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".
怎么说呢，片子太普通了，但是我哭了次。一次是爸爸用手抚摸嗓音感受唱歌的声音，一次是手语翻译，一次是聋哑父亲说出“go”。拍的流畅，因此多给一星
共鸣太大以至于不能公正评价。故事讲得很好。老爸在操场外看我表演那天，以后有机会一定要拍。
总的来说女主角并没有任何残疾，有残疾的是她的父母和哥哥，原生家庭的悲剧拖累了女主角自己，本电影最大的矛盾其实也就是如何处理自己上大学，学习人生规划和原生家庭利益之间的冲突，我希望看到更深刻的比如三个广告牌电影类似的社会问题对其他家庭的反思，但是电影并没有三个广告牌那样，点到为止，让人遗憾。
片中女主这一点让我很佩服，就是在面对“爱的绑架”时，能坚定地为自己的梦想抗争，不认为自己的人生只是家人的附属“因为家里需要翻译，要为家庭着想”。
单薄的人物、完全割裂的两条主线拼出所谓“关怀”，实际上把聋人父母哥哥换成《乡下人的悲歌》中的妈妈外婆也完全不会影响剧情，最重要的无声戏也是直接从原版搬来的。而且，随便参加个合唱社就能考上伯克利，音乐学院不用考基础乐理的吗……？
流畅可爱，青春逼人，套路一点也没有所谓。和父母各自的独场戏动人。
一个春日午后，我在出租房内，平日里是人流声汽笛声不断，此刻却万般沉寂。因为，COVID-19，上海封锁。
简简单单的音乐喜剧片，“当梦想和现实碰撞，选择哪一条路走”几乎是全世界有梦青少年都会遇到的艰难抉择，只要被你信赖的人支持走下去，梦不一定成真，但至少能上路。喜欢片中的温情感，家常感，还有很好听的OST。
因为我擅长
关于家庭和自我的平衡，一个建听女孩在一个聋哑家庭里面的地位，以及需要承担的事情，u1s1歌真的很好听，情节中规中矩但是很有共鸣。
静默的那一分多钟真的“煎熬”，大概是全片最震撼的地方，可是啊，有听障的人们却要忍受一辈子…
疫情之下，美国人民需要，奥斯卡工会需要，全世界都需要这种电影，能理解。
感觉挺好看的，但也不算出类拔萃就是了……
美式青春片的包装在这个电影的改编上很成功，也同时吊高了我的性质，开始全片就像走在悬崖边上一样，充斥着一种油腻的可爱，一切都在于我知道你这在做什么太多了不用处处都是但是还是好真诚啊的冒险的兴奋感之中。原版的基底设置为故事提供了许多不一样的写法，令得电影本身是耐看的，外加稍显不同的表现手法也都使得这部电影与众不同，只不过这一切都没有在后半程满足我对于本作的冒险之心，歌声部分是高开低走的，人物部分也是高开低走的，尤其争吵+和好的家庭片必经历程的节奏感做得不算太好，整体又回到了一种“小”片的感觉。
如果说几乎完全照搬产生的完整故事线能作为及格项的话，平淡到平庸的视听甚至捉襟见肘的宛如手动挡不加处理的手机曝光模式拍摄出来影像风格简直是重大扣分项，整部影片能做的并且做到的仅仅是把一个法国故事用英语翻译了一遍。
“如果我们要踢你出门，就要一家人一起去做”。
不争气的看哭了，想到了16岁时默默走出校门的自己，我知道不读书意味着什么，可是当初还是因为家庭而放弃了读书，我比女孩还差劲，因为我连梦想都没有。
一部很常规的励志青春片，虽然我在爸爸摸女儿喉咙寻求共振体会歌声的时候的确流泪了，但如果这是奥斯卡最佳，还是翻拍的，就……给不了太高分了
3.5星，煽情是循序渐进有故事基础的煽情，不是一锤子升格糊脸那种劣质煽情，唱得也挺不错，反正歌比《倒数时刻》好听多了。一家子聋哑人和唱歌女孩的设定太聪明了，是谁这么小机灵鬼，想出这一招。尤其是导演对聋哑人视角的使用，极其克制，只在小高潮运用过一次长时间的，整个礼堂的人都在听鲁比唱歌，但是她的家人听不到，那一段无声切换冲击力拉满。沙漠来学习，看看人家怎么拍的，你拍得是什么鬼？
演出时候，父母私下手语互问吃什么，慢慢消失的声音。那有被戳中
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