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".
有些导演，他们的电影有复杂精巧的结构，密集难懂的台词，以及深厚的故事背景、历史典故，甚至野史八卦等等。更重要的是他们从不会在片子里做任何的说明和解释，所以往好听了说是有一定观影门槛，往难听了说就是小众，几乎无法成为主流，无法口碑票房双丰收。索金就是典型了。虽然他之前的片有各种各样的问题和缺陷(包括但不限于上面说的)，但就像查理考夫曼一样，喜欢的人也自然喜欢吧。
Aaron Sorkin拍自己写的剧本，那也是坏一部，好一部，然后再坏一部，整体发挥不算稳定，本身也容易被真实的历史故事给拖住。话说与其看两个半小时的“假脸”妮可解决婚姻和事业问题，“自嗨”过头，我不如直接去看《我爱露西》！
就这无聊的剧本，索金不会指望有人一遍看不明白还看第二遍吧…
听到“你知道我们还有哪些观众吗 基督教徒”我真是梦回studio 60第一集/男女主演技俱佳，完全不见演员影子/难得看索金文本表达如此含蓄，可惜看了一版狗屎翻译，台词内涵完全没涵盖到/还是舍不得对索金作品下狠手打分，他写购物清单我都会看的
聚焦五十年代最火的电视剧《我爱露西》，更多探讨Ball的婚姻问题，其背后又是一部“好莱坞往事”。
看索金的作品实在是累，台词的密度和内容，不仅对观众，相信对演员都是极大的挑战。一部传记带出了政治、性别、种族、婚姻等各种问题，实难消化。
我也没想到我会在1小时59分那里被砍一刀。我不是说她的婚姻，我是说她也需要胡佛的电话和一场最佳公关来为自己洗去污名。我的小猫咪，你没有任何大人的电话，身边也只有害死你的公关和至今都在吸你的血的老b们。你怎么办呢，我的小猫咪。
聚焦五十年代最火的电视剧《我爱露西》，更多探讨Ball的婚姻问题，其背后又是一部“好莱坞往事”。
Aaron Sorkin作為編劇是優秀的，多個時空的穿插，帶出對於情感、時代、制度的思考，依然保持著他的一貫水準，但是作為導演是平庸的，調度的單一與乏味，又在不斷地消解著劇本的趣味，真正優秀的作品是引領時代而非順應時代，《我愛露西》是，《裡卡多一家》則顯然還不是。Nicole Kidman演得好嗎，好，但是和其他人放在一起明顯用力過猛，尤其是和Javier Bardem、J.K. Simmons一起時。
哇一开场一个共产党大明星就因为是共产党要被行业封杀看的我好激动，对位置换啊，讨论的问题很特别。结果这事轻描淡写的过去了，还是在讨论婚姻话题…隔靴搔痒。
比起政治立场，她更在乎婚姻忠诚；比起新一代女性视角，她更在乎喜剧的实际作用。叙事精巧，碎片却连贯。真正的大女主片，不是虚伪又cliché的拿腔拿调，而是把女性的问题意识，或许是弱点，清晰的在聚光灯下剖解开来。
对这部久负盛名的电视剧早就有所耳闻，但本片的角度和剧情还是无法吸引我，看完有种不知道自己看了个啥的感觉
一个女人再成功也要小心翼翼照顾丈夫的自尊心，努力让所有人show respect对丈夫，平衡事业和家庭。今年颁奖季那么多女性戏却看的太沮丧了，男性戏讲警匪/社会抗争/追梦，女性戏挣扎于生育/丈夫/赡养。
看了几分钟强烈感觉到是艾伦索金的电影，看之前并不知道，可见其识别度有多高。这一次他选择了一个可能只有他自己感兴趣的题材，依然把演员嘴巴当机关枪使，但显然并不是所有故事都适合抖机灵。电影里鲍尔对于对白的执拗是对自己尊严的维护，而艾伦索金对于对白的执拗则仿佛在掩饰自己的疲倦。电影通篇被拐弯抹角且无节制的对白塞得密不透风，除了结尾那几秒没有任何留白和意境可言。索金最大的长处也是他的短处，他创造的角色也愈发趋于雷同。对于尝够嘴炮甜头的索金，好像忘了此时无声胜有声的道理。我很期待索金拍一部无声电影。
【22/005】期望不高，但没有失望的传记片。纯粹是去看妮可基德曼的表演，二封的话凌晨改戏完全影后moment。原型访谈+回忆穿插，与《宿敌》无异的老路子，不同的是以星期作为时间点叙事。戏外的造型还是好看的，戏中戏的妆发实在不敢恭维。
原本以为全片会围绕着Lucille Ball的“共产主义”倾向展开论述和思辨，结果开头点一下，结尾回一下(拉出个胡佛背书)，就这样……？
大概是索金最无聊的剧本了，当他的台词机关枪来拍肥皂剧的时候基本是场灾难，浪费了妮可基德曼奥斯卡级别的演技，最后那场忘词戏是属于她的影后时刻。
失望，真的也就只有妮可的表演够用力了，差点中途弃
索金最近的剧本都太趋同了，真的没意思，什么都想讲，什么都没讲好。导得也不行啊。
下次了解一下背景，再刷一遍。
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