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".
传主乔纳森在他那部传世之作《吉屋出租》首演前日去世，他的良师、一代音乐剧巨擘桑德海姆近日也与世长辞，由此本片算是双重祭奠。我以为我会哭，但是我没有。作为一个Rent粉+LMM粉，得到的却是双重失望。虽然电影有个不错的结构，将《倒数时刻》的表演现场与乔纳森的现实生活交织穿插，宛如他本人以上帝视角审视自己的创作心路、注解自己短暂的一生，但段落融合性不强，跳进跳出反而出戏，高潮缺席又令累积的小情绪溃散一地。
今年我三十岁了。客观事实不以人的意志为转移…因为自己绝对属于不认真生活的那一挂，所以总是会被认真活着努力追梦的人打动…并且还有那么好听的音乐。
在30岁生日前夕看这片再适合不过了！临近三十岁仍旧碌碌无为的我，是否也该努力创作，实现梦想呢？用歌唱出生活，满注活力，情真动听。看来我还是不适合看这种纯歌舞片，剧情平淡到爆炸，丝毫看不到人物的闪光点和动人之处，若非加菲灵气可爱的演绎，这片的看点会大打折扣。Alexandra Shipp美到360°无死角！！！快看完才知道原来Jonathan Larson便是大名鼎鼎的《吉屋出租》创作者，看完才知道导演原来是林漫威！全程没认出Vanessa Hudgens。
虽然看过第一部，但我是直到结尾才分清角色。这部剧的人际关系，其中的浪漫，奢华，高雅可能对女生比较有吸引力，我后排两个女生对于剧中几位女性的讥笑、嘲讽、阴阳怪气，能给出很灵敏准确的反应，很吃年老后拿着定情信物回忆过往这一套。我对剧中人物的表现也有几个比较深刻的印象，只是整体上比较迟钝。我更感兴趣的是这个电影呈现的知识点，英国仆人的骄傲，英法庄园的差异，英国人到法国度假的生活方式，电影从无声到有声的历程，有声电影的制作。更有趣的是我发现仆人们是在地下室的餐桌上也很严肃的吃饭，最后因为一场戏能像主人一样在坐在大餐厅的餐桌上。大家听莫斯利求婚很浪漫，告别老奶奶很伤感。
Downton never let me down
天分、努力还有运气，尤其是运气，才造就了全世界也挑不出十位的大师。PS：奥斯卡瞎了眼，谢谢
今年的爱乐之城，加菲的个人秀。同是又唱又跳，这部更注重唱，更偏生活，个人传记。如果爱乐之城男主是加菲，如果这部女主是石头姐，会不会更好，CP粉的怨念太可怕了
原来是吉屋出租composer原型
因为不是百老汇粉丝，所以触动不是很大，无非就是梦想与现实作斗争的故事，主线很单薄，包括一些生活困境也就是没交上电费在餐馆打工这样的设定，都仰仗音乐出色以及演员卖力表演，倒数计时既是快到而立之年的时间警示，如今看又是男主短暂生命的预言，加菲唱得还不错，前女友石头姐靠音乐片得影后，看他自己能不能冲个影帝提名。
前半段很寻常的一步一步来叙事甚至在视听语言上没什么亮点，后面则直接爆发，也对应了标题吧
未必是最好的影片，却是当下最难得，最契合个人情绪状态的电影。同片中的主人公一样，在某项事业上投入了数年的时间精力，却没有得到任何回报，而身边所有美好的一切也一点点从自己生命中逝去。到底是再投入数年时间，还是退出这个行业另谋出路呢？我的人生又还有几个年头允许自己这么去挥霍消磨呢？
虽然婚礼开场葬礼结束，还是留了一个标准的新生命诞生做尾声。老太太的去世因为太顺理成章，反而比任何狗血的戏剧冲突更显悲伤。“在他们看来，女性通常是两种形象，要么邪恶，要么愚蠢，而你最好让人以为你是前者。”金句老太太最后还是变成了挂在墙上的一副肖像画。
音乐剧电影最关键的是歌要好听，然而这部没有。加菲怎么有一点点像脸叔了!
看完还是没有很了解Jonathan Larson
漂亮的游泳池 source of inspiration！
哭崩溃了……对rent无感的我，却在这两个小时里不断被rent的每个人物每个情节冲击。roger，mark，angel，mimi……他纪念了他们每一个人，他们永在。
在三十岁之前几个月看这部电影不知道是好事还是坏事
哎，太戳了，29岁还在等待机会的剧作家，到底该怎么坚持下去。这里头的歌我都挺喜欢的，日常小灵感捕捉而成的小歌很多，加菲演和唱都相当努力，久违的baby V一开口我就仿佛回到那个夏天。LMM第一次当导演，感觉那种死线逼近的感觉做紧凑一点会更好。
始于婚礼 终于葬礼 时代远去 让我安静的死去
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