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".
截取翻拍的这一段还是很扎心 剧本存在一些瑕疵距离冲奥有不小的距离 但最抢眼的依然是桑德拉布洛克的表演 即使十年前就已经有影后加持 这次依然值得小金人的褒奖 有几幕戏剪辑的特别工整 闪回的情节却可以商讨 这个故事当中的每个角色交代的不是特别清楚 除了主角外的情感流向也不是很清晰有说服力
太理解她的苦闷了，以前有一度觉的是会这样，但是爱是世间万物的良药，可以让人获得救赎。
看下来剧情线也还算简单明了，桑德拉的表演也还可圈可点。
罪犯的身份、固化的阶层、永生无法打破的“原罪”。她背负罪恶换取妹妹的未来，在夹缝中残喘存活，只为了心中的爱！女主演技炸裂，每个眼神都是戏，这才叫演技！结尾好评，此时无声胜有声！
算是把事情讲清楚了。但是各个角色都非常单薄以及女主演的脸实在僵得。。。不敢自然地老去真的好吓人啊
之前看《生死时速》就没觉得桑德拉布洛克好看，不过这部电影让我觉得她的演技确实进步很多了，赞一个！看到老外做木工活特想笑，一路全靠铆钉，就是打满了也木有咱的榫卯结石！😜😜😜
除了当事人，其实很难知道事情的全部真相，所以请谨慎评论。
这种救赎题材已经拍不出啥新意了，但女主演技大爆发真的像是圣经故事出来的人一样，其他就真的没啥了。
被Sandra Bullock圈粉。长兄为父，长女为母，姐姐的爱那么深沉厚重，让人不禁潸然泪下。或许正因为她的爱如此浓，妹妹二十年后也忘不掉一起相处的五年。五岁前我真的没有记忆，爸爸说他扛着我去动物园，带我去坐滑梯，完全没有印象。但是每次看到爸爸扛着儿子的画面我都会多看两眼，也许内心深处我也是有记忆的吧。以及梦里肉龙的香味，别的小朋友抢我的玩具......
我13岁就从生死时速起开始喜欢她，现在39岁了，又一次看到桑德拉布洛克奉献了一场奥斯卡级别的表演！隐忍与爆发的情绪一切都真实而恰到好处。太赞了！20多年了，她仍然是我的女神。
桑德拉这真的是向影后冲的啊，演技太到位了，无依之地可以，为什么这个不可以！想到之前燕外之意的一集，原谅的成本是多少呢？愿意原谅的人永远才是最勇敢的。而犯罪呢，如果社会拒绝接纳，那为什么不一开始设下死刑，监狱的意义又在哪里呢？有时间再翻翻福柯
剧本太差，一点都不抓人。演技再好也拯救不了。
这样真的对她妹妹好嘛，哪天记忆恢复岂不是全盘皆输。。。布洛克阿姐这情绪代入感很强
即使刚刚出狱满面风尘的桑德拉布洛克也还是很美，所有的克制和隐忍都出于保护和想见妹妹的心。（其实见过了太多这种题材，但桑德拉这次的表演影后预定了
The.Unforgivable.2021.1080p.NF.WEBRip.DDP5.1.Atmos.x264-CM
女主一直隐忍着自己的情绪，只有见到自己妹妹的那一刻，情绪迸发了出来！
At first I thought it would talk about restorative justice vs punitive justice. As story unfolding it shows different social classes in America and how people from these classes think and act.
剧情3星，桑德拉的演技和导演功力值得加1星，但美国的未成年人保护法没有年龄限制吗为啥要顶罪呢？
换做是我也会做同样的事，没有一个父母是不愿意牺牲的
2022年第一部让我破防的电影，姐妹最后拥抱的时候，看哭了，
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