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".
这个人设。。。确定是蝙蝠侠而不是吸血鬼在行侠仗义吗
已经忘记了上一次走进电影院想立即买一张重复的电影票是什么时候了。
开头母女两人性格的小反转很精妙，最后瀑布的意象出来真的感觉到头皮发麻，贾静雯演得真好。「瀑布」比「阳光普照」点更细更日常，看完也觉得更难受。
视觉、氛围很强，剧情太弱。非常反感有话不能好好说，一定要一字一字蹦出来废话的风格，倍速观看毫不影响。Bat Cat的人设铺垫都比较弱，导致部分高光冲突剧情显得违和。anyway，又一次被高分劝进去再自己出来打低分的DC观影
难看死了！又臭又长！做作、老套、自我沉迷、极度冗长！画面阴暗就算了，关键强光闪瞎眼啊，生理虐待了属于是！看的过程真的是如坐针毡、如芒刺背、如鲠在喉！！！！
导演赞扬了什么反映立场~~再明确不过了吧~~湾湾就这么大，社会议题为母题一直不断在拍和反思~值得鼓励啊~~关心具体的人~~无论怎样都是进步的~~~（不多说了~明早起来 我要去抱抱妈妈~）
看开头的时候总在想这种有关疫情的偏向写实类的电影十几二十几年之后会不会也成为时代的产物 疫情引出了看似平和家庭下的一系列矛盾 母女关系在矛盾中慢慢变化
看完全片，无法动弹，瘫坐着听完片尾曲，仿佛淋了一身哥谭的雨。
6.5 紧扣时代征兆的剧情片，把落点放置于脆弱的中产家庭，以母女关系出发，柔和地表达出声音及隔膜，中规中矩下可窥一斑而见全豹
剧本里充满戏剧张力的荒谬感变少了，声效光影的鲜明介入体现了导演良好的美商，也给了演员更多表演的空间。还挺喜欢创作者对于沉重的女性主题充满细节的发散，他没有让她们歇斯底里，也没有让她们耽于被拯救，这点真的很不错。
可能是女性题材的缘故，会觉得这一部拍的太细腻了。没有明确的结局，就像思调失觉也不是说好就好的病一样，生活就会这样继续向下的。瀑布和阳光都是钟孟宏的某种意象，对应着不同对象不同光谱的汹涌和磅礴，他建立的电影语言越来明晰化了。
当一个长得像米歇尔奥巴马的人告诉市民应该相信警察的时候，我就非常确定这坨仨小时的玩意就是民主党建制派嗯造奥巴马流量的反动宣传大毒草。为了把超级英雄电影带回到前小丑时代，甚至需要塑造一个有菲尼克斯面相的蝙蝠侠然后让他成为一个真的蝙蝠侠，全片与小丑对仗的内容如此之多以至于所有的体面正道反思都成了欲盖弥彰。究竟谁越界了？究竟谁在滥用暴力导演你自己心里没ACDE数吗？川壬上台能拍小丑老毕登上台就只能拍这种垃圾你们好莱坞上上下下都应该扪心自问一下!
6.5 紧扣时代征兆的剧情片，把落点放置于脆弱的中产家庭，以母女关系出发，柔和地表达出声音及隔膜，中规中矩下可窥一斑而见全豹
台湾当代家庭伦理片的代表作，剧作加入了极为丰富的戏剧性，虽然一下就能猜到真蛇与女儿获救，因为整个剧本走向无可避免的温情，这与黑暗的《阳光普照》形成鲜明的对比，当然也和前半段近乎新版《隐形人》的女性寓言格格不入，怎么看都是一个性压抑的中年女人被生活摧毁的故事，
大楼口罩
是记录了疫情以来最频发的事情。一个失落的故事该怎样写，怎样安排都是不需要多说的，其实也无话可说的。如此生活三十年直到大厦崩塌，现代化的崩塌也是寂静的。母亲说她听到的声音其实是瀑布的声音，一说到瀑布我总会想到苦行，成年人越发磨难的生活，越发无言的状态，没工夫说。瀑布的水像钢钉一样砸下来钉死在脑壳上，等一念之间那个苦行的人倒进水里消失掉。很庆幸母亲得了病，有接下来那么多令人心软的幸运发生，她听见瀑布慢慢融化成小溪流，钢针变成雨粒。我只能说这是一个平凡而又幸运的故事，很多很多人没有这么多幸运，很多很多人消失在瀑布的噪音和瀑布里了。
没想到还有一些惊悚片成分。整个故事比较随意吧，也可能太隐晦了。但还是感谢台湾能够坚持拍一些类似的剧情片。大陆就算了吧，实在不知道说啥了。
很庆幸在香港电影没落，大陆电影被阉割后，还有台湾电影在苦苦支撑着华语电影的门面。从《阳光普照》到这部《瀑布》，钟孟宏延续了其具有个人风格的对家庭主题的讨论。尤其是在后疫情时代，家庭关系和人际关系不可避免地受到影响的背景下，这种讨论显得更有价值和意义。
前半段惊悚后半段治愈，好喜欢这几个女性角色！
蒂姆波顿版蝙蝠侠以否定“义警”为核心思想。才有了韦恩与小丑天台决斗前的终极辩论“到底谁塑造了谁”？来在第二部波顿更借猫女之口再次告诫韦恩“你该退休了”。若干年后的黑暗骑士，立场从左向右大幅逆转，老管家以缅甸丢宝寓言故事为少爷开释，“错不在你。有些人天生就是恶棍！”……新·蝙蝠侠（又名：情枭的黎明）呢？对待“义警”的态度上更趋向诺兰版本，强调蝙蝠侠确为捍卫公平正义的城市英雄。不过这回的英雄心魔之源，并非是自身暴力而是父亲清白。探凶洗冤揭腐扫黑构成故事主线，并使本片更像是一部私侦Noir而非漫改传奇？我们大家都知道好莱坞影史上最有名的一部私侦黑片叫作：马耳他之鹰。而“鹰”（falcon）是有翅膀的！
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