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".
越来越喜欢贾静雯了，前两年的《我们与恶的距离》中表现就很亮眼，这部更出彩，电影中演女儿的演员王净也不错。
再来谈谈有点遗憾的地方：和TDK的开战时刻比，罗蝠布鲁斯并未探讨哥谭值得被拯救，并且质疑能否拯救哥谭，也没有解释为什么复仇是愚蠢这个不杀原则
全片的氛围就是俩字，装逼！蝙蝠侠，谜语人，一个比一个能装，就不能好好的讲个故事。猫女也是如此，一点也不优雅，言行中始终透露着婊里婊气，妓女出身的黑人形象倒是对原著还原度很高，还有那个指甲实在是看着恶心。戈登和企鹅人就是个工具人，连装逼的资格都没有。最离谱的就是哥谭市的大反派法尔科内，如同弱智一样。
这才是电影，电影艺术。
连生气的对话都那么寡淡，很难抓住导演想表达什么
最后人被救援上来那个片段很难不让人联想到三部曲的《红》。大概是寓意着“生活的希望”
视听层面太迷人了，应该是电影语言最好的一版蝙蝠侠。红与黑的主色调，指向了蝙蝠侠内心的复仇欲与黑暗面。影片贡献了近年来最炸裂的一场追车戏，不过，这场戏只渲染了压迫感（倒立行走的蝙蝠侠），而故意忽视了其中的暴力及其危害。所以它暗含了影片的主题：用恐惧审判罪恶，一定有相应的代价。故事层面，马特·里夫斯借用新黑色电影的形式，打造出了一个上流勾结、罪恶丛生的哥谭。蝙蝠侠化身侦探，越深入真相，其正义审判者的合法性便越受质疑。从本质上看，谜语人跟他是一体两面的角色，同样以恐惧压制罪恶。影片结尾，大水淹没哥谭。蝙蝠侠擎起火炬，如同摩西分开红海，但却无可去的应许之地。这里是哥谭。
谜语人叫蝙蝠侠去孤儿院，导致布鲁斯·韦恩不能亲自拆包裹，说明蝙蝠侠和布鲁斯·韦恩是同一个人。
蒂姆波顿版蝙蝠侠以否定“义警”为核心思想。才有了韦恩与小丑天台决斗前的终极辩论“到底谁塑造了谁”？来在第二部波顿更借猫女之口再次告诫韦恩“你该退休了”。若干年后的黑暗骑士，立场从左向右大幅逆转，老管家以缅甸丢宝寓言故事为少爷开释，“错不在你。有些人天生就是恶棍！”……新·蝙蝠侠（又名：情枭的黎明）呢？对待“义警”的态度上更趋向诺兰版本，强调蝙蝠侠确为捍卫公平正义的城市英雄。不过这回的英雄心魔之源，并非是自身暴力而是父亲清白。探凶洗冤揭腐扫黑构成故事主线，并使本片更像是一部私侦Noir而非漫改传奇？我们大家都知道好莱坞影史上最有名的一部私侦黑片叫作：马耳他之鹰。而“鹰”（falcon）是有翅膀的！
疫情环境下，各国电影创作者纷纷激发灵感，钟孟宏以人物的事业危机为切口，讲述其对普通人日常生活的影响，通过出色的影像语言构建出一个躁郁症母亲眼中濒临崩溃的世界，凭借贾静雯和王净较为出色的表演，母女关系的制衡展现得细腻且有趣。前半段的惊悚风与后面的鸡汤风略有不搭，瀑布的隐喻也有些廉价直白，总体无法达到《阳光普照》的高水准，却不失为一部多义与深度并存的中上乘作品。
疫情时代下一切都是阴霾密布的蓝色天空，疏离又荒谬的人际和伦理关系，任性而情绪化的叙事表达，刻意而不知其意的氛围和意象。一切都有点乱套，一切都莫名其妙。
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蝙蝠侠是一个中世纪与近代相碰撞的错位主题，维持贵族阶级剥削秩序的文明骑士不断挫败下层人士的反抗，下层人士则被定格为近代社会以来带来破坏的癫狂，他们是不可理喻的疯狂、反社会人格、恐怖分子，心理或者肢体的病态，对现有敲骨吸髓的社会秩序具有破坏性的，是社会达尔文主义社会竞争的失败者，是马尔萨斯主义中多余的人，而双方的较量则是中世纪式的，在英国小镇哥谭上，全身铠甲的贵族与装疯卖傻的镇民在泥地里打滚的荒唐喜剧，不过这次的话语权是在贵族手中。
有被治愈。生活无常，上一秒想好好生活，下一秒就有洪水猛兽。好在最后会变成溪流，静静流淌。疫情背景加星。
这是一部让人沉浸的电影。台湾从侯孝贤，杨德昌之后，很少再有精品了。现代电影有现代的速食性。
瀑布啊倾泻而下。喜欢母女关系的讲述，但觉得在类型上太用力了
诺兰之后，敢拍蝙蝠侠的，都是真的勇士。事实证明，这勇士水平还不低
抽丝剥茧式的人物描绘，一个人要过多久才能卸下心理负担？瀑布寓意倾泻的压力，人生似乎常常游移在崩溃的边缘。钟孟宏真是不错，一年一部值得期待！
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