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".
请素我欣赏不来，整部电影让我感觉有点神经，还有请不要把它归为喜剧，谢谢。
大型加长广告片。不是承认彼此都很普通很乐色就可以 而是 东亚母女关系是不可能和解的 成为石头也不可能。爹-女儿这一层关系就更不可能了。东亚人唯一的破局办法就是成为哪吒自刎。
病好了第一件事就是冲到电影院看电影！片如其名，天马行空星空脑洞大开，不愧是A24出品。母女之间那种相爱相杀，想在一起又想逃离的关系真的太能理解了。看到石头滚下去的那一刻哭成泪人:(
期待挺久的，没想到是这样的电影。难得的华裔多重宇宙电影，希望华裔电影能够单独发展成一个门类吧。简笔画宇宙很好笑，香肠手看起来有点恶心。普通话粤语英语三语混杂交叉的电影，幸好没去电影院看，不然有些地方可能因为语言问题看不懂。海外华裔的问题就在于不能直面最核心的问题，而总是去挖自己母文化的边边角角来批斗，乃至攻击自己的族裔身份。美国华裔男找不到女朋友，怪自己父母把自己生成了亚裔。看到白人少年能够享受族群特权，活得那么“自由自在”，华裔少年自己不能，就怪自己是Asian。华裔女觉得妈妈管得太严，怪这是东方文化导致的。唉，然而这些都不是根本问题。根本问题是不能团结向上，不去争取族群福利，不去争取集体权利，所以只能被人欺负的地步。
脑洞不可思议；就算我们只是石头，就算被挂在树上，我也要在你身边
影片本身水准可以，想去电影院的完全可以看看，值回票价完全没问题。不过还是要说一下，有些人一口一个“把美国人当弱智”这种言论的，可以自个查查张桃芳的事迹，自己的主页拿《现代启示录》当十佳却容不下一部真人真事改编的战争片，真是搞笑到家了。
有一种摸电门的感觉。无法无天，但又乏善可陈。在每一个平行宇宙我都爱你。
直到这一幕出来之前，对各种玩的飞起的梗有点投入的间隔感，也觉得这部电影和《青春变形计》没有大区别。东方式的个人困境要在另一个语境里才能被接受被改变被解决。也不能说不买单，只是说哪有什么完美世界呢？直到这一幕，让你相信每一部电影都有一个起点，让你相信这部电影不是洋葱，还是有心有核儿。陈年鸡汤了，但还能被劝服。
P.S.电影名翻译成"无事无处无不在当下"，可能更贴切。可能推广上，不太好传播。
滿心替旁邊這位感到激動，心想竟然把女性華人移民在新大陸的落差、孤獨、迷茫描寫得這麼生動、刺激甚至還能讓人不舒服的時候，被批評選了個什麼爛電影 [狗頭] Still... 還是堅持自己的看法，講華人開洗衣店沒問題，講華人就要講家庭沒問題，我不覺得我們的生活已經脫離這些元素了，這些元素都還沒有被放到大銀幕上討論透。這部電影並不是在加強刻板，而是把和刻板一致的表象下面的前因後果掰開了讓所有人看，包括華人自己。單純地去說“為什麼不拍這樣/那樣的華人”至少是跑到了另一個問題上。這部電影非常卓越地完成了它的任務。
另一个角度的电影语言。非颜值化的，西方化的，男性视角化的，主流电影逻辑化的表达方式。这样的表达方式其实在日本见过，但是并没有引起波澜。这部电影其实是用了好莱坞的语言叙述了一个亚（洲）文化。第一次我想给六分，是因为这样的电影不但有趣，而且具有很强的探讨空间。我喜欢导演的“天马行空”。作为女性，从故事上来看，不管是作为女儿还是妈妈的角度，都有很能共情的世界观。
就跟电影结束出来的“天马行空”一样，电影用最荒诞和幽默方式讲着世间最平常的爱与包容，爱他人，爱无用的自己，包容他人，也包容无用的自己，中间那段抽帧模仿花样年华也是棒棒哒。这是我看过杨紫琼最迷人的电影。我想这电影在5.17国际不再恐同日上流媒体也是有原因的。
日常崩塌的时刻。风格太喜欢了，结实到没有缝隙令人喘不过气的现实感和滑稽离谱的戏谑竟能这样完美的结合在一起。大概没有哪个国家的代际冲突像中国这么强了吧，放在华裔身上愈发显眼。这应该是目前讲华裔最好的片子了吧。华人父母在扮演父母时是那么用力，趋向于一个统治者，以爱的名义。杨紫琼在为自己对女儿不离不弃的爱感动时，女儿节节后退，太典型了。欧美的问题父母的表现（至少在文艺作品里）基本就是虐待狂，家暴者，吸毒者和酒鬼。
极其克制的叙事和画面
太疯狂！太绚烂！太动人！有个不知恰不恰当的比喻，整个观影过程就像看了一场蔡国强的展。烟花绽放在画布上，像是炸开的颜料桶，看似完全随机，只是烟花在绽放时的瞬息纪录，似乎上帝才能造出这样的美。但是，事实上，随机的背后是精妙的设计。颜料的配比、布局等，都是艺术家的巧思。这部电影也是如此。故事是颜料，经过精妙的编排。镜头是火药，在万花筒般的蒙太奇中碰撞、爆炸，让情绪如音符一样跳跃、滑翔。前两部分是爽，最后一个部分就是点睛之笔，温柔一刀。这一刀下去，感觉整个身体的所有细胞都被激活，眼泪如突如其来的大雨，一瞬间砸在地上。“一切都不重要，一切都又很重要。”如片尾曲唱的那样，This is a life! 预定2022年最佳电影。演员也超棒，请横扫颁奖季！以及，片中的港片身影和家庭关系，文化不同流向但同源。
7/10。秀莲使劲在随机性和陌生性的多元宇宙中寻找自我的价值和意义，这一切虚无主义的混沌源于婚姻的危机、母女沟通的失败、被生活压抑的未满足的愿望，是促成她掌握一连串荒诞超能力的推动力，她能用一根小指弹飞敌人，拥有明星身份与西装革履的丈夫重逢，把现实里刁难她的女审计员视为热狗手恋人，遇见通过浣熊操纵头发来行动的男厨师，以及和疏远的女儿变成两块紧挨在山崖边的石头，这个无限叠加的大千世界令秀莲意识到生命的每种可能，都无法帮助自己解决现实的困境，特别是留着麻饼头、在白教堂风格的宫殿中构建混沌宇宙的反派女儿，因性取向遭母亲嫌恶的冲动以杀戮直接地表露出来，最终秀莲打砸洗衣店、发泄人生的失意，却被她认为无力依靠的丈夫用劝说的方式，阻止女审计员和警察逮捕自己、避免经营权被没收，才知晓要以爱获得她人的接纳和认同。
这会不会成为影史上第一部以美国华裔家庭为背景的cult film ?
And I'm the only one who laughs
现如今能看到一部中间让人猜不出来故事走向的怪鸡口味电影实在是很难得，最后的勾芡鸡汤值得原谅，关于这部电影，我最喜欢的部分也是那些奇奇怪怪的穿越平行宇宙方法，极小概率事件的发生会带来奇妙的冒险，是《银河系漫游指南》会写的东西了。
《2001: Rick and Ratatouille in the Mood for Love Interstella During Star Wars in Matrix》生命、宇宙以及一切的终极答案指向42还是爱。我们东亚人啊。“对一切怀有希望，不是我的天真，而是我的生存方式。”我又开始自私地在虚构人物身上寻找自己的角色。
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