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".
昨天在抖音看的介绍，今天看完了。男一男二的床戏看的我热舞沸腾，果然和自己爱的人做，感觉是完全不一样的。还行。
每句话都隐晦地表现出了Arek内心的想法。
節奏奇快，部份情節處理過於商業。比性取向更要扭曲的政治取向。男主今年這部加《Leave No Traces》，同樣借史事反抗體制，人們不會忘記。你走吧，我會找到你。
对脸盲比较友好，众多的人物都尽量做了服装、造型、化妆的差异化，点赞。就是常常不能分清台词是哪个角色说的，两个男演员的音色比较接近，只能靠语境猜一猜。视听太出色了，这摄影、这运镜、这配乐，啧啧啧，看得我如沐春风。
在压迫的年代和环境下，男主自我认识的过程更是尤为珍贵，开放的结尾给了更多想象的空间，“我会找到你的”，不但是寻找一个人，更是寻找一个彼此尊重的社会。算起来也就是30多年前的事情而已，但现在的环境已经大不相同了，珍惜当下啊。阴冷的调子里，两人短短几幕的你来我往突显得更甜了，非常喜欢的片子。
刺破黑幕，后面是幽深的渊薮。贯穿两个板块很勉强，可惜。
电影的影像质感和色调太美了，音乐超级棒！前三十分钟的精彩，后面情节量不够了，都在话痨，拖沓和陈词滥调有点儿多。30分钟的好电影。
客观3.3，感情分3.8星。80年代的波兰，秘密警察大规模抓捕并记录在案众多同志，在此背景下一名有未婚妻且职业上升期的直男警察调查一宗同性恋谋杀案，同自己的弯男大学生线人展开的爱情故事。结局注定是灰暗的，而灰暗中曾有过爱，有过勇敢，有过光，那就还至于让人感到绝望。
颜比较好嗑 不过整体叙事太传统了 也没什么惊喜 一些金句也只是靠直给 所以现在的波兰对这方面的态度是什么样的呢 不过能拍出来也不言而喻了吧 改了改了 了解了一下波兰当下形势 真的还挺可怕的
迷惘和道德的模糊邊界上，怦然心動始於悄然之間
因为男主的颜，让人觉得这段情愫生发的有点莫名... 整体色调冷峻，节奏出色，就是收尾收的有点“编剧写不动了”的感觉...
一部意味不明，重点不明，甚至主题都不明的片子。东欧铁幕下的不自由与窒息氛围完成得很好，但是氛围下的人和故事却显得还是非常刻板与套路。chemistry是有的，但是铺垫完全不够。还有，本片题眼大概是，不要老是害怕，特别是不要害怕自由，但却完全没有在这个主题上有探索最后居然回到了爱情。我真的不是很懂。
枭雄迟暮隐身形
『人不能对什么都感到恐惧，尤其是为了自由』。爱情觉醒的甜蜜和铁幕阴影下的巨大恐怖，两者强烈的对比更让人觉得意难平，在观感上弥补了一些故事悬疑情节方面的零碎和寡淡。
“警”与“匪”，“直”与“弯”，两个对立的世界相互吸引的故事总是能引人入胜。
“警”与“匪”，“直”与“弯”，两个对立的世界相互吸引的故事总是能引人入胜。
下半年最惊喜的同影
还好吧，故事背景我很喜欢，主角的颜我也比较喜欢。但是故事本身没有拍得很touching，而且各种追踪枪战戏拍得有点儿戏。三星半吧
还是恐同即深柜定律。另外没想到电影还可以。
holy shit！一部关于男同自我认同的电影，有必要这么多跟女主的床戏吗，可惜了ada还漏点了，气死！当裸露床戏对剧情走向并没有帮助只是噱头的时候，还能指望电影多有深意呢！
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