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".
仁者见仁，智者见智。高文最后是在得知“未来的情况下”看到了:逃避回去后的最后结局是凄惨而懦弱的死去，才选择的赴死，总之“你不是一个骑士”，虽然“这是一场游戏”。但镜头的质感和色彩的运用都超级喜欢。
也自小看了不少欧洲童话，但还是很多地方get不到源点。可能是因为都是走马观花，没有在那种文化中浸泡过的缘故吧~ 不过确实把童年的时候看欧洲童话的那种感觉给视觉化和具象化了，很强的似曾相识感觉~ 演员演技在线，画面用光与布局考究，音乐既优美又点睛，尽管作为异国人很多梗与线没能领会，但还是值得给个高分的~
画面风格很喜欢，讲故事的篇章拆解开来也很喜欢。不过篇章合在一起，节奏感被拉长了很多，故事讲述的方法更像是电视剧了。塞进电影里，用这种讲述方式有些臃肿。不过我还是挺喜欢整部电影给我的感觉的，所以还是五星。
高文在被砍下头颅之前的一刹那，仿佛看到了因为自己的退缩而导致失败的一生，于是鼓起勇气的他决心遵守骑士的誓言。
Green is what is left when ardor fades,when passion dies,when we die,too.Moss shall cover your tombstone,and as the sun rises,green shall spread over all,in all its shades and hues.This verdigris will overtake your swords and your coins and your battlements and,try as you might,all you hold dear will succumb to it.Your skin,your bones.Your virtue.
摄影美术太精美了，令人陶醉，成功构筑了一个瑰丽的亚瑟王时代。整个故事塞了众多奇幻神话情节，但结尾一段成功让叙事摆脱执着于“奇幻构建”与“隐喻设计”的创作欲望，把故事从悬浮缥缈拽回到一个男孩精神成长史诗，很有力道，发人深省。片中短发的和深V的艾丽西亚都好美。本片也让我第一次成功get到戴夫帕特尔。
充满了暗黑色彩的奇幻改编，伸头一刀缩头也一刀，无非是体验——也许需要潸然醒悟，也许需要充满欲望，前进就好
3星全给大猫和小狼，剧情和人类就是多余...
773｜2.5，服化道都挺用心的，配乐也很好，摄影啊灯光啊什么的都很有特点，但是就是这个剧本太胡来了，常常令人感到莫名其妙。独立导演一下子突然有钱了整大制作就是这种情况，说白了就是心有余而力不足，他的表达能力还不足以支撑起投资方对他和他的电影的预期。A24的电影好多都是这个问题。
形而上的说法：如何成为大写的人；通俗点的说法：妈宝成长记。视听语言美丽，巨人部分略感动。
129分钟45秒 23.976fps 流媒体WEB 电影比较晦涩难懂，看到最后才会明白，高文爵士赴约的经历其实就是骑士精神塑造的历程。
拍的真是好看，但故事的编排感觉不够精巧，或者说，配不上如此好看的质感
在绿教堂斩首
基督最后的诱惑+道连格雷的画像+小王子。David Lowery就像我们写高考作文一样，总是亲切和蔼地给一段点题的长独白。情感上我还是更喜欢A Ghost Story，但是这部也可圈可点。
也自小看了不少欧洲童话，但还是很多地方get不到源点。可能是因为都是走马观花，没有在那种文化中浸泡过的缘故吧~ 不过确实把童年的时候看欧洲童话的那种感觉给视觉化和具象化了，很强的似曾相识感觉~ 演员演技在线，画面用光与布局考究，音乐既优美又点睛，尽管作为异国人很多梗与线没能领会，但还是值得给个高分的~
这是前不久看了《白狮奇缘》之后又看的一部分法国动物题材电影。
画面很美很美，确实很美，极致古典与自然。但是确实有点云里雾里，即使看了影评，依旧觉得可以再好一些。不过，像纪录片也不是什么坏事吧~
看不懂，大段大段的对话，真的跟读长篇宗教小说的感觉一样，太艰涩了。
一部男人成长史，拍的非常好，灯光摄影一流，史诗般的美感。人上人男主离家闯荡，经历各种社会毒打和诱惑，承受不住了，回去继承家业，最后娶了一个门当户对的女孩与其共度一生（女主实惨）。结局反转感觉不像真的，估计是为了突显骑士精神而设计的，因为片尾彩蛋女儿戴上了王冠。
年度怪异电影，一边被吓得瑟瑟发抖一边疯狂大笑。什么邪典剧情。如果不是男主是Dev Patel，我觉得我是看不下去的。
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