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".
和Mia一起看的 困的我泪流满面 一边听一边睡 不知道故事居然是真的
时长有点煎熬...两人相遇还好，后面开始看不进了，有钱人的世界真真是勾心斗角累得要死
談善言加分，鼓勵一下新導演與年輕人，不用太嚴厲。過多音樂，父女對談就對談，不需要太多配樂。當成GL/soft porn看看兩個女生接吻挺唯美的，再者是共鳴吧，在香港教育界很多教畜，看到女生的叛逆要反禮教，可是徒勞無功。說故事的技巧是欠奉，故事框架簡單，一看預告就知大部份結局。在性身份/角色方面有些對傳統的嘲弄都幾難聽，最後21世紀還要回去禮教之中，想像力與突破力守舊。 不過香港的環境也一樣守舊，唉。
我也曾经在沙漠的约书亚树下，和你一起看粉红色的月亮
Really not up to the standards of Ridley Scott...Not as good as The Last Duel which already is an odd miss for Scott. Trying to not cringe as the two leads struggle to have enough chemistry to convince the audience that they actually had any love that wasn't based on an abusive connection with each other. Though it's cool still to see Gaga shine.
年度西装片，就这个剧本幸好不是当初传得由王家卫执导。老雷的处理只能算中规中矩，这种题材还是应该让马丁斯科塞斯来导啊！
老鳖演温州女商真是活灵活现，莱托的角色真是想象不到，把原本的自己完全隐藏掉了，其他演员也都很出色，雷公一把年纪还能这样出片真的厉害，但看下来就结尾字幕一出一个没有古驰家族的古驰有点感觉，其他的看不出太多的作者思维，甚至流水化了
长到仿佛望不到结局的长篇电视剧，砍掉一个小时都绰绰有余。节奏也非常奇怪，本以为的重头戏——谋杀案——拖到最后五分钟才登场，然后这时突然开启倍速，匆忙收尾。电影太过费力铺排商战和家庭两条线，反倒完全脱节，后期已经趣味全无。
臺灣片名｜《Gucci：豪門謀殺案》
Gaga本色出演；不看演职员表找不到莱托少爷系列；小三万能公式：这不是错误，这是种选择～去你大爷的选择🤷🏿♀️
我的重点不对，咏蓝从美术老师那一盒子情书里翻找出自己的那一封时，我真的笑到拍桌。
好狗血好抓马的故事，搁tvb可以拍出一部大时代了，可惜电影不够劲只是走马观花看了个豪门恩怨没有把主角的多面性挖出来
Gaga的演出油腻且表面，每次用力怒目圆睁的时候我总担心她的眼球会掉出来。
老雷在本该是他最骚气的一次尝试，熔断式的审美无能。像是不合时宜的直男癌发作，毫无创造性的美术服化，幻灯片式的笨拙叙事，缺乏设计感的剧本规划，不可思议的平庸之作。
有点拖沓，很多台词是为了煽情而说，还有许多莫名其妙的特写镜头。打高分是因为，同样的剧情，如果是男男的话，在豆瓣的分数一定更高（参考《刻……》和《心……》），这很不公允！ps:仿佛是在看陶虹和陈妍希谈恋爱。
九十年代后香港很少描写校园生活的电影作品（这点与内地、台湾电影对比很明显），而这片讲的则是一所女校里两个女生之间的朦朦胧胧的爱情、友情，整体也比较保守。同类型影片个人更喜欢去年年底台湾的那部《第一次遇见花香的时刻》
古驰之家最终落得没有古驰之子，真是讽刺，而且还是现实改编的剧本。我觉得gaga也是演得很好了，角色本身也比星蛋里的ally更丰满一些，不管对男主是爱还是恨，不管是精心设计还是真情实感，都诠释了一个“I wanted it and I got it”的狠角色。
虽然香港的动作片日益摆烂，但总会时不时冒出一部很好的爱情电影，非常好看，看得过程中会情不自禁地鼓掌，甚至在家发出返祖叫声，拍得太好了。我上一部看的拍得特别棒粤语爱情片，还是3年前《过春天》！
光鲜亮丽的流水账，Irons和Pacino还是很厉害的～
平庸到两倍速都没法拯救。全明星卡司再加狗血故事拍得这么无聊也是很不容易。可能时尚产业背后的一地鸡毛本身也是无聊至极。观影唯一收获是学到了阔腿裤骑自行车绑裤脚有专用的束圈。
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