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".
3.5。看到一半惊觉情节与法国家庭喜剧《贝利叶一家》别无二致，一查果然是买了版权进行了更符合美式价值主流的本土化改编，那些法式喜剧贯有的插科打诨、冷幽默、黄段子也被处理地收敛不少，整体基调少了些许轻盈多了几分沉重（如法版父亲为保农场竞选市长改为美版全家为打渔生计奔波）。最感动的莫过于聋哑父母视角下的无声演唱与父亲摸着女儿的喉结感知音乐，这两段简直堪称无敌催泪大杀器，无论看多少遍都会被触动。
獲不獲獎誰在乎，就是最傳統工整的電影的樣子。多給的一星是給New England的！（Cape Ann到Boston其實也就一小時嘛
第94届奥斯卡金像最佳影片。刚颁了奥斯卡，我就连夜找了这部爆大冷门的最佳影片。小而温馨的美国家庭故事，故事流畅、人物性格也演绎到位，但离我心中的奥斯卡还有些距离。女孩Ruby是一个滨海城市的普通女高中生，唯一不普通的是 她的父母和哥哥都是聋哑人。Ruby天没亮就要起床陪家人出海捕鱼，这个家里唯一健全的人要成为无线通讯水手。一切都从她报名参加学校合唱团之后改变了，上帝吝啬的同时也会偶尔慷慨，一个聋哑家庭走出来的女孩儿却有着天籁之音。最后可以在家人的支持与祝福下追逐音乐梦想固然是好，但不论是那段母女谈心的「妈妈你曾经有没有希望我是聋哑人？」「如果我希望你是聋哑人，那也只是因为我害怕我的聋哑会让我们不够亲密」、还是她在音乐学院甄选时一边唱歌一边打手语让家人「看见」她唱歌，都不足以登堂入室成为奥斯卡最佳影片。
我一直觉得 听觉可能是我最容易放弃的五感之一 但是对于听障来说 唉……
能关注残疾人的生活的确很难得。但是这么寡淡平庸，每个情节都是闭着眼睛也能猜到走向的电影就是奥斯卡最佳影片？？？
看的时候就在想，导演能不能有一个镜头展示一下从女主一家人视角的世界是什么样子的？果然在影片后半段出现了这一幕，他们看到的世界是全场静默，他们听不到女儿那美丽的歌声，只看到了观众们都在鼓掌，凭这一个镜头，值得给五星，但除此之外，本片太过于工整了......额，这倒不是电影的问题，可能是我的问题，我个人越来越对这类过于工整和精确拿捏大众情绪的影片，没有那么强烈的喜爱感了吧。
影片以好莱坞特有的方式触及了阶级问题，没有任何听觉能力的一家人也是美国社会的器皿/弃民。是不可见的人群，无法与别人交流，别人也不知道他们，而且还要被正常人所嘲笑。也因为听不到海上警报和消防的声音，而被吊销了从业资格证书，就是在这样一个边缘中的边缘的家庭之中，有一个具有听觉能力的女孩儿，竟然克服了重重困难，成长为一个波士顿音乐学院的学生。这个过程抵达了好莱坞式美国梦关于人如何克服重重阻力最终实现自我的意识形态腹语术，但是最终影片极力解决的阶级矛盾却没有在最后得到化解。
“如果我们要踢你出门，就要一家人一起去做”。
豆瓣【喜欢这部电影的人也喜欢】里有《对不起，我们错过了你》。
奥斯卡的评委基数决定了这是普选奖，这个局面像是又回到2009年金融危机后《贫民百万富翁》的狂欢，世道太差了，至少电影里还有美梦。coda拿BP是普世价值的胜利，也是世运的失败。
哭到停不下来的点是爸爸用双手用力感受着女儿的声线那里，真的只剩下眼泪了。
大段无声的手语戏将这个聋哑家庭所遭受的内部拉扯与外部困顿所带给观众的心疼与难过有效的压抑在心，而后随着合唱汇演时长达两分钟的失音，观众所有积压的情感都随着这个家庭那种被全世界孤立以及无法欣赏到孩子与生俱来光辉的无助喷涌而出。这种死寂般的失声并不会响彻在你的耳边，而是长久的轰鸣在心。
3.5除了那段在音乐表演中突然失去声音的处理堪称惊艳外，其他的所有部分都套路和狗血，在主题先行的剧本之下，导演要融合好两个主题，一是听障人士的生活与奋斗，二是女儿对梦想与自由的追求，当然最后这两点在影片构建的那些隔靴搔痒的矛盾后以一种毫无波澜的方式化解了，电影中所有的配角都出现在了他们该出现的地方，做了他们该做的事情，完全就是服务于主题的提线木偶，没有任何的情感深度和立体感，童话般的故事让这个在麻省世外桃源之地的美丽风景完美结合，非常适合影片的小清新风格，在努力超脱了一般青春电影的模式的同时又不遗余力地去在这种模式中构建剧本，更多地呈现了家庭在成长中的价值，当然最终肯定是以离开家庭为结局的，一切似乎都是命定的安排
（仅针对电影本身）俗套的励志片，就一点：在学校合唱表演那段，我第一遍是真的主动开静音看的，事后倒回去想听一下音乐的时候，发现自己想法竟然。。。不能说和导演想法不谋而合，只能说这样的手段真是被用烂了，以至于普通影迷都能想得到，手段太廉价。
化好妆出门前寻思把昨天剩一半的看完，结果看得我汪汪乱哭，那点眼影粉底都没了。特别不容易，前面气死我了，父母做不了上升阶梯却要做天花板，还好前面都是铺垫。父亲把手放在女儿脉搏上感受歌唱和面试时候的手语演唱真是哭成狗。
青春+音乐本就不是我喜欢的类型，再加上一些世界的参差让我始终游离：设定里家里——二层独栋别墅的家里——穷得快揭不开锅了但仍然有两辆车一艘船，女主拥有超级超级巨大巨大的天赋并且貌美，高富帅也喜欢她，面试还自带外挂老师，自卑“我家里太丑了！”结果卧室三扇窗户还有独卫和浴缸比绝大多数健中女孩的房间都宽敞漂亮🙂
有些家庭不那么需要孩子的支持，孩子们都离开得过于轻易。是得有多强大的聋哑人，才能做到如此乐观和坚韧。但，这并不只是电影，并不是没有人能做到。 女孩歌声太好听了，音乐会的消音处理那段很棒，直观感受寂静的世界。每次看这类题材的影视，都很庆幸自己能听能说。
鸡汤片真好看，每个人物、节奏都无比精准、催泪
虽然猜到影片某处必然会有以听障人士角度展现的戏份，但真到了那下猛然消声后的寂静，还是被狠狠触动到了，实打实的感同身受。其后父亲用触觉感受歌声，以及边唱边打手语的段落，都特别动人，这是一部充满关怀的电影。8.5/10
没有声音只有手势却充满表情张力的几幕都真实得令人讶异——我不觉得这是一部老套的换了个描写对象的大团圆。能够对一个特殊群体的特殊、尴尬、融入大群体时的微妙情绪描写得如此细致入微，且没有忘记殊途同归的共鸣，这在艺术作品中是非常困难的事。少女的困窘在影片中被放大成一个家庭的负担，但与此同时她的牺牲又有不被理解的一面（来自哥哥的那句“有你之前我们都很好”），影片中无数诸如此类的转折令人湿着眼眶看完全场。还有少年时期的恋情，女孩的倾心、自卑、坦然——我不觉得结局是乏味的大团圆，我觉得它圆了我的一个从未靠近过的梦。
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