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".
5.一些精确捕捉的细节的确引起了经历过癌症家庭的共鸣。
妈妈的控制欲过于强了 有点窒息…但是我还是哭得要死 小美真美
望未来的新女性都能“有选择”，
我的眼泪不值钱，跟水龙头一样流不停。催泪元素过多，但是表演真实动人，爸爸看着妈妈的b超影像喃喃自语，眼泪刷地下来了。打动人的表演就是这么简单。看得出张婧怡是靠感受表演的，离车而去崩溃抱蹲那段特别好，台词可以再提升一下。徐帆演得很好啊，为什么那么多人说她。季佩珍女士太能干了，把女儿李小美安排的明明白白，工作了回家还要亲亲抱抱搂着睡，看着有点瘆人，结果李小美没有想法、没有理想也没有自信，把生活搞得一团糟，母亲蒙在鼓里还深以为豪。现实里这种控制狂家人的确会令人崩溃的，小美的混乱不突兀。但是妈妈患病了，亟待解决的母女矛盾没有了，一下子变成了没有人管的恐惧。还有不懂事的弟弟，需要照顾的婆婆……《我的姐姐》里的姑姑，也是因为弟弟和家庭，没能追求自己的理想去学俄语。60-70后的女性题材太悲哀了。
仪把小美的叛逆、倔强和孝顺都演的很好，而且随着情节发展，有明显的成长递进。
导演手法生涩，不会转场，都是生硬的淡入淡出。对演员表演也不太有调节能力。主角的情感与身份设计包罗是挺全的，母亲，姐姐，妻子，媳妇，包括少女时独立个体。但冲击与感染力比较泛于表层。像陈明昊完全该有一场爆发的戏来给全片添彩的。导演浪费了他。
关于我母亲的一切和关于我妈的一切，这两部电影简直就是天和地的差别。
感觉前面全程都是徐帆在叨叨 从教书到教女儿到教导女儿的上司 都是她不停在说。后面病情严重了之后就一直在哭 爸爸哭妈妈哭女儿哭 说不催泪是假的 但其实关于感动也有好的开心的不一定是这么惨的 如果能把妈妈的美好展现出来让我们开心地哭而不是动不动就绝症悲伤地流泪 电影的高度就更高伟了。张婧仪和另一边厢的章若楠分别拍了一场狗血青春电影 我完全不感动不共情 现在有个稍好一点的剧本了就觉得这两个小姑娘好好看 年轻的资本就是好！
虽然故事在看完剧情梗概后已经可以猜到走向，但还是被里面的真实所触动，一个对孩子关心过度，絮絮叨叨，操持着全家上上下下的母亲，可能她没有什么爱好，没有什么特长，不是什么职场女强人，也没做出过多少丰功伟绩，她不潇洒，也不酷，她不是“别人家”的爸妈，但如果她真的猝不及防的从你的生命中离开，你会发现，她原来掌握着那么多你不知道的生活技能，她原来默默处理了那么多家中琐事、人情往来，当你被迫一夜长大的时候，你才真正理解她的辛苦与不易，她如此普通，却是一个家中不可缺少的支柱，她如此平凡，却是一家人心里最温暖柔软的存在
这部电影总体来说还行吧，不太是我喜欢的类型，剧情也有些尬，能看就行。
没看简介就直接看了电影。本来以为是普通的校园爱情故事没想到意外还不错😲整体的镜头感都好压。色调也很沉。很容易对影片有一些先入为主的感觉。一度以为会有凶杀案件的那种感觉。山田杏奈本来就长得一脸不高兴。不知道该说是这个角色很适合她还是说演技好了。演出了一股非常反社会的感觉。不过比起她更喜欢女二。马上把名字加入可关注的女优小本本里。作间的戏份倒是。比我想象中的好。可能是因为这个角色本身就不是太有表情浮动的人。哪怕他棒读我可能也看不出来。有那么一两个镜头是真的蛮帅的👏电影本身感觉是打四星差不多了。再给一星我们小作的初映画吧😋
整个故事比较连贯，但还是有点煽情过猛，所有的家庭矛盾都通过一个点去化解，有些转变太快以至于不太自然。家家有本难念的经，许多时候的矛盾只是缺乏慢下来的相互理解。
改编自《世上最美丽的离别》。
本土化做的挺成功 几个大泪点让我无法自控地泪崩 抛开生死 每个人的生活都是自己的选择 最后这个点题也不错
这就是北影节主竞赛电影吗？爱了爱了。
【229/166】这个故事也许发生在蛮多个家庭之中。作为医生的丈夫最大的遗憾大概就是对自己妻子的病症无能为力！而作为子女，诸如这种家庭噩耗的时候总是最后一个知道的，这又是多么的遗憾！“子欲养而亲不待”会是多少在外打拼的年轻人后半辈子的遗憾！作为母亲，一些方式的爱的确很难被年轻的孩子所理解，但她们也没有希望能完全被理解，只是想尽他们最大的力去展现那份爱罢了！
太费纸巾了！片子很真实，北京青岛实地拍摄，剧情不回避吸毒插足，北漂的苦，饭店老板得癌的结局，真的不容易。我不赞同影评靠前对徐帆演技和情节的否定，这样的母亲言谈举止太熟悉了，不能说一模一样也是基本雷同了，怎么您生活里没见过这样的也不同意人家这样，也太狭隘了吧。就是两处细节有些穿帮：京A83的车牌子和名字有“湘”的四川火锅店。
哭了，但又没完全哭。被嫌弃的他妈的倒霉一生。
虽然没看懂一部分内容 但是本剧的高光我觉得是最后一秒
很多人都在批评徐帆的表演，但中肯的说，不适感来自于角色本身，表演本身尚可，深情依旧。
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