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".
前半部分的情愫暗生、悸动和拉扯都拍得太好了！是要倒回去看两遍的程度 耶和华的教义太没人性，喜欢黑人小哥和阿姨的包容善良
日本人是怎么做到简简单单一件事都能这么开心的。好嫉妒啊。
"I think about you all the time, about us. Do you?" "Every day." “两个女孩子的交往和大多数人的经历都差不多，初见的惊鸿，相处的融洽，爱恋从懵懂到每天想你无数遍。”
剧场版也只是剧场版，算不得真正意义的电影吧，西岛的帅气，开头京都的美景最后的樱花，中间的情节忍不住快进了，食物的精致，房间的干净，可是还是不怎么看得下去...
teenager Rose Leslie演技不太行哈。比我想象的好，有几场戏设计的也聪明。大概是所有sad lesbian movie的通病吧，拍得太端着了，苦大仇深看着心里堵得慌。。。
''I know it's could be confusing at your age.''
“你还好吗？”
电影院厕所那段还有车里偷偷的摸手、在浴缸“洗礼”这几段女本子们很难不跟着深呼吸了吧hhh…（为什么每次看姬片这些片段都好害怕突然被人推门发现？？？ptsd了
我看过最拉的拉片，导演绝对不是拉，不是没见过这么没cp感的主角，只是没见过任何一个配角和主角在一起（小姨，黑人大哥）都更有cp感的拉拉片。作为一个拉片，最甜的地方竟然是和黑人大哥一起吃蛋糕！//换个角度拍就是《仲夏夜惊魂》，女主不要一棵树上吊死，外面好女人还有很多。
''I know. But she is.''
就像初恋那样，谁青春里没有呢，经过这些，后面还有那么多漂亮姐姐，爱是痛苦的。女主蛮好看哎，穿搭也好好看
从“I love you ”开始就憋不住眼泪，中间断续哭了三次。直到最后两句对白，终于号啕大哭。上次这样为爱掉眼泪，还是为自己的初恋。太相似的青春期肉痛感觉。二十年倏忽而逝。 //本片可见姬片的进步脚步，是在前人不断学习和累积的基础之上的
7。由日常组成的情节剧。从头到尾嘴角就没下来过！好美好美的亲密关系，浓淡相宜。何况还有美食，真是让人续命的强心剂。
贤二妈妈家里几个亲戚是《大奥》里的搞笑三人组吧，属于是梦幻联动了属于是，哈哈哈哈哈哈哈
印象最深刻的是两个桥段。第一个桥段是史朗的父母对于同性恋还是有些介意而失二勉为其难表示理解，父母真的是性少数群体心中一把很隐秘的尖刺啊。第二个桥段是阿航对结婚生子有诸多怨言，失二说:“虽然不理解，但是值得开心的事情还是要高兴。”目前，我很抗拒参加任何满月宴和结婚仪式，表面上想要划清边界可是内心里是对得不到的遗憾，谁不希望能结婚生孩子呢。而失二的看法让我有了一些新的思考。
我愿你拿着细细的皮鞭，不断轻轻打在我身上。
emmmmm，不好看啊，还是老老实实拍电视剧去吧（最讨厌日本影视行业的一点就是把电视剧或者番拍个电影版出来，吃相难看又不好看）
最近一直在思考关于真实和标签化的问题。这部剧让我看到了两个真实的人相处，而不是标签化的配对。相处的摩擦、小心思、快乐都一一展现。
爱情可以跨越信仰性别种族，两个女演员之间太有化学效应了，最后的结局还是美好的。
旧爱重逢，▢▢▢▢。虽然「吉米和玛丽卡」两个人是「因真理会」初次相遇，但很明显，影片《唯爱永存》讲述的是旧爱重逢语境下的身份认同。你是谁？我们之前多次说过，想要回答这个命题，可从「你从哪来/where U from」命题里寻找答案。而身份认同议题往往是经典「三位一体」框架下关于你是谁「你今天去哪里/where are U going Today」的命题。像「里奥·格兰德」一样，玛丽卡是一个要去「瓦恩/Vine」死巷求索真理的教徒，禁不住「真理」诱导的吉米最终成了这位宗教老师的关门弟子。然而，就这一次？事实上，在西方「基督文明」语境下，已有的事，后必再有；已行之事，后必再行。日光之下，并无新事——没有新世界，只有兜兜转转「偶然又必然」来到你面前的新床伴。依我看，与其「仗着年轻」用肉身疯狂试探，不如去电影《cul-de-sac》里充充电。
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