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".
真特么无语，这么久没看，找了这样一部电影，舞蹈片看过很多，这么垃圾的电影也是第一次看，真浪费了这么出色的卡司 FK
能又唱又跳又表演的人都很酷 属于那种看一遍能浪漫一辈子的故事 加菲很棒 我心中2021的影帝 不要泄气 继续努力 希望每一个疯子的故事都能被展现出来 诱发更多精彩的疯子
没了解过背后故事也能好好看的电影～
8.8/10真是近期最爱了，难得看到一部这样的电影，很喜欢影片的节奏和剪辑。 把一个歌舞传记类的电影拍成这样实属不错了，一点都不沉闷，而且穿插剪辑很有趣，节奏把握的很好，情绪推进很厉害，到一个高潮点，回落之后再给你一个小高潮，情绪一直在里边，所以不需要刻意去感动，你也会被里边的情感所感染到。 加菲真是太厉害了，又会唱又会跳又会演，冲个奖项吧。
音乐的部分还是蛮喜欢的，确实没有lalaland那么有印象深刻的歌。
7.3 倒是看出了一些黑暗中的舞者式的设计，但初执导筒的林聚聚显然是不具备冯提尔那样的影像嗅觉，剪辑很多时刻是反而是破功的，摄影机的运动也因此被破坏；它依靠的更多是对于乔纳森拉森，以至于音乐剧本身的真情流露，伪纪录片与内心的剧场穿插共奏，从而谱写出不平凡的人生乐章，《梅艳芳》至少也应该这么拍吧。
到了一定年龄，你就不再是端着餐盘的作家，而是一个有写作爱好的服务员。Tick，Tick...BOOM！个人觉得不及《爱乐之城》，情感的撕扯和卖惨的剧情，实在比不过人生真实的无奈。
影片结尾，拉森却重整旗鼓，开始创作《吉屋出租》。就是这个瞬间，对我的冲击力太大了。看完影片我其实不会觉得拉森可怜，甚至有些羡慕他。
以及桑爷爷是神——虽然这话甚至不用特别说出来。
讲故事的方式很棒，在生活中创作，讲生活搬进音乐与音乐剧中，故事的讲述也就将生活和音乐剧融入一起，很自然。镜头画面也都很棒。加菲演过戏剧的原因吧，有功底，演唱也厉害呀。
大型MV，情感和人物升华靠生拔。大概我太庸俗了，欣赏不了（我也很无奈啊）
音乐剧粉滤镜加成，看到了很多Rent的影子，LMM这情怀牌很会打啊。
為夢想拼搏就像是沒有後路的豪賭，要麽功成名就，要麽粉身碎骨。不是所有人的努力都會被看見，主角是幸運的，但是任何人都有放棄的權利，只要不去後悔。
剥开音乐剧的壳，内核就是个三十岁焦虑的故事，不是粉丝，没有共鸣。
滴答，滴答……一直以为倒数器要到零了，才醒觉自己还有大把时间；在知道自己原来还有时间后，生命却突然终结。一开始因为电影的神经质而无所适从，抽丝剥茧后，才发现没有比这更完美的音乐剧改编传记和传记改编音乐剧。
“我该怎么做？” “开始写下一部。” A love letter to theater and all the dreamers. 眼泪止不住。
加菲跟电影原型有些神似 在浮躁的社会能坚持一件事真的弥足珍贵 但现实比电影残酷多了 看完即将30的我更加焦虑了
不是音乐剧受众，本来想只给三颗星，翻看到一条评论，提到电影里的一段台词，“你得写下一本，再下一本…”。故事的过程和结果可能不够美好，但要学会去发现它的闪光！最后的歌曲没有音乐会那首节奏轻快，不过也有被感动到。
近期处于对加菲的少年感重新上头的时期 看什么都不重要...
其实中后段有点撑不起来，最终要将的不是很清晰，你到底要讲的是个人还是时代，没有掰扯好来，一直摇摆不定，最后的收尾，也比较一般，好就好在形式上让人眼前一亮，加菲这次也撑得起来。
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
