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".
用120m去了解一个人的苦难，很痛苦，但幸好，她活了过来；色彩就肯定是阿莫多瓦啦！人物所做的一系列举动看似不符合常理，但这就是阿莫多瓦的故事啦！
跟海鲜饭似的大杂烩…真的没意思。有些情节很讨厌。
好像是独立女性(某一阶层)带动其他女性，要努力，才能实现生的自由。
整体的衔接转折有点突兀；加莱亚诺的那句话值一颗星。
第3500-不管是不是大师的作品，我只能知道自己有什么感受，只能说还凑合。
阿莫多瓦真的懂女人啊。可惜了片子最后拔高的那一下。
还是一如既往地被阿莫多瓦的视角和语气深深折服。
阿莫多瓦塑造了一个伟大的西班牙女性形象，近代西班牙女性的历史在她身上铺陈开来，着眼未来之前更重要的是要了解我们的过去，只要抱有信念的人还存在 历史就不会沉默（此片需要配合《沉默正义》共同观看 P.S 讲述女性主义不能靠《最后的决斗》式的意淫，要靠Janis式的真实生活的承载
history will not shut it's mouth
没有乱葬岗的故事线看着会更顺畅一点吧，最后的拔高也太突兀了
Penelope惯例地演绎出色，主线情节还是很感人的。
我觉得阿莫多瓦可能没看过我们中国的电视剧，调换报错孩子这种剧情已经被国产电视剧拍烂了。政治这条线仿佛是另外一部电影........
一个很精妙的抱错孩子的故事，放置在一个历史惨剧的大背景之下。先是发现孩子不是自己的，后又知道自己的钱生孩子死了，再然后跟孩子的亲生母亲同居共同抚养、到最后坦白后失去了孩子，最后跟孩子的爸爸又重新怀了孩子。而与此同时，自己姥爷的遗体、也被重新挖掘出来。这一家人的血脉终于承前启后的流传下来。最后所有受害者家属一起围在乱坟岗的画面，太好哭了。不过想来想去，跟整个片子的关系也并不很大，还是有点硬塞的成分在。阿莫多瓦到底是有多喜欢佩内洛普克鲁兹！这才是真muse吖、而老阿也是真长情～男主是我的菜，我的菜，我的菜！😘
几条故事线造就了人物的纠缠，但是不同线条的感知和处置方式却又完全不同。这并非是习惯上的平行叙事，它只是女主视角的各种片段。但是，欧洲电影离不开性事，导演非要让佩内洛普和可以做自己女儿的那位百合起来，也真是够狗血了，这是一种空虚寂寞+乱伦快感的矛盾和安排？或许不需要含蓄的表达，他们和大多数华人家庭电影的昏暗冷漠压抑气氛不同，他们不需要燃烧一方奉献一生，只需要即时的互动和摩擦。
很神奇的首尾和中间主题不一致的影片，但阿莫多瓦总能将女性拍得如此美丽，展现她们的脆弱与坚强。
横向对比Netflix前几部“盛典式”电影来说（包括但不限于《红色通缉令》、《亚当计划》、《蜘蛛头》…），感觉会更加“像回事”些；最终的成品也更加能直观感受到它的投入回报，而非过往总是存在的“洗米”嫌疑。得益于Ryan和Chris在各自部分的掌舵，以及所创造的足够有说服力的“对决”感；哪怕是在首小时后就不再有什么认真的故事，依然足够让人继续跟进下去。至于置身一场打满全球的热闹与风格鲜明的硬场面也样样都来，绝不只是走过场拗造型，还算欢乐充实。除此之外，Regé-Jean Page飞出荧幕的性感和越走越好的“Anna-Kat”Julia Butters可看作锦上添花；只是它的设想如同原著系列小说注定是个要拓展更多的系列，却很少能够在这里感觉到继续下去的方向。停在这里是四星鼓励，继续下去是四星“送终”。
抱错孩子那里有些狗血 俩个妈妈搞蕾丝更是超乎我想象 风格非常阿莫多瓦 人物服装动物颜色搭配和室内设计的搭配颜色都非常好看 只是没想到怎么跟乱葬岗联系起来的
这次有点气力不够 影像就好像一直在撑着继续
最近总刷到小高演芭比肯化的照片都不抱啥期待了 但这电影里他还是很有魅力的！剧情就那样但因为有喜欢的演员所以就看得很开心 CE那句id rather u punch me in the dick哈哈哈
讲两个母亲那一部分非常好，剧本好棒，情感也细腻丰富。但最终电影的两条主线是割裂的，主旨不明，可惜了。三星半。
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