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".
两位女性演员的表演都内敛而有层次，看得出导演调教的功力。但，后三分之二的剧情，因为母慈女孝而过于顺利和完美了，少了许多应该使之成为一个好故事的张力。
开片就让人惊叹，口罩、隔离、降薪，这不就是眼前的现实吗？！我不认同有些豆友说疫情只是无关紧要的背景布，我觉得恰恰是疫情、隔离，让积压已久的情绪如泄洪般倾泻。扪心自问这年头谁不疯？情节虽然简单，却拍得十分细腻，色调构图，甚至空镜都相当合我口味，还有wawa哼的那首抉择，契合又动人。后半段看得我情不自禁落泪，Don’t sweat it ，我们会活下来的。贾静雯的演技征服了我，王净感觉是文淇、徐娇和徐璐的结合体，她有一双灵动、充满故事的眼睛，前途无限。
男人可以从婚姻中快进快退，女人却被困住，困到发疯，女儿也被迫捆住，男人的面前有船走路，女人的面前是瀑布，会掉下去
真的，虽然让我泪流如雨，但太喜欢了。蓝色的房间和透过玻璃窗的阳光；叛逆的女儿和思觉失调症的妈妈；厨房的火灾和电视机背后的蛇；精致白领和家乐福牛奶货架前工作的背影。以为set在疫情，会展现更多由疫情带来的细微的创口，但却并不全然如此，这股创伤来袭得更汹涌，就像瀑布倾泻而下，把来不及反应的人冲撞得破碎不堪，从mentality到生活再到其他一切。而修补是一个漫长的过程，离开了爱和共情也无法实现。如果说《阳光普照》是灼热阳光下的阴影，这一部则是一季的漫长暴雨和之后的第一朵云。DON'T SWEAT IT.（再夸夸配乐：）
突然感觉不变烂就是挺好的，人生其实很容易跌了，所以这明明是很高的要求
这是个酸楚却温暖且振作的故事。个人最喜欢最感佩的还不是母女情深的主题，而是这一对母女在陷入逆境后的坦然、踏实和坚毅，跌落就跌落！有什么可怕的！不要再问我“你还好吗”，我们换个位置（社会地位、母女角色转换）继续努力过日子！良性社会前提下，我非常认同~
不免會拿《陽光普照》來對照，個人感覺技術退步了，演員的表現也不及《陽光》。
电影的文本意向是很深厚的，但是感觉有点造成叙事的轻微断裂感！ 视角难得放置在女性身份上，也是不错的片子！
很久没看到这样不洒狗血、关心人、理解人、关爱人，因而电影人也赢得其相应尊严感的华语电影了。题外话，没有居委会，没有人事档案加身的人生，哪怕遭遇很多苦难，还是可以随时从新开始的感觉。
虽然说疫情的大环境下诞生的闭塞与猜疑从而引向关系的濒临破裂是一个很好的切入点，但幸亏没有停在这样表面的现象中，也是在试图挖掘一些事情出来。成熟导演就算失误也是难以辨别，一众配角的作用被主演压得死死的，纵然熟脸也非常多。两位女主的表现过于亮眼，贾静雯的眼神能定住整个场子。没有了中岛桑的摄影加成导演也做得不错嘛👀
钟孟宏真是越来越生猛，好欧洲的电影质感。看久了大陆电影，差点真以为华语电影没希望了，台湾已经出后疫情现实主义佳作了友友们，我们还在正能量呀！
不过看那种片子也有好处，多吃爆米花人就不会想那么多了。
比阳光普照要散太多，魏如萱的情节完全败笔，配乐还是林生祥的风格，但没有他老辣贴合。但我个人要更喜欢，女人总是让我流泪。
贾静雯生病初期让我想到自己的妈妈。我也曾度过片中女儿那样的日子。
瀑布这个概念太贴切了，既是幻听、也是幻视，家庭关系的洪流，生活的洪流，时代的洪流，生活中这些到处涌动的暗流，轻轻的卷起来，就能够吞没普通人的幸福。婚姻失败、疫情隔离、家道中落、思觉失调……罗品文的故事就是一道无情直落的瀑布，是不断下坠却无计可施的人生。影片的最后，那个拉了好久好久的蓝色防水布终于被掀开，这座建筑的施工终于结束。阳光顷刻间，重新洒进了这个房间。生活恢复如常。“不要再问我你还好吗？我答应你，我会努力好起来。”
“不要在问我你好吗，我会努力的好起来”，初次掌镜的钟孟宏更多的以一种平视的视角去审视生活，母女之间由彷惶与抵触，逐渐开始接受全新的角色与地位。
四星半 最后妈妈对女儿说，我一定会好起来的。妈妈对着电视屏幕一直等待女儿出现，然后戛然而止。一切都会好起来的。
小溪与河流汇聚成瀑布倾泻而下，然后又形成新的小溪与河流。平静的生活迎来新的打击与挑战，但你不要总问我“你还好吗”，我会努力变好然后和你一起生活下去。到底生活是什么样？人该活成什么样？品质与阶层的坠落不代表人性的坠落，看到小静从灾难中重新爬起缓缓前进，那一声“小静”不仅仅是母亲的呼唤，也是导演对于深受疫情打击的世界重新振作的美好期待吧。
最好看的一部分就是女儿在听了医生的话之后，回家对妈妈态度的转变开始，试着去理解她，不是否定。不负责任的爸爸，被压力冲塌的妈妈，18岁的女儿。蓝色真的是会让人blue的颜色。女儿演技好好，喜欢看她们两个的母女戏。前面一个小时都很尴尬，突兀。真的很喜欢看陈以文演戏，自然又有意思。
不要再问我“你还好吗”，我会想办法好起来，好好地跟你一起过下去
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