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".
稍微对塔塔本人或者港圈有些了解的人，应该都会完完全全哭崩。但倒不是电影有多好，而是因为我们都知道“梅艳芳就是最好的”。电影中穿插了大量真实的影像资料，看的时候一度很分裂，类似于这边刚接受了女主的表演，那边又被真实塔塔的强大气场带回现实。能看得出王丹妮是用了心去揣摩的，但作为新人演技上还是太稚嫩了，复杂一些的情绪没能表演出来，也使得人物深度大打折扣。当然最严重的还是剧本问题，几乎没有什么起伏高潮，内容上真的敢呈现的只有外国人/圈外人/已逝的人，对塔塔本人的刻画也缺乏重点。总的来说就是有点可惜吧。PS：算是第一次在大银幕看到了dodo
记住Cooper Raiff这个名字了，足够真诚细腻。
美式小清新，有点舒服的无聊，剧情三星，男主加一星，97的自导自编自演属实厉害。有一些无伤大雅的臭屁，但是狗狗眼真的很真诚！
即便把我煽到眼眶湿也并不意味着是煽得好，只是手里拿的扇子叫梅艳芳。把那些没能拍没敢拍的部分给补上，才算撑得住“为香港唱一曲夕阳之歌”。想1:1复刻原型的做法挺没意义的，没必要也做不到，旧影像的不断插入更是像当场自我打脸。看的时候总觉得对王丹妮不公平，不成要背锅，成了是模仿秀。法鲨不需要多么的像乔布斯，传记片的成功从来不是因为长得像。
喜欢，片如其名，real smooth，流畅度和完成度都很高，也许看过的很多电影都在讲成长的阵痛，讲年轻人多么迷茫失意，能这么温柔讲述成长确实直击我心，工作，家人，爱情一切都在虽缓慢但却积极的发展中，和女主角的这场邂逅拍得也足够美，初遇到中间若即若离朦朦胧胧的好感，再到表白到分别，真的温柔到极致了。（导演虽不太能控制表情但总体还过得去）
很完美的角色 很完美的结局 暖心个人成长家庭片
电影看完还是很感动，觉得女主还是演的不错，只是把近藤给美化了，还有演张国荣的演员气质还是差了点。
感觉会拿奥斯卡最佳影片吧呵，可是看了五十分钟了一点也看不下去，好看再叫我回来改分。（达妹演技真的很单一）
資料堆砌的一部電影。主角全身都在話俾我地聽，我就係演緊梅艷芳我就係在做戲，生硬地學她語氣學她姿勢背她台詞⋯⋯同埋避之不談種種真正梅姐值得尊敬的原因，也規避種種敏感⋯甚至好多人都唔講中文名⋯冇乜意思⋯不過都係賺到我眼淚，因為那些人那個時代，既懷念又唏噓⋯（睇戲時最開心是見到好多熟悉‘新’人面孔；and 好L想去紅館喔
论高质量男小三的自我修养（不是）感觉这个导演真的蛮有自己的风格的 长得也可爱🥹
既流畅又温馨
ppt流水賬，蜻蜓點水地回顧一生，典型的情節單薄，情深意切，但沒有具體的情節烘托輔助，再多情感都顯得空洞。麻煩主創睜眼看世界吧，傳記片拍了那麽多年不僅連1.0的傳記片《阿甘正傳》沒達到，更不用說什麼《社交網絡》《大空頭》了。
30+的向现实妥协的考量，22岁大学生过剩的肾上腺素。24岁的本人在看的时候能理解Domino和Andrew的想法，但更多时候是抱着一种复杂的情感，有遗憾有羡慕有无奈有绝望有愤怒。敢爱敢恨果然是青年的特权啊。
Domino好美。Andrew很暖。
1、一定要看粤语版。2、我对梅姑的歌比对她的人更熟悉，这部电影算科普片，不是严肃的传记片，据说还有很多曲笔。3、王丹妮与梅艳芳形神有一点相似，就是个子太高了，和古天乐站在一起一般高。4、刘俊谦演张国荣挺好的，值得鼓励，谁接这个角色都会被一群阴阳怪气的人骂。5、后起之秀Sandy, Sally，Shirley指林忆莲、叶倩文和关淑怡。6、《夕阳之歌》改编自梅艳芳男友近藤真彦的《夕焼けの歌》，它还有一个广为人知的版本叫《千千阙歌》。7、到现在我都还记得梅艳芳在电视里公布自己罹患癌症说“这一仗我一定会打赢”时的语气和神情。我当时是相信她的。但没过多久就听到了她的死讯。2003年，张国荣、梅艳芳这一对好朋友双双离世。8、那么多经典老歌，没有《亲密爱人》，不过选了她和许志安合唱的《笑看风云变》，欣慰。
流水一样的叙事有点令人厌烦，幸亏梅姐本身已是传奇。如今，再看到哥哥和梅姐，已然是对一个时代，一座城市的哀悼了吧。港人，国人，很缺这么一位香港女儿的坚韧吧。
这种电影看到哭成狗当然也跟电影拍得怎么样没啥关系。
可惜了，人物传记不好拍，一部两个小时的体量，要讲亲情，友情，爱情，事业。什么都想讲，最后成了流水账。开始仿佛回到了港片时代，最后只剩下情怀了！
加一星给情怀、Mui姐和Leslie。粉丝向电影，身边不少落泪。传记片很容易拍成流水账或者MV，所以这部也存在一些这样的问题。演唱会部分剪辑有些乱，不如波西米亚那样的长镜头来得好。看哭了两次，一次是哥哥离世，一次是最后的夕阳之歌。
前半部分剧情紧凑到有点儿“赶”，梅艳芳那股坚韧劲儿果然是源自从小的生长环境。王丹妮演技其实就算是中规中矩，尽管她再努力，也总觉得缺少了些味道，怪就怪她演的那个女人，实在是太厉害了吧，回家路上发现，晚上边开车边听梅艳芳的确享受，致敬。
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