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".
还是那位简·坎皮恩，依然简·坎皮恩！！！但是这样的故事适合文字，因为它需要大量的叙述，而电影的功能太局限，时间以及各种方面的限制，导致127分钟内给出一个如此结局总觉得太仓促，太草率，太轻！！！但是不得不说简·坎皮恩的作品戏剧张力太强了！
这片在豆瓣居然只有7.几分，实属不理解。一把子讽刺了川普、马斯克、苹果、决策链、公众平台、媒体、娱乐圈、现代文明，等等等等，埋了太多梗了。最后这个火箭能在宇宙里撑足2万年，我不信😂。
用人物状态以及他们和物的互动去叙事表达，这一套用到精疲力尽之后让影片看起来肃杀但是干涩，克制却又满溢。之前简坎皮恩只看过钢琴课，两者有很多相似的感觉，不过我认为钢琴课那一套卡司远胜于犬之力，特别是霍利亨特之于本尼。最开始那朵纸玫瑰从诞生到毁灭的几个空镜真是让我喜爱。
内敛而荒蛮，温柔而残忍，野性而浪漫。爱上他，杀死他。韵味十足。
早说了不要看这种文艺片了，没想到又是。节奏慢到令人发指，情节跳跃严重。。最后讲了一个利用医学知识干掉叔叔的故事。。。当然了，这里面还掺杂着一些GAY的意味。可惜了，卷福这么情深，居然栽在一个小兔崽子手上。。
完全冲奥相。沉静、克制、残忍的凌迟。女导演在approach各类故事的时候总会贡献更不一般的角度和方式，而Jane Campion这一次选择了留白，将叙事任务更多地交给镜头语言来完成。角色间的张力靠运镜实现，再以特写与音效构建意向群，为观众补充剧本之外的可阐释的信息。更难得的是，在大量的留白之下，故事的完整性和流畅性还能得以保持，这真的很考验导演功力。看到有人说这一部像马力克，对不起啊，作为一个看过他所有电影还做过他研究的人，马力克的作品空洞太多了好嘛！
完全冲奥相。沉静、克制、残忍的凌迟。女导演在approach各类故事的时候总会贡献更不一般的角度和方式，而Jane Campion这一次选择了留白，将叙事任务更多地交给镜头语言来完成。角色间的张力靠运镜实现，再以特写与音效构建意向群，为观众补充剧本之外的可阐释的信息。更难得的是，在大量的留白之下，故事的完整性和流畅性还能得以保持，这真的很考验导演功力。看到有人说这一部像马力克，对不起啊，作为一个看过他所有电影还做过他研究的人，马力克的作品空洞太多了好嘛！
还好坚持看到了最后，后劲有点猛，别轻易交付出感情给那些沉默寡言而阴森的人，很危险
纸花，皮绳，马鞍都好👌🏻，镜头色气但是讲述又很克制，太细腻了，大段的时间交给西部的辽阔和寂静的尘埃，秘密花园里的时光和被血染红的稻草都是隐蔽的欲望，四位主角都演得妙妙妙。Dunst两口子真的真的越来越像彼此了，可怕。
"Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog."
本尼迪克特康伯巴奇把一个牛仔的阴阳两面演得太细腻了，看好他至少获得奥斯卡影帝提名。
3.5。母之力，接下來就是兒子V.S繼父……(影片以權謀驚悚的角度來看，反而較耐人尋味。)看似脆弱頹廢的母親，最了解自己的兒子，Kirsten Dunst令人意想不到的表演好 !
奇爱博士之后最好看的政治讽刺喜剧。肾上腺激素飚增。一步之遥都没这来劲。原来是个爽片。
Don't trust anyone.Especially men.
衣冠楚楚的现代性年轻人取代了老派牛仔还隐喻了文明社会与蛮荒的冲突，整立意不可谓不高。
这部电影真的太可怕了，看完会有心理阴影。原著者和导演相比对人性是非常悲观的，就当我们以为故事会朝着互相救赎的角度发展时，Peter竟然把Phil给杀了。Phil对Peter的感情是清晰可见的，但Peter对Phil究竟是什么感情我想很难有一个单一的定论。
四点五，菲尔的形象很复杂，观众对他的感情也很复杂，需要仔细想想。
适当加速吧，这样的感觉太拖沓。
相当慢热以至前四十分钟都很无聊，但！越看越来神，直至最后野心暴露火力全开 ！选了这么个题材又攒了这么多不要钱似的巨星却搞成了一部反高潮冷笑点社会讽刺片，谁能不唏嘘一句奈飞有钱任性呐 。＃果然要宣传任何主张最紧要就是编个slogan然后植进一首洗脑歌里＃
好一个静水流深，好一个睹物思人，好一个图穷匕见。那山一直都在，看到犬吠的却只有三人。
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