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".
疫情的影响慢慢开始在电影中显露，感觉到钟孟宏想借疫情这个特殊时刻好好做文章，但又怕过了时效性，剧本缺少打磨，十分粗糙，与细腻的镜头语言比起来更显割裂。王净年纪不大，但演技经得起特写考研，很多对手戏甚至比演戏多年的贾静雯更出色。音乐一如既往的好听，大概是这部电影最好的创作。
因为长期沟通无效，母亲积压变形的压力、焦虑如瀑布倾泻，吞噬了女儿。阳光普照和瀑布里面，一个是父子关系，一个是母女关系，两者都经历了双方地位的对调。在父子关系里看不到平等，父亲的权威就算受到冲击，他也得死死护着，不轻易承认。但母女关系里，母亲就更容易自省和改变，母女关系最终成为互相依附和支持。这是我觉得挺有意思的点。
瀑布是与河流溪水截然不同的水流方式，突然垂直下落因而雷霆万钧，伤害力暴涨甚至可能毁灭一切。火灾是忍受伤害与生活重担下母亲情绪的瀑布般倾泻，强力冲开母女生活的隐秘与黑暗，促成她们的了解和理解。前半部如水暴涨一样的蓝色滤镜在房子整修完毕后被揭下，阳光照进，冷色调变成了暖色调。女儿在母亲心里的瀑布声消失以后去了溪河，母亲无恙自然女儿有惊无险。一对母女经历生活的瀑布与溪流冲击的成长史。意象和结构都很不错，但是前半部浓重的蓝色滤镜显得用力过猛，其实只要真实呈现点到为止就好。文艺片最怕太满，适当的留白与克制含蓄更有力。
如此生活三十年，直到大厦崩塌——所以能够冲奥的电影就是要特别苦就对了
girls help girls 在空间结构的利用上看到了诸多杨导的影子//更新，诶，我为什么只给了四星？
很好看啊，尤其戴上耳机看，很沉浸，不知道为什么那么多人刷低分
台湾当代家庭伦理片的代表作，剧作加入了极为丰富的戏剧性，虽然一下就能猜到真蛇与女儿获救，因为整个剧本走向无可避免的温情，这与黑暗的《阳光普照》形成鲜明的对比，当然也和前半段近乎新版《隐形人》的女性寓言格格不入，怎么看都是一个性压抑的中年女人被生活摧毁的故事，
7.4
疫情时代下一切都是阴霾密布的蓝色天空，疏离又荒谬的人际和伦理关系，任性而情绪化的叙事表达，刻意而不知其意的氛围和意象。一切都有点乱套，一切都莫名其妙。
聊聊本电影优点：让我们看看罗蝠电影大结局， 罗蝠他和大众打交道，他并没有聪慧如同贝尔蝠那样在灾难的最后一秒解决掉谜语人的水淹哥谭的宏伟计划。他也并没有试图在高潮时牺牲自己的生命:，用来换取哥谭人民，相反，当一切都结束的时候，他会克服自己的恐惧，慢慢爬回家，这就是出道第二年的老爷。作为一部电影，罗蝠电影在情感上非常真实，虽然在细节处理有点粗糙，而诺兰打造的TDK三部曲 感觉像是一个优等生模范作文，但是现实世界是，没有谁能轻而易举破解高智商罪犯的重重谜语，没有谁与生俱来就是天才和侦探，正因为如此我认为罗蝠足够真实。
girls help girls 在空间结构的利用上看到了诸多杨导的影子//更新，诶，我为什么只给了四星？
4.5麥特里維拍出了有別以往諾蘭、波頓的風格，比起超英片，它更像超英外皮下的黑色懸疑片，攝影完全挑戰黑的極限，節奏向seven、zodiac靠攏，全片幾近0.5倍速的節奏，無時無刻都在提醒著觀眾，這是獨具匠心的黑色偵探電影，3個小時非常漫長，絕對可以再精簡些，全片暗戲佔了90%，非常吃戲院設備規格，里維對蝙蝠俠放慢腳步的形塑，也成功塑造了謎語人不寒而慄的反派形象，保羅迪諾全片露臉不到10分鐘，不寒而慄感已貫徹全片本身。史上觀影門檻最高的蝙蝠俠電影，攝影、配樂全都有別以往，麥可吉亞奇諾終於發揮他奧斯卡的水準，主題曲旋律單一，但每一次演奏都為正片增添不寒而慄感，高譚英雄的呢喃自語，在揭發真相的過程，也面對了自身家族的腐敗，高譚是一灘難以改變的死水，但是仍然有人在死水之中指引發向，照亮希望的曙光。
实在没看出有任何理由不能把片长缩到两个小时
反正这么几个蝙蝠侠对比下来，这个看上去最值得睡。
无功无过到除了「贾静雯演得真好啊！」之外想不出别的评论。（有病就要治？
坏消息：罗伯特不用下海
疫情时代下一切都是阴霾密布的蓝色天空，疏离又荒谬的人际和伦理关系，任性而情绪化的叙事表达，刻意而不知其意的氛围和意象。一切都有点乱套，一切都莫名其妙。
大楼的蓝色帆布真是妙笔，贾静雯的表演拿影后毫无意外。
时效性的故事挺有意思 疫情的降临（fall）给大多数人的物质世界带来了降级 也冲刷了每个人的精神与心灵
当一切如瀑布倾泻而下，是一代代坚韧的女性让生命得以继续流淌。
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