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".
疫情只是稻草，风吹动稻草的时候那声音是不是也很大？每一根稻草压在不同的人身上，太沉重了。还有的选的人，就还能活下去
也不差也不好的一部电影，除了还不错的表演，别的都没啥可说的。人物的转折太过生硬，意象安插的太过刻意，结尾又让人摸不着头脑。生活中很多事都不是绝对的一泻千里吧，普通人嘛要么认命要么继续抗争，也许有用也许也无用，但无愧于心就好。新年快乐，希望新的一年大家都能够破除迷雾，逐浪前行。
因为他是一个富二代，从来不做家务，虽然他找到了凶器，但他不知道这是地毯铲，也不知道它是用来干什么的，更想不到要掀开地毯看看。
当一个长得像米歇尔奥巴马的人告诉市民应该相信警察的时候，我就非常确定这坨仨小时的玩意就是民主党建制派嗯造奥巴马流量的反动宣传大毒草。为了把超级英雄电影带回到前小丑时代，甚至需要塑造一个有菲尼克斯面相的蝙蝠侠然后让他成为一个真的蝙蝠侠，全片与小丑对仗的内容如此之多以至于所有的体面正道反思都成了欲盖弥彰。究竟谁越界了？究竟谁在滥用暴力导演你自己心里没ACDE数吗？川壬上台能拍小丑老毕登上台就只能拍这种垃圾你们好莱坞上上下下都应该扪心自问一下!
这一版设法在肥沃的漫画中提取出黑色侦探电影的味道，包括内化的心理独白+外化的城市氛围感的融合，从开场就让你沉浸在哥谭的黑色氛围中，拥有视听上的狂喜。反派“谜语人”套用了大卫·芬奇电影（如《七宗罪》《十二宫》）中给警方出谜的变态杀手的设定，是去漫画化的落地写实，与他的对抗是智力上的。而蝙蝠侠变成一个孤独的救世主，布鲁斯·韦恩更像是个仍在童年悲剧中挣扎的隐士。这种设计思路让面具前后没有太大本质区别，同时缺乏与管家的互动。影片完全基于城市是否需要蒙面义务警的想法，几乎到最后时刻，创作者才悲观的暗示是不需要的。
疫情爆发两年多以来第一次看到嵌入了“疫情”情节的电影。看完《瀑布》更加深了我对台湾电影注重人文内涵的印象。好喜欢台湾电影里展现出的既人文又沉静的气质——不仅享受舒服缓和的光影也忍不住引人遐思…
疾病终会过去，野马终会奔腾，也不必问从哪来到哪去，烦心之事也不必再忍，不爱的男人何须再提。瀑布轰鸣让它过去吧，还有什么帮忙的尽管说，另外别问 你还好吗
阿金图的《阴风阵阵》→钟孟宏的《阳光普照》
无功无过到除了「贾静雯演得真好啊！」之外想不出别的评论。（有病就要治？
很「布」的電影，聽見瀑布的聲音。空空如也。
可能是女性题材的缘故，会觉得这一部拍的太细腻了。没有明确的结局，就像思调失觉也不是说好就好的病一样，生活就会这样继续向下的。瀑布和阳光都是钟孟宏的某种意象，对应着不同对象不同光谱的汹涌和磅礴，他建立的电影语言越来明晰化了。
前半段配乐太满，且重心有点太偏向疫情的当下生活，填塞了太多东西进去，后半段反而更从容更落到实处一点。瀑布的声音最终取代了机器的声音，我理解为瀑布的声音也是内心汹涌的情绪，其实不要太过惧怕它。电视新闻讲救人的一段在我这里是败笔，和前半段的疫情呈现一样，皆是作者藏不住的野心，但要的东西太多且来回拉扯，全篇也太多语焉不详，比较失望，但丰富程度倒是强于《阳光普照》，更有生命力一点。
社会病了，像疫情肆掠死板的防御政策，像银行的傻逼制度连家庭的财务状况都不知情，像油腻的中介厚颜无耻地两头都吃，像水库无预警泄洪草菅人命。病人也需理解也需共情，只不过我们都没有耐心了。
作为身边有同样受精神症状困扰的人，看这样的片子显然无法和普通观众一样保持中立 影片本身节奏略有碎片感，但整体还是保持钟导的影调，只是不知为何今年钟导不太用中岛长雄身份进行拍摄了？
母亲脑中的瀑布和最后的洪水呼应，精神的溺水和身体的溺水连接。因为新冠的导火索引发精神崩溃，借由阿静的成长带来的重建。主题有意义，可惜呈现上太意识形态化了。
确实有点无痛呻吟，瀑布之后，总归于平静，最后洪水的戏真没必要。
如果只当做一部超英电影，会觉得很平淡；如果当做侦探电影，又会感觉莫名其妙。。。鸡肋。
提心吊胆看完，一直好怕掉下来最后一根稻草。蛇那一段好好，学到了什么叫“理解”，但希望自己一生不要用上。 看得我很感激我妈这么多年都很坚强，看到最后，觉得我也得好好的 健康的活着。
疫情背景下的内心汹涌，瀑布飞流直下的推捯重来，华语鸡汤王名不虚传。
劫後餘生。本質還是鐘孟宏那些陰陰鬱郁的東西，時靈時不靈。演員很大加強了這個故事的可信度
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