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".
2022年了，亚裔还在开洗衣店，女儿还在叛逆自私，男人还在一言不合就功夫，家庭三代还在烦恼代沟通矛盾，结局还在用爱感化一切。天马行空？ 包装和内核强烈的对比反而衬得主创团队是多么没有创意和脑洞！
看瞬息全宇宙和青春变形记 都在疑惑她们的爹可真好啊 好脾气会做饭还开明 事实上的东亚家庭关系是 不仅有一个控制欲极强的妈 还有个在全程缺席不会说一句好话的爹
感动？
我就是欣赏不来这种天马行空风格的电影，个人觉着有点用一个创意包裹一个不那么有趣的亲情故事，属于外表好看实则不好吃的蛋糕
从此以后，星球大战再也不是人类历史上最伟大的科幻史诗家庭肥皂剧。
這片不但將劇情、喜劇、科幻、哲學多種類型融於一體，且在保證娛樂性的同時，也有極為豐沛的作者性。除了將一切嚴肅的議題都用非常高級的戲謔手段解構一遍之外，最後重構愛和信念的手法也是一種非常當代的、時髦的，帶著東方氣質中羞怯又準確的表達。不論是男性也有軟弱無能的權利，還是女性不必以母職和家庭為天命，抑或是接納自己和他人都可以是一個「沒用的人」最終在那件寫著 PUNK 字樣的中式紅色開衫上，成為這代移民最好的文化註解。
屎一样的美式政治正确，女同，肥胖，华裔，夹杂着恶俗的黄色段子，最后莫名其妙的爱与救赎。
和解只是一个向商业和种族惯性妥协的假象，电影内部势不可挡的无政府拼贴如果真的将我们带向了任何地方，只能是那一片光秃的峡谷仿佛一座海市蜃楼一般，影印在了这一滩泥泞之上。
用多元宇宙的外壳包裹家庭温情内核的做法是有效的，但这种高概念新鲜劲一过还是要靠故事来把观众按在座位上，然而本片在多元宇宙的高概念运作上还是有些流于形式，特别是到了后期甚至成为了叙事的一种累赘，而文本方面本片的救世主觉醒也落入了前期铺垫远比后期高潮更有意思的俗套，况且还有不少其实并无必要的荤段子型笑点，而杨紫琼虽然凭借着喜剧和功夫两立的卖力表演维持住了全片的节奏，但这个故事在表面的全程高能和花样百出之下，显然并不像它宣传的那么有趣。
太东亚了，宇宙崩塌妈妈依旧只在意你是不是同性恋
前半截看得烦躁，后面开始飞起来，而且跟《未来学大会》和《摄影机不要停》不一样，这片子飞得太high了，画面和情绪不停猛冲又急刹车。体感好像坐过山车，甩得不舒服又在想加速、加速！（至于情节，一直都没进入不过也无所谓了）
在人物书写完全扁平的情况下，依然感谢有人十分精准地拍出了东亚家长脑内无需嗑药就可获得的疯P体验，而且哪怕嗑药的情况下也依然呈现出那种想象和意象二者皆匮乏的刻奇。华裔语境电影从曾经的《推手》《面子》《千年敬启》退化到现在的Crazy Rich Asian或Everything Everywhere All at Once，如同TikTok崛起一般无语。
在人物书写完全扁平的情况下，依然感谢有人十分精准地拍出了东亚家长脑内无需嗑药就可获得的疯P体验，而且哪怕嗑药的情况下也依然呈现出那种想象和意象二者皆匮乏的刻奇。华裔语境电影从曾经的《推手》《面子》《千年敬启》退化到现在的Crazy Rich Asian或Everything Everywhere All at Once，如同TikTok崛起一般无语。
希望在石头宇宙，一起坠落吧。
4、感情描写：我个人看来非常真实而且有说服力
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。
香港武侠、功夫、三级、无厘头、王家卫、商业动作片大锅炖。（没点原生家庭伤痛都爽不到点上感觉
显而易见，不是多重宇宙，而是多重类型电影。虽然没什么意义，但又是一部让我感受到深处彩蛋与戏仿文化占据主要位置的时代的电影，《头号玩家》如是，《新蝙蝠侠》也如是。这么一想，进入西部片（而非真正的西部世界）的《回到未来3》总算回到了属于它的未来。
反复强调一下，本土华裔不是中国人，和国籍没关系，差异是身份和文化认同感。所以这类反映华裔的片子，我们看起来觉得无感、难受。
看着看着一股熟悉的感觉涌了上来。我完全理解了一切，这就是中年女性版EVA。 另外我觉得男主是去掉了成龙缺点的升级版成龙。
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