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".
女侍那句表白同样也是略多余流俗。
塑造的斯宾塞是矫情的，小K的表演更是矫揉造作的，还好复古视听风格让片子有了亮点，最后的蒙太奇也颇显水准。
温莎后宫·冷妃传。可是啊在历史的记载中，那种蚀骨剜心的痛苦大概都占不到一个字节。
啊，这个，斯图尔特的演技不用尬吹吧，为什么不能找个真正有演技的女演员来演王妃啊！
不要坦然接受那死寂的旋律，不要卑微沉默着低下头颅，不要被生命闭锁的时态所困窘。那些让人完美赞叹的食物和光鲜华丽的衣饰从未如此扼人咽喉，能够捆缚住手脚的绝不只锁铐，那些恐怖机械化的皇室牢笼，恰是更加丰腴了斯宾塞对美好自由精神的向往，那些渴望逝去的记忆，恰是填补透视了未来的景观。要去剪开那封闭带刺的栅栏门窗，要去拯救那空乏的肢体，要去拾得沉睡已久的自我。望着独自在墙内孤寂抚慰自我的“王妃”，拉雷恩同样被异化的创作姿态通过不断裂变的语言释放出一种持续不断、急不可待、且随时可能爆发的能量，仿佛不停在暗示我们需要和她一起战胜这虚伪的景观。每天她都在美梦中醒来，却撕碎了眼前一切，鼓足最后的力气去迎接噩梦般的现实。在未知到来的爱意和归来复辟的速度面前，她终于可以不惧深情地承认——“是斯宾塞，而非戴安娜。”
王妃的牢笼，有这种感觉，但在剧情设计上有些没有重点。贯穿于影片的一种矛盾聚焦准确，但戴安娜王妃细节处的刻画只能算是无功无过，没有给我眼前一亮之感。
这其实是黑戴安娜的吧？大篇幅拍后厨费劲准备食物，然后戴安娜糟蹋食物；皇室规矩折磨戴安娜，然后戴安娜折磨皇室社畜…她的服装师be like：我都要睡了结果就因为你换衣服不肯拉窗帘（真的好没自由哦），现在我要跟个傻子似的在这缝窗帘
很美很美很美，慢节奏当中揭示很多细节，将十几年浓缩为几天。又好像痛苦但又好像没那么痛苦。但确实很美。
不了解真实的戴安娜王妃是什么样子，但K女士的演绎实在是让人浑身难受。 我不理解，我不认同。
前80%的内容压抑到死，完全跌落在她的自我崩溃之中，还没说清到底什么动机让她如此崩溃。灯光、画面、氛围感做足，后20%明朗反叛是个吃kfc的美式结局……呃，u1s1大女主颜是美的，叙事结构有点单薄，结尾有补救却无力回天。
王妃语调真是这样？显然该去看心理医生，何必这样做作。知道王妃过的很痛苦，但是比她痛苦的人太多太多了吧。皇室的伙食真令人羡慕，甜点天堂啊。厨师长好可爱
小kk演得不错，将戴妃的脆弱、压抑、渴望自由的挣扎表现地很到位，全片基调沉郁，结尾的逃逸才显得弥足珍贵，给了戴妃也给了观众一息爽朗的自由空气。小k神颜依旧，Chanel服装超美，安吉表白时戴妃难掩的惊喜神情蛮出戏的，二人变身小k本人和苏，嘤嘤嘤
十足的别扭，已经分不清是剧本有意强调戴安娜在压抑束缚的皇室生活中产生的别扭情绪的延伸，还是小k略微夸张的表演和娇柔的台词功底引发的别扭观感，只能说小k并不适合这样的角色，对戴安娜的演绎具体如何有待探讨，但她自带的少年气很难让人相信她同时还在扮演一位母亲。
“这里没有未来，过去就是现在”让反叛的斯宾塞处于晃动的手持下，一旦被皇室身份压抑，立马变为工整镜头下的黛安娜王妃的焦躁不安，不断重复又不断积攒，成为古宅中历史的幽灵，在“变装蒙太奇”后撕掉衣服与珠宝的枷锁，笼中金丝雀如愿成为野鸡，那就难逃悲剧的发生。囧尼配乐和克莱尔的胶片摄影疯狂加分，奥斯卡冲起来，暮光之城这对儿发展越来越好了
当然，我尽可不感伤，毕竟那离我太远太远，我还远未到不喜欢华服美食的地步。
可以说是小k的独角戏，演技跃升到新高度，此片批判皇室婚姻对无辜少女的迫害比任何同类型作品都要狠，通过沉浸式的表达，追忆童年，类比断头皇后，把戴安娜完全塑造成了一个可怜的并对未来即将到来的厄运浑然不知的可怜无助的女人，不过前提是多少了解这场皇室婚姻的背景，戴安娜就像献祭给皇室的新娘，看着她一点点枯萎并走向最终的死亡，你会恨透了英国皇室的冷漠虚伪。
沙莉霍金斯10分钟的出场秒掉小K两个小时的用力和造作。
戴安娜·斯宾塞恍惚分裂的精神世界。导演和小K都挺矫情的，要的那种感觉，演没演出来，拍也没拍出来。反倒是我看完还挺同情女王一家的。。圣诞夜聚餐，换到中国相当于年夜饭了吧，作为儿媳就这样说不清道不明的让一屋子人干等她一人，最终竟然还是没去！普通家庭都难以接受，更何况是整个王室了。。
#Venezia 78# 117分钟，从黛安娜回到斯宾塞。K的表演戏剧感挺强，没什么问题
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