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".
7分，林强和罗大佑联手奉献全片最佳镜头。太想卖弄江湖气，加之叙事不清，抒情只得一击即碎，仿佛笑话。看完就感到，《南国再见，南国》真是可遇不可求哪。
看着象五十多岁的都大妈，
果壳发过一篇文章《后悔成为母亲，但我不敢说出口》，很深刻。跟这部片子大概是一个意思……
枪炮与荷尔蒙。PS：据说那天高捷一直在现场，坐在放映厅的右侧…
三星半，影后表演加一分吧。
处女作拍成这样真是厉害啊~虽然剧本获了奖，虽然我没读过原著，但是总感觉剧情中好像少了点什么……
满分没有理由 the most generous thing you can give is your attention, this film had mine
我看完觉得跟《驾驶我的车》正好对应，一个西方一个东方，一个女性一个男性，一个文学一个戏剧，最后都跟自己和解。话说终于在片里认出了一堆熟人，还有女主的几件浴衣好看的。
D / 既封闭又自我的电影，很不喜欢，能把手持特写电影拍的这么无法靠近人物，导演水平也是够差的。
一个值得注意的历史机遇是，更多《暗处的女儿》被历史浪潮冲上岸，成为《新手》导演——在主导和把握自身航线的同时，也在引领他者进步。在这部处女作里，女主的身份颇为有趣：她既是一位作家也是一名观众，她在写小说的同时脑海里也在过电影。为此，虚实间的那堵墙就此打通，我们看到的是一位小说家如何在一个电影空间里将和自己有关的过去、现在和未来交织在一起，并将那些已然腐烂的，却又依然鲜活的记忆再次落脚于当下的全过程。开篇就是一场梦，当服务生出现时，作家已彻底坠入到了无边无际的历史长河当中，品尝着五味杂陈的过去。然而，无论曾经的岁月多么苦涩和不堪回首，最终都要凝结成一款入口即化的冰淇淋。倘若书写者自己满意，自然会将爽口的橘子分你一半。最终，这些能够唤起死去记忆的碎片成了明灭的灵感，被敏感的读者捉进了自己的生活。
作为玛吉初执导筒的作品，影片的完成度还不错，虽然故事背景发生在阳光明媚的海滨，但女主内心的焦虑与隐秘却是弥漫开来，以至于外部的喧闹都构成威胁，比如同来度假的一大家人以及影院打闹的小鬼，最后透过达科塔·约翰逊以及女主回忆两条线索对不安解密，一切源自对母亲身份的叛逃，松塔砸伤背部和被针刺伤两次肉体伤痛都不及余生的愧疚来得狠。
（6.6/10）当《德州巴黎》中那位抛妻弃子的父亲离开后，他感受到了自由。在《暗处的女儿》中，女主角同样离开了她的家庭，而她的感受却更复杂：有自由，有实现自我价值的满足和成就感，当然也有因社会对女性“完美母亲”形象的追求而造成的自责和悔恨。还有一点很有趣：抚养孩子的过程是家长在教育孩子，而反过来孩子也可以在某种程度上重塑家长。
母亲和女儿，女儿和洋娃娃，镜头语言有表面新鲜好看拿起却腐烂变质的水果。Leda发现身边的所有父亲几乎都始终缺席，留下一个尖叫吵闹充满哭泣声和崩溃时刻的母女关系，“she is ruined.” 光辉属于和陌生女人共同高唱意大利语歌、互相亲吻赞美的Leda，属于发现自己obliged to 寻找自由的Leda，也属于被困在糟糕的母女隐喻，离开孩子或苟延在生育里的所有母亲。ps 女二变妆造忽然好美，配乐好恰当，想看费兰特原著。
台湾乡土味很浓，充斥着少年的无知无助自我迷失的电影，最后阿国死了虽然很伤感又觉得情理之中，原声带真的长出了那一代少年的迷失。嗯，从某方面来说很有种中国版猜火车的感觉。
丢失总是双向的，女儿失去了，母亲也就迷失了。忽然意识到以往大多数影视作品对母职体验的描摹都是有意无意想象性的。育儿之苦无非几声哭、一场病，戏份都是要腾出来留给儿童无邪母性无私的。（看看阿莫多瓦那平行母亲，轻轻松松都不妨碍克鲁兹和她的家居继续美丽。）要么就是戏剧性、英雄化的含辛茹苦，回避身为人母的日常经验繁琐堆叠，也就驱逐了普通观众代入的可能。即便有些离经叛道的母亲遗弃家庭，也绝少刻画她还“在职”的前史，而都是“离职”后孩童无辜母亲有愧的后传。你想晒会儿太阳，椅子有人帮你挪。选择了做母亲，当然应对子女负责。但母性阴影后那个曾经完整的自我，她的抑郁疼痛又该何处去说呢。那首好听的theme，名为Let Me Tell You All About It。
十六年后，在遥远的意大利一部叫格莫拉的电影里面两个追火少年重走了你两兄弟的路，吸毒、偷抢老大的军火，最后被乱枪打死在街头，简直是一模一样的路啊……
本可以成为一部隐秘微凉又掷地有声的凯莉·雷查德电影。所有闪回都是多余的，应该通过破碎的当下揣测过去（哪怕是恶意的），而非目睹完整的过去反过来证实当下。科尔曼这个表演啊，拳打梅姨剑指科恩嫂了。
中西部小县城、乡镇留守帮派少年的写照，如果没有网络游戏麻痹一部分，好勇斗狠的暴力少年会更多
读费兰特的采访，她说她会让吉伦哈尔自由发挥，因为“我们在男性的笼子里待得太久了——现在这个笼子正在坍塌，女性艺术家必须完全自主”，并补充说不会给男性导演同样的自由。这很有趣，让我想到戴锦华在论坛上，一位男生提问作为男性电影人如何拍好具有女性视角的电影，而戴老师直白的回答“妇女议题不需要男性光临指导，他们拍片时只需要保留起码的平常心和同理心就足够”。费兰特和吉伦哈尔，再加上一众优秀的女演员，她们对于母职的讨论毫无粉饰、直言不讳，但同时避免歇斯底里，极其克制冷静。整个观影过程令我感受到了一种说不明的亲密。作为吉伦哈尔的长片处女作更是觉得惊艳，每个选择都沉稳成熟，尤其喜欢里面交叉剪辑和一些蒙太奇的处理。
于是确实值得一提和唯一必须称赞的，就只有奥利维亚科尔曼精湛而足以让人拍手叫好的演技了。
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