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".
或许从另一个方面解读，是否将自己全盘托出 消除隔阂 是能否获得极致的性爱体验的原因之一?
多人分饰多角的形式除了经济效率外，在阐释故事的团结和谐主题也有一定的符号化作用。适合放在小屏幕上的百老汇，故事视觉化、篇幅也短。
倒数第二场戏之前两星，问题不在于舞台设计有多么简陋，而是每个主要演员都拥有两个及以上的核心角色，导致本就停留太短的情绪根本没有渲染的空间，故事的阴暗面也被简单略过，直到最后才能感受到那种被历史车轮碾过的无力感，也与当下产生了共振。
看到飙泪。这是音乐的力量，也是伟大的自由、文化、人性的力量，所有恐怖主义和邪恶政权在人类历史长河里，只是被冲刷走的一滴污渍而已。
比bootleg的观感好了太多，我又从头哭到尾了。明明是在人最容易丧失尊严的时机，Newfoundland却保证了每个人的尊严。记得从超市拿除臭剂，记挂动物的安危，捐衣服，带人回家洗澡……这些远超过生存层面的援助，让人在灾难之中，依然还是个人。虽然是主旋律正能量的，但不提政府，少见组织，只是人对人的帮助。赞歌唱给的是人性，唱得真心于是我也哭得动情。与此同时，对种族/信仰歧视也提及得毫不避讳，没有妄想塑造出一个乌托邦。歌写得也是真好，意象新颖转折自然，机长的天空之歌和情侣的分别之歌，都是能听到我屏息的程度。中老年情侣也有权登上舞台也能甜得不得了啊！机长帅死了帅死了我的天她的片段我会经常温习的。【啊她果然是弯的！
wow，excellent!
看到久违的完美剧目的兴奋和故事本身带来的感动都无以言表。在这个故事里，灾难、恐惧、紧张、偏见与神性、真诚、忘我、励志交织在密集(而好听)的台词与迅速转换的场景、人物里，代入感无比强。天花板级别的卡司用精湛技艺同时塑造至少两个人物(In and Out两方，这应该是特别设计的)，这是我这个非剧迷之前没有见识过的，叹为观止。
没有这样的鸭子，多看看霓虹男公关的故事，好看的是好看的。
find you pleasure and enjoy it❤️
冰球、麋鹿、Tim Hortons……加拿大纽芬兰Gander小镇middle of nowhere。被911事件余波影响的近7000人，在这里度过最为难忘的三天，有的人生因为这三天而改变，也有的人相遇离开一切回归以前。十年后的2011年，他们再次回到Gander，感谢当地人的善良，纪念那不能被忘记的日子。
电影本质上跟男主是一样的，提供一种幻想服务，重点是 find your pleasure and honor it
是谁在刷CFA？是我。是谁在哭泣？是我。是谁在跟着唱？是我。是谁在跺脚？是我。啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊
男主真是好性感，就像女主所形容的，简直就是sex saint！诚然这部电影就像一场巨大的意淫，但是关于女性对自身欲望的探索和释放实在是太真实了。我不知道还有多少女孩会对性感到不洁和羞耻，但如果这种性压抑像片中的女主那样伴随大半辈子，未免太可惜了。其实男主说的很对，在这件事中我们应该卸下那些现实身份，性需要的是fantasy，这和我们生活中做什么职业或是扮演什么角色都无关。不过中间略感到尴尬的是女主试图和男主“交心”，这里的窘迫在于打破了一种去现实化的fantasy，把现实身份引入了性中。试想一下如果我在做爱的时候对方突然问我在哪个公司工作，应该也是挺让人下头的。当然了我不否认有这些时刻存在，但对于我来说最好的体验的确就是专注，就像坐在电影院里沉浸式看电影那样，just enjoy it！
12个人，两个小时演出7000人五天的温暖故事。故事包含很多，人物复杂，而现实要比这复杂更多倍。是第一次接触官摄音乐剧，一开始不习惯是必然，慢慢走近故事，发现是看完之后觉得幸好没有错过的故事。911事件20周年，把温暖带给大家。Gander，911事件中同纽约一样的城市。今夜我们向失去的一切致敬，但同时，我们也纪念我们所找回的一切。共同面对困难的人类，好美丽。就如疫情
哇！那个有点像Monica的女机长也太帅了吧！
非常动人。作为一个从高中时代就开始对“大龄剩女”主题电影心有戚戚的三十岁女子，能感受到“nancy”对于性、对于自身欲望的谨慎、渴慕、敬畏、紧张，也能感受到她身上好为人师的强势、打破砂锅问到底的"执着"、看似维持礼貌体面但其实并不关心他人感受的自我中心。有时候会想，她都五六十了，还没有过高潮，这个人设是不是太夸张，其实并不，每个人都是某种夸张的人。。。其实精神内核非常朴实，朴实得不像是电影节电影，无非不就是“悦纳自我”的人本主义，但这个故事本身非常动人。
作者让一切简化，注意力全部让在两个人的关系上，即使是通过性爱这样看似非常私密的抵达方式，但两个人之间还是很敏感，不那么容易接近。某种程度上它映射了今天的人际关系、男女关系。
故事素材不用说。关键是舞台形式，给人启发。
同样是主旋律，把一个故事讲好的能力真的是至关重要。
好喜欢。去追求浮于现实之上的一切，fantasy，pleasure，而不是执着于现实的泥沼。
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