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".
科曼这几年太棒了吧。在成为母亲之前，她首先是个女人
还不错，全程的基调都很压抑令人窒息，中间出去上了个厕所感觉到一些解放，然后回到影厅里这种威压立刻又回来了。但拍摄和氛围都很成功，不是很能理解主角的一些行为，为什么拿走那个娃娃，是想要一次重来的机会吗？是因为自己心爱的娃娃（暗指一部分的青春生命）被女儿毁掉所以想重新找回来吗？还是因为想让那一家人也受到自己当年受到的折磨？但明明可以说谎说自己把娃娃找回来了，为什么要告诉她实话说是自己拿走。
配乐台语歌👍👍 罗大佑和林强那段好劲 谭志刚好帅……… 戏里戏外叹口气
剧本不错，音乐铺的太“过”，回忆和现实的两层空间转场等用的中规中矩。“削果皮”是和孩子情感的链接，这是作者私人化的原创标识，是她个体情感的记忆；玩具娃娃道具作为叙事支点用的也好，女人在事业和孩子之间的两难选择也没有过分说教，只是呈现了不同于多数人选择的另一个视点。
sad and beautiful 以及看credit才发现并恍然大叫那个老头是ed Harris演的我就说……
玛吉拍的真不差，没看过费兰特原小说，原小说应该也是意大利式的，所以本片的观感有些些奇怪，有些地域文化的模糊性，这是对原故事改变为剧本还不够细致的处理之处。老演员的班底，情感的表达十分出色。剩下的就是费兰特的这个故事，依旧很费兰特视角的一个反省故事，网上常说的孩子生下来又塞不回去了，逃走的母亲，然后这种逃走却依然是一辈子不可挽回的伤害，对自己对孩子皆是。不是一味的恐婚恐育，在这样的故事里，应该无性别的每一个人都去反省如果选择了婚姻、选择了生育怎么过好这辈子还是不可控制的自我毁灭这是个很难去决定的话题，我们看似一直在用爱为借口或者以家庭为载体去解决问题，而个人的自由呢是被家庭的硫酸溶解了还是所谓的家庭责任绑架，费兰特的问题太尖锐，作为男性视角去看有很多被男性忽视的女性阴影让我也很恐慌我是否如此？
五月十五日阴天我去参加完叔公的葬礼，雨很大，想起爸爸妈妈车祸去世的那天，我在派出所里被姐夫保释出来，雨一直下
尽管我也有孩子，但还是觉得各方面都有一丢丢的令人费解……音乐不错但电影看着真的好累😔
4K修复电影：2022.7.30 板桥威秀影城
作为处女作，居然有着惊人细腻的质感，多场1v1对手戏摄影机都无所畏惧的对着演员怼，戏剧性饱满得要命。
是的，当一名有“责任”的妈妈，是必要放弃许多，这本身就非常的矛盾和不公平。
靠演员抬出了原作里subtle的东西 处女作加一星
对母职的探讨浅尝辄止，Olivia和Jessie的表演撑起了整部电影。
我在看完整部电影之后才恍然大悟，为什么在电影名称中要用「lost」来作为女儿的修饰定语，因为那是一直深扎在莱达心中的一根刺，很小，似乎轻易不被发现，可一直都在。看多了荧幕上母性角色的付出，这类关于育养孩子的影片便显得更珍贵，尤其影片的主人公不是传统意义上称职的母亲。值得一提的是，奥利维娅的演技也可圈可点，为影片增色不少。
情感做得太到位了！带小孩的时候快乐和崩溃并存，愤怒的时候会带着哭腔，暗暗会跟陌生人较劲，不用猜，男的应该不会理解。
以後再有人問我台灣人怎麼罵人我就讓他來看這部
补遗。等修复版，真tm好看。基本算是侯拍的吧，快准狠。
有一个被卷入黑道是非的爸爸，一个当警察小队长的老实舅舅，这两个70后无知少年，一个死在河边无人问津，一个继续苟活。台湾的乡土黑道，看老片子才有感觉。高捷也因此片开启漫长的黑道大哥生涯。最后的日记有点矫情，为了林强的50s唱歌镜头而看，罗大佑真是活力四射。
寻娃启事勾兑婚育噩梦，“任何想移除疑虑的企图都是霸权的开始”，随性而走留下一条橙皮之蛇；找自己老公演魅力教授，导演 Maggie Gyllenhaal 派家属福利
无处安放的、废到极致的烂仔青春啊。义字当头，一言不合就开干，准则就是兄弟，拿着枪就能成为世界的王。阿国如果是我们这边的，绝对是我把他打死或者他把我打死，真他妈怪烂，也是真他妈的好啊。（很梦幻的却是，现实中的阿兜仔生命永远定格在了18。）
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