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".
这不就是美国版《贝利叶一家》吗？both sides now实在是太好哭。
是心靈雞湯，但相當真摯及動人。很高興這套沒有「攞獎格」的電影，成了今屆的大贏家。
陆海之间的对比。陆是庙堂之高，海是江湖之远；陆是血色人间，海是闲云野鹤；陆禁锢人生，海滋养万物；陆是流放，海是接纳；陆是虚无的探求，海是真实的厚重。“在朝廷他是罪人，在我这他是客人”，“如果不能按照所学的生活，那就按自己的本性来生活。”陆与海的博弈中，仍有一岛，仍有人如山。他等待岛屿成片，恰似山隆于海。
。。。little bit condescending Disney story；and guys 考试的时候 老师在 家人在 这都能进伯克利？对其他人不公平吧•᷄ࡇ•᷅
And when I lose my will,
松间沙路净无泥
上次听歌听得这么爽还是皇家酒店谋杀案里 合唱团那些学生个个都是一流水平有两个很有新意的桥段 把手放在你的颈部你的胸膛感受音乐的跳动 在唱歌的时候打手语
coda本意是尾声，同时也是children of deaf adults的首字母。女孩能演能唱。
It's breaking my heart. 对这部片有所改观的是海上检查员在看到爸爸写的“deaf”之后，指着哥哥说：“him too?”，他们脸上带着习惯了的无奈。还有那场在家人眼中的二重唱……妈妈略带紧张又兴奋地观察着周围的观众，爸爸努力想分辨出些什么。
一碗风味不错的鸡汤。小姑娘好看，符合东方审美。今年最佳外语片《驾驶我的车》一样出现了聋哑人手语的情节，看来这次评审挺关注这样的表演方式。兄妹两的格子衫真接地气。片中校园内的合唱表演，让我想起纪录片《哈罗公学》里的合唱比赛，感慨国内普通中学的合唱团水准还很有差距。
法国的《贝利叶一家》没看过。这部《健听女孩》是很棒的！节奏舒缓，简单自然。毫无观影压力，放松着就把故事讲完，不煽情却美好！这样的方式太难得了。音乐质量中等偏上，剧情不受音乐带动，导演超级自信且有能力讲好故事，音乐居然打了一次助攻，并没有反客为主。影片整体主线与女主，就好似弹力球在两根线中间，来回向上弹射，却并不执念，陷入繁杂。家庭打渔与个人歌唱皆点到为止，随后继续向前推进，左右弹射着，向最好的人生前进！
最后二重唱时突然静音有点意思，除此之外算是不能更加主旋律的校园鸡汤青春励志片。配上唱歌的主题，看着挺舒服的。十分适合周末的晚上。
音乐会上静音的神来之笔，那一瞬间犹如身处一场噩梦，像是一个透明人与世隔绝，无能为力的束缚感，这就是聋哑人的世界吧！
8分。真的是非常治愈的片子。聋哑家庭里唯一的健康孩子，当家庭的依靠和自身的发展发生冲突时，年轻的女孩如何抉择？这一听就是滥大街的桥段嘛~~而且连情节如何发展都能被安排得明明白白的。但就算完全知道会怎么发展，但观影体验却非常不错。编剧并没有去卖惨，而是从平等的角度去描绘了他们的生活，有开心，有烦恼，更像一群真实的人。最后果然是个人发展更重要呗，电影嘛，鸡汤点就鸡汤点好了，别太当真嘛~~~
用手感受声带振动和代入聋哑人听觉都猜到了，还是值得一看。
很久没看到这么喜欢的家庭片了。应该会拿一波奖的好电影。
太暖，太治愈了，全世界都会羡慕这样的家庭~~~
班鳐走的路班鳐知道，黄雕鱼走的路黄雕鱼知道，为兹山的鱼作谱，探究鱼的道、而放弃在性理之学的框架中解释变化多端难以把握的人性，在黑暗中做一个闪闪发光的人是丁若镛选择的道。如果不能在生活中按照书本中学的道理生活，那只能按照自己的性子活下去，摘下官帽、回到海边的昌大也找到了自己的道。也许黑暗才能酝酿色彩和光亮，要不为何片尾那抹蓝色出现在小鸟身上时我们都雀跃了呢。
The silent minute is very impressive. We cannot connect to the world all the time, can we ?
跟原版比起来改编得真挺不错的，值得国内编剧好好学学怎么把翻拍改得既接地气又不失精华。两首歌选得真好，即使已经知道情节会怎么发展还是被感动哭了。
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