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".
一个男人的荣耀成了女人的窒息。三个视角剖析的完整故事，不同的镜头细节分化私心的种种表象。一句“若以情欲之眼看待女性，那么在心中就已犯下淫欲之罪”足以令人无可反驳
这是古今中外，无数女性在男性强权下的一曲悲歌。
好顶赞，雷导终于也拍出来：“根据真实事件改编”
一句话概括就是自古至今，No 都他妈 means No。片子挺好但希望导演们不要再让譬如马呆萌这样的核心美国人来演法国人了哈哈哈哈哈
罗生门式的讲述，决斗将女人的无力、矛盾与绝望推向高潮
不是罗生门，是多视角。一场极为复杂的胜利。
六百多年过去，女性的处境有变好一些吗？并没有。而世界不会变好，才更应该在每一个具体的历史情境中，为了自己而坚强地抗争。
导演和编剧用巧妙的结构，把700年前欧洲中世纪的一桩公案，按现代的价值观诠释出来，正说明了“一切历史都是当代史”。
这是古今中外，无数女性在男性强权下的一曲悲歌。
女人感受到愉悦才会怀孕，所以强暴肯定不会导致怀孕，这么荒谬混蛋的逻辑居然还曾被当成科学真理？果然是野蛮蒙昧的中世纪！两个男人一个自以为对妻子关爱体贴，一个到死都认定是两情相悦，真让人无fu*ck说。有人说三个视角的叙述没什么区别也无必要，其实种种细节差异非常明显啊，比如女主跑上楼梯时是自己脱掉鞋还是慌乱甩脱，从中完全可以看出不同人物的不同感受和观点。雷大导拍得非常沉稳，最后的决斗戏又让人无比揪心。朱迪古装美翻了，大本在本片中比以前有气质很多。
1.MD狗za种！Love你MLGB，强奸是LOVE，还尼玛的忏悔！GB五秒男！
三段之间的差距非常精妙，叙事推进非常高效，历史还原非常细致，决斗场面非常精彩。雷老牛逼！
罗生门其实不好搞，一是这是个被观众看烂了的小花活，这么多年了还用这一套吓唬人没惊喜，何况本片的三段故事其实并没有实质性差异，二是这种形式在稍增趣味的基础上没有添色，对于这个真实事件的影响力和震撼性反而打了折扣，也一定程度上影响了故事的真实性，尤其在女主视角的男女主对立其实不太站得住脚。但是我喜欢的两个原因，一是始终挺喜欢这个浅尝辄止的对男权社会的批判，就算是有限度自以为是的，还是一定程度上取悦了我（但其实我对女性主义没有明显偏向），二是最后的决斗段落很生猛带劲，算是提起了我的兴致。
从三个视角切入一起性侵事件，手法并不新鲜，真相也少了几分扑朔，但雷导沉稳的叙事，以及对历史题材的掌控，还是让影片不落俗套，尤其最后的决战拍得扣人心弦，女性在这里只能被左右命运，最后像个战利品一样让男人炫耀，rape本身无人在意。
7.7/ 尖锐的、让你质疑历史叙述者的电影。反了所有古典英雄主义叙事，没有悬念，没有阴谋，所有在曾经文学艺术作品里这类所谓“复仇史诗”中英雄的“正当利益”尽是丑陋，所有浪漫主义都是虚伪，他们以上帝之名决斗时，最高贵的也就最卑鄙。吸睛的、提供类型爽感的是最后的决斗，但在整个叙事上，最没有意义的也是最后的决斗，被浪费的精力就是最大的讽刺。主创和选角也是亮点，不止是雷德利·斯科特，这也是达蒙、司机和本阿弗莱克对于他们自己以往荧屏形象的彻底嘲讽。雷德利斯科特在1977年第一次决斗，2000年第二次决斗，2021年最后一次决斗。相比于曾经他镜头下的蕾普莉、塞尔玛路易丝、女兵简，这次不再把女性按照男性刻板印象强硬化，应该算是男性主创团队下所谓女性主义电影的进步了。
与《古驰家族》同样陷于出品过度的通病，既是大导身份之下的自信沉着，也为对抗快速文化的固执坚守；被莫名抨击（年龄歧视），被莫名塞金酸莓提名让人作呕，也更横生几分“怜爱”。场面调度、最终之战的宏大感还有几分“内容为王”的黄金年代Déjà vu，都让人感受到稳健；可能最弱一环也就是力图让情绪四溢的人物视角依然单调，女性角色的不尴不尬也制造了表达上的困境。Jodie的能量与这里的赋予，没有做到最理想的实现。
虽然比不上导演九十年代的《末路狂花》（此片是我最爱的电影之一），但非常感谢他一如既往的为女性发声。其实中世纪的这种男权控制欲和强占，至今没有太多改变，这才是最恐怖的地方。那时的男人们将女人视为物品，私有物。如今仍然可以各种评论里看到被低劣基因所控制的雄性生物对女性的不敬和戏谑。女主角的演技实在是很棒，在这个写满了悲情，男性争斗无关正义只不过是争夺面子的故事里极其加分。最后，希望未来的文明会越来越好吧。
这才是一个故事讲三遍的正确姿势！大本估计是深陷布鲁斯韦恩的奢靡生活不可自拔，果断又饰演一个荒淫无度的大豪绅。
看似是个男人决斗的故事，实际上却是女性的挣扎，演员在线，不得不吹爆雷老。
本想在前两天就完成的，没想到还是成了新年的第一个；是在理斌车上听抓马讲完后半部分内容的；没想到是雷德利斯科特导演的，说是票房惨败，也确实，前三分之一确实挺无聊的；就是服化道依旧挺考究的说是花了不少钱；罗生门式的故事，最后Jodie的部分最精彩；我Jodie的美最终被发现了，从小银屏到大银幕了，早就用于百度头像了。
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