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".
从对历史的还原度角度出发，已经做到了极致了。并没有所谓的对错的区别，只有不同的视角下面对同一个事情的做出的反应。 但是发生在法国的一个故事，结果全程英文来表达，略显奇怪。特别是用英语发音法国地名的时候。话说法国里摩日我还去过呢。
女权倒不一定是这片里最应该被人看见的，也有可能是客观评价过去的自己，确实很难吧。女主的视角，说实话谁也保证不了一定客观。
罗生门叙事。对那个时代的一次回溯，法国人貌似很少拍二战以前的电影，但其实他们有很多名著是一战前就诞生的。英国倒是每年都有拍。
7/10 中世纪罗生门，METOO觅到西元前
喜欢里面有一句台词：微笑和好话比威胁好用多了，哪怕你不是真心的
借鉴罗生门，朱雀在前也依旧有惊喜。
世人不在乎真相如何，谁是胜利者就向谁欢呼，这是真正讲了女性受压迫的电影，非常好的主题，除了女主角没人在乎她是不是被强暴，马特达蒙和大本编剧，可以说狠狠打了前两年达蒙说了句公道话，就被不怀好意的煽动分子辱骂者的嘴脸。七分
老头84了精力真不一般，Drive都能演帅哥了，以前我觉得他特别好，但最近对他的话剧腔真的有点不感冒……
emmm，如果为了女权而打高分的话，就不值当了，电影本身略显笨拙
亚当司机的帅就是那种，帅的程度感觉刚刚落在渣男或者海王那一档之下一点点，trick你他仿佛是好人里最帅的那一档，但转身就看到他一脸无辜的在用力草一匹母马….
因为一件中世纪性侵案而开展的决斗，以及围绕三个视点的罗生门般的叙述，只可惜这三个视点在视听手法上并没有加以区分，甚至同样的镜头连用两到三次，更多的是人物心理上的差异，达萌应该是三人中最“幸福”的，因为他或许从来都没过自己会输，依然虔诚地认为上帝会替他作证；司机荒谬地认为他爱她就不算性侵，却没想到身败名裂（而片中女性每个都说他帅气我是忍不住笑了）；朱迪则是最坚定，她只是勇敢地说出真相；最后的决斗也很精彩，将悬念放到最后一刻，而结局也显示出导演的善意，只是当他决定将一切交给上天的那刻起，我们都变成决斗场边的看客，真相好像也变得不再重要，而可悲的是，这一点或许从古至今都未曾改变。8.2
三个视角的罗生门，自大自恋的人能把强奸想象成被勾引。
坚韧 理智
八旬的雷老爷真是稳，视听语言很流畅，最后的决斗戏冲击力十足，真实又惨烈，可能是今年最硬核的动作场面之一了。在这场强奸案中，施暴者、女方丈夫、婆婆、闺蜜、审判人，共同搭建了一出男权社会的群像，唯独缺席的，只有她，这个婚姻筹码、生育工具和施暴对象，甚至根本没有人问过一句，她还好吗。朱迪科默贡献高光演出，表情的变化精准传达出导演的意图。另外不得不说，本老师这贱兮兮的小黄毛造型还很适合这部电影……
电影最后又播到十年前拍的斋藤一和剑心那一幕，感觉第一部上映仿佛还是昨天看的。
三个视角的叙事其实不存在什么罗生门，强奸一直存在，丈夫的眼里自己是完完全全的受害者，虽然一直生不出儿子，但妻子作为自己的财产受到了侵犯，强奸犯自始自终不认为自己的行为是强奸，曾经的受害者选择做帮凶反倒指责站出来反抗的人是错的，不在乎真相只想追求刺激的旁观者。阴沉的天色也掩盖不住油画般的美，三段完全相同的时间和事件，叙事丝毫没有重复，选角与人物形象高度契合，结束的干净利落。结局值得鼓掌，但八百年后的今天，这些令人作呕的事件依然在发生，没有任何改变。
——你想我吗？——我很想你。——那我们上床吧。被伯爵玩弄的两个将军。男人养家真命苦。简单粗暴的叙事。
好 真的好 虽然是个罗生门式叙事但并没不玩高深不玩暗示不玩隐喻 是那种浅显的与民同乐的好 同时还也有精彩故事有现实意义 大本和马达参与编剧又是一层乐趣 真·娱乐大片
雷老爷子的“罗生门”，影像传递出来的是导演一以贯之的历史厚重感，延续着一向以来的风格，用心之作。
朱迪科莫，从小变态杀手到我见犹怜的人妇，功力超强。
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