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".
每一处庸俗的笑料处理我都喜欢，每一处堆叠的极繁美学我都欣赏，每一处迷影致敬我都欣喜，每一处炫技我都乐呵。总得来说，作为B级喜剧片的所有我都喜欢，但是一旦要探讨故事的内核我反而觉得无趣，哪怕她把亚裔家庭作为载体去探讨别的都好，对东亚家庭肤浅认识挺致命的。我不太相信东亚家庭能达成和解，尤其是在背景设置真实的情况下，这时候是会觉得爱拯救世界是多么的贫乏无力和机械降神。因为亚裔的孩子都是被爱压死的。相反，放手才是要解决的问题。但真的放手又不能保证故事的完整性——虚无主义真的是解决之路吗？本片只好做出了取舍。在无数次宇宙跳跃之后，母亲依然是母亲，女儿依然是女儿，女性形象身份依旧，她们还能为“普通女人”吗？
这是送给TikTok短视频世代的电影，一场跨越时空、技法的万花筒叙事大战，但本质上仍然是功夫喜剧。平行宇宙增加了表演的丰富性，极力、猛烈、随意的使用所有视听语言，包括画幅的四种格式（1.33、1.85、2.00、2.39 : 1）来为叙事做辅助，大量视线剪辑，类Texas switch运动、B-roll，让视觉衔接至花里胡哨。国内商业电影导演在这个片面前全军覆没，从此以后的模仿都只会显得吃屁。但，技术只是辅助，故事才是内核。仍然触动于那句：“I’m Sorry，it‘s a girl ”，而且这个片也不是旱地拔葱，早一百年前巴斯特·基顿《小福尔摩斯》就是源头，何况我们经历了《云图》和《遁入虚无》and 瑞克和莫蒂。
原定17号上线，然后鸽了，再然后被偷跑了...你说这是何必，最后还是17号相见。预期太高有点小落差，前半段无聊，后半段MV无厘头剪辑花里胡哨，但也没觉得有多新鲜。演杨紫琼老公的是成龙越南分龙吗？！简直特型演员，连动作神态都像
虽然不得不说这部电影有瑕疵，节奏没控制好，而结尾也有点落入俗套。但令人惊喜的是这部电影本质是探讨哲学的，是反rick and morty的虚无主义哲学的一种尝试。在表象的家庭闹剧和眼花缭乱的宇宙穿梭下，是虚无主义和朴素的向善哲学的对抗。而每一种存在都是真实的，而女主不断的经历与思考，不断的激烈的对抗自己内心，而最终和自己和解。她在洞悉了世间万物一切之后，重新返回了自己的宇宙。就是那句话：真正的英雄主义，就是在看穿生活本质之后，依旧热爱它。
这个故事中母女关系的部分我始终不能共情，这对母女没和解之前的状态，已经是很多母女努力尝试解决后的状态了。你都能和你妈出柜了，你已经赢了90%的女儿，我一个要饭的乞丐根本共情不到有钱人对食物的抱怨。
导演的自嗨宇宙。核心创意像《千年女优》，母女关系的部分处理的毫不打动人，中间还夹杂着毫无必要的导演恶趣味。
乱糟糟，闹哄哄，一场游戏一场梦，两个石头两个蛋，扯吧。
内核或许是虚假的，但从戏剧角度上是可以的。问题是角色只是意象，忽略演员的存在，甚至无法对情景作出一点点有意义的回应，一切反应都是其他烂片的印象式拼贴，是唯编剧意志的，当然可以节奏很快，因为没有真实的速度。如果电影不能自我思考，就算看起来是原创的，也只是杂交乱伦的产物。
可能只有香蕉人会感动，毕竟伟大的白人眼里终于有他们了。
我对这片最不满意的地方恰恰在于标榜天马行空的本片的其实太不天马行空，太缺乏想象力了。只要观众熟悉一般的剧作套路、有一定观影量，了解编导他们那拨人当中有不少在美国人文学院体制下学习英语二手欧陆哲学这一语境，那么本片剧本的创作意图对观众就是透明的，几乎可以判断出每一个剧情转折。而观众发现本片剧本潜在的目的论结构以后自然就会意识到本片不但没有真正令人惊喜的地方，而且内含的潜在的目的论结构自身就与剧本的核心逻辑完全矛盾。丰富的影像文本互文并没有给本片带来真正“不可能”的、崭新的理解维度，一切都是披着“天马行空”外衣的陈词滥调。
原来是九十年代无厘头港片贺岁档的定位。钦定中文片名应该是“天马行空”。阿尔法公公登场的时候，完全就是个r&m真人版既视。
多重宇宙令人目不暇接，信息和视觉都超载，有荒诞黄暴也有诗意宁静。中国的女儿的伤痛，如果都能像片中的女儿一样被治愈就好了。不会太迟的，理解和治愈永远不会太迟。虽然人生可能早已被伤痕扭曲得救不回来了，但没关系，我们都是石头啊，静静地待着就很好。
不喜欢前面它玩的大部分花招，除了变石头的那个够“大道至简”，其他的对我来说太无厘头了些。最后有被缠绕的情感关系煽到。母亲说，如果我没有私奔会更好。女儿说，如果你没有生下我会更好。她们一定是这样又爱又恨的状态，控制、依赖、焦虑通通指向那个不敢面对失败的、懦弱的、自卑的、害怕被抛弃的自己。但这种煽情同样让我感到愤怒。对我来说母女关系就是一滩烂泥沼。爱的尽头也不是理解，是绑架。所以果然还是应该选贝果啊！
感动得要死。如果电影界不能一直杀出这种今敏、两丹这样的宅男，再多99部《教父》也没意义（有说《教父）好的意思）
私奔也会离婚，父亲也会厌弃。也许只有母亲，给予你从诞生到死亡所有的爱意。来自妈妈的爱，帮我对抗饥饿，对抗迷茫，对抗伤害，对抗虚无。
用爱作结，还是过于轻巧了。可能实在找不到应对虚无的答案，故事无法结尾吧。除了结尾，本作还是相当鬼才和富有诗意的。
用爱作结，还是过于轻巧了。可能实在找不到应对虚无的答案，故事无法结尾吧。除了结尾，本作还是相当鬼才和富有诗意的。
脑洞片，内核框架跟turning red很像：强势老妈+无能老爸+叛逆女儿，介于难看和诡异之间，全程内心“淦、真几把怪，再看一眼”
有2个小时沉浸式心理咨询内味了 就要是电影院里没有爆满 我就放声大哭的那种 三层口罩都能哭湿透的那种 单方面宣布杨紫琼女士是我psychodrama亲妈
很难说不是疫情以来最好的一部电影。脑洞大开，天马行空，但能将荒诞离奇的科幻情节、千奇百怪的想法与创意展现得有说服力且如此感人，已经足够不简单了。而信息量巨大的剧本、极度炫技的叙事手法、完全超现实的设定、超高难度的视觉效果与镜头语言、无数前后呼应的细节、人物情感的转折与延伸、对东亚式家庭矛盾的解读、对人生哲学问题的思考全部完美地汇集于一体，则更让本片看起来像是一部根本不可能被拍出来的电影。所有演员的发挥都好到不能再好了。
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