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".
逝去的男孩们即使忘记了自己的名字，也仍无法咽下愤怒，用自己的经验帮助主角成长。但感动之余，想到他们死亡的事实不可逆转，就又觉得这份沉重更加沉重。反杀看起来也不爽，反而有点憋屈。。
西班牙革命记忆可以单独剥离出来，剩下的就是we should all be feminists.男性缺位造就的独立女性，几组母女关系的相互对照，意外降临的伦理困境，矛盾，拉扯，纠结，至于解决方式就非常的阿莫多瓦了，也将女权贯彻到底。
有点扯 但是还是好看的 设定太感人了吧呜呜呜呜robin出来我差点流下眼泪
3.5 太狗血了一点。色彩一如既往的美，但摄影质感实在不喜…
阿莫多瓦是个好老头儿 第一次在电影中暴露明显的政治意图 视角也与简单的控诉不一样 始终关注女人自身 不愧是阿莫多瓦！阿莫多瓦真是爱女人！
作为阿莫多瓦的电影看起来一般般，可如果是作为一个政治电影就会感觉嗯很高级！两条线在情感上有呼应但不紧密，3星半吧，虽然但是，花两个小时看一部色彩绚烂、有各种美丽又独立女性的电影，还是值得的。
《痛苦与荣耀》之后以为阿莫多瓦要进入岁月静好阶段了，没想到这一部将个人的痛苦荣耀扩大到了整个国家。在右翼言论声量越来越大的当今西班牙，直接让佩内洛普喊出了犹如战斗檄文般的“好好看下我们国家的历史，决定你要站哪边”。
还是被阿莫多瓦感动到，他又一次举重若轻地触碰到女性所经受的被抛弃与被侵犯的创伤记忆，并由此延伸到历史的创伤记忆，当代与历史完成了一次互文，血缘不会说谎，历史同样也不会，只有面对残酷的创伤记忆，我们才有创伤愈合的可能。
安娜的银色短发太好看了。想请阿莫多瓦当我家的装潢设计师。
被片名和简介骗了，以为会是个猎奇故事，结果差点拍成了《蓝色生死恋》。
我听见了
这片子围绕着两个关键词展开，一个是血缘，一个则是历史。两条平行线，却在杰尼斯这里产生了焦点，从曾祖母到杰尼斯再到她的女儿，这条血缘是一脉相承的。她执着于推动乱葬岗的挖掘，和她经过反复的纠结把真相告诉安，从逻辑上也是一致的，就是延续血脉的正确性，尽管现实很残酷甚至很痛苦，但是“对”这件事更重要。而在历史方面，阿莫多瓦显然是更有野心的，将历史中的种种元素嵌入分布到现代的环境之下，达成对于历史的还原，再结合对历史真相的还原，对历史亲历者的拜访，从而达到了穿越时空的统一。历史尽管已经过去，但后人仍然在乎，也绝不容忍任何粉饰，这就是导演想对观众说的。这样一个七十多的导演，还在不断突破，坚持自我的表达，用自己的地位和力量来展现一个现实，放在现在这个时间段，显得弥足珍贵。再想想远东某国，只能一声叹息
算是阿莫多瓦的失败之作了吧？骤然切换主题是风险很大的做法，容易显得浅尝辄止，这次感觉就没处理好。更何况转折还显得过于戏剧性。
初看是一部探讨独立女性如何平衡职场以及母亲的责任的电影，老套的抱错孩子桥段+意想不到的同性情节又让它多了几分抓马。本希望两女一子组成的其乐融融小家庭可以延续到最后，但是该来的转折还是会来，而影片结局彻底转入乡土寻根文学，似乎和前文割裂了些。
狗血得如此清新脱俗，我喜欢。作为一个肤浅的人，看到大美女谈恋爱就很心满意足，根本来不及去深思结尾沉重的历史意义。
【3星半】阿莫多瓦这是按快进键了吧，节奏跃进得好快啊，虽说家族乱葬坟也算一条线，但最后实在有点强行升华（可理解为分担错子真相痛楚的一部分？），硬是把可以展开无数后续联想的女性主义，升格成了了愿的家族主义。
“抱错孩子”只是一个设定，并非不能写进剧本，不至于被打上狗血的标签。佩内洛普的表演入木三分，虽然我一开始不能接受这样的谜语人操作，但还是渐渐被表演打动，看到了一个母亲纠结和痛苦的内心。对历史和战争的反省十分深刻，但情感转变有些突兀，有些许说教意味。
人类的历史都拒绝保持沉默
太狗血了，整个故事的收束点放在一个合理又奇怪的位置，重要的事件突然让位给了某种深层又隐晦的表达，其中消失的男性和四处在寻找的男性并没有足够的阴影，好像在表现女性力量或同情女性，实际上又没有聚焦在这里
啊，我可太喜欢了😭 不管是贯穿全片的挖墓主线还是女主和小女友之间的“露水情缘”真的好喜欢，可以看到西班牙、法国人对家庭与亲人的在意同时又可以看到她/他们对待爱情对待关系对待性对待孩子的开放、平等、自由的态度😭😭你永远可以相信女生与女生之间的情谊，不像电影里的异性恋夫妻只要离婚必定要争夺孩子的抚养权，但是可笑的是父亲这个角色本身其实根本就没资格去跟母亲争夺孩子，因为男人除了贡献了那一丝精子外就没有任何贡献，而本片中就算最后最亲近的孩子要被拿走了，我也不会大吵大闹我会帮你系好宝宝背带帮你提行李到电梯外😭😭😭p.s.看到Janis这样的milf怎么可能不心动😭😭😭😭😭
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