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".
感觉都有点恐育宣传片了…题为暗处的女儿，实为出走的母亲。女性写的女性拍的真实且并不愉快的母亲形象，因为只有她们能体会，你可以逃走却依然无法逃脱。费兰特对于内心挣扎的探索依然是那么血淋淋，依然是她的故事里暗流涌动的危险敏感和挣扎，a girl is either stuck forever or she fights her way out brutally, yet forever haunted. 也要赞美Maggie，首部自编自导的长篇值得喝彩。配乐加分项，三女主表演加分项，达妹太美了。Jack Farthing的长相和气质我有点吃。
很多幸福的瞬间，却仍抵挡不住累得想放弃。那些隐秘的，向内挖的伤痕，也许只有经历过才能切肤感受。
直到娃娃嘴里吐出沙虫来 这些年反刍的愧疚是否也终于可以向谁倾吐
明明可以讲更多，却陷于情绪的表达，很浪费题材诶
可以将本片与《九三年夏天》放在一起看，二者同样都是讲述失爱后缺乏安全感的状态。都是将剧情落点在情绪与状态的影片。后者从孩童视角出发，着重描绘她的困惑、委屈与伤心。本片从母亲视角出发，强调的是懊丧、自悔与失措。孩童失去双亲，母亲辜负女儿。在这种情绪之下，本质其实都是一样的。他们都会在某个瞬间冲动想哭，某个时候难以抑制地伤感，总会试图依托某种事物寄托情感，无论是虔心祈祷的女神像，还是感怀过去的洋娃娃。
今天满屏都在歌颂母亲，母性的确伟大，但也是丰富的，歌颂只会导致符号化。歌颂越强烈，十字架上的母职就被升得越高，做母亲的就越累，无法逃脱。导演玛吉是个女性，她把母职惩罚演绎地淋漓尽致，充满隐喻的情节让电影像交响诗一样丰满。建议已经当妈的，即将当妈的都看一看。我们的社会已经越来越走向脸谱化，人设化。好母亲，好男人，好人，这些一一被树立起来的象征背后，是一个个疲惫的灵魂。电影发生在希腊海边度假小镇，也可以算是一部#海洋电影。
3.5/以我浅显的见识能识别出是费兰特的小说底子，说明她写作关注的母题真是没有变啊，浓缩的现代版埃琳娜故事。很喜欢达妹最后在沙发上问lena“有时候会觉得很忧郁，这一切会过去吗”，听完之后心很酸。
@Telluride 3.5 女性困境以及“不完美的母亲形象”，dangerously relatable，基本能理解女主的每一个行为。虽然有种美国人装欧洲人的尴尬土味让我时不时出戏，作为首作已经算惊喜
女主，我不喜欢。对这片强调女权的女人，真可笑。有两个女儿还出轨，这样的女人需要称赞吗？
所以不要當媽媽是缺失嗎？還是會獲得更多自己
#Venezia 78# 《试着做一个“正常”的母亲》；达妹真的太美了，是连女人也喜欢的女人
故事梗概：一次糟糕的假期。看片名以及海报以为是海边的曼彻斯特，看了一段发现原来是佛罗里达乐园，想起我下这片的原因了。片中有不少让人炸毛的片段。
气质独特，以一种Observer方式闯入，化解方式也如海浪搁浅冲塌，没有无因的焦虑~
7分，不太共鸣的一部普通甚至略显无聊的作品，不太有共鸣是显然的，这是一部比较写意的作品，但我既不是女性更不是母亲，女主的很多行为我都不太理解，至于什么导演的暗示更是看不出来也懒得去猜，感觉导演为了追求一些奇怪的效果过于牺牲了本片的叙事，导致我作为一个普通观众很没有兴致看完这部作品，前半段都要看睡着了。但是，本片的表演是非常出彩的一个点，也是我能给7分的主要原因。科尔曼和巴克利的表演都太出彩了，相比起来更喜欢巴克利的表演，但不得不承认科曼的影院戏是全片最令人印象深刻的片段很表演，表演功底太好了。
音乐好听。Paul Mescal，Jake Lacey后新一代男花瓶？
从这个角度刻画母亲真的真实且细腻，对性张力的拿捏也很到位，Maggie处女座GJ。整体故事还是太小了，叙事手法是不是非要营造这种几乎让人窒息的感觉其实也可以再想想。
暗处的女儿、出走的母亲，科尔曼深度剖析一个出走母亲的心理，演技没问题，但我的观感却越来越差，不是因为大家说的压抑或窒息，仅仅是因为开篇配乐给了我太高的期待。
莱达不是一个好妈妈，甚至可以说她是一个糟糕的妈妈，在面对子女的时候，她的脆弱，她的焦虑，她的绝望，又会有多少人可以体会得到呢？
7.7(2⃣️)，是比较惊喜的处女作。以一种混沌的却又拥有文学性的视角潜入，同Leda一同观察/窥视这陌生的故事，唤醒回忆中的阴影又深陷其中。弥漫着阴森杀气的怪异冲突并不有效但却多少投射了一场持续发生的对于女性本体的蓄意谋杀，再度划破平静之下逃避/辩解所留下的疮口。悬疑气氛下的循循拆解至悲剧源头，并不骇人，但足够令人绝望。闪回片段插入时有片刻特写的魅力，但数量的堆积造成了不加节制的破裂混乱，且缺乏一个足够具有说服力的收尾。但女性视角又在细腻中把握住了锐度，这个故事依然像一个迷人的噩梦，探照残酷的现实/ 很喜欢Olivia的表演
电影三星，为费兰特和Maggie加一星。初次导演的故事讲述能力因为凌乱的剪辑略弱，但依托于强大的文本，怎样也是个好故事。女性在事业和家庭的选择上永远被放在一个被剥削者的位置，年轻时决断的选择了过自己的生活在学术界一圈男性中做个又酷又牛掰的女人，也掩盖不过老去时对一对女儿的思念和一些懊悔。为什么几乎透明的丈夫角色就不用承担这high stake的代价呢？而那个老教授是个女性的话估计会被骂又茶又婊上天。
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