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".
花拳绣腿焦躁的叙事鸡蛋壳里，包着一只宛若鹌鹑蛋大小的内核，且是如此之老套。用力之猛，到了未发育好的婴儿却走一步路浑身能掉下五百个金币的程度，愈显婴儿之稚嫩和头脑之空。致敬了无数电影，也一样是停在致意上，为满足那些“迷影”却非迷“影”的群体。
太喜歡這部片了!華麗繽紛的奇想，多重宇宙的可能，其實都有著微妙互通之處。前面笑開懷，後面哭濕口罩。即使場景是瘋狂的，但感情真實到刺痛。雙導很懂華人家庭的別扭親子關係，以及永遠焦慮尋求認同的心情。所有的東西甚至搞笑梗(例如熱狗宇宙)，實際上都緊扣著人物。最妙的是其實是帶有哲學思考的劇本，用最通俗的方式表達出來了。電影中的一家人都好棒! 楊紫瓊文武戲俱佳，生涯代表作了。"七寶奇謀"童星出身的關繼威久違復出，貢獻了精彩的演出，本可能被處理得很刻板的男性角色，在片中卻十分令人動容。希望楊關二人都能提個奧斯卡啊! 演女兒的Stephanie Hsu也是好戲，即使身處各種荒誕的場景，但忘不掉她神色中濃濃的悲傷...資深華裔演員吳漢章演的外祖父亦是一個驚喜!
创意是有，但故事讲的支离破碎，以至于电影都一半了，还不知道在讲什么。
只有华裔导演能拍出来的电影，其实和李安的三部曲一样，只不过套上了新的壳子，但作为华人骨子里丢不掉的情感还是能让人尽情共情。年度最佳预定。
作者趣味的彻底释放 敞开玩！这就是那种为数不多看完后叫人由衷感叹“看电影是一件多么幸福和美好的事情”的元电影。在这里 找回一个再爱电影的理由。// 2022 4.9 影院二刷后好感下调，经不起细品。
家庭和婚育价值观偏保守，但喜欢女性意识部分和母女关系部分，非常喜欢信息量爆炸的视觉奇观和呈现方式，属于现代工业的成就。
标准的好莱坞三幕十三拍式的剧本，抛开老套到掉牙的爱与和平主题，依旧处处是槽点，廉价质感的妆造，网络段子风的笑料包袱，一会儿ppt一会儿中场出结局字幕，导演无处不在的小聪明让这个本来就非常一般的故事雪上加霜，再加上摄影剪辑也并无出彩之处，两个多小时实在让人无聊到看不下去。看来今年一部青春变形计还不够，还要换汤不换药的再来一部真人中年视角版来伤害我的感情
即使活着很痛苦，即使人类很垃圾，但我愿意相信前世今生，愿意相信多元宇宙，因为我相信我们是绝无仅有的奇迹，我们通过完成一场场爱与冒险来填满这个空虚宇宙的百吉饼黑洞。
1、这片子的最佳对照物其实是《你好李焕英》啊！2、绝望主妇在飞驰的过山车上一边上心理分析网课一边玩吴桥杂技，还要把所有踢出去的盘子（主题）接回来，编导技术性一流。属于必须在年富力强的时刻才能拍出这种聪明又缜密的片子。3、想象力超一流，但以此刺激亚裔中年女性复杂而疲惫的多角关系身心，诞生了一种又爽又不爽的体验，男编导让女性走传统男性英雄升级模板，却又竭力维持平衡，很不容易。4、明显看到亚洲各种文化符号在美国的流行度和刻板印象的糅杂。
前半小时多惊艳，后面就有多拉。主线其实蛮无聊的，感觉这部电影努力地想把自己拔到“虚无主义”的哲学高度，实际上又没有立足点，因此呈现出的只有空洞和混乱。反而是细节上的创造力和丰满度远远高于主线，浣熊师父和抱着狗狗的光头保安好泪目~杨紫琼好有气质，幸好成龙拒演了
在《瞬息全宇宙》这里，一些隔着屏幕听着混乱，然而「面对面」看着却无比清晰的底层逻辑被「机械式思维」搅啊搅啊搅和在了一起。请问如何根据有限的经验和志趣将碎片化的信息拼贴成一个经得起历史检验的真理？不幸丧失独立思考能力的影迷自己拿不定主意，只能听从演员、编导和专家的建议，而被「大数据」唤醒历史记忆的新世代「世界公民」则被这套「无序之序」浑水般的叙事话语清洗、清洗、再清洗——直至参透宇宙的终极奥秘。尽管这场在现实中尚未平息的「热战」冲突尽显荒诞和儿戏，但在这个虚假信息满天飞的「后真相」时代，作为一种相对确定而可以把握的镜像，这部「中学为体，西学为用」既拥有朴素的情感内核又极具想象力的华丽之作除了致敬、恶搞和讽刺，或许还能帮助云里雾里的吃瓜群众看清银幕之外那一场场「代理人」战争的意义和目的。未完待续
张艺谋太可怕了，到了这个年纪，保持这样的创作力，还能一直去繁从简，还能保持自己的态度。
如此浪漫、恢弘、璀璨且花哨到极点的拍法儿，辐射的话题内容却如此稀薄。没有新的视角，没有新的问题，没有新的解法，没有新的感动。
像很有意思的说教，换老师不换课本，换媒介不换信息，换汤不换药，实际上电影应该想着要不要讲小说而不是课本？要不要喝饮料而不是药？所以我们应该评价课本还是评价老师？每一个人都会觉得自己是最失败的那一个吧，就像每个宇宙中都有一样的东西。但真对不起我这没有什么可以让你们借用的
原来是turning red的120帧3D IMAX版
虽然我理解导演大概想表达的是什么，分身和自我，前世和现在之类的，但是这个“新奇”的表述方式真的是一团乱麻，而且手指那部分让人很不适……
很疯狂很嗨，也很残酷很温暖，我们终于可以找到一个理由去忍受这操蛋的生活了，因为拯救世界的重任已经交给另一个平行宇宙的我了，而且还存在一个love u in every universe的人，我们努力生活的意义就是等待他们出现。
在绝大多数的超级英雄电影里，家人永远是被英雄拯救的对象，是塑造人物伟光正形象的工具，「we are family」就只是空洞的口号，但在这部电影中，看似烂泥扶不上墙的家人，才是英雄背后真正的英雄，是英雄为之奋斗的目标，是英雄精神力量的泉源，倘若拯救世界需要以伤害家人为前提，那么世界便没有拯救的必要。本片并没有传统意义上的超级反派，世界的崩坏不过是家庭罅隙的外化，家庭内部的不解和隔阂是一切问题的根源，互相的理解和支持才是解决问题的唯一方法，这便是电影所要传递的核心价值观。多重宇宙的高概念在过往的电影里已不鲜见，难能可贵的是能够与打戏进行深度的融合，通过带有强烈反差感的剪辑使动作和喜剧元素得到较好的平衡。可惜的是并不充裕的预算使多元宇宙的展现方式较为单一和简陋，某些细节的逻辑如果深究也难以自洽。
秀莲活在杨紫琼当明星的宇宙，而我活在电影开头二十分钟没有多重宇宙的那个得不到和解只能当别扭同性恋的最烂的宇宙。
很好 多好啊 母爱的伟大胜利 又一次 本质就是一个我妈逼得我想自杀但是我连杀死自己都做不到的故事 何必呢 本质就是妈妈的乖女就别装叛逆了 打扮得再亚逼有何用 你妈眼里还是没你只有她的乖乖老公 没有你你妈就是大明星 跟故事的傻逼比起来其他花活的傻逼简直就不值一提了 真的 大家彼此放过吧 #要善良
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