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".
这么好看的片子才6.7，有点不敢相信自己的眼睛。
07/10伦敦电影节。最后放着流行音乐的快乐幻想一点也不让我轻松，只觉得这种奇迹一样的期待如此不真实，不真实到令人泪目。电影以黛安娜为主要视角，展现了她的神经质，也正因为完全以她为第一视角，也展现了王室生活的神经质，一个自由的灵魂如何与其格格不入。电影对黛安娜与丈夫还有王室的整体冲突的塑造还是有些简单了，现实中查尔斯的出轨不是在1991年发生的，而是已经发生了好多年，而黛安娜自己也与一个男人发展了长达5年的关系，她和Camilla（查尔斯现在的对象）在那些年里通过向小报披露彼此的秘密互相诋毁攻击。她童年的形象还有生活多次在影片中出现，但她对童年生活的怀念没有更多缘由的支撑，她并没有一个快乐的童年。影片本身足够好了，但是不要把它展现的世界完全当真或当成全部～
2021.12.*宅男高材生和离职创业邻居的化敌为友，看着很不专业的感觉
小K的表演可圈可点，单纯从表演来演她在这部电影里尽力了也确实看到了与以往都不一样的人物塑造能力，但是这只是单纯的从演员个人的纵向比较，横向比较的话，英剧《皇冠》实在拍的太好了，演员集体在线，电视剧整体碾压电影。
Trigger warning for Bulimia.
这是一部爽片——女主的表演风格很“郑爽”的影片
不同于普通传记片，这部电影只截取并展现了戴安娜一生中看似普通的三天。由始至终，影片的镜头都执拗地聚焦于那张美丽的脸庞，以及隐藏其后的那个脆弱灵魂。
只截取特殊时段的传记片我很喜欢，小k的演技在进步，就是影片内容过于意识流了。
厉害了!小制作，大精妙，剧情通顺，搞笑中带着励志!
看前猜想戴安娜王妃的故事无非是自由灵魂与繁文缛节、媒体与公众人物的辩证冲突这些老生常谈的议题 拉雷恩选择从纯主观视角、精神分析切入倒是让人耳目一新 本片题眼恰恰在于戴安娜和儿子们关于时态的对话——有过去、可能有现在、没有未来 这是皇室成员的宿命 躺在一眼望到头的装置内部而不自觉 精神已然僵朽 殊不知存在主义危机的迫近 而那些吊诡角度、手持大特写所聚焦的愁肠郁结、逡巡焦虑、精神癔症般交缠的幻觉与梦境 才是存在与时间的印痕 戴安娜借亘穿历史的化身不断介入与自己的关系 割破与周遭的关系 就像女仆与戴安娜镜前对话巧妙的画面 两人在左侧镜中促膝谈心 右侧镜中却相背而坐 幸而这并不是难以抹平的裂隙——爱与意义足矣
诡异又扑朔迷离的同人文，为了传递情绪把其它都变得不重要，全程我都觉得是小k在演一个去参加了一个化装舞会的女高中生，她自己很兴奋，但她就不是她。除了缩脖子这种不节制的动作之外，腔调也十分套路模板化，另外剧作又常常有意无意的提醒这是戴安娜的故事，令我十分不舒服。我只能说，如果戴安娜真的是这样，就不奇怪为什么皇室都嫌她了。整部电影里桌球桌前一场戏还不错，有台词的填充，有一个利害的施力者（反例是莎莉霍金斯自然无形的表演打得小K落花流水），让这个聊天变得好看且有意义。这部电影也是那种到处坐下来与人聊天的电影，但是没有真正的对环境加以表达与选择，从衣食住行着手，细节并不丰富，只有角色围绕这个话题的谈论，如此以来状态的表达就很贫瘠，最后那一段舞蹈合集看着和抖音合集一样。
有很多人说和第一夫人太像，但关键问题是第一夫人的开头至少交代了背景，一个女人死了老公她的情绪当下的反应，观众很容易理解，但是本片截取的这个时间点对于不了解戴安娜故事的人来说完全一头雾水，本片的时间精确到她生命中的某一个周末的某一天的某一个时刻，太为难观众去理解演员的表演，而最根本的原因还是媒体或者外界对戴安娜的理解其中并不包含她的痛苦。除此之外，电影的配乐摄影堪称完美，女主角每一套服装都像度身定做一样契合人物肢体，当然更多疑虑还是来自于观众套路化的观影习惯，不是每一个以人物命名的电影都是个人传记片。
不如彻底一点，做成Mother!那样的惊悚片。/指匠情挑之后，Sally Hawkins又爱女人了，Hooray！
用各种形式来描述枷锁，服装、致敬、运镜等等，甚至音乐。让观众如她一样压抑和焦虑。
这评分，个人觉得不太合理。结局挺俗的电影，后半段有些桥段虽爽但濫。但是除了俩人吵架那段我觉得演过了，作为轻喜剧完成度很高，剧情流畅程度吊打国内九成电影。看完觉得有惊喜，五星表示对优映文化的支持
作为传记电影来说剧情显得很片段，仅仅几天的时间跨度也没法很好描绘这个复杂角色。戴安娜的悲剧无疑是源自英国王室，但电影中对于英国王室实在太给面子了，只是整了一些一语双关的台词和情节内涵一下，这还不如去看一些纪录片
看过《王冠》第四季，再看这部电影版，感受完全不一样。电影非常压抑，小K饰演的戴安娜不只是敏感神经质，还有幻想，偏执狂。小表情小细节非常非常多，可惜的是，三天里的戴安娜，很难让人产生共情。非常可惜
看一半时的我：导演这是全片磕了药吗，K最开始几句台词where am I我恨不得一棍子打上去…但越来越觉得…拍的有点好，特别是从想要在楼梯上自杀开始，就非常棒。但K的演技在这个角色总体上还有些矫揉造作
finally, an oasis in a wasteland.
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