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".
粉丝写给尼古拉斯凯奇的一封情书💌粉丝与偶像这关系也是杠杠的，互相成全。
戛纳入围提名，IU演电影跟其他前辈在一起还是差多了，故事本身没有太多精彩之处，胜在情节线索之间的联系。btw开头我还以为是寄生虫...
说回春了倒也没有，中规中矩也没什么尺度的流水线喜剧罢了，Nic自己演自己就是最大看点，以及……谁不爱小本老师的帕丁顿熊呢？
很难相信有一天我会用伪善这个词来形容是枝的电影。
再次刻画非血缘关系构成的家庭氛围，还是那类能给人带来温暖的残酷成人童话。泪点最高峰是离别前一夜，年轻的母亲在黑暗中跟每一个人道一句生而为人的感谢，拾回每一个角色每一名被戳中的观众那最原初的个体存在的意义。执拗的导演在每一部里反复絮说着底层人的萍水相逢与小小善恶，总是试图在泥淖中捕捉阳光。整场笑声不断，韩国的生活场景看起来好像国内，裴斗娜越来越像科恩嫂。
7/10。韩影还是找韩国导演吧，当女主飙脏话的时候，刻板印象的觉得格格不入，不适合日影温和的节奏，更不适合温和的是枝裕和。
还蛮喜欢的，以现实题材讲了一则当代社会的“童话”，轻重有度的留白，很多问题也没有给什么答案，“比起生完孩子再抛弃，生孩子之前杀死孩子，难道罪就更轻吗”；演员都很恰到好处的，组成了这一段彼此人生明亮的记忆
本以为会看到一部咸鱼翻身之作，但没想到浓浓的自恋风扑面而来。凯奇拿自己的黄金时期和落魄时期开涮已然相当无趣，既然他声称已还清了债，那他还是踏实接一部片子……不，还是退出影坛吧
五个寂寞的灵魂，就像五条直线在某一个点相交又相离。
2.5；从《无人知晓》的生而不养到如今以《小偷家族》模式再造一个“无血缘关系的大家庭”（这个模式用得过于顺手而终究流于俗腻煽情鸡汤），看得出是枝裕和对某些社会议题的执著探索，但创作精力真的肉眼可见式下跌——以往的批判力度缺席，代之以糖水和温情包裹起来的梦幻童话，让人物脱离现实情境念诵一些过分美丽的台词简直是对早期作品的某种背叛，人与人之间联结的建立或打破怎会如此顺畅平滑，尤其关于堕胎那句发言让人震惊——几乎让人怀疑拍摄本片到底出于何种立场。摩天轮伸手挡泪全片最佳。
接拍不知所谓的外语片，应该是电影节系导演创造力枯竭的典型症状。
是枝裕和驾驭东亚社会题材的能力还是在的，就是在他自己的作品序列里这一部绝对不算靠前。人物关系几乎也可以全套自己前作《小偷家族》的设定，但当早已吃透他手法的我们看此部影片时一定会觉得这些完全沦为平庸甚至幼稚。血缘代码依托制造道德困境实现自我救赎，命运的挣扎和共鸣撑起人际隔阂的和解，多么熟悉的配方却依然有效，是枝一辈子只拍一种电影真给他玩得炉火纯青。但这也愈发暴露出是枝在此类型上总是厚此薄彼的问题，歌颂社会中还有这样一群保持着温良恭俭让的人却无意将批判的利剑刺向导致悲剧发生的社会病根，他对于温情的定义大概永远只能停留在高空摩天轮的慰藉和湛蓝海水的洗礼。比起让人莫名其妙的饼叔的影帝奖，倒是IU初次接触严肃向作品就展现了成熟的表演，几位前辈抛出的戏都能稳稳接住，已然是有拿奖相了。
不够欢脱，也不够洒脱
“感谢你的诞生”这句话的意义要高于这整部影片吧。
早起去卢米埃尔排last minute，哭了好几场，印象最深的是火车和摩天轮的戏。虽然大致可以算是小偷家族釜山季，视角的选取也有浪漫化苦难的倾向，但你很难忍住不被一部充满了温柔目光的是枝裕和打动—他对人性充满了希望。宋康昊真的是神。（其他的就不多说了，之前的评论被豆瓣锁了）
凯奇想通过这部电影告诉大家债还完了，但是我感觉他还欠了100万美金
还是公路片啊 还是父母跟孩子之间那些绕不过去的破事 很是枝裕和
太不容易了 时隔这么久 凯奇终于出现一部好作品 希望凯奇能够重新回归 毕竟电影里这个状态来看 再战十年也不是问题 期待凯奇重新拍出经典电影 能够与大导演合作 重新王者归来
说是小偷家族的劲没过去吧，对也不对，因为聊道德边缘的人性本来就是是枝裕和的重要戏码，不过个人也的确觉得非亲缘犯罪集团这种戏码有点多~~~另外韩语和韩国社会背景，个人觉得有点膈应，奇怪了，之前“真相”的法语环境我觉得还行，换成韩语和韩国这杂乱的环境我怎么都觉得这口气顺不过来呢，是枝裕和的电影语言就算搭配再不可言喻的内容我总觉得是温柔平缓的，这乱糟糟的韩式环境我适应不良。以内容来讲，这里的道德困境是应该是抛弃孩子的合理出发点，可是涉及韩国社会背景非常淡，就很难有更多的触动，费半天劲也无法共情，然后就被这个结尾给打败了，就突然觉得浪费脑细胞。
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