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".
精巧的四幕剧形式，以肉体买卖作为契机呈现人与人关系的微妙变化，最终达成与他人与自己的和解。当然这种剧情应该只存在在电影里，面对这么可爱的小哥只应该大搞特搞，汤普森最后对镜全裸还是蛮敢，对电影外的观众来说她又何尝不是里奥·格兰德，缓解大家对年华老去的焦虑并正视自己的欲望。
器大活好皮靓还能聊人生的sex partner如此难得，不谈性色变不耻于追求高潮的氛围更难得。
全世界的女性 哪怕是英国女性 都没有得到解放 你凭什么觉得够了
一个用精巧结构包装的中产幻想故事。内核与其说是「性」，不如说是「面对真实的自我」与「接纳可能性」。此剧的优点是表演与对话，问题在于，为了不使观众感到厌恶，它设置的主角都高度「安全」和「模范」——一位是让人容易同情、生活在无趣丈夫阴影下的善良妇女，一位是从外形到技巧都无可挑剔的卖春小伙，他们的性交易不会让人感到半点不适，相反愉悦而美好。但就是在这样对于性交易的滤镜化呈现中，性爱中那些带刺的成分都被一一剔除，那些我们自我的分裂、破碎、毒性，那些摇摇欲坠的、不规范的、埋藏在人心深处的暗面，在这种洁净化的关系中被轻而易举地悬置，于是它成了一种舒适区内的反思，一个不会有错的情感高潮，但恰恰搁置了所有与主角相比不那么「模范」的人，他们在「接纳自我」中面对的复杂处境。因此，电影最终成为一朵不带刺的玫瑰。
（Picturehouse Central）
Leo 是 good luck，Nancy 是 take care。不管怎样，又是一部再过100年我们也拍不出来的电影吧
剧本以对镜自照作结，第四段末从性（有目的的、近乎宣言式的、愉快的性）一下转到refresh自我，堪称豹尾，也很大程度上消弭了全片性元素之工具化的扎眼感：如果不是结尾一笔，我会质疑编剧通过分散在四个有设计感、功利性强、易概括、前后有递进感的段落中各类细碎小话题（有的话题被探讨得很好，但有的则浅尝辄）和包含在内的男女主的背景故事是否能达到对性的理解和释然，更遑论全片都没有一个毫无功利性的关于性本身的段落，一切都停留在台词上的认可（尤其是第四幕那个在咖啡馆的关于性的宣言，甚是功利）但既然最终落脚点停留在自我，那被工具化的性和旁枝斜曳的人生话题是不影响整体框架的。这种点到话题就假装达成释悟的片子我愿称之为教学片。Emma表演太有说服力了，在程式化的剧本里依然塑造了完整的有厚度的动人的女性。
真的很稳。Nancy的角色是对所有被性别角色所捆绑女性的完美折射，焦虑、欲望、失望和恐惧都在行为和言语中暴露无疑。平日被消费的对象反转成为消费的主体，将男性凝视自食其果；但却不仅仅如此，在凝视的基础上还增加了很多层次的阐释和叙述，对性工作者的迷思，不仅来自性别，更与种族身份密不可分。女性的欲望在一次次宛如心理咨询的谈话中被重提，被讨论，只是多了一些实践的层面，满足性幻想和需求。信息量太大，也感觉到导演想要一下次全部展现，有些细节感觉略微操之过急和刻意。4.8/5
太好了
1、追求愉悦，是人的本能。
一次双向心理救赎之旅，放下枷锁勇敢“出柜”，解锁真正的pleasure。ps：男主身材也太好了，期待真下海那天（不是
三星半。年长女教师与健硕青年性工作者的四次约会，让两人的关系从性事，转向幸事。前三次约会中的大量对话，一方面从心理层面分析着两人的社会属性成因，另一方面也为第四次约会的情绪变奏做着坚实铺垫。艾玛·汤普森的表演能力太过了得，几个看似不经意的肢体动作，就令影片焕发灵动之感。
Emma Thompson太通透了，完全释放自我的一次表演，光芒万丈！女性导演才能拍出的细腻和女性心理。
好温情的对谈，一个女人不断探索，发现和解放自我
不会被打拳吧？霍格沃茨只有一个艾玛，姓汤普森。
太好了
看见《性，谎言，录像带》分比这低那么多我整个人都不好了……
不会要跟学生道歉吧？真道歉了；不会要说出两人真正关系吧？真说了。不会最后的高潮是自己给的吧？真是。一边烦躁一边被各种刻意投机土到的观影体验。
concupiscence / 可惜说教感太重
哈哈哈最近看的最开心的一部片，空气里都充满了快乐的气息。
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