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".
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。
极具巧思的心理学电影。贾静雯演得好，把精神病人的那种一股洪荒之力随时喷涌而出的这么一种游离的状态拿捏得相当到位，平静柔弱的外表下面暗藏着毁灭一切的疯狂。
拒绝相信这是一个蝙蝠侠，应该叫高谭市热心公务员王进喜的爱情故事。
钟孟宏的新片《瀑布》，延续了《一路顺风》《阳光普照》，虽然没前面两部那么震撼，但也还值得一看。钟这是要继承杨德昌侯孝贤的台湾当代人文关怀大任啊。
蝙蝠侠找到了地毯铲，却没猜到谜语人把密码藏在地毯下面，说明他就是布鲁斯·韦恩。
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。
时效性的故事挺有意思 疫情的降临（fall）给大多数人的物质世界带来了降级 也冲刷了每个人的精神与心灵
3.18 鐘孟宏的電影總有那麼一處讓我共情到無言的瞬間。藍色口罩與樓外巨大的藍施工布構成「後疫情時代」的無聲佈景。如此生活三十年，直到大廈崩塌。
色彩、质感、氛围极好，故事头重脚轻，精彩场面不多，整体太冗长，不好打分，宁愿花三个小时让罗伯特·帕丁森 凹造型，也不好好把谜语人的形象多丰满一些，把编剧拖出来打五十大板吧。从诺兰接手的蝙蝠侠三部曲，到前两年的《小丑》，再到现在的《新蝙蝠侠》，DC的电影越来越像末法时代的暗黑寓言了，穷街陋巷，一派萧条，被侮辱和被损害的人觉醒起来，却被塑造成无恶不作的反派，等着有闲阶级的反省救赎、良心发现，是不是也太那个一厢情愿了呀……
色调划分了前后段，前半段的蓝色和《阳光普照》差不多，可以叫作“致郁蓝”，本以为后面变成温暖治愈母女亲的时候，结尾给了最后一击，只能说编剧对生命太悲观了。
3.5。结尾跟蓝白红之《红》一摸一样，但整个故事又有点像《蓝》，二月十四看也恰如其分，贾静雯这种病理比较难拍，这可能也是很多观众代入不进去的原因，我也挺难忍受的，好在小静这个角色十分完美，在加上BGM实在是太好听，后面的重启人生沉稳扎实，我感觉到了一种非常踏实的欣慰感，钟孟宏电影的情感浓度，人物状态都没得说，他最大的毛病就是对话台词效率太低，比如房间里有蛇，我就知道一定有蛇，还有就是听见嗡嗡声，我就知道一定是瀑布，作为观众老这么抢答式的预判成功是很崩溃的，他改掉这个我是非常期待他以后的作品。
贾静雯这次表演四星级，影片整体质量三颗星，最后的温情部分还是挺感人的，却没法达到大佛的高度，或者是标准太高了，客串明星不少……
而整部电影的后半部分，都旨在弥补前半小时对这位母亲形象的损害，意图通过将她的心绪铺展开，让观众看到她的痛苦、认可她的病态。再通过母女关系的转变、一些主配角的人物弧光完成鸡汤式的主题表达。
就像宣传的那样，这是一部黑色的侦探电影。期待罗伯特下海的，等第二部吧！
导演很努力的想要把超英拉回现实主义，也拍出了一部画风不错的老式黑色侦探片，但，侦探大部分时间是靠文戏推理，一身胶衣披风面具的站在犯罪现场0.5倍速打嘴炮，除了觉得该侦探有一些特殊的癖好之外就想不出什么必要性啊
另外，感觉女儿挺吸引人的！
以疫情为舞台背景，钟孟宏把关注点收缩放进一对紧张的母女关系中。前半段的悬疑氛围堆砌的很好，后半段导演则因为回到了其擅长的家庭温情路线中而更显游刃有余。贾静雯苍老臃肿的扮相让人心疼。
6.0/10.0。确是温柔到骨子里的作品，尽管可能是过于绵软而无力的命题作文。从“提供精子的男人”这一亘古不变的渣男命题出发，贾静雯用自己的表演诠释了一位独立气质的职场女性是如何变得衰老脆弱的。令人欣慰的是，电影并没有落入父亲施舍的爹味窠臼，而是力图描绘出一股萦绕在多重精神压力下大厦将倾而试图重生的女性温柔，即使那位母亲一直沉溺于男人带给她的回忆和伤痛，正是女儿的决绝和母亲的优柔赋予了这股女性视角的对比力量。尽管平庸的镜头语言带着些许小布尔乔亚的坚毅式姿态，但环顾四周，以男导演的身份拍出这样的“意识”，华语影坛又有多少呢？
诈骗 大家分给打的这么客气 是因为量大实惠吗
室友说，如果帕丁森去拍A片，他一定要去看。
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