剧情介绍

  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".

评论:

  • 达雪风 5小时前 :

    电影拍摄手法不行,节奏很怪,配乐也是乱七八糟的,莫名其妙地悬疑,莫名其妙地煽情MV,感觉导演好像没怎么拍过电影。

  • 鱼子瑜 4小时前 :

    老实讲,电影想反映的社会问题有点太多,东一榔头西一棒槌的。前面以为探讨的是女权,平等,校园(职场)霸凌,后面又开始说政治手段,警官勾结。总之就感觉有点too much

  • 陶舒怀 4小时前 :

    社会意义还是很好的,但作为一部剧情片有点乱乱的

  • 闻人如曼 1小时前 :

    讨论的话题非常有意义,剧情反转的设置也很爽文,但就一个问题,印度的法庭是可以这样随便一人show的吗?

  • 盍忆远 6小时前 :

    今年看过的最佳!!!开始以为讲女性权益,接着又以为是革命片,看下来发现是弘扬正义,捍卫事实与法律,批判政治与媒体,没想到它最后是部复仇的爽片。ps 双男主并不需要对手戏。

  • 马运虹 4小时前 :

    至少敢拍,能拍,还能放映,超了几条街了吧。如果警方定不了罪,那把他们当场释放咯,看看人民的愤怒是不是能撕了那四个人头。如果不能,这就是没血性的名族,也就不用去辛苦定罪了。还十四年,强奸,谋杀,焚烧毁尸,想想都气。知道为什么权贵帮他们四个人吗,不光是他们帮权贵做事,而且权贵也会追求刺激做出和那四个人一样的事情,所以当然他们轻拿轻放了。还有一开始的时候,上面老头一派胡言,竟然不敢扔鞋子,还谈什么读书人,百无一用

  • 邸雁菱 9小时前 :

    要先把问题摆上台面,然后才有通过现代文明途径解决的可能性。

  • 驰鑫 5小时前 :

    所有的局都是有看不见的手幕后的操作, 最可怕的是暗局,如果男主的儿子没有发生意外,谜底可能永远也无法揭开

  • 格昕 4小时前 :

    后半段的法庭辩论反转太精彩了。

  • 震骏 9小时前 :

    中国电影不仅在剧本讲故事的能力上,更在国家社会议题的反思和讨论上,离韩日以及印度电影差的越来越远了

  • 馨敏 2小时前 :

    大尺度爽片,令人那啥的是,印度也是什么题材都能拍啊……

  • 错雯华 3小时前 :

    结局一段的处理方式没看懂啊。不塑造律师,也并没有把副督察弄得更丰满

  • 菲萱 5小时前 :

    其实现在大多数国家都是这样 舆论被少数人操控 自以为正义和一头热的网民是被利用的棋子和助长社会戾气的帮凶 而极少数对一些争议提出质疑和全盘考虑的的人 基本都会立刻被骂的狗血喷头 导致理智的声音越来越少 而无脑网友日渐增多 这是我们这个时代最悲哀,也是最难改变的地方

  • 胤铭 6小时前 :

    如果没有电影的最后1小时,我相信绝大多数观众都是那些被媒体牵着鼻子走的人,这部电影的高分点大概就在于1点40分之后的转折

  • 礼涵韵 3小时前 :

    为了争权夺利,这些政治家什么肮脏的事都做了。

  • 权铭 7小时前 :

    涉及面广,女性,学生运动,黑社会,私刑道德,媒体舆论,种姓,毒教材,政治大腕。但是我觉得伴随着这种程度的反转,前面讨论议题的力量就被相对地削弱了。

  • 暨海颖 6小时前 :

    7,也许很多人认为这种题材“像”某些高级的电影,只是这只是善意的误会。故事很悬浮,其中的法庭戏,如果不是编剧的经验不足就只能说明印度的法治真的太差了。警察杀人的铺垫不足导致前面不足以代入,还有莫名其妙的慢镜头,除了律师很多人都在讲显而易见的情绪,全员降智(包括控方律师)。我理解都是为了反转,最后的一小时确实亮眼,虽然全部从律师嘴里说出来不符合电影语言,但实现的情绪效果(正如角色说的,点燃观众的情绪,人们就变成了信徒)还是不错的。

  • 诗雨 1小时前 :

    非常厉害用女教授被害案为引子,引出了一连串的社会和制度问题,教授不合理剥削学生,警察勾结政客,政客民主选举作梗,无明说的种姓歧视,操纵媒体舆论造势引流,正义公正的行使方式,道德审判与法律审判的区别,这些时代热点话题全都点到并且用生动的情节演绎了出来。此外利用叙事技巧,一直成功的引导观众往期望的方向上联想,一次是重新复盘女教授死亡的可能性(前面适当埋设了伏笔),一次用几句台词重新改写警察全部的行为动机(最后将警察的行为圆回来感觉是为了保持高尚人设的一致性),都算是比较厉害的反转了。最后印度电影的刻意煽情,是唯一美中不足的地方了。

  • 雪鑫 8小时前 :

    包罗万象,底层社会到上流高校,中国未来50年内没有可能拍出这样的电影,当我们提起印度电影的时候,我们也应当知道,印度不只有宝莱坞的喜剧,不只有阿米尔汗的摔跤吧爸爸,不只有精彩绝伦的误杀瞒天记,还有这部警世醒世的《宿敌》

  • 诗馨 3小时前 :

    影片中涉及到的这些主体和荒诞事件,或多或少的发生在如今这个世界的每个角落,变革还是革命?这是这部影片带给我们的思考,也是每一个国家和每个公民都应该思考的命题。

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