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".
港式煽情、催人泪下；
北影节05。洞穴探险和老人之死形成了某种奇妙的互文，赋予纪实影像独特的意涵
不停前探的尽头，未必是想象中的豁然开朗，可能会是戛然而止，生命亦然。
根据残奥4届残奥会、获得6块奥运金牌的香港 “神奇小子” 苏桦伟的真实故事改编。东京残奥会举办时间是2021年8月24日至9月5日，这部电影在这个时候上映，电影的意义当然也就远远大于电影的技巧。看预告片的时候 就做好了要哭的准备。尚在襁褓中就因为黄疸而导致脑痉挛的苏桦伟落下了残疾，注定要过上和平常人不一样的人生，但正是这个不被看好的残疾男孩，却在妈妈的鼓励下参加了残联的田径队，并且连续四届替香港出战夺金，目前依然是男子100米和200米跑T36级残疾人世界纪录的保持者。他是苏炳添的 “苏神”、也是中国人的阿甘。电影的最后，苏桦伟在北京奥运会上连失两金、痛哭落泪，吴君如饰演的苏妈安慰他：「用力哭，不如用力跑。妈妈会在终点望着你。」温情柔和又不失热血，真的太好哭。
港式煽情、催人泪下；
人类无数最伟大的科学的诞生或许都经历了无数个无聊至极的日日夜夜。攀爬，测绘，描摹……于是深不见底的洞穴跃然纸上。没有配乐和对话，于是有机会聆听自然和人类最原始的声音。纸片一遍遍燃烧坠落然后熄灭，皮球来回越过洞穴却不小心坠落其中，描摹图纸的笔一次次蘸上墨水最终呈现了世上第三深洞穴的秘密。
先有鸡还是先有蛋不得而知，那你说先有神奇小子的妈妈，还是先有神奇小子？以爱之名，相互成全，如有来生，再做母子。
蛮惊喜的一部，几乎没有台词但是好像也根本不需要，声音和画面真好
BFF2021...看了40分钟之后忍不住走了
3，我永远都喜欢运动片，不管有多少套路，我都可以从中看到力量。
非常好，又非常不友好。镜头很美，但宽容极低，外面像反转片胶片一样漂亮，洞穴里（个别镜头除外）像一次性相机晚上不开闪光灯。大部分影院和家用设备都难以达到本片最佳效果，有几处就是影厅光污染大赏。 很美，组合在一起就是不抓人，就是没办法精准降落在此片任何一点上，只能感受，我一边看一边放空自己，甚至无聊到锻炼眼部肌肉，它的“信息点”可以用空气感来形容。但你只要呼吸一下，就可以全方位感受它要跟你讲的人与自然那勉强缘妙不可言时有时无宿命般的联系，测量与真实的联系。探洞用来标记的杂志也妙。 对浮躁的人不友好，也甭想挣钱。它像一篇你很难证伪的论文，它不想洗你的脑，你也看不进去，它那么不费劲不讨好，独自美丽，拿了个奖风光毕业，论文从此沉入大海，偶尔有文艺博士生捞起来看两眼摇摇头再扔回海里。不写了走到西直门了…
一般的运动电影，有点刻意煽情，但是题材不错，有一些段落也比较出彩，还是值得一看
整部片子并不无聊，但真的十分压抑，看到最后竟有胸闷的感觉，气氛的渲染很到位
很喜欢，可以一直看下去。但是看的时候又觉得挺荒诞，这不就是几百年前几千年前最近的生活吗？现在被记录下来，运到城市里，四处来的陌生人塞在一个黑暗的洞穴里一起观看，这本身不就是一场仪式吗
电影技巧就是average，大有煽情广告片之感。可是把电影当窗户，在乎的是看到什么风景倒也不是风景怎么编排的了。想起盲人学弟，很真诚地出于好奇，一直很想问他是怎样理解美丽，可是又觉得这问题过于残忍。btw一直到看影评才知道原来演员不是真的残疾人。另外和妈妈和解那一段真的好有普适性，虽然问题永远不会解决，妈妈也不是完美的妈妈，可是那就是我妈妈啊。
克制着自己摄屏的欲望与克制/不想与人建立羁绊是一回事吗
这是一部和自然紧密联系的电影，如果有这样的草地和蓝天，我愿意躺在上面睡上一天的大懒觉，任凭洞内的探险家们探索，睡醒以后我会给予他们热烈而真诚的掌声。
【北京国际电影节 9.30】平时讨厌记录片的观众最好不要看。在逼仄、黑暗的洞穴里也能有丰富的镜头和光影调度，让人随着光影和镜头的移动而移动自己的视线和注意力。极其冷静地记录人的老死和自然的被发现。人老了就死了，自然历经千万年依旧不朽，等着另一种生命来发现自己。
洞穴天生是光影的戏台，细微的声响也一一被放大（因此人几乎不说一句台词）。
吴君如的表演有层次，从泼辣的妇人变得沧桑，疮痍，世俗，崩溃。
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