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".
主创团队以所谓高门槛审美为由回避剧作的问题......
别人拍电影是要讲故事，美院老师拍电影像是在写论文。
七一建党单位组织观看的电影。中国美院电影作品，美学功底透过电影艺术充分展现，黑白光影功力了得，一瞬间我感受到了《角斗士》《指环王》《恶魔岛》的影像错觉，持续感受到了Dead Can Dance的MV《the protagonist 》的末世画面的氛围。艺术形式大于内容，如散文诗一般的战争片还是很有新意的，重点是感受，而非理性逻辑。
说实话个人还蛮喜欢精巧营造的水墨画面的，水底、树林和洞穴的光影美则美矣，却不能深入到叙事的新意，同时可惜的是摄影机的存在感太强，表面上在讲个体反主旋律，实际上主体被分散了，个体的内心依然空洞。整体上，就是内容跟不上形式的追求。
迷失在浓雾中不知该去哪儿的自己……
看了其他评论才想起来，影片最开始有一些蛇的意象的刻画；中间有飞蛾的意象。反正，蛇的出现是挺败笔的。
2.无效的跟随式长镜头滥用，挺废烟饼的。对标伊万的童年 看不清人脸 更别提表情细节 比较好的几场戏 开头的是湖里男主想象的尸群 男主引领大家去炸国民党炸药库的山洞大斜坡大仰角 其他令人昏昏欲睡
再前门这里看￣ ￣)σ的镜头很美，叙事完整，讲述的是一个战士执行任务炸弹药库的故事，故事由此开始由此结束。
如果单个单个镜头来划一下的话，有部分拍得还是不错的，但是不错的地方都集中在画面美术上，哪剩下那些镜头基本毫无亮点，剪辑故事稀烂
一致反映是政府看了会觉得不太满意，被骗钱了哈哈
3000多人的队伍，最终留下姓名的只有几时人。没有过份的煽情，没有宏大的场面，没有空洞的口号，这个片真的拍出了红军战士的朴素的理想。
5.31杭州嘉里首映场。
美学上非常到位，没有营造过多的视觉奇观。然而作为一部群像剧来说人物塑造过于单一，且单薄
水墨黑白画面自由度高是影像诗意化的最好形式，但是把双刃剑，单一色彩没有视觉重点注意力会被分散，对观众分辨人物都会造成障碍，所以从光影轮廓视角下最大程度地外形差异人物，光头、小孩、女人，独臂的逃兵，圆头盔和红军帽，挎包等，除此之外还有带手表的洪队长，左额伤疤的沈队长，所以需要故事情节凝练抓人，这个做到了。除了出色的摄影、群像和残酷惨烈的情节，配乐也很好，前面大段的压迫感有一部分来自于配乐。我能看得出来的三段超现实：洪队长悬崖逃生落水水下看到战友们的尸体，小哨子救俘虏被乱枪打死 洪队长背着小哨子跑到树林刨坟后洪队长被失向的自己打死，片尾下起的“血雨”。求生还是赴死的困境，赴死的决心仅仅只是军令不够。前两个超现实是残酷孤灭迷失，最后“自己人”炸药包声响后的血雨像开放式结尾。云霄的上面究竟是什么。
在头一小时，那些看不清谁是谁的低照度，那些介于动接动与侯孝贤之间的剪辑方式，那些飘扬在空中抢在人物之前的江浙方言，我都能认为即便是创作者的力有不逮，也能在我心中，形成它独特美学的自圆其说——于电影而言，把话说得漂亮和圆满，并不是这项艺术的根本，最重要的东西是你如何用你的方式去表现一个世界。甚至在看前半部分，那些诡异的镜语和声音，反倒加强了类《全金属外壳》和《现代启示录》那般，有关人的异化感，告诉我们——士兵不过是一场战争中的行尸走肉。只可惜那个奇怪的结尾，像是把多义话横生截断，告诉所有观众:我并未有多少的见地和自觉，我所要完成的，只是一个预设了目的地的主旋律电影。于是，一切忽然就变得扫兴起来。
3.5。虽然不喜欢影片的调色，但是整片的镜头、声音都是精心设计，和台词一起推动剧情发展，艺术形式上颇有想法。导演故意在大部分时间里都模糊了人物的相貌，不断通过台词加强观众对人物的印象，只在几个镜头中展了正脸，就像经过了历史长河之后，留下的可能只剩名字的那些人。影片最难得的是尽可能地避免了意识形态直白宣讲，甚至通过敌人的台词来体现战争的残酷，那句“都是自己人”几乎可以被“定性”了。正如导演所说，这是一个关于选择的故事。可惜我们离《红军与白军》还有暂时无法逾越的障碍。
看了一个小时才基本理清人物关系，感谢后排社区党员的好记性，不然我连谁死了都搞不清楚。。
《云看出品就知道是一部绝对的艺术作品了，冲着拿奖去的所以肯定有别于商业性的主旋律电影。
不费力地将他人异化为符号的自己，
【D+】音效设计的挺细腻，镜头运动的挺自信，但是突兀聒噪的配音完全打破了和谐与氛围，寡淡黑白的画面完全冲散了景致与激情，不明所以的镜头完全击溃了观影者跟困意作斗争的最后防线。再加之极其没有故事的故事和极其没有节奏的节奏，细细碎碎多如牛毛的问题，让它顶多称得上是一个美术作品，而不是电影作品。
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