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".
看之前和同事讨论过，以现在的时局和梅艳芳的声誉来看，影片只能拍成中规中矩的成长史，可是就以可拍的内容来说，导演和编剧的贡献也是微乎其微，魅力在于梅艳芳本身的光环。虽然着力凸显了她的反叛和孤独，但流水的剧情并为帮助不了解她的人体会她的处境和心情。她的“奇装异服”、她唱《坏女孩》等所遭遇的盛赞和非议、躲在泰国时的心情（这段拍的像是去寻找灵魂的旅行）、参与或策划各种社会活动时的个人与时代背景，以及比较重头的她和张国荣的友情，皆没有形成内在的情感力量。
理智上知道表演还太表面，知道导演太传统，知道故事太单纯美化，但感情上却在听到梅姑真实歌声时落泪，看见哥哥走时崩溃。才听懂她的歌声里有这么多故事，香港女儿。
但是女主挺好的，抓到了梅姐的倔强和落寞。就是中年后很拉垮，不如后半段让袁泉来演。
梅姑波澜的人生拍的跟白开水一样
除了我和HTT外，厅里都是叔叔阿姨辈的观众，看来梅艳芳的确能够吸引不少中年观影人群，如果条件允许，我倒是也想让父母看看。可能预期比较低，所以整体看下来觉得尚可。用最后一场演唱会首尾呼应挺好的，只是基本上还是从童年开始的流水线叙事模式，所以在结构和剪辑上会觉得比较传统，没有新意。另外张国荣的选角我不是很满意，古天乐和林家栋的表演倒还不错。其实我也去参加《导演请指教》的录制了，关锦鹏在综艺节目中分享了一些《胭脂扣》的幕后故事，让我印象深刻。英年早逝总归是可惜的，但是能在最灿烂的时候死去，我倒是也挺羡慕的。最关键的是，梅艳芳有这么多身边人爱护她、关心她、保护她，且在逝去这么多年后依然有无数的人记住她、怀念她，再想想自己，不免唏嘘。《夕阳之歌》好听。另外这次观影体验还是很美好的，我也挺开心的，真的。
传记片时长所限 加上不少涉人涉事的关键节点无法在片中呈现 只能说乱花渐欲迷人眼；旧时街景的还原比较上心 《夕阳之歌》是最好的告别；；五集导剪版有多一些院线不方便谈的事件和张国荣更多的戏份
有的人刚遇到就爱上了 很温柔很舒服甚至不需要激情也足够
有些人确实需要他人（他者）来作为自己生活的锚点，排除不确定性。小角度小格局温馨片。开头更有趣一点，后半段没啥意思。
有些人确实需要他人（他者）来作为自己生活的锚点，排除不确定性。小角度小格局温馨片。开头更有趣一点，后半段没啥意思。
点映。傍晚知道草东鼓手离开，晚上看到梅姐穿着婚纱转身说拜拜，觉得人和人的联结好脆弱，爱过的人一个个消失。单说片子，滤镜太假，演员太突兀，节奏太拖沓，台词太主旋律，靠情怀卖一些座……播放到最后一秒影院黑屏，全场还是静静坐着，站在屏幕前的工作人员带头拍了两下手，大家才如梦初醒鼓起掌来。留下只有思念。
梅艳芳一生的走马观灯，基本都是主流媒体加小报记者新闻内容的串联，原生家庭也好，（刘德华也好），都没有很深入地探索；但是纪实影像与虚构影像相结合的手法还是很让人动容的，尤其是张国荣葬礼的那一段录像，让很多观众都抹眼泪。王丹妮的演绎有一点生涩，但气质确实很出众；古仔中规中矩啦；张国荣的演员选的就瘦了点...但冲着那么多梅艳芳的原始影像，大量怀旧金曲，总体还是值得一看的；很令人感动的是，片尾曲的时候，全场观众没有一个离场，所有人都安安静静地看完演职人员表，听完最后的曲子。
“我只希望，大家望向天上星星的时候，你会想起一个，曾为你带来少少欢乐的朋友，她的名字，叫梅艳芳。”王丹妮作为新人演员的表现非常好，整片完成度很高。
You may be happier with him than I thought. So it's time to say goodbye.
男主长得太磕碜了，虽然仓鼠牙符合这个亲和力人设。达妹的故事实力诠释了什么叫即使娶个美女会鸡飞狗跳，但是仍然非美女不娶的男性心理。
走马观花般看完梅姐的一生，后半部分甚至偷懒到真人纪录片段比电影片段还多了。作为电影来说确实拍的太流水账，但是也能理解拍这种跟我们同时代的人物传记片（还是大明星）真的很难，连人名都是英文。想面面俱到拍出她人生中每件事，事业、爱情、姐妹情、师徒情、公益慈善、积极抗癌，最后什么也没拍好，如果只聚焦于一两方面会更好吧。张国荣葬礼和最后的告别演唱会太好哭了，但也真的是因为真人真事而和电影本身无关。王丹妮演的还可以，但过于刻意模仿梅姐的表情，不自然，模仿过头了。
即便我边看边哭 但你们扪心自问这一部对得起梅姐吗
编年体传记片，经典场面一一复刻，也插入了必要的纪录片段，不违和。演员神似，虽然比较大只，但更凸显女主角地位，也不是不可。张国荣的演员，一开始觉得不像，但越往后看越觉得动态像，很不错啦。从2003年张国荣去世那里开始哭哭哭。我觉得这个票房好的话，一定会接着拍Leslie的。看的粤语版，超让我意外惊喜的是还有狄龙一个镜头。女人如花花似梦，夕阳之歌，永远的Anita，芳华绝代！！
非常受用。温暖，细腻。
很久没有一部电影能从选角剧情观感上让我如此享受了 谁说男主不好看我打死谁🤬🤬
首先自然要向梅艳芳致敬！但电影本身则在历史的话题性中迷失了自己，受客观审查与主观能力的制约，呈现出的内容作为一部传记片来说是相当不及格的，观众甚至要依靠个人私下对叙述主体的了解来参透整部作品所交代的信息，而一旦如此，电影似乎变得浅显起来，且仍还要依靠大量的真实素材进行某种缓释，充斥着对人物生平毫无敬重的流水账式剥削与消费，既未见得巨星又未见得凡人，只有一则则小报标题般的粗糙渲染。在优质沙盘式类型文本的“寒战”系列与《赤道》后，听闻所谓的“梁陆”组合早已名存实亡，但继续探索“香港”这具躯体肉身与魂灵归属和占有的问题，依然是此次单飞的梁乐民的表达重点，梅艳芳与张国荣的离去，实际是香港之死，奈何这出本来沉重的寓言因信息的千疮百孔而无从建立，“夕阳之歌”的意义，在影像中被大幅度贬值。中岛步未来可期。
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