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".
太震撼了！女性身分、母職、自我意識，似乎從未被這樣的呈現過。導演好厲害啊，每一個畫面都細膩又尖銳，Olivia 和另外幾位女演員的表演在小螢幕上都能感受到撲面而來的情緒和能量。不得不說費蘭特確實是 21 世紀非常重要的女性作家。
上周五看《从零开始的女性主义》提到托儿所不是所有婴儿都能入托，周六下午去一个残障女性职业展去听重症肌无力女性的生育，晚上去看《暗处的女儿》。不同的女性，相同的生育。但这么多活动下来还是想说，求求你们，别生了，没有生育，就没有伤害。
观影过程中时常联想起她的经历，生儿育女后的生活有许多的不满却难以改善乃至根除，从而给她造成了各种精神上的折磨甚至几度导致崩溃，还因此犯过严重的错误……关心她想给予她有效的帮助，但时常是力不从心、费力不讨好的状态，也曾一度惹火上身、自讨苦吃……只道是：人人有一本难念的经。
难得找到的画质感人，不过故事还蛮有feel的，高捷首做大哥，少年死于年少，罗大佑和伍佰的歌赞。
精彩的开篇后，到结束也没出现我期待的类型元素
2013-01-24 上臺北打撞球被人消遣回鄉下去吧的言語，惱羞成怒地拿出手槍開槍示威展現最後卑微的自尊。／行這呢久 是不是感覺有淡薄仔累，趕緊找一個無聲的所在，一個會凍喘大氣的所在，緩緩仔躺落來。／羅大佑和林強亮點
30 年后 颜正国坐完牢当了导演 《少年吔》已杀青
他们青春年少，但是他们却早已经历了种种变迁。这种变迁也许正是通过他们的视点来展现的，才会显得那个时代，那个社会显得更加的动荡。
一人的假期，成了各式drama的风眼，欲望、挑衅、阴邪、愧疚和短暂的交心，表面很无辜，后来发现是内心的魔鬼在吸引同类。在《幼儿园老师》里后知后觉MG的作者气质，她对同胞角色的呵护是演员的福祉，两代英伦匠星也如期献上了现象级表演，时刻享受着不能更近的镜头。呵护但不偏袒，是精神中立的character study，自信豁达到给观众足够空间思考呼吸。尤其为Buckley开心，几年青云直上后就拿到了学院提名的前缀，从此天有多高尽情飞吧，就是别忘了隔段时间回舞台看看。top 2021
2022年5月5日，GV Suntec。 音乐好听，剧情不太投入，我还是很困😭 现在工作日不适合看电影
20220201le。氛围营造的非常好，以为会有什么剧烈的冲突发生，最终有点虎头蛇尾之感。
——在二十出头的年纪里糊里糊涂地组建一个家庭，在年近五十的年纪里莫名其妙地结束一生，不荒诞，很自由。
结尾解释了前面所有的混沌，意味深长的结尾。里面铿锵有力的插曲仿佛也像是一只有力的大手想要安抚迷茫的少年……
配乐很喜欢。少年的无知少年的热血都很美，然而在混世容易被吞噬，和迷失。
这部片子就能给我这样的感觉：也没什么太大动静，但是感觉很屌的样子。原住民文化渗透的通篇演绎避免了矫情和造作。接近写实的拍摄显得粗糙，但带来的真实感的确是台湾新生代所谓犯罪电影无法比拟的。谭志刚，就是牯岭街里的小马，遗憾你真是走的太早。PS：如果我有一天误入歧途，请赐我跟班高捷大哥
我们需要更多的女导演，改编更多女作家的作品，拍出更多女性之间的故事。不是被推崇的母亲，不是被美化的情人，是在生活中崩溃，在自我里挣扎，不正常的却活生生的人。
少年不要太冲动，在外地没有亲戚保护的情况下，还不知天高地厚，结果出事了。
3.5 世上没有后悔药 前半段恐育拉满 后面又被结尾女主释然欣慰的表情莫名感动 希望真的是可以有不论曾经后悔过多少次但每当看到听到他们的脸或声音时那种后悔的感觉就能消失不见
【Netflix】电影开场就展现了女主死亡的镜头，伴随着背景音的电话占线声，同样对照结尾的画面，背景音为等待对方接线声。整部电影也多次闪出女主倒在海滩上的镜头，感觉影片更可以看作是一种近期回忆+过去回忆两部分的交叉叙事来回顾女性的痛苦，而且两部分有极强的对照性。女主对照Nina，教授对照Will（开自己女儿和Will三明治的玩笑也是强），Bianca对照Elena，这些对照也对于女性主义有较多输出的。片中大量使用手持特写镜头，在“现实”与回忆交织的中 镜头的摇晃及故意把主体置于画面之外，都让画面带有强烈的追忆感。
玛吉拍的真不差，没看过费兰特原小说，原小说应该也是意大利式的，所以本片的观感有些些奇怪，有些地域文化的模糊性，这是对原故事改变为剧本还不够细致的处理之处。老演员的班底，情感的表达十分出色。剩下的就是费兰特的这个故事，依旧很费兰特视角的一个反省故事，网上常说的孩子生下来又塞不回去了，逃走的母亲，然后这种逃走却依然是一辈子不可挽回的伤害，对自己对孩子皆是。不是一味的恐婚恐育，在这样的故事里，应该无性别的每一个人都去反省如果选择了婚姻、选择了生育怎么过好这辈子还是不可控制的自我毁灭这是个很难去决定的话题，我们看似一直在用爱为借口或者以家庭为载体去解决问题，而个人的自由呢是被家庭的硫酸溶解了还是所谓的家庭责任绑架，费兰特的问题太尖锐，作为男性视角去看有很多被男性忽视的女性阴影让我也很恐慌我是否如此？
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