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".
或许我们曾几何时都扑向过虚荣的陷阱在那片松软的橘黄灯下自命不凡，再美丽的泡沫终会消散，不知那时清醒的还剩几何…
虚假的新闻与评论，丑恶的嘴脸与现实，必然导致最终的理想幻灭。
虚荣的幻灭，新生的开始，质朴的时代，诚挚的爱情、友情，前现代时代
「我想到了所有那些在覺醒之後，必須找到內在力量的人。」Ta將停止幻想，開始生活。很久沒看到名著改編電影了，巴爾扎克的文字總是出現金句。所謂幻滅，人間喜劇。
场景和配乐真的好华丽啊！可这剧情推动全靠旁白？？有声书？？？
Coralie一开口就是个2022年的高中生
很久没有看到过经典文学名著改编的新电影了，改编自法国作家巴尔扎克的同名小说，今年凯撒奖最佳影片，拍得即古典优雅又现代意识流，非常值得观看！
想去看原著 “妥协是永恒的” lucian毁灭之前关于权利地位金钱的幻想是怎么拍的？我怀疑是躺在滑轨上往前划，然后有好多群演在上面伸手做动作。
抛开虚荣，回归本心，方能成就自我
不愧是巴尔扎克，但旁白是不是有点多余…（意思是旁白好在巴尔扎克写的绝，但念出来意味着电影没拍出来
神枪手匪徒亨利·麦卡蒂妻子死后与儿子怀亚特独自在俄克拉荷马州切克沙镇从事农业养殖猪。1906年一天，妻子的哥哥艾尔·霍布斯过来帮忙，艾尔走后，父子屠宰猪，这时远处走来一匹母马且马鞍有血迹。于是循着血迹找到一昏迷受伤的男子，旁边有手枪和装满钱的皮包意识到是劫匪。救走男子后第二天去找医生且途中遇到3个寻伤者的骑警萨姆等3人。亨利回家，伤者称是堪萨斯州贝克斯特斯普陵镇警察，而3个骑警是假的。于是亨利赶走萨姆等人。萨姆让达根监视亨利，但夜间达根袭击亨利被打死。第三天萨姆绑架了艾尔并从镇上雇了几个枪手。萨姆开枪打死艾尔，亨利愤怒还击将萨姆等人一一打死。替柯里包扎伤口发现其胳膊有囚犯烙印而被柯里开枪击倒，怀亚特开枪打死柯里。原来黑警柯里与萨姆匪徒一起合伙打劫银行，萨姆欲杀柯里灭口时，柯里抢走了钱袋……
我几乎没看过什么小说，名著改编的电影倒是很感兴趣。出自电影《玛格丽特》（Marguerite，2015）导演之手的这部同名电影，表现出多少原著的深度我不知道，但呈现巴尔扎克“法国 19 世纪伟大的批判现实主义作家”这头衔，肯定是满分的。通过这个落入红尘的文学天才的故事，我们可以一睹欧洲贵族光鲜背后的那个世界。
“一篇假新闻和它的辟谣是两件事，唯一重要的真相，就是销售量”这句话好像在哪里看到过，最近看了《漂亮朋友》总感觉吕和书里的主人公在心里活动上有相似，但是电影丝毫没有表现出来，里面甚至没有一个心理活动，全程第三视角，即便是表现讲述者自己的时候也很客观。配乐个个经典；大量的旁白是我感觉电影失去了半隐半漏的魅力，通过旁白串联故事，当然这个用结尾短短几句话就解释了“我在向你们讲述他的故事”。相比电影版本，我还是更想看文字，很多情感斗争，人物介绍，细节描写只有在字里行间才有魅力。
放在当年，这部戏剧肯定很有洞见，但在今天，两个半小时很难熬。
评论里一个个都是好journaliste，我只信🍍
這拍得也太依賴畫外音了。男主演老是歪著嘴笑看著不太聰明。
今年最正统的西部片。从故事到画面，从对白到配乐，无比复古，无比传统，在这个科恩兄弟和昆汀用各种现代手法让西部片不那么西部的时代，在被政治正确绑架的好莱坞剧本陷入低能死循环的时代，《老亨利》让人重新回到约翰韦恩和伊斯特伍德纵横好莱坞时那个传奇的西部岁月。全片不仅没有黑人，甚至没有女主，剧本如主角般隐忍而克制，但该出手时绝不拖泥带水。荒凉、冷寂、写实却不沉闷、传奇而不夸张，让人重新踏上《原野奇侠》与《不可饶恕》中那块充满生死无常、人性狡诈、传说往事、宿命传承的剽悍西部大陆。
三星半吧，开头穷小子和贵族妇人的情史仿佛在看伍迪艾伦，就有种“好了好了我们都知道了你可以move on去搞事业吗”的不耐烦，到了巴黎加入报社后群魔乱舞借的众生群像笑得我拍大腿，这不就是今天某乎某博上带V的节奏大师+红包影评人吗，哪怕是涉水而来的耶稣，到了杠精嘴里也是轻飘飘的一句“你看他都不会游泳”，眼看着他高楼起眼看着他楼塌了。对于巴尔扎克浩瀚如海的原著，电影做减法做得太狠，关键部分却只能靠连篇累牍的原文朗读交代信息，仿佛在电影院看有声书，疲惫不堪。有佳句无佳章吧，导演尽力了，下次不要改编名著了。
“在野心勃勃的世界里，吕西安算什么呢？一个为了追逐享乐的孩子，为这些输掉了一切，飞蛾扑火一般，做了环境的奴隶”。小说原著体量太大了，两个小时还是很匆忙，解说太多了，没有靠镜头把吕西安一步步走入良知泯灭的过程刻画的很好，在邪恶自成一体疯狂狂奔的时代，可惜他没有作恶的绝决到底的能力，也没有坚持自己信仰的能力，最后骑墙难下。有一个镜头演得好好，当他得知书籍和新闻的销量全靠贵族和商人的御用文人以及见人咬人的流氓文人统治的时候，他疑惑不解地问了一句：“那文学呢？” 天真从那一刻之后就不复存在了，黑白颠倒，是是非非都不重要，重要的是钱，毕竟，在巴黎，连永恒的安眠都需要的是钱。19世纪的小说拍的过来都挺好看的。
一星给旁白，帮助了解剧情。男主性格不好情商不行，结局在意料之中。
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