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".
好复杂的漩涡，但我现在已经能够完全理解了，毕竟我也是从漩涡中爬出来的人（女主好美啊，还有点神似满岛光，完全长在我的审美点上...
就随便拍些俗套剧情再加上历史反思就能升华呗，拍的什么玩意？
没办法把遗址挖掘和成为母亲这两件事联系起来
确实不是阿莫多瓦最好的表现，故事本身的设计已然有些老套，镜头调度上也没有增添太多惊喜，大量的背景音乐推动情绪，全靠潘潘努力挺着
多给一星，阿莫多瓦终于涉及政治历史，希望以后能看到更多。
抱错婴儿-莫名百合-历史创伤，你到底想说什么？还是不要拿“平行”“母亲”来深化内涵吧。总之，不甚理想。
6/10。满有意思的故事，但明显感觉到换子线与挖掘线生硬地拼凑在一起，影片表达的主题也不算深刻。
emotional*新生命和逝去生命完成了第一次的面对面，虽然乱葬岗故事线不知道怎么插入，放在母亲们的故事还是很割裂（
大体就是个谍影重重仿制片（虽然还有其他一堆动作片的影子），唯一区别是安娜演了个007古巴Part加长版，以及给美队演的反派加了不少戏，一定是钱给的够多才说服高司令Cosplay杰森·伯恩……
最让我感动的是 那个拿着摇铃的父亲 在陪孩子玩时被带走 他死的时候一定紧紧握着摇铃 想着自己的孩子 西班牙政府在这件事上真的干的挺不是人事的 自己国家公民没有尊严的被乱葬 之后也不给他们重新安葬 但就像影片最后说的历史不会被遗忘
NYFF59第九部。同时谈一个男朋友一个女朋友，也真是人生理想了...差一个来撩我的妹子。
沉浸在阿莫多瓦电影里的时候，对世界就莫名一股拥抱和谅解的热情。
阿莫多瓦用几个母亲的身份审视女人们破裂/修复/重生的过程，又以发掘骸骨的事件相辅，以此来展现国家曾经的疮疤，提出铭记历史正视历史来使国家获得重生的观点。
就是很普遍很爽的动作大片，但是因为卡司我加分了，2049前世cp，美队又演反派，还是坏透了的那种，居然还有“毒枭”瓦格纳·马拉惊喜客串，很适合在一个无聊的夜晚放松心情。
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！
看的时候希望两个妈不要越过线。看完又觉得不得不越。话说au pair角色有存在意义嘛。
怎么都在说奇情，明明看到开头就猜到结尾了。
历史与当下，记忆与生命，前行的同时也不能忘记伤痕。比起两位母亲因缘际会进入彼此生命的主线，这条暗线或许才是创作者的意图。
看完后想了半天，又翻了好几篇影评，也还是没想明白单亲妈妈的A故事和西班牙内战的B故事有什么联系......
母爱和政治，两条平行线，没有连起来。母亲这条线的故事好看！
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