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".
可惜只愿意打个3星，实在是现实和历史两条线太割裂了。好在缪斯佩内洛普·克鲁兹表现一如既往地好（甚至更加自然？），奇情故事和大历史才能稍微融和一些。女2就明显稚嫩了，只是银短发造型很惊艳，能和大导大牌合作，未来看好。里面一段蕾丝情也是戛然而止，克鲁兹又和男1怀了2胎。这种流动的取向阿莫多瓦都懒得去讲了～可惜只愿意打个3星。实在是现实和历史两条线太割裂了。好在缪斯佩内洛普·克鲁兹表现一如既往地好（甚至更加自然？），奇情故事和大历史才能稍微融和一些。女2就明显稚嫩了，只是银短发造型很惊艳，能和大导大牌合作，未来看好。里面一段蕾丝情也是戛然而止，克鲁兹又和男1怀了2胎。这种流动的取向阿莫多瓦都懒得去讲了～这么多年过去了，克鲁兹美貌保持得太好了
在没有看之前我以为这部电影是讲的“母亲”这个身份对女性的桎梏，看完发现还是低估了阿莫多瓦，他不会拍一个烂大街的题材。村子挖掘和两个母亲的交集构成互文的两条线索，到结局串联到一起。一个是找孩子，一个是找家人，家庭的母题，放到任何国家背景下都是相通的，再加上中间夹杂着的各种抓马和奇情，节奏拉得飞快，看完会想到阿莫多瓦多年以前的老片《关于我母亲的一切》，拍女性，果然是阿莫多瓦的擅长啊。
电影看完，男主不怎么招人喜欢，好朋友罗宾倒是挺招人喜欢的
还是阿莫多瓦原来的配方原来的味道，可以说是《回归》那种水平，母子关系，坚强女性，一次又一次地回到自己的那个乡村小镇，一个挺温柔挺体贴的男人， alberto Iglesias的配乐，高饱和色彩，几乎每一帧都有高饱和的红色。应该是对阿莫多瓦的配方太熟悉，以至于这么多年过后还是有些审美疲劳的。但我还是爱这个爱恨分明，色彩饱和情感饱满的西班牙导演。
故事很简单。但从伊森霍克的面具，到妹妹梦的快速剪辑复古滤镜，再到每个小孩提供的逃出方法和提示方式，很多意象真的很棒，好久没看到这么精彩的恐怖片了
阿莫多瓦电影的动人之处在于他对每个角色不加评判的爱，以及对人类关系可能性的信念。生活在一个有阿莫多瓦的时代是我们的幸运。
6.5 太像同人作品，两条线没太大关联，全片浅焦。美术绝佳。
啊，我可太喜欢了😭 不管是贯穿全片的挖墓主线还是女主和小女友之间的“露水情缘”真的好喜欢，可以看到西班牙、法国人对家庭与亲人的在意同时又可以看到她/他们对待爱情对待关系对待性对待孩子的开放、平等、自由的态度😭😭你永远可以相信女生与女生之间的情谊，不像电影里的异性恋夫妻只要离婚必定要争夺孩子的抚养权，但是可笑的是父亲这个角色本身其实根本就没资格去跟母亲争夺孩子，因为男人除了贡献了那一丝精子外就没有任何贡献，而本片中就算最后最亲近的孩子要被拿走了，我也不会大吵大闹我会帮你系好宝宝背带帮你提行李到电梯外😭😭😭p.s.看到Janis这样的milf怎么可能不心动😭😭😭😭😭
我们对下一代的爱，是无私的，是饱含热情的。可我们对上一代的爱，对上上一代的爱，对上上上一代的爱呢？
很难理解为什么发现的时候不第一时间去找安娜做个口腔擦拭
阿莫多瓦总能化腐朽为神奇，肯定不是他最好的作品，是他对故事片的另一种可能。讲好故事从来不是他的弱项，而是他如何将狗血的故事升华。这次跳脱了狗血故事的困境，而是女性之痛，女性之伤，以及对历史不能忘的人文思考。一直在想如何推进故事的高潮，四两拨千斤将故事通过一场剖析的「自白」推进高潮，高潮即化解。抱错的不是孩子，是不能忘的生理切肤之痛，换掉手机号不是逃避，而是不再品尝痛苦的滋味。Ana,Janis,Cecilia,Teresa之间的关系就是代表了四代的女性，老的有欲望，中年的有理想，年轻的缥缈，孩童的无知。人文的思考的转换同样跟着母亲/女性视角发展。佩内洛普·克鲁兹的表演简单，干练，完完全全看不出《回归》的影子了。对于国内那些想要狗血和文学艺术升华的，可以过来看看什么叫一百分不生硬的范本了。
不得不说题材够讨巧，有狗血有关怀，两条线扣题到简直有点命题作文。好看是好看的，就是女二这个…纯纯工具人既视感
剧情走向也有，历史格局也有，但是有点玩脱了。从女主发现自己孩子被抱错开始，这块还算是能有一个比较清晰的走向，作为母亲这种患得患失的心情克鲁兹演的非常到位，但到后面却又变成了基于历史伤痛的寻根之旅，形式上乍一看是以小见大，但在观感上则是两码事，略显突兀。
无需重塑女性，只是再次表白母亲，母亲不是依附某个“孩子”而存在的，她是生命、情感、历史的承继者。母性，是人类至高的品格。
每次看阿莫多瓦的的电影，都感觉到凝结着个人的，家族的甚至更大维度的情感与关怀汩汩地流出。无论故事中人物是如何发展，背后都是导演对人的爱，很温柔也很坚定。
导演是想说：生命的寻根与生命的延续，缺失了任何一部分，国家史与个人史都不完整？可惜两条线硬拗得真拧巴，Janis放弃亲生女儿的动机也牵强，似乎纯粹为了铺垫后面的奇情戏码。倒是“母+母”的母系家庭构造，带点乌托邦式的愿景，显得尤为美好。岂止在生育、养育的过程里，男人百无一用，连性爱都可以请男人离场，女人之间自给自足。毕竟对男性，无论寄托爱情，或是寄托生活、寄托灵魂，他们都并非理想对象，仅停留在社会性的合作层面就够了啊。
不完美，但这是所有抱错孩子的故事中最好看的一个了这么说不为过吧
虽然明线暗线乍看关联的不太好，但是细想还是有很多可以咀嚼的地方。今年女主片总算看完了，光谈所呈现的“表演”，个人喜好潘 k 科> 妮可>劳模，然而获奖概率好像是反的
那条政治暗线和两个母亲之间的明线，始终是平行的，没有很好的串联起来，导致看的时候，感情也是割裂的。一般般吧。
看完一脸懵逼，头尾的历史考古线和中段的母女线几乎毫无瓜葛，好像只是把两条新闻热搜简单拼接。更难以接受的是，单身母亲的艰辛和困境，最后居然还是要依靠男性解决，Almodóvar潜意识下的男子主义在近乎全女性卡斯、女权题材的框架下格外违和。
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