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".
关于一个受伤的家庭的自救，拍得很细，但整体感受并不深，歌舞的形式也就还好吧，这个用力过猛的社恐男主并不是我观看这部电影的重点，只可惜咩姨和AA的对手戏太少。
虽然结局想得到，但对于一个小女生要把三个成年男子绑架杀害还是心存疑惑，虽然片段有拍了点，气喘吁吁又拖又拽要避开监控一路拖到目的地实在不可思议了。全员演技在线看得很爽，最后砂糖对着宽叔讲述当年没有救他儿子那段，宽叔的演技真神了，从愤怒到释然，几个眼神太到位。
日本的主旋律正能量也是同样让人窒息！虽然讲述的是311大地震后的社会，不过都那么的离地。过于光辉而剥离了人性。使得毫无代入感。
这个世界并不是无药可救，消除贫困并不是一句简简单单的口号，而是更多人付出的努力和坚定生活的信念。一点点畏惧和退缩都会带来不幸，我们更要彼此扶持，相互帮助。
我爱朱利安摩尔！一直知道咩咩很会演戏但是从来不知道她也很能唱，而且她唱的这一段solo是最富有感情的
22.09.2021 | @ Regal Gallery Place | 有新歌！！Julianne Moore会唱歌！但是这个导演是智障吗？！！！！
地震 家庭 福祉 案件，导演每一个话题都想讲但都没讲好，浪费了这么好的卡司，拍成番剧应该更合适。
清原果耶妹妹脸上胶原蛋白好足，职业装多少有点点违和，看着还是太年轻了，更像个实习生；jk扮相简直变了个人，齐刘海不要太可爱太青春！演技也的确值得一个最佳女配角。很日式很社会派推理，剧情衔接有点松散，明明不需要拍两个多小时的嘛！最后一刻钟撒狗血到了极致，但想想也的确圆得回去……宽叔大概也觉得有点无语，脸上隐隐约约有种快点拍完想要下班的感觉。小林子砂糖稳定发挥，小林子又演警察搞得人很想复习ST红白档案。瑛太每次出场都相当出彩，人物本身和表演都很圆满。在这个大家都在囤菜囤粮的时节看这部片心里多少有点复杂，有饭吃有水喝是底线，冲这个立意加一星。
专业歌手带着一群半专业演的音乐剧，还是出个官摄版吧，或者静等全球巡演。
还不错，清原果耶演的挺好的，挺无力的故事以至于结尾显得轻飘飘的
不要想成悬疑片，这就是一个纪录片，真实的生活本来就是波澜不惊但是又写满了残酷，没有什么罪有应得也没有什么报仇雪恨，大家都是受害者。
我宽叔表现还是依然稳定，但是阿宽拯救不了整部戏，开头还是不错的，但是越往后就滑入了女主复仇故事，其实大灾难更多表现人的人性改变和灾难后环境改变人这些都没有表现出来，也缺乏张力，整部电影过于沉闷。电影谈到了政府关于大灾难后低保救济金这个社会问题，本来也是好的点，单一用在女主复仇条件处理过于潦草。
氛围不够，感情不够激烈，悬疑程度也不够，刚看不久就知道是小干杀的人
还没看音乐剧先来电影版预习 评价都说改编很灾难但我觉得至少歌是好听的 话说给自己写信真的是有用的therapy嘛 听完音乐剧现场回来追评➕一⭐ 我觉得电影很不错啊！虽然不太理解把conner爹改成完美后爸的理由，但alana改得真的拔高立意 并不是popular kids就一定很快乐 每个人都有隐藏的伤痛 妈妈和evan和解那段剧场此起彼伏的抽泣声 这也是第一部我看哭的音乐剧
以为是推理片，这节奏看的我超级累。其实题材不错，但拍的太表面了，情节也不抓人
10-2 断断续续看的，看到说口碑不好，所以也没有那么认真对待了。歌是真的好听，就是自己英语也太烂了吧，17年初开始听的，也看了偷录版，也去百老汇看过了，竟然感觉还是第一次听这些歌，第一次了解剧情一样，对于人物之间的关系和动机又更了解了。也许就是不那么适合改编成电影吧，只属于舞台。
虽然被剧迷骂得狗血淋头，但没看过的朋友我还是会推荐吧，毕竟也没有官摄也等不到现场，每次听到you will be found都哭得稀里哗啦，所有的歌都是la la land的词曲人写的，尤其是anonymous one那首原创，因为在音乐剧里没有，单方面认为是全电影最自然又不用力的表演了，结尾的新歌a little closer顺带加入了一个新情节，我觉得这应该是最好的结局了。
我愿称其为社会派犯罪题材。（真不是看了社会派推理的问题）影片从两个主角，两条时间线交错的方式推进，最大的特点还是在于循序渐进的节奏恰到好处的解释了作案动机。 多加一分给两位主角最后海边的那场戏。演技爆表，这都是什么神仙演技，配合最后手表的那一声，真的哭了好吗
看到一个小时才意识到不是小男孩是小女孩 还有日本福利工作人员是办成一个低保户会扣钱还是咋滴 这么不想给办
想说的很明确，但说的不好，前期节奏太慢，揭露也缺少铺垫，本来是复杂和难解的矛盾，反而被电影简化了，凶手也揭露的毫不意外
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