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".
电影节奏是不是太赶了？衔接有点生硬，怎么说，感觉整体有点别扭，并无太大感受
本以为是一招 公子献头
前半段挺好看的，娱乐性强，后半段就有点情节不够，情感来凑的意思了。前半段是讲诡计，后半段感觉理应要上升一步，侧重于驭人、权谋，然而却止步于诡计，讲起了虚无缥缈的大义，话里没有话，弦外也没有音，这不是给成年人看的政治。过多的人工光效，刻意的场景色调，突出明暗、强调影子……很像《八佰》里的白马，时常提醒着导演的存在，让人容易出戏。可惜了薛景求，一直努力用表演给人物提供着的多样性，但这个人物到底是如此扁平、不可信。
韩国有五千年的历史💩💩💩真是扯蛋！要不说韩国人脸大，大方脸比较多呢！电影虽然略有沉闷，因为是政治类型的电影，而且有历史背景，所以不会像娱乐片那样精彩，不过也让我一口气看完！
可以不择手段的获得胜利，但不要忘记为什么想赢。
在🇰🇷新总统选举出来的这一天看完了这片#应景。还有，李善均好帅！我终于get到了！
昌大第一次回归他向同事说，我们不是为了金大中而战，是为了自己和人民。党内胜出后，标语是金大中做不到的人民可以做到。金大中解雇影子，说我是为了人民要有所不为。每当（韩国）政治家说说我代表人民，都是代表自己。卢泰愚团队找到影子，影子说在野党肯定不会赢，因为他知道在野党的两个党魁不会单一化，民众还是自己，他们一定会选择后者。所以知道金大中说，“当时我应该放弃竞选”，昌大才觉得这个终于能面对自己的人，可以继续同路了。
程序正义与结果正义
严重喜欢男主薛景求，严重不喜男配李善均……
气度不足。但是演技好厉害～赵宇镇演得太好，真想抽这个李室长。
比南山的部长们差太多了 韩国正在大选，这样的电影却不被禁 伪民主比不民主强多了
柏拉图是亚里士多德的老师。
这部电影对我们而言，只是一种望梅止渴，无论是政治现实，还是创作现实，因此我们的指手划脚就像得是阉割下的吠月之犬。
金大中与影子军师的故事挺好看的，当然恶俗一下朴瑾惠也是很有意思的一件事情，太可爱了。再看卞导的上一部作品，咦《不汗党》也是我蛮喜欢的，传承了相应的风格。可以的可以。
太棒了，感觉已经超过了Sandra Bullock那个版本。
光照的越亮，阴影处便越暗。偷鸡蛋的首尾呼应是神来之笔。
这字幕是机翻吧，看得云里雾里，但也要给薛景求打call
这阵容说是请了韩国半个电影圈子的人也不为过，用虚构的故事呈现金大中曲折的政途，把政治中面子与里子的关系编织的足够精彩，片子中很多问题都作了留白处理，其实直观的把答案或者真相给到观众效果会更好，当然如果是拍给自己人看的主旋律当我没说。
看完了特意查了查金大中的生平，入狱软禁流亡，被绑架差点被扔去喂鱼，被对手制造车祸成了瘸子，第四次竞选成功，韩国历史上第一次在野党获胜，还挺坎坷。
好像看了2次都没看下去，等哪天再继续看第三次
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