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".
爸爸隐形人，弟弟工具人（心疼）。梁仲恒演得很不错。
用光影和变幻的角度来表达情感，空间，时间。最喜欢手电筒照下洞穴里，医生也照进牧羊人的眼睛里的镜头，对比，生命和那些说不清的无限秘密。
作为一个电影作品来说真的问题挺多的，作为一个传记来说也是有很多问题的。但是这个题材内容是值得关注的。演员表现特别好。
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
洞穴流水和老人的鼻息被影像缝织成触感如雾般的诗篇，洞穴的深邃静谧与洞穴外的广袤在沉静的镜头中融为一体。探洞的过程仿若人生历程的缩影，充满着未知的魅力，最终洞穴和生命同时抵达终点。
3.5/5，用力哭不如用力跑，金句满载，从幼年到青春再到成年之后，虽是讲一个运动员的生涯，但也在其中勾勒出同工不同酬的现实窘境，可惜部分枝节讲述不足，爸爸的身影也被刻意模糊。青春时期的演员真的好棒，今年金像奖演技奖真是竞争超级激烈
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。
②其实可以做成一部纯正的运动传记片，但是前期宣发感觉突出的是母爱，再加上里面讲到的政府对残疾运动员不够重视，以及残障人士的现实问题，就让整部电影比较杂。
虽然有点困，杜比全景声有加成，处理的很诗意
8分，没有一句台词，画面绝美。对自然的探索也是对其的破坏…（摄影机是怎么下去的呢
PS：不是很懂那段在洞口旁踢足球，从洞口之下仰望足球从一边飞去另一边，最终不小心落入洞中的镜头
#2021北影节#虽然专门设置只在杜比声影厅放映，可终究敌不过各路观众发出的各种嘈杂之声。加上太多没有重点的大全景，和相对略显快速的剪辑和明暗场景切换（总是还没能沉浸于这个镜头就切到了下一个），无可奈何的走神了，到最后也没能再看进去。 却在某一天突然明白了洞与老人的联系，或许洞就意味着人的一生，或是任何未被人所全知的事物？当对它的探索愈发深入，对它的了解愈加明晰，它的生命也即面临终点。
3.5 聚焦大众并不关注的残奥会运动员，他们成功的不易。神奇小子的成功，逃不过他有一个神奇妈妈。互相吐露内心苦楚的片段，真的太虐心
残奥冠军苏桦伟传记🇬🇪
#2021bjiff#开头睡了十分钟#还行权当纪录片了
妈呀，前半程别人都在强撑睡意，只有我堵在北京三里屯20分钟并强忍40分钟的尿意。睡是没睡着，看也没看到，刀刀说我几乎啥也没拉下。看电影时有被肯尼迪时期的杂志有意思到，也被探到帐篷里的马儿可爱到，也被老爷爷的年轮脸仔细观摩到，也有被洞洞里的火光微光美到。但绝大多的时间都在走神我马上要写的稿子。所以，搞不懂，没法评，说明我参与了一个实验？我想也不可能是纪录片，用剧情片拍过去纪录片盛事的意义是？（为什么要展示人放🐑吖，他死了为啥吖，看了一堆问号❓人类生命的顺从和探险吗（妈呀好多打高分的，你们一定跟我一样不打及格以上对不起专门在北影节花时间看这个片的自己，但是没必要，我想换两星了于是，这放其他时段出现一定是不择不扣的6分不能往上加的电影
《神》讲残奥会母子情
BJIFF2021 深影 4.0 太像纪录片了，摄影相当美，声音很精巧，尤其是回声，几种不同的回声做出了明显的层次，视觉和听觉层面是相当的享受了，故事简单但进入探洞之后的悬疑感还是很强的，不会昏昏欲睡，深影这个厅的效果也足够强，这个片子一定要刷大银幕+杜比全景声啊，不然真的很浪费
-“听外公说你嫁来时没有一件金器，那我就多拿点金牌给你做金器”
差点睡着…迷迷糊糊的时候洞里的人吹了两下哨子，醒了。
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