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".
音乐剧的流畅被碎片化的倒叙打乱 感觉既享受不到叙事的节奏也享受不到音乐的快乐
牢笼还是羽翼，你更喜欢哪个？去问飞鸟吧。恐惧还是爱，你选择哪个？亲爱的，别急着说出答案，因为选择和行动胜过言语，它们决定了你是谁。
这种人社会里有不少，可惜能冒尖的真是凤毛麟角；有人为他树碑立传，也不枉他人世走一圈了。
没人比年奔三十还自觉一事无成的人更明白，
《安妮特》都能让卡拉克斯拿戛纳最佳导演，那LMM不是应该拿金棕榈了？
不亏以前是一对儿，相隔5年，加菲甩出一部与前女友在2016奥斯卡风光无限的《LA LA LAND》同样高口碑的音乐剧！巧了，两部在豆瓣同样8.4，连片名也都是AAB格式。
近期处于对加菲的少年感重新上头的时期 看什么都不重要...
No.3 有人活得像夜晚的星，不需要天天为人指路，却能长久安慰失意的路人。
音乐剧这拨人艺术感觉太好了。生命短暂，你留下传奇
4.5 Sunday里的致敬太让人激动了…一本充满了强烈情感色彩的传记。
宽街剧粉必看。突然理解为什么戏剧界那么多写自己生活的剧作了，因为正如经纪人大姐所说，作为独立创作者，确实只有写自己的生活才最容易动人。
林聚聚与乔纳森·拉森，两个音乐剧天才的跨时空灵魂对话。电影没有聚焦在拉森最负盛名的《吉屋出租》上，而是融入他成名前的创作经历，代入创作者的迷茫与困惑。疯狂的剪辑从明亮的幻想世界与单调生活来回切换，形成“戏中戏”的结构，音乐元素构成电影“好听”的基底，好看与好听的同时加菲的演技同样让人信服，唯一的缺点也许是打磨的太过光滑，导致与原本肮脏世界有所出入，更多苦难被埋藏在华丽下。好在电影并不是一味传达天才陨落的悲凉，反而带着的是创作者对创作本身的狂喜，就像时针倒数着，迎来的却是tick，tick，boom！华美的绽放！
确实挺creative的，能看出来林聚聚倾注的真诚炙热，但可惜碎片化的表达没能让作品更进一步，音乐剧做底都会有这样的桎梏。Jon的故事很好哭，加菲的表演超出预期。致，每一位追梦人，每一个充满勇气的梦。
歌都太好听了吧。崭新。从头到尾都是高强度、快节奏的musical和电影的深度融合，这也体现出电影这种艺术形式的延展性和包容性。一个完全靠激情驱动的剧作天才在几天内的生活切片，永葆赤子之心的单纯和赤诚，就连自己的死亡都那么富有戏剧性。当然艺术家自大妄为的臭脾气也挺让人讨厌的就是了。
滴答滴答倒数，拉森的三十岁来得太早，而他的三十六岁永远没有到来，林聚聚在音乐剧方面的才华让另一位天才的坎坷之路串接着倒数时刻的演出美妙地呈现出来，当然要算上加菲无可挑剔的表演，八年熬出的傲慢进不了百老汇，那就潜心创作下一部剧。
年度歌舞好片，加菲尔德也很适合这个角色，虽然是音乐家的传记片，但是每个人都能从中看到自己的影子。这种年龄焦虑、事业焦虑、同龄人焦虑三管齐下的状态也正是无数人深陷其中的，尝试追求着自己理想的生活方式，但频频精神内耗自我怀疑。
正儿八经音乐剧电影，rent作者jonnason larson自传改编，LMM还是厉害呢，舞台和情景交叉出现，戏剧感和音乐性配合得很好，我喜欢的音乐剧电影。另，音乐非常好听，最近榜单真的太难听~~~还好每年总有ost洗耳朵。
8/10.
去年mark到今年终于补上了，音乐剧真迷人，加菲演得真好真灵动，最喜欢&印象最深刻的居然是那首吐槽人们为什么要浪费钱去餐厅吃饭的sunday……无效评论1）主角在deadline最后一刻公寓停着电的高压下才写出最重要的一首歌，还一直拖延女朋友的质问，就此和头同学展开了“良好时间管理和创作者的灵感是否可以两全”的讨论；2）加菲和石头姐作为我眼中最适合的文艺前couple（和长久的意难平），各自演了一部歌舞片，两个片中还都与他俩的恋情有千丝万缕的联系，想想更意难平了；3）一直觉得唱歌女孩声音熟悉，全程疑惑这种声线的女孩是不是都长这样，看到最后才想起是歌舞青春的女主，how time flies~
林聚聚导演的这部《倒数时刻》，描写的就是拉森创作《傲慢》最后一首歌的几天时间里的故事。这首歌的创作几乎将拉森折磨疯了。
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