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".
按枭雄片的拍法来做家庭片，偏执屌丝带着全家逆袭的大爽文，为了冲奖夹带一些相对生硬又不太落地的政治元素，不过我觉得还是挺好看的，但我没看过《摔跤吧爸爸》所以没法对比，以后以后看完《摔》再看看需不需要调整评分。这片受众本来就是给望子成龙的父母看的，蛊惑性还可以，适合给想培养出下一代谷爱凌的中国家长们放给子女看哈
计划，信念。对人来说多么重要。
大小威的故事太过传奇，怎么拍都会好看。也因为家喻户晓，选取父亲做主角是一个很不错的点子，有新鲜感。
励志粉饰功利，族裔牵制性别，一股父权合理化的怪异。
拍代际关系部分比训练比赛好看，后者感觉套路化，听着音乐都能猜到剧情，节奏平淡。黑人家庭的patriarch形象到刻画得很细致，但是小配角（尤其白人形象）大多扁平且负面，仅为了突出主角家庭。小威的故事没怎么讲，对她成为世界第一的期望不太有说服力。
属于上个十年电影作品了，剧本算不上差但也不够好，相比于摔爸有了一定的进步，还是落后于整个时代，毫无电影质感，最后只能祝史皇得奥斯卡好运吧
四平八稳的命题作文。还是要恭喜Green。
such a Hollywood movie.black is true
Ｄ/ 李慧英和敏后的CP很好嗑，让我们说：谢谢煮饭师傅洪常秀。
似乎爸爸晚上做了一个梦：天使来到他的面前告诉他，他会有两个女儿带着祝福出生在这个世界，她们会做为第一组黑人挤进白人网球世界，打破传统，你的任务就是不惜任何代价把她们培养成人才，我相信你，you are the chosen one!
自从2020法网关注iga开始，已经看了一年的网球比赛了，其实很奇怪为什么作为现役运动员，就已经开始拍传记电影了😭希望将来iga也可以有纪录片，想了解她从青少年时期是怎么一步步走过来的，传记电影就算了，虽然她是波兰第一位大满贯得主，第一位世界第一。
觉得男主的教育方式真的不咋地，之所以还能成功，完全是因为大小威天赋太逆天了。换句话说，要是大小威没有成功，那他只是一个自以为是的控制狂父亲。
一部传记片都可以被说成是非主流、父权、奥斯卡奖阴谋，救命。
柏林電影節。 努力秀恩愛的一部，也算是這對couple對當下生活狀態的自嘲（積極的）。不過，不知道洪尚秀是否真的在拍攝或者寫腳本的時候有那麼多念頭，看諸位寫的點評，估計導演自己都沒想到這片子能表達那麼多吧。名不副實，也理解不了為什麼能拿銀熊獎。
美国虎爸 不过有目标且一直在努力前进的人值得尊重 史皇演的没话说啊 一掌拍出个影帝是玩笑啦
虽然是真人改编，剧情还是挺俗套（当然我们都知道结果并非如此）
体育励志片确实美国人拍得热血，当然商业痕迹也很明显了。说起来是Richard为主角但总感觉Venus占了一大部分。应该更多展现Richard的决心和内心吧。说到商业痕迹，将Richard塑造如此，确实有美化嫌疑，体育片都有这个问题。是否可以期待一下小威的传记片？
拳击，真的很重要。
投机取巧，出卖女儿，偷奸耍滑老黑坑了白人教练。制造噱头搅局奥屎卡，最佳男黑角。呸！老美是否只剩黑绿同才能公映？正常电影，全部腰斩咔嚓？
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