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".
听小变态说英式英语真的变扭啊，有点用力过猛。
什么时候起生命变得不平等了？
早前听说养老院许多人去世，疫情爆发的前三个月care home去世占四成。得不到的help。jodie从mad fat diary和doctor foster不过六八年时间。可以的。
别国拍的东西在反思不足，我国拍的东西企图叫观众感恩戴德。永远讨厌宏大叙事，因为“人”会被忽略。永远可以对Jodie Comer的演技有信心，即使没有脸部出镜只有声音的那段，角色满满的焦虑都从屏幕里溢出来。但最后出走的情节真的有些跳脱。
第一次看有关新冠相关的影片，是帮助还是求救？放大到对整个医疗系统对体制对个人思想的疑惑
只能说，兴，百姓苦，亡，百姓苦
不是只有胜利的战役才值得出现在影视作品中，疫情正在消磨这个世界的所有人，我们遭受的无力与痛苦都是真实存在的，都是值得记录的。
哭成牛，尊严是对生命更高的敬意，如果《中国医生》能理解这个本质关系，就不会把好政策拍成那种洗刷刷的感觉…
同样的题材 高下立见…不敢多说 btw我是真见不得Jodie哭
英国政府抗疫工作的一个缺点就可以拍一部电影来批评，上海这次是要拍多少部？
中段那个26分钟的长镜头感染力太强了，精准地呈现了新冠之下小人物的至暗时刻，那种被整个社会背叛的无力与绝望，让人心如刀绞～但第三幕逃离疗养院的情节有些刻意且过火了，为了煽情而煽情，破坏了冷峻克制的旁观视角，也失去了现实感染力～
我愿意用看dont look up的时间再看一次help
终究没逃过疫情片……每个人都经历了太多……
对于人文关怀，我们恐怕永远到不了这样的境界，思想的固化和大外宣式的红色洗脑已经根深蒂固，《中国医生》和《援助》可以被看作是第三世界和主流世界的差别的一个具体的方面。《援助》棒就棒在贴近生活的真实感，面对新冠时从个体到护理中心到大医院到整个国家的慌乱和无奈，女主的每一句脏话，每一次咆哮和每一次哭泣都像是整个国家的当下的情绪表达，以小见大，不偏不倚，世界应该正确被看待，而不是为了自己利益妖魔化其他来抬高自己，这样只能让我感到恶心。
20220508 JC BAFTA三年两封
以小见大，深入浅出。将covid和痴呆症勾连起来，用一位社会loser的应聘撬开被遗忘的、看不见的底层的故事。小人物在大时代动荡下被遗弃被遗忘被牺牲，这才会有"亡命鸳鸯"，才会有那段愤怒的独白。回望被lock down的那些时光，回想曾出现在我们自己土地上的许许多多真实事件，谨记要善良，要宽容，不要互相遗忘。
有点空，对于新冠→制度的指控浮在表面，少很多应该说的东西，情绪也总是缺失积攒的过程直接爆发，走向也有点奇怪，摸不到头脑.jpg
算了，你也不能指望国内能拍出这样的作品，终究是任务型的一场歌颂罢了……
不输电影制作水准的单集SP。刚看了《失控玩家》没多久，再看《help》，感觉Jodie演技得到了很多延伸和可发挥空间。中间求助那一段几乎是今年所有女演员中最出色的表演了，看来好的剧本是需要这种好演员相佐的。如果是在院线，Jodie可以冲一下欧三影后了。
这是较为现实的疫情下的故事 通过护工的角度来诠释疫情下的无奈 绝望和深深的无力感 光影镜头都蛮好的 个人很喜欢疗养院里面那昏暗的长走廊 演技也真的很赞 中间长达二十分钟的长镜头可以封神 当疫情袭来 每个人的紧张 疲惫 还有惊恐和无奈真的很真实 结尾处女主的绝望嘶吼真的令人很难不共情 当人这一小面在国家 体制 规则面前真的是蜉蝣撼树 而片尾最后女主的质问又何止只是英国 车内女主眼神中的悲凉 精疲力竭后透露的麻木 令人记忆犹新
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