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".
几代人认知文化上各种冲突，就算我们都有所顾虑，身负枷锁，但也放开手，新时代的女性是前所未有的美好和生机。儒家千年封建影响，不想让你也变成跟我们一样的人。
我说我怎么这么喜欢男团那首歌，原来是碧梨兄妹写的，体育馆那段流行乐+诵经绝了。中国风元素演绎的很棒！
这么好的片子为啥不引进到院线呢？真的可惜可惜可惜啊！虽然故事和角色设置有很多cliche的地方，但内核却是动人的，你身体里的那个小熊猫，还在吗？最后母女大战那里好泪目。如果出了周边真的想爆买啊！
海外华人视角既熟悉又陌生，吴珊卓的声音一出还是满脑子Cristina！亚裔女子世袭的家庭责任感有些太沉重，追星姐妹淘的友谊有点过于轻描淡写，但仍然几次泪奔，O-town的歌好听呀！上口不腻人！碧梨兄妹赛高！
终于有人告诉女孩子，你可以哭可以笑，可以发怒可以不文雅，你可以拥有中二到尬的X幻想，它们只是青春的一部分，并没有错。
Pixar使我快樂！！！大姐們變身太帶感了！！！道教吟唱+Kpop remix更帶感！！！淨化身心⋯⋯鎮壓獸心⋯⋯元氣歸位⋯⋯徹悟返真⋯⋯
所有家长都应该与平庸的自己和孩子和解，美美的朋友们太好了😭演唱会氛围太棒了，五个爱豆天塌了还能继续唱歌业务能力好强哈哈哈哈
东亚女看Turning Red需要一个Trigger Warning，虽然狠狠共情但电影本身真的好俗套普通， 拜托这可是皮克斯。我不需要再看一部完成度较低的《勇敢传说》或者时长增加到100分钟的《包宝宝》。
第三幕极大缓解了“形态”过度复古的第一幕带来的cringe
3.中国符号，神话故事、熊猫、宗祠
中式传统家庭亲子关系之成长的烦恼。。。
宗祠特地强调不是男的，是女人，还是动物保护着。。。
片名turning red的双重含义注定这故事关乎长大成人的阵痛。严格的家庭管束、孝悌文化下的殷切期盼、压抑的个性和自我、叛逆期的挣扎反抗，令本东亚女孩狠狠共情。我们心中住着一头怪兽，即便努力压制着负面本性，难免脱缰爆发，千改变万克制，还是希望家人能包容不那么完美的自己，只有爱才能中和兽性戾气。美美和红熊猫的表情都太生动了，表情包预订。
意识形态有点过，如果要用华人和特殊动物元素不必放那么多枫叶旗帜强调移民身份和文化洗劫
意识形态有点过，如果要用华人和特殊动物元素不必放那么多枫叶旗帜强调移民身份和文化洗劫
心情不好的时候就rua一顿寄几，有什么不好呢。
期待过高了，反而不惊艳
即使红熊猫代表了叛逆、闹腾、情绪失控，它始终是可爱的，童心未泯把想做的事放第一位的人就是那些保留红熊猫的人，太多人极力去约束自己，生怕闯出祸来，小心翼翼的成人世界与胆大妄为的青春岁月，哪一个更美妙，不言自明，勇敢做自己，不要压抑天性。
有一个有趣的点在于13岁的Meimei想到自己的好朋友就会恢复平静，对她来说好朋友而不是父母才是自己最喜欢的人。这让我回忆起了青春期书籍都说重视朋友重过父母是青春期的特点，但我自己青春期的时候从来没有过这种感受，从来无法理解人怎么可以重视朋友胜过父母。然而最近几年突然慢慢理解了。我觉得青春期的自己还是错失了社会化的某些必经之路。
精彩又感动。对于东方孝道对人性的压迫和控制到底是全盘接受还是勇敢反抗？看最后老一辈都放弃了与红熊猫共存，就好像是她们始终选择了放弃相当一部分的真我一般，向传统对人性的桎梏妥协，只有小美选择做自己，爱自己，尊重自己。当母亲明说自己都没有去看过一场演唱会的时候，缺爱的心理吧，因为没有被爱过，所以也不觉得自己值得爱，以至于放弃了一些追求，只为做父母眼中的乖乖仔。而剧中小美所在家庭却是一种女强男弱的氛围，这抑或也是一种心理和精神上的代偿吧。而在竹林里变回幼年的母亲明也让人心疼，她反抗母亲的控制却还要感到抱歉，一生的委屈扭曲了她的心态，即便她是成年人，却仍旧携带着童年的创伤，或许整部电影都无法抚平母亲明心理的伤。每个孩子都是全新的，但传统的孝道和随着孝道而来的控制欲却代代相传。
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