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".
放大了。也许我们都很久没有认真的去关注身边人。电影把疫情下的台湾在中产家庭日常生活拍出了一种精致感，是日常生活，却有一种精致安排的距离感和舞台感。这种干净的清晰的画面很像多年前韩国电影呈现的质感。风波过后，以为生活会像溪流归于平静，但是突然来的洪水一下子让人跟着揪心起来，终于在最后看到了小静没事，才安心。
台湾电影现在只剩钟孟宏了吗……片名说是《阳光普照2》都信……
看完对中年女性的生活有点绝望。一个外贸公司的主管，因为疫情，和离婚单身带高三女儿的多重压力，心理崩溃只能去家乐福当摆货员，还不起贷款只能卖了房子，小小年纪的女儿还差点被中介骗，又被放闸泄洪冲走…人不能给自己虚妄的希望…
因为没有什么戏剧性的苦难，才尤为悲伤。日常点滴的绝望，深入骨髓。
没有说的那么差，但是在单色，暖色，冷色里，最失败的就是冷色。心之向阳的人拍冷色太难了，很多情节没交代清楚，又把感情线拉的太长，疫情的联系也不大，应该是没有疫情前的故事恰巧碰上了疫情，希望钟导继续创作吧，还是应该去搞摄影，起码镜头交代了故事。
实在是有点拖沓，目睹隔壁阿姨中途上了两次厕所。感觉到一个拥有着朴素正义感的普通人类，在汹涌的暴力和犯罪狂潮面前，深深的无力感和依然坚定的信念。最后洪水的几个镜头，都很有宗教意味。一哥带着面具比不戴帅。但，看到最后，我只想问，在你们哥谭，下雨天打伞判几年？？？
以防水工程幕布、保温遮帘、阴影笼罩建筑物的相关镜头强调内部视角，对应的是典型都市人的精神焦虑及幻觉展现；镜头推进令无表情而深不可测的脸部顶格以制造惊悚感，而在日常推进时则保持社交距离。随后的剧情发展中越来越少上述镜头，伴随着人物走出阴影的过程，直到抓蛇那场戏，危机的具象化也就意味着危机的解除，以及主角恢复正常人的身份，然而此前她的病症正因她对世界的正常反应导致，那么这场戏可以视为作者/全知者赋予的权力以让角色重获自由，凭借自己力量而不是女儿；但女儿也走过了她的个人英雄主义之路——陪着母亲面对生活，尽管有暗示她或因休学挑选不到心仪的大学，但也是侧证母女不需要借助另一个已无关系的男性脱难的一部分。结局实际上是一则「洪流冲击下会伤痕累累但仍有媒体、消防这些社会力量托底」的寓言，以丰富其主旋律面向。
“你怎么不问我坐到什么时候啊”
在你以为就要happy ending的时候突然给你来个落水，原本几十分钟的揪心又要继续延宕，人生真的不想再丧了，失婚失业又精神失控的中年女人，不知道活着还有什么意义。
套用之前写给阳光普照的短评，“我只看见作死、活该和矫情”。
乍看风格割裂，实际贴合于疗愈过程。贾静雯和小女生演技很棒，剧作上部分对白稍显尴尬。
楼宇前的蓝色屏障，结尾处的激流猛兽。电影拥有着不错的题材角度和良好的审美气质，母女之间前后的转换和不断遇到好心人的瞬间都蛮柔软抚慰，但整体却有一种很强的拼凑跳跃感，台词和表演也时而尴尬塑料，不知道是不是有意为之。每年都有一部钟孟宏的片子还是挺幸运的事，毕竟华语电影里能以这样的视听气质和影片完成度去聚焦都市人，还是很值得敬佩的。
天水围的日与夜，差不多吧，比那个更尖锐一点，还有三部表现母女的，一个是惠英红那个，另一个是大陆的独立电影，名字忘了，还有一部春潮，相比这三部，本片还不够尖锐，但是也看的人津津有味，在某些节奏上，和蔡明亮那个郊游有那么一点相似，挺触动灵魂的感觉，不错。
疫情影响下普通人的生活，从隔离开始讲起。前面像惊悚片，直到母亲和女儿的“角色”发生对调，叛逆的女儿成为照顾母亲的大人，生活的细节才逐渐展露。母亲在吃药中稳定心绪，她去超市工作时我总怕有疏漏，可母亲做得很好；在客厅说有蛇时我以为是幻觉，抓到蛇的那一刻真的松了口气。阳光铺满房间，她们也即将离开，没什么惋惜的，因为阳光已照进她们彼此之间。很感慨在整个治疗过程中，女儿都没想过去找父亲帮忙，她和母亲两个人撑过了辛苦的日子。结尾，女儿听到了激流的声音，见到了那萦绕母亲耳中的可怕，相依相偎的理解更显深刻。
偶爾飄來一陣雨。我太喜歡這部電影了 像散文一樣，像大雨在窗戶上滑落的姿態一樣，像把手插入流淌的河水中 任由水流糾纏過手指無情地溜走一樣。內心好像包裹在藍色塑料布裡，外面下著整夜的雨。
好家伙，这一个个的，偷窥、窒息、跟踪、捆绑、胶带、望远镜、紧身衣、烟熏浓妆、低成本cosplay，通过各种猥琐刺激视角表现出来，加上一本正经的文艺配乐，天哪天哪，好变态，好喜欢！！
以及我终于想起来陈以文像谁了，远藤宪一。最近这几个片看下来感觉他演得真好。贾静雯和王净的表演也都很吸引我。
剧本是没有高度，但摄影我的天哪，太绝了，太绝了。
整体境界比《阳光普照》低了一级，人物角色不像《阳光普照》那么多，所以没有太多剧情矛盾点，并且拍精神类片子或多或少会让观众感觉有些刻意，这个是精神类片子的弊端，如果掌握不好，确实会很难拍出4星的骗子来，但好歹拍得还算有些情调，3星及格。
实在没看出有任何理由不能把片长缩到两个小时
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