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".
3.5 真实里大威小威的事迹亦是整个体育传奇，时间早就证明了~
几近又一部《引见》。在随口胡诌中发酵角色化学反应，逐渐形成圈形人物关系结构。尬聊太多，不免乏味。姜文说过，《鬼子来了》能为了最后一个镜头，把全片都变成黑白。
拳击，真的很重要。
黑人傲慢偏见，白人保守退却
这个片子算是挤进奥斯卡的片子里比较离谱的，我看了一圈没看懂Richard哪里牛逼了，感觉成功全靠大小威天资过人，黑人照这么个方法鸡娃估计成功一次背后会有999个家庭在捡垃圾，反而是母亲的角色很慈爱，堪称伟大女性；那天不知道在哪里看的很有意思，说黑人（成功）靠奋斗，白人靠偏执，当黑人开始偏执，白人开始奋斗（Hillbilly Elegy）观众就不容易relate了；感觉是CODA请的陪衬
不同于传统体育传记片，本片主要聚焦于星爸，而不同于摔爸主要刻画父女情，本片重点谈如何正确鸡娃，虽然看上去掌握了冲奥的政治正确法门（种族+女性），但作为看似是成就此片的网坛姐妹花大小威，其实是作为衬托老威的配角而已，如果是冲着女性主义的标签而看恐怕要大失所望，全片都在灌输是老威的偏执和坚持，不让她们参加青联赛，不要志得意满，拒绝赚快钱赞助，尽量保持德智体美全面发展，让姐妹二人遵循自己的计划功成名就，避免年少成名成为伤仲永，虽然姐妹的母亲也不满丈夫的过分专制，但主创着重写父亲的主线也只能牺牲母亲对两姐妹成长的重要性，恍惚间想到谷爱凌的妈对自己女儿的栽培，是否受到了威爸的启发，只是她们家资本更雄厚
75分/后半段观感还可以，前半段有些沉闷。威尔史密斯是怎么做到眼神如此无光，一张让人如此熟悉的脸却能让人感到这么讨厌的呢？
史皇的演技Ok，可惜导演没能力深入这个角色。
在美国这样一个国家，教育是严重撕裂的，如果你的收入属于底层，那你周围的一切都很难有所改观。
作为一个母亲，我看了这个颇为触动，从小正向鼓励孩子是有多么重要‼️其实以前不喜欢这对姐妹👭，但是看了电影改变了看法，网坛上能出现非白人的世界冠军意义非凡，为她们骄傲。
2小时10分的内容没有最后几分钟真实录像力量大，不太行。
其实主人物改编类型电影做到这样已经算成功了 它本身偏重的就是理查德而不是他的两个冠军女儿 而电影为了避免走偏也已经隐去了很多大小威的剧情 特别是小威 论成就来讲小威要比她姐姐出色得多但电影显然不是讲他们两个的 如果这个人物在性格塑造上的复杂性与多重性上引起足够讨论 那我觉得这就是主人物传记电影的成功了 至于必要性从来都不是传记电影的矛盾点 但有一说一 这的确就是史皇的骗奖片 你看他演得多卖力啊。。影帝也不是不可以 这种电影放到这个年代只能说是有点过时 要是放在四五十年前 这肯定是学院派最喜欢的那类电影 题外话 我看网球比较多那几年对威爸真的一点印象都没有 相反她们的妈总是会出现在看台上 发型和服饰都格外瞩目 笑死
有句刚句，作为传记电影，拍得还是可以的，电影里的夫妇和真实夫妇气质还满接近，不过要不是威尔斯密斯颁奖会上打了人，我还真不一定来看。看完感受就如同当年哈佛女孩的感受似的，其实，孩子的成功事后总结出很多，比如父亲的偏执、慈爱、对对手的尊重、对改善环境的强烈愿望，然而，这一切并不一定能早就威廉姆斯姐妹的成就，也许成就她们真正因素就是她们的天赋，而已，当年哈佛女孩、谷爱凌的成功也一样。想明白这个事，就不觉得这个父亲有多牛，也没觉得斯密斯那么配拿小金人。
KingWIll，体育励志，美国人的网球情结和黑人梦。
黑人在体育上有努力 但白雪公主是黑人 我就不看
88/100 当作家的手指触碰文本，静谧的画面出现斥责的响声，电影的概念生成了，就像手语所暗示的那样。罕见看到洪以电影制作、对电影本身的理解贯穿全片的作品，主动谈及电影理念随年龄的变化，对生活愈加感激。女主具有更强的主体性，想大声笑就笑，想做一件事最后做成了。光线的变化指出空间的不连续性，女主从高台望下白夜深空，随后的变焦pov如高空飞行，降落到相遇的地点：导演与演员相遇、年长女性与另一个自己相遇、任何人的相遇，初见或重访，相遇地点形成拜访的回环。时间轻轻跳转，完成的电影被带到疫情之中的影院，最后视角经由一对年轻观众完成金敏喜对小说家的替换。金最后那一段并不是表白彩蛋而已，既是电影内部的片中片，也是明确的自我指代，并破开次元壁对着观众、疫情中的电影工作者表白致意，其实很真挚感人@cinndo
但只有一个洪尚秀，虽然我不喜欢，觉得是小布尔乔亚和新浪潮的遗腹子，是文青自恋的跪舔
大威7个大满贯冠军，小威23个大满贯冠军，女子网球届的迈克尔·乔丹！
鸡娃片，用种族题材包装了一下就能从无人问津的剧本变成冲奥片。威廉姆斯姐妹的传奇足以撑起一部黑人题材的励志片，结果非得整个四不像
体育题材的片并没有聚焦在那些逆转跟比赛当中，更多是讲着家庭教育对孩子成长的重要性，做好计划，坚持原则，给予信心和梦想实现的土壤，天赋加上努力，用那些奇迹鼓舞更多的人，就是体育最大的力量
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