以进入新阶段。不仅是女性的，是关乎所有性别的身体解放。电影将所有表达目的都特意摊开在清晰的舞台剧结构和对话台词里，赤裸得几近propaganda film。
PS：男的真的各方面都很优秀啊 以为是绿色电影，没想到后面有大招。
开始看时觉得应该拍成一个系列，里奥·格兰德这个披着性工作者外皮的心理咨询师，过于从容有度，想看他接诊各种客人，而不是一个典型拘谨的白人大妈，这个女性形象多少有些刻意得惹人嫌，不过在最后，话锋又转向了里奥本人，让两个角色都成为了性压抑的受害者，最后加戏的在镜中欣赏自己并不年轻的肉体一段还是很不错，是挺轻松有趣的话剧电影。
虽然情节都在意料中，但丝毫无损它的完美和独特。
很棒的小成本制作。结尾也丝毫不落俗套。没有让性升华到爱，也没有让欲望美化到深情。没有给满五星只是因为我觉得台词里一些涉及到的其他社会问题有点刻意，过渡得不够自然，而真正要探讨的性，还是没有更深入展开。第三个角色那个苏珊的女学生出现得有点突兀，虽然她的出现可能可以提供观众一个第三视角的思考角度，但是，我只是在想，导演和编剧有没有能力可以把这种第三视角不通过添加人物角色来演绎出来呢？对，就是可以让这部戏从头到尾都由两个演员演绎出来，是不是更厉害？最后，女性无论如何都要经济独立和思想独立，不要把思想依赖和经济依赖挂在男人身上，你看，当你付钱给男人的时候，他们变得多么可爱和听话，一脸贱样加对你热火的性感，和女性取悦他们时有什么两样？该片应该给世上每个异性恋女孩看看。还有，女性要明白：性和爱是两码事。
虽然情节完全可以预料，但最后Emma在镜头前完全展露自己的身体真的让人感动，这个爱尔兰男生也完全接住了影后的戏（而且太帅了
这部电影就是一个fantasy.
通透可爱，虽然不免落入俗套，但是前几次的会面写得太好了，不必拥有一些普世的真理，只要面对自己的身体，你是我唯一冒过的险，尽头处是自己的欢愉。有没有人知道我需要存够多少钱才能在伦敦召到这样的🦆？有学到一些词汇。
“你为什么不把你想要的东西拿走？
但对于我来说，合法化毒品或者卖淫，这两个话题无论怎么聊都是一种粉饰太平。
C / 剧感很重，喜欢fantasy的构建和实用的床上对话语录，喜欢男演员，不喜欢后半段打探现实生活开始的交叉，强行打破幻想的双向救赎就像如果「罗尼和我」的后半段突然让直男表现出现实的软肋一样，瞬间没劲。
我们每个人活在世上一辈子，身上背负着多少道德、伦理、价值……等等，我们相互评判，又相互伤害；我们自我评判，又自我伤害……唯有放下，才能自由。
“矛盾很有趣。”
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