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".
大概想再拍一部《阳光普照》那样的片子，但这《瀑布》强烈的鸡汤感比起上一部“阴影”的叙述实在差太远，要不是配乐不错实在听不下这堆破台词，陈以文说“出来工作，最重要的就是”时我脑海里已经替他接出“把握时间，掌握方向”了。
很喜欢但又感觉散乱和寡淡，贾静雯的形象很出色，疫情的时代背景，个体在瀑布中的溺水无助，但女儿的长大和母亲被摧毁后的重建又是这部电影的光，在这个绝望的溺水式的个体环境里是生之欲让每个人又重拾信心。喜欢钟孟宏的缓慢和一些生活的插曲旁叙，但本片前段的心理悬疑急转到生活鸡汤让人觉得太过于晃荡和割裂，感觉一个整体的主题分裂的过于零散。电影展现的疫情之后的社会，失业、居家隔离、人际的交往很真实也很压迫，疫情一个时代的标志，钟孟宏抓住了这种真实，而遗憾的是在电影的后半段就弃用了这个标志性的背景板，仅仅把它当做一种诱发性的工具只作为牵引出个人的故事的功效实在有些可惜。
“下次不要在問我你好嗎？我會想盡辦法好起來，在好好的和你走下去。”是沒有預警的洩洪，是順著鷹架爬進家中的蛇，是腦海裡轟隆的瀑布與潺潺的小溪，是碩大的一張藍色防水布，是口罩下的你我，是偶爾飄來的一陣雨，是瀑布一般佇立在心底最簡單的陪伴與綿綿愛意。
不似以往的钟孟宏电影那么暗黑系，以至于中后段一度有公益广告片的味道。总体来讲是effortless cool。从画面到故事再到结构都很喜欢。陈以文致敬🫡自己的部分太好笑。
确实没有阳光普照那么浑然天成了，但我愿意为了这个故事跳入它的语境里，去相信欣赏它。它是个童话，是个喜剧，是个能触到痛处的脱口秀，所以怎样说都可以，甜一些苦一些都没关系
心理惊悚的段落实在是太破坏整体质感了，从《阳光普照》到《瀑布》，钟孟宏好像一直偏向于这种于生活阴影处萌生阳光的另类鸡汤，这部不管是断裂的琐碎情节还是了无新意的剧本都太别扭了。疫情的背景倒也并不算是可有可无，毕竟口罩的频繁使用还是从某种程度上加强了他所强调的疏离感，而隔离的背景恰巧也是母女二人脆弱的互相吸引与依存，色彩的运用是最大的亮点，尤其是那块蓝色幕布。没觉得这次贾静雯多好啊，相反王净更吸引我，还是更喜欢《阳光普照》
不要来问我“你还好吗”，我会努力变好。音乐太多了。陈以文驾校梗笑死。魏如萱念白好可爱哈哈哈。听了看QA朋友的解释，对结局的安排也算和解了
#TIFF21#悬疑、家庭、喜剧多类型糅合，形成了一种波荡起伏的节奏，这也使得影片结构看起来有些割裂，但这种割裂也体现了生活的无常，影片的张力因此得以维持。影片代入新冠背景而又没有刻意强调，而是在这种语境下以细节体现它的在场，它对这个时代人们的改变，不要说什么后来他们都不戴口罩了，这种处理其实很巧妙地还原了我们如今面对新冠的态度。当然故事其实离开这个语境也无妨，但正视它，而不以功利的态度取舍他，其实是很重要的。扯远了，影片细节处理得相当细腻，这种琐碎中将生活的鸡毛蒜皮得到还原，但不宜讲出来了。
水溢煮锅，水漫溪河，瀑布声萦绕耳畔，蓝色帷帐遮住光线。开头的城市景观和直射在写字楼玻璃上的光像是看《阳光普照》，相依为命的母女二人，家道中徂，一些不必要的隐喻堆砌，也有一些鸡汤意味，但也足够动人，可能全靠贾静雯的演技撑起来。【Netflix】
台灣電影一貫的散漫文藝敘事，雖不免有點拉雜破碎，但仍然聚焦在covid-19的當代語境下家庭關係的務實探究上值得抱持敬意，對「思覺失調」這類精神疾病（尤其是家人中）的關照越發凸顯東亞傳統社會中的男性缺席的擔當問題。「瀑布」的隱喻，到底是BLUE簾幕終將降下，還是奔騰而下順勢而去，抑或是女性力量的蓄積爆發？
阿彼察邦和芦奎西亚·马尔特般的声效加
有拼凑意象之嫌，贾静雯的表现相比早前确实有脱胎换骨的变化。
“下次不要在問我你好嗎？我會想盡辦法好起來，在好好的和你走下去。”是沒有預警的洩洪，是順著鷹架爬進家中的蛇，是腦海裡轟隆的瀑布與潺潺的小溪，是碩大的一張藍色防水布，是口罩下的你我，是偶爾飄來的一陣雨，是瀑布一般佇立在心底最簡單的陪伴與綿綿愛意。
7.6/10渐入佳境，前半段多少有点迷惑，但是慢慢的你会发现影片越来越有嚼头，滋味越来越浓，这是我很喜欢的一点，没有太多的起伏，但是慢慢的感染你，让你静下心来去听这个故事。很喜欢影片悬疑点的设定，很高级也很抓人，会牢牢抓住观众的心，再同主角慢慢揭开面纱，影片最后我想终究是导演不忍心了，也感慨好在是这样的一个结局。贾静雯好美啊！
就 很动人的一段母女的故事，青春期少女与妈妈的恶性关系，逼到极致后 母女关系身份对调，少女一夜长大，才发现她们其实只能依靠对方。各方面设计得挺巧妙的，看得出花了心思，很喜欢前半部分的惊悚元素，and贾静雯厉害的！
钟孟宏所有作品都着力于生活的脆弱和不堪一击，想必给公司起名甜蜜生活也是种反讽。有钱的没钱的，相聚的离散的，最后都被生活之苦冲刷干净了。
历史的洪流里，一个生命一个家庭一个社会即便如瀑布倾泻，天翻地覆，可激流跌落的地方，永远是波澜不惊的大江大河，疫情也如是。
不知道为啥能感觉到，如果这几年文淇没有来大陆发展的话，女儿这个角色估计是她来演。
生活的倾覆可不就像瀑布跌下悬崖吗？别回头看，别去温习跌落的记忆。镇定下来，缓缓向前，流成小溪与江河。从《停车》到《瀑布》，钟孟宏每一部影片都能触动人内心那根绷麻了的弦，让它恢复知觉，重新发出声音。贾静雯的优秀演技也是本片的一大看点。另外，透过本片还可以一窥中国台湾地区是如何防疫的。
这还是属于中岛传雄的影像，尽管钟孟宏的温情没有以前那么冷峻了。
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