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".
整部片的基调太压抑了，冷工业风格加上大量空镜镜头，这部电影非常适合深夜一个人看。故事的主旨就是建立在欺骗之上的，在一个同性恋是罪恶的地狱般的波兰，同性恋者来自各个行业各个背景，却都被打上了难以磨灭的烙印，只能隐藏逃窜否则就会被毁灭。短短不到两小时的片子，刻画了多个人物，都很成功，故事讲述的也挺不错的，不恐怖，就是太压抑。男二做了每一个观众都想做的事，那就是摸摸男主的小胡子😂
风信子，一种漂亮的小花，在料峭的初春开成一片，很灿烂也很脆弱。看地图，经常会不相信波兰的正西方就是老欧洲的核心区；亲眼看到身边某些波兰裔同学的排犹、排华、反LGBTQ表现，很难相信他们的家庭真的来自于那个曾经饱受蹂躏践踏的国家；但是，波兰电影仍旧一如既往的阴冷、黑暗和好看。到底想说什么呢我？男二，快点跑吧，一直往西，别回头！！！
笼罩在铁幕下的压抑与迫害，然而对自由的追求与对真爱的觉醒，让主人公勇敢地冲破了这一切，诚实地面对与做回自己。男一男二之间火花四射，CP感爆棚。开放式的结局保留了悬念，虽然灰暗的政治背景令人不容乐观，但爱与勇敢又不至于叫人全然绝望。 “做人不能什么都怕，尤其是害怕自由。”
酒吧里男主的眼神有多胶着，审讯室里就有多躲闪。这两组镜头真好。
“我们必须离开这个国家，这里永远都不会变。”绝望又令人窒息的风信子行动，记录档案时甚至要说出性交过程、惯用技巧和体位。被一辈子存档的粉红档案，利在打压和绝对控制。他们全部坚定的认为同性恋是罪，是不耻和下作。但罗伯特深入其中又惊觉了什么呢。唯一有点割裂的是当局黑暗和只手遮天与同性恋的杂糅，最后还是偏向了所谓的政治。（ps.男主很像邱泽/张震的结合体，受有点荷兰弟的呆萌。哈哈哈也是奇怪又有趣的一组cp
对这种片子来说，人物对话好看已经绰绰有余。总之永远是受迫害的一方。
往更高的角度去看这部电影，通过一宗命案，可以看到当时波兰政府对待同性群体的"态度"，但是影片描写的深度不够，被"直转弯"占了眼球。
真实的故事背景，很套路化的剧情，其实感觉两位男主化学反应不是很足，但是男主的造型还蛮多变的，选题角度挺好的，但是挖掘深度很浅，笔力也不足。
这算什么？？没有结局？？？那个杀了那么多人的秃头高层也没被逮。。。。天哦
节奏非常快，感觉像看了一部Neo-noir风格的罪案惊悚片。网飞选在这个时候发布，说没有政治考量我是不信的。眼看着波兰右翼越来越疯魔，80年代迫害性少数的风信子行动也改头换面卷土重来，用仇恨围剿LGBT。最近的宪法官司让我分外好奇欧盟接下来会不会开除大波波...
整部电影看下来最值得赞叹的是镜头的层次感出人意料，单场景下的人物站位十分考究，画面冷感十足。没想到制作水准如此之高，情欲戏从光影到剪辑都能让人感受到肉体的秋波暗送。电影主题倾向于一个大背景下的小切入点，性取向少数群体在高压文化背景下的挣扎、妥协、反抗、失所，欺骗与真情之间的平衡，一千个同性恋有一千种活法，自由是每个国家、每个时代的共同课题。只是最后的点题拍法有些猝不及防，前期案情脉络没有交代清楚，仅仅专注于主人公个人心态的变化，后期就很难回归到初心的宏大话语体系之中。虽格局有限，但个人线的处理还是可圈可点，一个开放式悲剧，不禁让人想起风信子的花语之一，即“永恒的怀念”。
结局倒是挺利索的，应该是我希望快点结束吧
想起了《雷德尔上校》，在严密监控的体制内跨越雷池半步，各种fetish。
{★★★☆} 把一个老派的罪案故事讲出了一个迂回迂回迂迂回的角色弧光，以后网飞大数据电影都该这么拍的废话我就不说了，但这是流水线向High Art进军的起码水准。冷峻压抑的前共产主义波兰社会起到了作用，但氛围以外，它很好地证明了比起在叙事迷宫里兜圈的棋子，我们更愿意尾随有血有肉、会笑会哭的人。
与男生，了解，认识，偏移，
“人不能对一切感到恐惧，尤其是为了自由。”
对人性的扼杀，就像80年代的波兰一样毫无生气，灰暗，寒冷。
看简介的时候就想起另一部爱上验尸官。全片压抑氛围表现突出。
卷毛的演员竟然是99年出生的，这样的青春美少年掰谁掰不弯呢？审讯那场戏最精彩，卷毛的眼神里写满了震惊，小胡子低着头不敢看他，还让他说最近一次使用了什么技巧和体位？警局的问卷里有这问题？！但是当小胡子在录像带里看到卷毛的时候，只想去提醒他保护他，如果这都不是爱？！最后一个问题：男主是双还是深柜？我觉得是深柜。第一次被卷毛亲了大概是三观震裂世界崩塌，赶紧去找女友验证自己还是不是直男，发现自己依然还对女友有性奋那一脸的释然和开心哦~
即使一直被压抑着取向的火苗，即使被迫站在了对立的立场，最终他仍然勇敢迈出了追寻爱与自由的一步，去对抗整个世界。好看。
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