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".
时长与信息量之间不成比例，剧本属于无佳章无佳句，片子没有毛病，但也不太精彩。P.S. Gone Girl男真的好擅长讨人厌啊。
men, they're all such fools, 人类的品行一言以蔽之：虚伪，除了受害者，没有人关心真相，一切从未过去，而是正在发生，
从第一章就能看出来这个故事有多难讲了
让人想到阿婴。虽然前者是根植于（）贞洁文化的罗生门，探讨的是女性情欲的合理性。本片是在中世纪骑士荣誉文化中，放大了真正受到损害的女性身体从未被看见，而男人以此获得荣誉的荒谬：强奸不是关于受害者，是关于其所有者的财产被损害。妻子可能受到的虐杀和自己的荣誉相比，从来不值得考虑。但是一个母亲，却承认愿意为了孩子放弃真相。人性的光辉高下立见。看得震惊难受到暂停了好几次，喝点水，吃个苹果缓一缓。结局耐人寻味。
雷老把司机拍的让人想踹，幸好我是从婚姻故事和星战来的，唯独司机的蜜汁魅力很是认可，虽然角色招人恨。
多声部复调叙述，大家第一反应就对标《罗生门》，其实二者之间，有个不明显、但很关键的差异：
四星半
好顶赞，雷导终于也拍出来：“根据真实事件改编”
当情绪还执着在欲窥探雷导要怎样用罗生门式的悬疑构造来将矛盾引至高潮时，剧情却早已在抽丝剥茧的蜕露其刺骨的奥义，借古讽今的女性生存处境主题，更显超越时代、文化、地域与人种的亘古性与必要性，其普世价值通俗易论，加持有着《天朝王国》般寒光铮铮的视听愉悦，不得不再次钦佩雷导老骥伏枥的创作激情
本想说三段式的结构推进高明有趣，结果看完了觉得大可不必。
又是一部被人提前说得太多的。实际感受是不同视角的叙事在事实上的差别没有预想得大，反而是细节上的差异更值得玩味。2021年的Ridley Scott过时了吗？并没有。我看还是Damon和Affleck更容易被时代淘汰。
三幕递进其实还挺考验女主表演功底的。
剧本大失水准，“罗生门”式叙事的一次糟糕模仿
罗生门是极好的反映人性的叙事手法，不论剧中还是剧外 更不论历史时代
去他丫的正义，去他丫的上帝。本来以为看点是马特达蒙的暴躁，抑或亚当德赖弗的潇洒，又或本阿弗莱克的阴邪，没想到，这是“小变态”一个人的精彩！三种视角下，层出不穷的细节变换，嘴脸丑陋的群像，女性的物化，勾勒了足够腐朽荒谬的中世纪，全是心口爆裂而密集的鼓点。女性视角起，拍案叫绝，魔鬼无处不在，但不幸之源始终唯一。终局虽只寥寥数语，却教人心领神会。
不同视角的故事，对于女性而言，她是父亲换取利益的工具，两个男人占有的物品，一场生死决斗，以她的生命作为代价，也不过是荣誉之争，不为真相，不为正义，只为炫耀。骑士精神的虚伪，极度讽刺。女性在中世纪完全不能算作是人，真实的故事让人感到特别振奋，因为在那样一个连同性都在压迫同性的年代里，她还能够坚持去捍卫权利。历史书宣扬的浪漫爱情故事，也不过是被粉饰的悲凉。结尾看似温馨，实质心冷。同一个故事的不同演绎，看得唏嘘。后半段的决斗看得人胆战心惊，完成度太好的历史作品，女主在众男神的围绕下，演技仍旧出众。爱了。
A—>B—>女人，既不新鲜也不聪明更遑论“女性视角”（回过头看罗生门确实高明）。女权主义作为一种伦理视角，我们并不关注前两种真相；女权主义作为一种意识形态，我们更暴论地认为不存在前两种真相。看这两年女性创作者以女性经验创作的主流电影遭遇各种挑剔的尴尬（外有前程似锦女孩，内有我的姐姐），完全预料得到，今后，像雷公这种无关痛痒又长又臭的片子会被吹上女性电影的宝座。这片这评论不管好评和差评都看得想仰天长笑🙄
对着司机说英俊大概是在考验大家的演技🙄在颇具讽刺的中世纪罗生门下，男主们虚伪且自以为是，简直是在比烂，决斗结果虽显“正义”，但无非是拿女主遭受的伤害来成就那个时代的骑士“荣誉”，所幸最后的最后，结局大快人心。社会发展让人们逐渐意识觉醒，越认识到旧世界男权至上与教权当道的残酷压迫，越要批判和清除当今依旧残留的旧日余孽。
每个男人都是自己的英雄，即便他们其实是莽夫和小人。想到“男人至死是少年”哈哈哈哈，我也不知道这有什么关联性。
@MOViE MOViE Cityplaza 布景和服化道本片应该是本片最大的优点。把三个人对同一件事情的描述分别拍出来的拍摄手法看似有点想法，但是这种手法也许适合用来拍分集、总时长较长的电视剧，而不适合总时长相对较短的电影，观众会短时间内看到同一段镜头反反复复地出现，不利于观感。前面一个半小时的剧情和台词没有好好打磨，缺乏时代感…电影的主菜只集中在后面约45分钟左右的时长里面，台词和片段中信息量还是很大的。
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