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".
在诸如海啸的天灾目前，人们可能无一幸免，但劫后余生的救援安置乃至恢复安宁生活则是深度考验制度的合理性以及人心的温度。在当今环境下看此片，很不错。
音乐剧勉强能三星，这个真是两星都嫌多。虽然同样的故事煽也煽，到了编剧洋洋自得的哭点鼻子也会酸，但这个Evan Hansen得得瑟瑟的缩着个头耸着个肩像个35岁的金鱼佬、在秋千架的树丛后阴影中面目上带着pedo式的邪恶的似笑非笑的婊情看着小朋友、等着图谋不轨。说到底还是这个故事本身我就不喜欢：那么些半大不大的小屁孩儿个个都self absorbed & self obsessed，他们的世界观里永远都是自我感受第一，没责任也没义务、牛高马大快20岁的人了还要过灿烂童年、and it's always all about them。还是我那年在荡烫和一班人看完音乐剧后的那句话：个么捆起来狠狠地打一顿、或者断了零花钱饿饭饿他个一两周、或者直接扭送回乡下姥姥家插秧插一个月，甭管什么屁毛病全治好了。
天灾之后必有人祸，只是我们没有追究的权力。演员表演都挺不错的，只是剧本有点弱，天灾造成的心理创伤和人祸的制度性问题都没有深入，有点遗憾。
有的被害者成为了加害者，过去的加害者现在努力试图让自己的无能为力的制度变好一点，可是饿死的人却不会死而复生。震后的伤痛存留在每一个身上，每一个人都很难复原。
了解一下日本大地震后人们普遍丧失亲友 福利制度基本生活保障的申请撤销冒领执行情况 全片几乎没有欢乐的色彩一直很压抑
故事很有横山秀夫的风格，可惜原作者不是他。
在疫情前看大概会打3分。在被封在上海的期间看，更加有感触了，所以多加一分。本身是个深刻的题材，其实可以拍的更好的。
相比摩尔我觉得艾米的表演更有力。虽然主演已经没有少年感了，但是感觉好莱坞的服道化还是很给力的。唯一可惜的是观众如果没法共情，就会觉得emition manipulative
有点过于直白，铺陈不足，难以感受到那种爱，那种狠。
结合现在疫情背景还是挺有感触的，就是太长了点
因为看过音乐剧所以对电影不抱希望，谁知道因为电影运镜问题，男主的表情纤毫毕现。他在公园木道上奔跑时的彷徨、紧张、孤单、恐慌，尝试找到一个可以hold onto的东西时，我的心一遍遍地碎了。电影增添了很多剧里没有的细节，让一些情节变得更加丰满了。可惜也删掉了几场比较好的戏，让情绪的递进有些生涩。可我竟然从头哭到尾，到最后甚至控制不住开始边哭边发抖。男主因为局促紧张而开始撒谎，因为渴望自己描绘的梦想而去圆谎。他一边沉溺于幻境，我一边心碎。里面两个妈妈的形象都比原剧丰满，并且把一个人被left out的孤独、溺毙、失声感表达得淋漓尽致。但是印度小哥和Connor的形象太扁平了。Still, it’s a relatable movie.
论关注贫穷关注灾痛，#《致那些得不到保护的人》#，好在有共情力。佐藤健和阿部宽这个组合不错。
开篇，男孩在人群中不断边走边唱，周围完全没有互动，感觉真的很“神经”反而理解了印度电影里，周边的人都有互动，一起唱歌跳舞……影片演员定位不准确或者表述脱离观众，观看不是很舒服，很尴尬，而且片长130分钟，就更不容易把握了！
虽然有种强行灌心灵鸡汤的落入俗套感，但还是有点被感动到。
这个世界
一个沉重的主题，却拍得如此轻微，浪费了好演员啊。
ost+本本就足够加分了 虽然好多迷惑操作 但几个段落很惊喜 Sincerely me里面的运镜 好欢乐 For forever里走到Evan面前的脚 还有结尾Connor弹唱的衔接 真的好棒 个人更喜欢这个结尾 啊 真希望能有一个完美的DEH留下来 可以dream出一个舞台官摄吗。
因为同是内向的人，依然很好哭。但Ben真的有问题，老了不说，这发型、眼袋和厚厚的浓妆，搞得很像跟踪狂。看在音乐剧的份上给4星。平心而论，只能给个3星。
摩尔和Kaitlyn Dever实在太像母女了（不过也演过母女了
基本上没有什么悬疑的情节 完全能猜到结局 但正如电影名字 更想去关注那些得不到保护的人吧
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