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".
三百年根源的对立，二十世纪后三十年的流血冲突，几次在内战边缘。政治，民族，宗教，这些蔓延在街道社区的仇恨，隔阂，冲突，是笼罩在每一个离开或者留下来的人一生之中的。直到今年还在因脱欧的爱尔兰海边界问题，芬党领导人的防疫问题而引发冲突流血及恐吓。比照电影，是无论如何，都不能以轻佻，软弱来批评的。这种视角的选择，是艰难前进的和平进程中，可贵的真挚感情。
配乐奇奇怪怪，使用随心所欲，风格变幻无穷
稍round up一下。和jojo rabbit略类似。总体是蛮感人的，很轻巧但有点点不能共情，可能我一直都想离开家乡吧。
救命！不是黑白+社区生活+小男孩+年代暴乱就是《罗马》！这可能是个骡子！
但最后还是让我感动
不太行，演员很卖力，但是剧本不行，不知道怎么拿的提名的
Jamie演技肉眼可见的增长，提名男配值得的~
每个人心里都有一座名为故乡的城……怀旧感赞，摄影赞，构图赞，演员赞，配乐赞，剧本赞，但肯尼思拍得并不赞，过多自身经历的情感投入让他无法拍得更好，细节决定成败，但这部电影的细节严重缺失，人物塑造都是佳句无佳章，很多本可以更好的片段都可惜了。承认质量一般，不过我个人很喜欢，爸爸的歌喉，妈妈的泪水，奶奶的眼神，爷爷的台词，每一个都狠狠地击碎了我的心。7项提名，看好原创剧本，是个好剧本，不过能拍的远远比这更好。
Judy Dench太会演了，饱满而复杂的情绪藏在她的眼睛里、背影里、甚至每一条皱纹里，是一拉近特写镜头就想流泪的程度。
Belfast 贝尔法斯特 11.18
拜托不要一言不合就播歌，这是在拍电影不是在MV合辑。段与段之间显得非常割裂。
这是一部充满导演本人向奥斯卡评委会无限谄媚的作品，全片到处都是各种奇技淫巧的设计:黑白画风+复古年代戏+故乡情缘+小孩（童年）+迷影梗+金曲串烧+政治议题。确实因此拿到多项提名，可惜的是故事脚本太过孱弱，而且，因为太过刻意，一切都显得很假，摄影棚质感的复古街区，已经负债累累却窗明几净俨然一副中产阶级的家庭。。。就很让人出戏，本以为可以在“英国内战”的大背景下看到英国（北爱尔兰地区贝尔法斯特）某一户普通老百姓一家人携手与命运抗争的时代画卷，很可惜，导演功底尚不足以表达好这样的深刻议题，只能浅尝辄止。与同类型佳作《罗马》比差的不是一星半点。当然，全片也不是没有优点，摄影一星，音乐一星，小演员很可爱演得也很有灵气一星，综合三星，可看可不看。
爱尔兰的历史纠缠是影片的背景，爷爷奶奶是全片亮点，然而总体上觉得缺点真实感，仿佛看到了存在于记忆中的片段，与主角小孩越近越真切，远些的就有点虚了。
Be good. Behave yourself. 好熟悉。如果不是过不好，谁愿意背井离乡呢……配乐好棒，黑白好怀旧，爱！The sea is wide， and I can’t swim over.
洛哈特教授版《罗马》，故乡与童年牵扯着每一个人，在纯洁的孩子间的爱周围环绕着成长的二元论。可惜太急于叙事，缺少情绪晕染的瞬间，直到最后那个慢镜头与几句寄语，诗意才缓缓流露出来。
——至这个时代的默片解说员
肯尼斯拿出了他的《阿玛柯德》 北爱尔兰问题 一场同一种族下不同信仰带来的问题 虽然现实却是那样残酷 但从一个小孩儿的视角拍摄出来 显得非常童趣与乐观 开场直接从现在的彩色转到了69年黑白的贝尔法斯特 （中途插入的彩色电影及戏剧效果拔群 分割开两个世界）当被爷爷问是否愿意离开时 他的回答充满着漫浪以及对贝尔法斯特未来的憧憬 电视上放着《双虎屠龙》贝尔法斯特则上演着手足相残 信仰问题贯穿电影 老中幼三代人对于信仰的看法也是大不相同 朱迪丹奇饰演的奶奶常常把上帝挂在嘴边 父亲则站在漩涡之中 小孩则被则开着天主教与新教的玩笑 配乐也是一大亮点 大量充满阳光且积极的配乐 代表小孩子的视角下 残酷现实离他们的距离还是很远的 缺点还是内核太散了 高潮的点推的实在太低了【VUE】
太虚了，虽然英国片大多很克制，但也不能这么虚啊，强烈建议本片导演向肯洛奇拜师学艺，另外肯尼斯布拉纳说自己没有看过阿方索卡隆的《罗马》，如果你没说谎，我只能说你作为一个导演也不太合格。
好温柔啊……真的是有情饮水饱，结尾的致辞也很温柔：为了留下的人，为了离开的人，也为了迷路的人……
北爱尔兰新教徒主题和孩童成长怀旧风格很讨喜，但是具体进入到片中后，只会觉得一切都太predictable了，不如再去看看《无线电时代》...
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