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".
终于把年度期待看了，太棒。一部专属于Larson的自传电影，要是他还在的话今年就61了吧，时光多快，排着他戏长大的林漫威都给他拍电影了。感谢疯狂夹带私货的lmm，宽街有你真好啊，这部用心到感动，just so personal！主旨就不提了，而且Larson在ttb里面提到的问题，相信看过rent的人都能找到回答。很多转场和编排都蛮有意思，喜欢两种叙事相辅相成，模拟录像带用纪录片的形式延续现实中的真实的结局，（虽然已经脱敏但还是哭得很大声）。有Vanessa声音出演，全宽街人都来客串，在Sunday看到了BP，如果MP叔也在就好啦，最后模拟点彩画的处理，是个桑粉都会流泪吧！还有个遗憾就是邀请这么多作曲人客串了为什么不邀请pasek & paul啊（不是
观感比1好，拍电影比招待国王可有意思太多了
老妇人年轻的时候一定是个非常有魅力的lady啊
好看！加菲的脸没有以前帅了 唱歌还不错（但那个黑人大哥和大露背姐姐一开口就发现天赋差距） 但看得出他很努力营造角色形象 不知道是谁的锅 反正就感觉太注重歌舞所以Jon这个角色不太丰满。但还是喜欢 看到他随时随地拿个小本子出来记录有意思的事物 就想他真的是个很热爱生活的人儿啊！出字幕额时候看到了真的Jon顿时感触良多甚至想哭 才35啊！甚至来不及看一遍自己写的《Rent》 为了这个舞台剧梦想他付出了那么那么那么多的心血 于是就想 就让这个倒计时永远停留在tick tick的倒数中 不要boom不要结束 让他一直寻梦下去吧
默片向有声电影转换的阶段，唐顿庄园也是走在关键时期。从婚礼到葬礼，到新生命的诞生，都是在艰难的活着。
Andrew Garfield唱歌还蛮好听嗷，不过再过两年感觉他的脸就要彻底松了。台词真的是，太絮叨。
老妇人年轻的时候一定是个非常有魅力的lady啊
林-曼努尔·米兰达的过人之处在于，他能以完全电影化的手段去拍摄他挚爱的音乐剧领域，视听技巧和情感表达都完全不像一位新电影导演，很是纯熟。而叙事中对90年代同性群体和艾滋病恐慌的处理，看似蜻蜓点水，却有着发自心底的关注与重视。当然，剧本编排若能更脱离学院派，更放飞自我，一定会更好。安德鲁·加菲尔德、罗宾·德·齐泽斯的表演完成度不俗。
说实话对这类音乐剧电影并不太喜欢。但有一段打动到我 男主回忆自己小时候和朋友在学校里排练唱歌 说 “希望人生每一天都这样度过。”虽然长大后的生活一地鸡毛 但或许会有一件事让你愿意不跟随主流 走入那条看似体面光鲜的上升路径 为主角纯粹而美好的理想主义感动。6.5
好比中国文化中纪传体的《史记》，本纪、世家、列传对应的是分布于各个阶层中的个体，稳坐金字塔顶端的是以“正直”与“好的名声”教后代做体面君子的老佛爷，中层则是与各路人马打交道负责外交、内政事宜的唐顿接班人，管家则尽下层阶级的本分、叮嘱仆佣若干人等不可逾矩、礼数周全不可瞎唬弄。贵族体系任何外来的闯入者都不得不接受一系列审查，唯恐败坏了血统；最大的忌讳是谁继承哪一份财产台面上说不过去，跟《红楼梦》中“贾府”的权力体系异形同质的是以财产支配权为核心的分配体系。“十表八书”也是有的：受时代限制的性少数群体被鼓励的暗渡陈仓是某种观念解放；以往并不参与社会活动的女性拥有某一类社会职业；阶层禁锢的严密防守则被现代电影业所攻破。会认为其中蕴藏了自由的种子，而老派贵族文明为象征的唐顿终于开始吞吐新时代的空气。
传记加歌舞电影更是容易产生浓厚的割裂感，大概更适合舞台，适合突破第四面墙来面对面的共鸣
好一般… 白男first world problems+look我有minority friends。太奇怪了 不知道是剧本有改动还是咋回事 很难想象rent的作者写出这么自怜自艾的东西…
居然Henry全片都没有出现… 唐顿最喜欢的三个女性就是老夫人 mary她妈 mary
520第一次看唐顿，没想到电影院一个人都没有，包场了，唐顿给我和感觉真的很像百年孤独，一代又一代地轮回，也让我感受到为什么保守派会抵御科技，与其说他们抵御不如说他们恐惧，恐惧改革后对他们贵族的影响，家族无法沿续，需要资金修房顶，最后也只能向电影公司天价的租场费妥协
所谓理想，是没入水中也要浮现的线谱与诗行；所谓遗憾，是高朋满座时的无奈与惆怅。生命苦短，不容为一切绚烂驻足，挚爱凝为朱砂痣，去见证下一部剧作的启航。掌声留予身后，光阴逝者如斯，此生便是要把笑泪苦涩灌进心里，再用灵魂滋养出一朵永不凋谢的花。
"Cages or Wings, which do you prefer? Ask the birds."
如果和加菲前女友的《爱乐之城》对比，我可能会更喜欢这一部一点点，当然总的是差不多的。
厄不巧最近看了一个有广告潜力的穷艺术家的故事，相比之下对挣扎的还算有良心的穷人的描绘都无法共情了（推荐我音乐剧的好友邻可以消停了（（
看完没想到后劲这么大，怅然若失。前面有多甜蜜，最后我就哭得有多惨。大家都有了归宿，也好。再见了，再见。
非音乐剧粉真的很难感受其中的热爱，现实与虚构的反复横跳令人迷惑，在华丽画面和欢脱的舞蹈之下却没有对人物的深思。
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