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".
试图与文学性的联结不够行之有效；
母职焦虑以这样的方式呈现是真的不算高明，甚至别扭，没有Coleman这个电影基本上一团散沙。
我在看完整部电影之后才恍然大悟，为什么在电影名称中要用「lost」来作为女儿的修饰定语，因为那是一直深扎在莱达心中的一根刺，很小，似乎轻易不被发现，可一直都在。看多了荧幕上母性角色的付出，这类关于育养孩子的影片便显得更珍贵，尤其影片的主人公不是传统意义上称职的母亲。值得一提的是，奥利维娅的演技也可圈可点，为影片增色不少。
各种意义上的现实为客而自恃为主，秩序的扰乱者正是秩序的制定者。救助行动看似为了疗愈，实则是有心无聊的玩笑与挑战。是一种勇敢的不完美的女性主体的书写，对女性的身体性被母职与年龄所束缚的焦虑与反抗，对男性年轻肉体的殷羡与求而不得的嫉恨，对自我情欲的主导和把控，至于是否有“我不是一个好母亲”的愧疚与羞耻，应该说当成年女儿的形象全片缺失时，和结尾的回归，这已然表明是一种常态的妥协。一场旅途并非为了母女关系的试图修复且再次被刺伤，而是“懒惰又自私”的自我锚定。削出的果皮，和洋娃娃嘴里的秽物是无法切割的衔尾蛇。丨女人一眼就能分辨出亲疏，而那种谨慎的观察并非内疚，而是不解。丨金棕榈最佳剧本。
少年比南国更多一些气力，而少几分大写意。南国的摩托和少年的迎风，都是经典的片段。一般导演不会安排这个了，侯孝贤就是要还原生活现实，不突出所谓的事件，所以整个调度更张驰有力。少年血气方刚，迷茫，张狂，火拼……安息吧。和「南国再见，南国」一样，里面有个林/陈议员，正经事不干，混黑道。
我在看完整部电影之后才恍然大悟，为什么在电影名称中要用「lost」来作为女儿的修饰定语，因为那是一直深扎在莱达心中的一根刺，很小，似乎轻易不被发现，可一直都在。看多了荧幕上母性角色的付出，这类关于育养孩子的影片便显得更珍贵，尤其影片的主人公不是传统意义上称职的母亲。值得一提的是，奥利维娅的演技也可圈可点，为影片增色不少。
头重脚轻 科尔曼将中年女性面临的焦虑与矛盾演绎的淋漓尽致 达科塔全程陷入五十度灰模式
愤怒的初生牛犊，失控地误入歧途。少年吔，安非他命，安非你命啦。
悬疑感营造不错，但其实不算悬疑片。一开始就告诉观众女主身负重伤倒在了海边，然后小岛上的庞大家族好像有不可告人的秘密，接下来女主还有些匪夷所思的行为，比如偷了小女孩的娃娃，玩具娃娃体内还有不明液体，再加上穿插了很多女主回忆过去的碎片，让我觉得这部电影一定有很厉害的转折。然而没有。这就是一个抛弃孩子的母亲见到别的母女时产生焦虑和矛盾的故事。虽然没有等到想象中的转折，但知道真相后也能理解女性作为母亲的不易。
小格局的文艺片，聚焦的是女权和母性之间微妙又错综复杂的摇摆。透过本身就有巨大文学性的女主角来呈现，则显得迷离又令人窒息。权重过于偏向表演，但也是女性编剧和导演独到的细腻之处。喜剧演员出身的科尔曼的正剧表演功力令人动容。
作为处女作，居然有着惊人细腻的质感，多场1v1对手戏摄影机都无所畏惧的对着演员怼，戏剧性饱满得要命。
Life is a vast ocean.
7 女导演拍摄角度和情感呈现方式 更加细腻而尖锐 科尔曼演技在 整个人敏感而挣扎的情绪 从各种细节表现出来 不懂最后才还给达妹娃娃
欲買桂花同載酒，終不似，少年游。
很真实。想起前几天逛街的时候我跟我妈说，你自己确实想要一个孩子，但是你有没有想过这种想法有多大程度来源于你自己，多大程度来源于外界对你的塑造？是谁让女人成为了母亲？
这两个少年，简单纯粹到在伍佰的少年吔安啦的歌词就可以写的明明白白，歌曲和电影是天作之合。
三星半，有意思的故事和人物关系，演的也挺好的，只是拍的很一般，隐秘却深刻的伤口以及暗流涌动的悬疑应该还可以结合的更好，音乐也不搭所以有点适得其反的意思，结尾无疾而终，感觉导演让主角的人生停留在了多年以前回家的时刻，之后便是空白。 lots of things haven’t been thought through【但Ed Harris怎么可以这么帅我的妈耶我好喜欢他
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。
平靜的寫下放浪悲情的時代
永远不必怀疑费兰特和科尔曼讲/演故事的能力。三星给吉伦哈尔的处女导。
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