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".
带豆姐看的第二部电影，汪汪队粉还是可以看的。狗狗挺可爱的。其他就没有推荐的价值了…
感觉现在导演也不把小孩当小孩，植入很多新技术，很多新科技到电影里
震惊我在电影里看到了一部宣传片，恐怕对电影的根本理解就有问题，最可怕的是平庸，都是奥斯卡入围，导演功力光跟甘草披萨比就差了好几个LEVEL
我们都是在不断突破自己的弱点称为成长！有这样一群志同道合的好友，还有什么战胜不了的呢。这些工具好高科技😂😂😂
太炫酷了，狗狗们的座驾充满了高科技，孩子也看的津津有味！歌曲也非常热血！
陪儿子看，很轻松，汪队每个角色都有亮点，天天的装备有点酷，还能飞天。
to the ones who stayed
幼儿向好电影 从开头就能猜到结尾 冒险湾海龟 小腊肠犬贝贝 地铁乱扔垃圾男人 养了6只猫垃圾哈丁格市长 烟花地铁摩天大楼 莱德队长 阿奇救赎之旅 天气收集器 周三1号蒋老师咖啡🎁 624紧急文件 刘科不高兴 周四前天晚上烤鸭套餐 橙子奶茶 买👟邀请 周五昨天值班的晚上 给爷爷的200 赢下勇士G1 黄老二 去亿联 索菲亚吴总便车 豆花牛肉 醉酒 周六今天2点醒 小何💇🏻♂️ 下雨的黄老二 帝豪车库 重百买两条小裙裙
以及,真实的部分黑白,戏剧电影电视剧彩色？有必要吗?有点做作耶。
老爸为嘛不先带老婆孩子看看伦敦去，一准儿立马想搬家了。
感觉妈妈就是个家庭妇女啊,还和丈夫分居一两周才见一面，又经历过打砸抢，贝尔法斯特是有多值得留恋啊。
黑客帝国和魔法满屋都有资源了免费电影票月底过期就看了这个 总觉得还是在反川普小小年纪就被洗脑共和党以后是真的没戏了 惊喜可能就是五美和骚当的歌吧
2-11 你说故事也不复杂，人物也不多，相比较其他剧情片就很平淡。但是又因为足够私人，那些细小的情感，也能在不同层面打动人。彩色的电影院荧幕和剧院，电视里的电影电视剧，手里的Thor漫画书，所有的这些童年启蒙让他成为了现在的他。而我不也是从电影里开启了新的人生吗？回不去的家乡和童年，美好的家庭，在影片中展示的接近完美的父爱，不知道有多少戏剧创作的成分，自己也在想如果哪一天我能够用影像的方式重新讲述自己的故事，我会保留哪些真实，又会在哪部分增加和修改让故事更符合自己想象中生活。还有就是van morrison的音乐从头到尾出现，因为自己也喜欢他的音乐，所以更是觉得这部电影私人又亲切。
怪我总是不自觉的联想到卡隆的《罗马》，这么一联想就太残酷了，这个导演的水平跟《导演请指教》那帮新导演的水平差不多，一边看装逼的黑白摄影，一边努力的读字幕，这种不懂视听却强装文艺的片子，观感太累了。
总得来说就是导演肯尼斯布拉纳的一部童年回忆录，相比阿方索卡隆类似题材的大师之作《罗马》，这部《贝尔法斯特》显然更加通俗易懂，但通俗必然会导致艺术性的缺失。无论是故事题材，镜头语言，黑白滤镜的运用都有模仿《罗马》，却远不及《罗马》的影子。在现实意义层面上，影片对动荡局势下普通人的描写十分打动人。在俄乌战争的大环境下，真心希望那些鼓吹战争的人，能从这部电影中看到政治斗争对于普通人来说意味着什么。
之前有人说这是另一部《罗马》，感觉被误导了。质量上未免差得太多。整部片子豆很匠气，太过设计感了。风格也有点不统一。
电影就那回事，还是影像好看，现在Panavision也太牛逼了吧，边看还在边品每一帧影像里的灰调子，理想里的伊尔福、tmax就是那种不太暗，暗里又有层次的灰。
非常私人的回忆，从电影的精致程度就可以看出导演对这段记忆的如数家珍，即便故事的背景是纷乱的时代，但孩童的视角总能让人感受到一份纷扰中的天真烂漫。最喜欢的就是影片中主角在看电影和戏剧时画面忽而转为彩色，让人深切的感受到光影对导演儿时举足轻重的意义。
一个本可以让很多人共情的私人故事，拍得如此散漫、乏味又自说自话，实在徒增焦虑。
你不是阿方索·卡隆，你也不是迈克·李，你更不是肯·洛奇。黑白影像用不好是常态，抄不好就是蠢材，风格与叙事两头不顾更是无可救药。
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