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".
完美诠释了在氛围，情绪，美学全都饱满的情况下，讲一个莫名其妙的故事，是什么效果。
悦然看过，五星力荐。看完之后94届奥斯卡公布了提名电影 这部片子领跑了很多重要奖项。《钢琴课》和《明亮的星》的同款导演。深柜牛仔与文弱少年的细思极恐谋杀事件。菲尔和乔治兄弟俩是富裕的西部农场主，哥哥乔治豪放不羁 弟弟乔治儒雅绅士，直到弟弟带回了新婚妻子萝丝 兄弟两刚柔并济的生活被打破，萝丝是一个寡妇 还带着一个性格阴柔的儿子彼得。菲尔一直隐藏着自己的性取向和对已逝爱人的强烈情绪，而外表阴柔的彼得却可以不顾别人的眼光、用于做自己，他做了菲尔不敢做的事，这也是菲尔开始接受彼得的原因。可惜，这种信任最终成为了彼得诱杀他的导火索。电影名《犬之力》出自《圣经·旧约》：「愿救我的灵魂脱离刀剑，救我的佳偶脱离犬之力。」犹太人常用犬类形容外邦人。因此 “The Power of the Dog” 被视为一种异己的、毁灭性的力量。
一场不动声色的谋杀。夜场戏也太多了，没有激麦4K厅，千万也要看蓝光高清版，否则就像我们，映后忙着争执Phil弹的到底是什么琴（啊不就是六弦琴guitar
西部硬汉柔情下隐秘的同性情愫，这样反差下的深柜让人不寒而栗。。。
一部极致克制的电影 一部需要静下心来数次屏住呼吸看得电影 配乐 运镜构图真的超赞 整体细腻的描述这个男权 母爱 权利 情感的种种激烈碰撞 那么浓烈缠绵同时却又单纯决绝 每一个人物都很丰满 演员太棒了 克斯汀•邓斯特的演绎真的很赞 逐渐崩溃绝望 她的惶恐及那摇摇欲坠的破碎感很棒 有几次我都觉得呼吸停滞了 卷福我甚至觉得他就是Phil 那个纯情又刻薄 脆弱而孤独 压抑却充满性张力的矛盾的男人 当他第一次脱下牛仔扮相时那种脆弱感 而他身上的破碎感也很 而Peter的残忍冷血 你以为他是猎物 其实他才是猎人 对于Phil的示好仿佛是种怜悯 这种气质疯批病娇气质真勾人啊 而这种残忍也恰恰是种脆弱 整部剧充斥着一种特别的强烈的残酷美令人心醉 而Phil对Bronco的感情真的是令我心碎啊 细节满满的片子
跟The World to Come一样缓慢的笔调，一个在美国东北一个在西北，一个是被男权压迫的女性惺惺惜惺惺，一个是身为男子必须要呈现出男性气概，因为恐同而刻意强调自己的臭男人魅力。两个片子连起来看，都被男性气概给害了。
克制隐忍最后一击确实也击中了我完美的“弑父”。
悦然看过，五星力荐。看完之后94届奥斯卡公布了提名电影 这部片子领跑了很多重要奖项。《钢琴课》和《明亮的星》的同款导演。深柜牛仔与文弱少年的细思极恐谋杀事件。菲尔和乔治兄弟俩是富裕的西部农场主，哥哥乔治豪放不羁 弟弟乔治儒雅绅士，直到弟弟带回了新婚妻子萝丝 兄弟两刚柔并济的生活被打破，萝丝是一个寡妇 还带着一个性格阴柔的儿子彼得。菲尔一直隐藏着自己的性取向和对已逝爱人的强烈情绪，而外表阴柔的彼得却可以不顾别人的眼光、用于做自己，他做了菲尔不敢做的事，这也是菲尔开始接受彼得的原因。可惜，这种信任最终成为了彼得诱杀他的导火索。电影名《犬之力》出自《圣经·旧约》：「愿救我的灵魂脱离刀剑，救我的佳偶脱离犬之力。」犹太人常用犬类形容外邦人。因此 “The Power of the Dog” 被视为一种异己的、毁灭性的力量。
人们被自己设下的囹圄困入宿命的终点，所有对立的二元张力却又不断被解构和重塑。导演一如既往地不露声色又暗露锋芒，隐晦细腻地编织起角力的筹码，行为虽一一呈现而意义皆被延宕，直至最后一刻谜底揭晓，克制与泄露都把握的恰如其分。堆叠的矛盾在人物内部将所有事件冲撞为从容不迫的高潮，杀戮竟发生在最温情的时刻——马群油亮的鬃毛间与神秘氤氲的注视，看似肌肤相亲的瞬间实藏着汹涌偏执的杀意。
整体感觉太拖了，能感觉到一些东西，但感觉藏的又太隐晦了
《犬之力》中首先呈现了一个男性化的形象，他过剩的大男子主义来源于西部影片的类型神话，属于一种从约翰·福特/约翰·韦恩到PTA的动态谱系。坎皮恩的目的在于通过影片中女性化的暗流将其消解，其策略是引入古典好莱坞中感伤主义-硬派主义的张力，比起1925年的西部更像是1945年的纽约或芝加哥。然而无论演技多么逼真，只要Phil的演员是本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇，一切故事走向都会被剧透，在影片中，他作为明星的人物形象被表述为“本真的自我”，通过与镜像般的，瘦弱而恋母的Peter的相遇而开启，这是一个驯化=死亡的故事，影片不断探寻着主人公最为私密的一面，只有这种方法才能将其消灭。《犬》不是典型的LGBT，而是一个异性恋的，女性反向凝视之下的耽美故事，女性以目光在场，正如同主流好莱坞中男性的存在方式。
+78th金狮提名；折纸花，手卷烟，兽皮绳，叶上血，犬影山；厉害，隐藏内里的东西太多了，你可以一刀一刀割开来；
颁奖季第一片，因为对Dunst的这个表演很有兴趣就先看了，Campion虽然久负盛名但这是第一次看她导演的片子。
再精美的镜头调度和运镜，再好听的配乐也难以拯救这个沉闷，温吞甚至有些无聊的故事，导演有些冷静，克制过头了，到了最后情绪才有些释放，一开始用好听的音乐和摄影还有演员不错的演技试图把人拉进这个故事，但是内容的空洞和剧本的乏力让人难以进入。细腻冷静对标《烧女图》，在克制的同时也能让观众感到趣味，奇情的故事对标欧容，怎么样让观众一秒都移不开眼。抽烟，赤裸的情节是本片难得的趣味性情节，但是两个男演员的化学反应也很弱，整个电影让人提不起神。评分：6.5/10。
草太好了，看完头皮发麻，两个主演演的太好了，一颦一蹙举手投足让人怀疑是本色出演。这是一个可以发生在任何时代的故事，只是设置在了西部牧场，角色之间的牵引分裂才是全作的引擎。导演异常细腻的女性视角带来了非凡的西部牛仔体验，使泥浆血液变得情欲，使空气和灰尘变得暧昧，是断背山的升华。高空的航拍营造的高维视角让观众有了一种先验，我们不断从暗处窥探的事实只是表相，马棚即是摄影棚，从门缝透露的风光即是打光，导演在电影里编排了一出杰出的戏剧。
《犬之力》的最佳导演肯定是板上钉钉。在最佳改编剧本上，我还是押CODA，所以CODA最终会三提三中，这在奥斯卡最佳影片的历史上也是独一份，毕竟它连通常是最佳影片托底的最佳剪辑提名都没拿到。20220324
好喜欢！整个电影拍得非常含蓄克制，看完当下会有点云里雾里，人物情感的交织繁复，而故事情节又很简单，走出电影院却让我回味无穷，回忆起一些细节，有点惊叹也有点怅然。电影的视听很出色，极好地渲染出了那种孤独压抑的氛围，这么美的电影是值得去电影院二刷的，在电脑上看Netflix对得起Jane Campion吗？Benedict Cumberbatch的演出相当精彩，人物性格刻画细腻，尤其一些细微的情感变化都拿捏得很好，张弛有度，私心我要给他今年的最佳男主了！
人物心态刻画得就像Peter的手术刀那么精确
导演把人和人之间那种压抑和张力拉扯的气氛都做到了极致（尴尬癌的我每看一段都想暂停一会儿），故事本身值得思考和挖掘的面向很丰富（base在原著的基础上吧），但从头到尾营造氛围太用力暗示太多略有点刻意不自然。
莫名想起烧女图，都是这类剧情留白很多、情感拿捏极其细腻，剪辑风格凝练干净的剧情片，平淡生活之下暗流涌动，这部还要更压抑和内敛一些，最突出的都是摄影。本尼那种不怒自威的表情好让人害怕…跟邓斯特互相角力折磨，气氛压抑的大房子。抚摸纸花的蕊心，摩挲故人的马鞍，缱绻旧爱的汗巾，拨弄梳齿的声音，用象征性的细节一点点积累起暧昧。女主儿子抽着烟看他盘绳子，两人你一口我一口，压迫性的光线和构图，比床戏还欲。结尾是没想到的...所以就是高冷易怒的深柜其实很柔情，文弱白净的小基友内心毒辣...错付辽
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