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".
Sunday里大咖多到眼花，都太给面子了。
主角们成长的过程，夸张又卖萌的轻松剧情，无限列车前篇。
有个很喜欢ttb的朋友哈哈哈 刷了好多遍音乐剧当然是为了集卡的那种忠粉 还挺想看的/1.3今年第一部 隔离的时候看的 我朋友说喜欢larson的话会喜欢这个 然后说看过影版也不需要去看音乐剧了 还挺喜欢这个故事的 所以说打动我的还是这个故事 给我哭的眼泪哗哗的 看完就很想去看rent 而且剪辑确实非常纯熟 妥妥的商业片 然后倒数的声音真的会让人有种很急迫的感觉 就想着时间一点点在流逝 如果现在不做就来不及了
天才人生中永远只有过路人，从情感角度的解读倒是有几分《后翼弃兵》的后劲了。
这部电影和林聚聚互相成就，很难说林聚聚没有在电影的创作过程中融入自己成名之前的生活经历，幸运的是林聚聚等到了Boom的时刻，而Jonathan Larson则没有，意难平。Andrew Garfield意外唱得不错，而且把那种中二又落魄的文艺青年演得特别可爱，对女朋友那么渣都让人恨不出来。。。
爱情，友情，穷困潦倒，三十岁还在追梦，经久不衰的故事，其他尔尔。
那种焦虑紧迫感，将自己逼死，I am running out of time. 我没有时间了，我根本没有时间聊天建立亲密关系。
Cages or wings which do you prefer?
其实像是这种传记片看完之后我的第一反应都会是有一些无聊，因为当你不了解人物原型还要当故事片看的时候就会显得非常容易乏味，尤其是作为一部音乐电影其实歌曲也就那样，不得不说略有一些失望
EP.11-14 《鼓屋敷篇》
歌不行，真的不行，从头到尾没有一首让人印象深刻的，光从这点上来说就是失败的音乐剧电影了。加菲都快四十岁的人怎么还是那么有少年气，但片子里一直好hysterical。三十岁，so what？不明白主角为啥这么焦虑，焦虑到都快有狂躁症了，无法relate。
TV后半部分的合集，但我怎么觉得画面比TV版还要更好一点，真是有钱。炭治郎真的好温暖啊！！我不敢看无限列车啊，我想要日常！
就是把tv版的剪辑了一下，不过也好，帮助我重温了一下之前的回忆，毕竟很多剧情都忘记了。
加菲身上是不是有啥贵公子气质 每次我都跳戏 真实故事本身比电影还好哭 就有些失败 音乐也不是很好 但ticktickboom和lalaland真的有些好嗑
拔萃的歌舞片，即使毫无前置信息，也能在第一曲渐入佳境，直奔简洁鲜明的主题。电影抓住了而立之年梦想如何从清晰到成为破片的过程与精髓。不仅如此，音乐在传递年轻的视点和无处安放的情感之上，在结尾升华为燃烧生命唤醒年轻一代的艺术本质，放在现在依然具有极强的激励和反思价值。
这部传记音乐剧给安德鲁很好的预订一个奥斯卡奖项。关于青春励志，关于爱情友情事业，关于答案…
后疫情时代宽街的一种新尝试！林巨巨YYDS！加菲意外的惊喜！
爱到执迷，幸好成了，不幸成了。倒数时刻切肤之痛，想做，做不出，论文，工作，感情，在犹豫在踯躅在原地兜圈。
叙事是片段式的，对于不了解传记片主人公的观众会觉得混乱。用音乐串起情绪效果很好。加菲的表演其实不够深入，演唱部分倒是卖力。
不错的音乐剧，虽然不如《爱乐》，惊讶于加菲的表演，竟然唱得这么好~
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