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".
有些戏没必要演两遍。有些人演技不行，有些人口白不行。服装设计一般。重点全在metoo上。演员亦是制片人的片子。RS老了吗？整部戏最重要的都在后面，前面问题太多了。换句话说，应该是原著好? 还是建议去电影院一看，毕竟是metoo片！
时长与信息量之间不成比例，剧本属于无佳章无佳句，片子没有毛病，但也不太精彩。P.S. Gone Girl男真的好擅长讨人厌啊。
需要用分段方式展现的诡计不足以称之为诡计。最后的决斗戏便拍得极好，导演反复摆弄着有关“谁将死”与“谁该死”的悬念，在每个人的头顶上安放了一把达摩克利斯之剑。眼神的光芒黯淡了，表演的姿态坍塌了，识破诡计如此简单，于是更显得前两小时全是废戏。
4.0。1.《角斗士》+《末路狂花》，无论是哪一种视角讲述还原故事，在罗生门的叙事陷阱里，女性自始至终都是受害者，为女性决斗不是为还以清白，而是维护男性尊严。2.马特达蒙+大本+司机，真出戏。
前面两段太老套了，最后一段的叙事视角和决斗场面都很好。70
雷导正常发挥快乐拿工资下班。最后女人眼里的悲伤落幕非常完美，胜利只是男人的，真相也是神给的。本达写的俩男性视角其实不需要这么大篇幅，生怕别人不知道是你们的手笔一样
三个视角提供的信息量竟可以如此单薄，更惊喜的是还能倚靠其生拉硬拽出两个半小时。这种斥巨资打造镀金破烂、又臭又长的裹脚布电影让一众制片公司尝到甜头后趋之若鹜，就现今已存数量而言是否可以被定义为独立新派别——扎式电影？
决斗好看点儿；各抒己见，但差异不大，真像明晰；日本也有部讲决斗的，叙事穿插更丰富。叫~《报仇》今井正
壮观的决斗画面，另外引起对中世纪司法制度的兴趣
2021.12.02 父亲的交换筹码 丈夫的泄欲工具 风流男的高级猎物 丈夫赢得荣光与民意 她什么都没有 #女性苦难
故事比想象的简单，但最后决斗戏拍得太好了啊我的天。科莫妹子绝了
（豆瓣真空期补标9月末-12月）3.5 并非“罗生门”，而是一部直观的女性电影。
导演和编剧用巧妙的结构，把700年前欧洲中世纪的一桩公案，按现代的价值观诠释出来，正说明了“一切历史都是当代史”。
影片从卡鲁日母亲告诉玛格丽特自己也曾被强奸时才正式开始。从三人不同角度陈述的罗生门式的“玛格丽特是否被强奸”的故事提到了女性发声的高度。最后卡鲁日在决斗中胜利不仅赢回了脸面，也是长久以来一直被“强奸”的女性对强权的一次胜利。
只有男人的脸面，没有女人的尊严。
一切还原得太让人入戏了。中世纪真的太压抑了
用了倒叙以及分三组人物线重现了三次不同当事人角度的强奸案，角度却很单一。决斗很精彩，中世纪下黑暗的男尊女卑一面让人看得生气，但导演好像只对Jodie comer情有独钟，唯独对她演绎的角色做了立体的塑造，其他两位男演员都硬生生成了完成情节推动指标的配角。可是他们难道不值得也深度剖析一下吗？丈夫明明在处于劣势下为何能反败为胜，那个用真爱来升华自己一分钟火烈鸟猥琐行为的强奸男又是出于什么心态最终不敌矮个丈夫被一剑封喉的？老妈是旧社会制度下默默承受他人罪恶的受害者，当儿媳妇站出来发声，儿子赢战后她又是什么状态？闺蜜之后是否有所感触？都刻画太少了。显得整部电影变成了女主一人独角戏。但事实上她能存活下来，丈夫是至关重要的，本来可给四星，这些欠缺只能给三星了，有点可惜了。
7分，开头以为会是一部法国中世纪的罗生门，实则主题并没有超出历史范畴，男主与女主的视角区别只在于是英雄还是家暴，在那个年代的语境下观念有太多局限性，比起人性，母性才是这部作品想释放出的余音，中世纪的场景哪怕还原再好，也缺少新的视觉，无非是一集用了分段技巧去拍的历史剧。
7分，开头以为会是一部法国中世纪的罗生门，实则主题并没有超出历史范畴，男主与女主的视角区别只在于是英雄还是家暴，在那个年代的语境下观念有太多局限性，比起人性，母性才是这部作品想释放出的余音，中世纪的场景哪怕还原再好，也缺少新的视觉，无非是一集用了分段技巧去拍的历史剧。
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