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".
是里面最打动我的部分了。
情感上没有太感动，但是电影本身做得很好了，对残障人士的描绘以及这一家人的刻画很棒。靠明灭的灯来充当闹钟，家人因听不见所以会造成很多噪音，母亲甚至希望女儿也是个聋哑，这样的细节才是这部电影的灵魂。
想起我老家的一户邻居，一对聋哑夫妻生了四个儿子，其中三个也是聋哑人，只有一个能正常听和说。那个正常的儿子一边被家人宠成了小霸王，一边又被外人嘲笑肯定是个私生子…成年后的“小霸王”好像突然就转性了，扛起了这个残疾之家的重任。后来，“小霸王”不幸死于几年前那场著名的大雾天高速路80余车追尾事故。葬礼上来了一个陌生的大爷哭得最惨，村民们一看，肉眼可见的与“小霸王”相似度99%以上。于是，唏嘘之余几十年前的流言又起……
第37届圣丹斯电影节 评审团大奖 剧情片 夏安·海德
好像在一片个人奋斗，乐观积极，家庭羁绊的歌声氛围中被完全化解了
3-22 coda在音乐里意味着结束。看之前以为自己不会爱上这部电影，到后面还是被感动，倒也不是电影有多煽情，而是能relate到更多角色的心情。女儿为家庭付出了很多，但是也想拥有自己的人生，毕竟还是高中生，终于开始追求梦想。学校的部分就是glee all over again，谢谢老师的reference，让这部电视剧的影响还能到今天。家庭里，生活有艰难的部分，但是一家人相亲相爱，就是最好的事情了。一个让人开心又流泪的故事，我依旧是爱音乐，这个世界终究是离不开音乐。
4.5星。什么是学问？这就是。水墨风多加0.5星。
温馨，皆大欢喜。选择了要走的路，并且也最终得到了支持，本身就是很幸福的事了。
跟原版比起来改编得真挺不错的，值得国内编剧好好学学怎么把翻拍改得既接地气又不失精华。两首歌选得真好，即使已经知道情节会怎么发展还是被感动哭了。
好妙好温柔的电影，我喜欢！女孩的三个聋哑家人的表演和转变真的是四两拨千金，当然女孩的表演也很棒，她在面试时，最后一边唱歌一边用手语给家人传达歌词那段太戳人了呜呜。
我的天！悲剧中的奇迹！请你尊重，帮助，老弱病残孕！
最近看的最舒服的电影 恍惚间仿佛在看小岛版小森林 男二黑白电影胡子拉碴也难掩美貌 去豆瓣影人一看果然大帅逼一个
掉了也就一公斤眼泪8，看完深刻了解了为什么英文字聋人一词总是以D/deaf出现，大写的D是身份认同，是他们自己的文化，爸爸爷爷太爷爷，一代又一代的聋人打渔为生，到了现在这个社会反而行不通了，因为法律法规根本就把非“正常”的人排除在外。
聋哑的父母去看女儿的演唱和面试，实在绷不住。
一部有着古装电影的充分野心，但却没端住的现代片，片中除了薛景求之外几乎所有人的表演都充满了现代类型片的痕迹，善良的热心的狡猾的市井的，你可以在其他很多商业片中找到精确匹配的角色模板，同时强事件且套路的情节设计也消减了作为历史题材的沉稳，昌大难道只有到了官场才知道其黑暗吗？跟若铨呆了那么久一点都没学到？同时配乐的使用有些过，黑白影像只停留在于形式，最后的蓝鸟更是刻意到让人出戏。总体观感比较失望。
我家那口说，baby you are a lover not a fighter，那我也别装了，就可劲儿哭呗。泪点不来自廉价煽情，好看的！
每次看这种题材的电影不禁感慨真的很好看又很生气它为啥不是部国产电影。
剧情无感，说教就更没意思。卞约汉水下那一段最好看。
踌躇前途舍家人，责任梦想嫩肩担。
我家那口说，baby you are a lover not a fighter，那我也别装了，就可劲儿哭呗。泪点不来自廉价煽情，好看的！
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