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".
香港电影有大陆找不到的细腻，电影非常平，但就是不知不觉某一刻打动你。
不是「媽媽的神奇小子」，也不是「神奇小子的媽媽」，而是「小子的神奇媽媽」，孩子的意願並不重要，爸爸依舊總是缺席，媽媽做錯了也是一切為了孩子好，近乎綁架的「世上只有媽媽好」，透露著一股強烈的「沒有XXX就沒有XXX」的單向因果，孩子的自身努力被抹殺，其他人的犧牲與幫助也被無視，真實的故事也許並不如此，只是電影本身實在令人失望。
诗意，先验，技艺精湛，但就是看了像没看一样
克制着自己摄屏的欲望与克制/不想与人建立羁绊是一回事吗
－.可惜整体未达到去繁化简，或是形成均质。潜入洞穴后进行微弱的视觉牵引，在探研者与牧民、图纸与洞的结构间建立强硬的牵制/联立，并不轻盈
中秋节于深影。
high speed 大光圈重手拍法將電影去到廣告質感，但更重手的煽情音樂加如此直接的情感宣洩，貌似攝影手法又跟創作者的目標統一了起來。就是做最簡單粗暴的溫情勵志戲，沒什麼高要求。劇本完整，三幕劇，人設和母子關係變化上，細節笑果的調味上都調動了節奏，讓不那麼情節飽滿的故事也不至於太悶，其實事件是不夠的。你看到後面是審美疲勞的。兩個男演員真好，尤其少年，我一直以為他是真的殘障人士，當他靠上母親肩膀，努力說出把金牌當金器送母親時我有被戳到，尋常的感動比後面的刻意煽情要有效很多。而对残障运动员一刹那光辉不代表永恒的行业现状点到即止，也看出了创作者的商业定位和侧重
很佩服摄影、声音，在如此狭窄空间，完成了很多刁钻角度的拍摄，但是导演要表达什么呢？
三半，剧本不错，除了真人真事加持，细节见微知著。拍摄上有些地方过于滥情，上来就大煽，中段平衡过来，成名后再低潮又起才是重头戏。百度百科上写爸爸是油漆工，妈妈无业，片子里妈妈一人要打四份工，母职是严重低估。故事未有以惯常俗套称颂母爱，儿子投诉妈妈不是帮是管，次子被忽视，都是反高潮的妙点。钱小豪父亲形象则游离不定，社会叙事边缘化女性，家庭叙事边缘化男性。体育最是诚不我欺，时间和汗水，身体的反应最直接。“香港地，一个正常运动员退役后都难以为继。”经纪人讲的是一个“结果”，直觉上人顺着结果去指导自己的行动，容易辜负初心。接广告赚钱，也反映资本对人的束缚。去年白银马拉松事故中一个不幸遇难的小伙子，最开始是在体育基地打工，就是喜欢跑，被教练发现。愿人人能体会运动的快乐有机会发挥体育精神。
想起刚看过的阿巴斯，视听极佳的伪纪录片，摒弃语言，感动自己涌现。
太奇妙一片子，当我走到生命尽头，很可能只是藏着我黑暗与秘密的那只洞穴被人给探到了底罢了。
感谢主办方暖心的排片，值此中秋佳节为我们带来了一场极致的睡眠体验😪
依旧在爱宝filmhouse看的小型电影节（Italian Film Festival）：电影没看懂…豆瓣评论也看不太懂…不知道如果没有精准错过Pasquale的介绍会不会能懂一点…我这感悟力追随老师的步伐漫长且艰辛啊…
巨幕，好的音响，音画俱佳，值得一看的新作，北影节结束了。
原生态的偏远山区，垂垂老矣的牧民。云海、山谷、岩层、草场，全景拍得很美，节奏舒缓，让人不自觉屏住呼吸（从而缺氧睡去）。
期待许久并会引发思考但真的没法全神贯注仔细看的电影。这部依旧充满着对自然发展的原始思考：高耸的大楼、年迈的老者与“洞”的深度形成两个个层次的对比，自然高低的延申与时间长短的延续，赋予这部原本属于科教的电影某种哲思。乡间的摄影依旧优秀，但这部缺少了前几部有意突出的自然意象，而拍得更加直接，直接去注视、去见证和去探索。#中途的困意在结尾的绘图水笔对这687米洞穴的勾勒中渐渐消退了。
重复“望着你”“set go"频次过多有煽情过度的尴尬。不过，写励志与亲情的同时呈现运动员尤其是残障运动员的生计困境，这一点很难得。08年他拿到退役前最后一块金牌，风光无限，可接下来的生活怎么样呢？他和电影以外的他们，现在过得还好吗？
#2021北影节#伪纪录片，探索地球第三深的洞穴。多机位多角度拍摄，难度不小，也带来了非常真实的光影变化，以及临场感极佳的声音回响，如果沉浸感好的影厅，观众犹如身临其境，很有亲身探险的刺激感！制作团队有意加入老人的副线，以及可以理解为隐喻的镜头想有所表达，反而让影片有些沉闷。
BJIFF.摄影最绝了！缓慢电影爱好者的盛宴。科学探险队对峡谷的探险实际上也是一种破坏，老人和深洞互为象征。村民看电视里的人乘坐电梯爬高楼，小孩子戴着探照灯是夜晚乡村里唯一的光，现代文明的到来真的是件好事情吗？难道不是入侵的一种？深入洞穴的过程也深入了我的意识，不管是滴滴答答的水声还是满眼的绿色都是一种深度放松。
（北影）第一次和那么多人一起看大闷片，居然没有人提前离场（好像是）。知道是探洞的，没想到真的只有探洞。
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