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".
光怪陆离，出来恍惚到手机没拿稳，把屏摔了。
个人而言正统的热血日漫 剧情一眼望到头 但是制作精良有诚意 打架足够热血炫酷 这不就够了吗
中國有才華的演員導演不少 只是他们缺少这样的机会发出自己的声音 缺少机会表达内心的想法 很高兴香港和法国的资本给了一次机会 他们给出的这个回答很有力 加油！的确出色！
EP.15-21 《那田蜘蛛山篇》
开场与末场的决斗，看两个男人骑马入场时的心境在中间三个章节的叙述后截然不同。
历史的变幻复写。将戏剧埋进电影的血管里，让教科书上的史实伸展出三头六臂，成为新的客观性，“你在北京找到真理了吗？”但好像《痴》亦是如此（太久之前看的，也许会有差错），所以尽管我极其钟意导演的个人风格，但是在“自我重复”这一项上可能要标个问号。
可以一直看下去，巴适得很，跟着川人苦中作乐
虽然和《英雄》一模一样的三段结构（更早是《罗生门》）但细节填充得很漂亮，果然问题不在于重复，而在于怎样完善细节。
【7】不知道是不是被真实事件束缚住了手脚，改编得缩手缩脚，最后呈现出相当陈旧的文本。称不上是《罗生门》的故事，因为多视角的不同之处几乎是微乎其微，只能说是相互补充，让人质疑是否有POV多视角的必要。至于女性主义的回溯及对ME TOO的观照云云，对于30年前就拍出《末路狂花》的老雷而言，不值得为人称道。
绘画背景：
邱炯炯绝对是野生动物。浑然天生，随机又不间歇地溅射生命力（即使传记总是迈入死亡），影像呈现的所有更像是基于美学训练而不是“电影”学院训练，更不能拿Wes Anderson和他相提并论…与他不同，在他之外 @ Anthology
有的。
影片以章节式的结构，从三位主角的角度出发，讲述了这一著名的真实事件。剧本稳扎稳打，恢弘的场景和配乐一瞬间恍惚到《权力的游戏》。
影影綽綽，拿民俗文化做皮，以私人記憶為軸，雲霧環繞間，溫和卻又銳利地，勾勒出活在口傳和記憶中的近代中國史，和屬於導演自身的生涯自畫像。從開場一直shock到結尾，數次懷淚，卻又總落不下來，真的又好又有趣，就蠻難想象這樣的作品除了滿分還能打幾分，真的值得被所有人看見。
几乎没眨眼看完了，幻觉是导演把我脑子看到的世界和我对中国近代史的理解整个疯出来了，如遇知音向导。邱把一切精心安置在舞台上用力表演，我们被捆绑在观众席上不得进入后台。那些疯癫、麻木、虚伪、愚昧的妆容背后，是一个个幻觉一般的人生，夜夜做吃人的噩梦。肉体记忆被唤醒却被麻绳扼喉，直至泪也不再留下来。
新作者登场，手工奇迹，这个时代难见的珍稀品。已见与未见的集体之殇混合私人记忆，回荡在阴阳虚实明暗、严肃嬉笑怒骂之间。平面置景好比戏台，台上台下台前台后都在“照镜”，每一场戏都在“结晶”。这些晶体并非完美无瑕，我看前面还有些难入戏，建国后的部分是越看越入迷。
个体的绽放。但视觉世界观逻辑混乱让我无法沉浸在故事里
女权饮下了这碗春药，男人收获了嘲讽。
独树一帜、自成一家的美学体系，横卷展开的历史传奇、家族往事，体量丰富，形式突出，在日趋严苛的审查之外，丛生出丰沛、蓬勃的创作风景。它延续了《霸王别姬》的历史沧桑，以时代命运同构着夹缝中求生存的戏曲艺术的起落，兼有《活着》的平民史诗和冷静控诉，目之所及，一部再难以超越的华语电影伟作。
味道拿捏得特别准。看完今天回想起来突然想到韦斯·安德森。画有画的逻辑，画也有画的情感。不过作为私人情感的电影，会损失一部分视野。还是很喜欢！真希望能在家里放映，让大家都看到。
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