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".
冷色的心理描写，时不时出现的幽灵，好似牢笼的庄园，一切随着戴安娜崩溃的精神状态在现实和幻觉中交错。但这对传记片来说更像惊悚片。
#加州行观影系列#3.12旧金山飞新加坡机上看的。依然是颁奖季流水线似的人物传记片套路，也依然是一脉相承的无聊。小K真的真的真的很美，也算是把戴安娜那种脆弱敏感给表现出来了，但是编剧、导演对这个人物的表现实在是太浅了，从头到尾就是我不听、我要逃，真的很难让观众共情。
仿佛是向观众展现了人在焦虑或抑郁或压力过大的状态下可能会出现的行为 如片名所示 她只是个普通人//服化太好看了 精致又细腻也突显人物心理状态//但在此之外 电影有一定的门槛 至少要大致了解戴安娜王妃的生平 不然这样比较脱离人物前史交代又集中表现人物内心感受还挺难让人共情的
很久之前看过diana一个纪录片 人物感觉并不是那么一回事 以及这令人尴尬的英音…
这部电影的存在，注解着这个世界某些人对黛安娜的固执又傲慢的误读，从她生前延续到死后。
讲戴安娜王妃的三天，画面太亮，音乐太吵，表演太差，英音太别扭，长得太不像。
K的小动作，在片子里一点也不突兀，画面好美。没有黑人！！！！！！虽然不像戴安娜王妃，但是一个和戴安娜有相同命运的人！配乐也很克制。剧本挺好的，台词也很好。k好美好瘦。
除了题材与舞美，真是一无是处。斯图亚特真只是低配版的戴安娜王妃，全无一点形似或神似，还总是耸着肩，时刻处在崩溃边缘。片名取斯宾塞，强调其非王室的去掉华饰的平民身份，更显可笑。大家记住的仍是满身贵气的戴安娜王妃，而非有着不羁灵魂的斯宾塞。世上的一切均有代价，得到即意味着失去，看你如何选择。戴安娜也许是有史以来最出名的王妃，一方面她风华绝代，另一方面电视时代也成就了她。她给人们带来梦想，也留下了诸多话题。
#95thAcademyAwards# 看到最后，王妃戴上棒球帽开着跑车去快餐店点餐时本人正式入戏：帅蹄，这才是你。
很显然导演在视听设计上下了不少功夫，从开头几个静止镜头的切换上，一个死气沉沉的皇宫氛围直接表现了出来，而把时间压缩在三天也有充足的空间对戴安娜王妃进行心理刻画，有几场王妃的臆想戏拍的十分惊悚片（吃饭吞珠宝，楼梯上的自杀前兆），配乐尤其出彩，逐渐变得尖利刺耳提琴声也是王妃精神世界逐步崩溃的象征，把氛围烘托的非常压抑，后半段吃肯德基的部分反倒没有前半部分精彩了，小K演的还不错，可见转型决心，但也有些地方用力过猛，刻意模仿的英音也有些出戏。（7.5/10）
角度挺好的女性主义作品。女性的被禁锢，让戴安娜在男性私欲、皇权和历史里进了一个死局。不是每部作品都需要是“全面的、具体的、有人道主义光辉...的”。就像电影里戴安娜自己说的，自己不过是那只鸟, beautiful but not bright.
比Jackie还要糟糕得多，大量的怼脸特写，除了全方位无死角展现小K的美貌之外，几乎所有的微表情都还是典型的K式神经质。熟悉小K的人表示，这里她根本没有不像她，她走路的姿势她的体态她局促的样子，都完完全全是她自己。把复杂的历史人物传记拍成了简单的心理惊悚片，而且是一个极其有限的切片（又是在延续Jackie的模式）这种神经质显然无法引起观者对于Diana的同情。她的境遇何种糟糕，观众不能进入，因为她先在地成为了一个惊恐的女人。而最后的结局也几乎是无力的，如果做回Spencer就意味着这些。中间穿插的那一段拿出去直接可以做高定广告的剪辑，实在让我无从理解……
一部精巧又矫情的电影，有黛安娜的符号价值作为底色，用kristen演员本身漂亮的脸蛋和单薄的身躯尝试去还原一个真实美丽、敏感破碎的斯宾塞。彼时整个社会环境的流行元素被抽离，让奢华和死气沉沉的庄园与华丽和贵气的服饰填充到每一个细节，所到之处皆是注视和怜悯，用丝滑的运镜和尖锐的配乐去衬托她的寂寞和痛苦，所以呢，这只是对现代贵族印象的一个窥视猫眼罢了！只有Kristen一个人在疯狂舞蹈，其他角色都是肤浅空洞的工具人。拉雷安最后用爱把清醒的黛安娜从精神崩溃的边缘拉回来，这个骚操作总算让这个华而不实的剧本画上了句号，黛安娜终于再度被人们消费完了！拉雷安真的越来越飘了，除了《普通女人》扎实而有力量，之后的作品还在被人吹捧和肯定真的是很浮躁了…
KS美是美的 演技发挥的也是正常 但这部的视角让人觉得戴妃过于矫揉造作了
除了题材与舞美，真是一无是处。斯图亚特真只是低配版的戴安娜王妃，全无一点形似或神似，还总是耸着肩，时刻处在崩溃边缘。片名取斯宾塞，强调其非王室的去掉华饰的平民身份，更显可笑。大家记住的仍是满身贵气的戴安娜王妃，而非有着不羁灵魂的斯宾塞。世上的一切均有代价，得到即意味着失去，看你如何选择。戴安娜也许是有史以来最出名的王妃，一方面她风华绝代，另一方面电视时代也成就了她。她给人们带来梦想，也留下了诸多话题。
[3.5/5.0] 黛妃在海報上的動作原來是在廁所嘔吐，有點悲傷。
甚至更想看一版Anne Boleyn的电影。
其实我感觉就是借了戴安娜的壳，用了那种反叛与传统的矛盾感，讲的像是黑天鹅里的故事，自残，自杀，臆想，把一个人演到极致，片子很惊悚，但是真的好美，不过那些直白的对比，时刻都在强调的tradition，还有那个结尾实在不太好，不像是传记电影了。
Kristen Stewart时装秀，香奈儿成最大赢家。
将王室的枷锁和婚姻的束缚展现到了极致，无时无刻的跟拍特写，低沉压抑的配乐，一次又一次的挣脱和反抗，逐渐让观众拥有感同身受的体验。斯图尔特很精致很努力，但仍有大量演的痕迹，包括她那刻意的口音。
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