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".
从寄生虫到掮客，一部最佳影片一部戛纳影帝，宋康昊真是稳坐韩国国宝级演员的宝座。就本片而言，是枝裕和并没给观众带来太大的惊喜，倒也值得一看【三星半】
荣登最不喜欢的是枝裕和电影之冠，造作的剧情，矫情的人物，又是无血缘临时家庭的温情，是枝裕和也是被自己困住了，拍什么电影都一个模子，流水线产品吗？
有一种“我一定要在韩国拍一部电影”的感觉。主线还是是枝裕和，表演细节上很韩，尤其是一些吵架的片段。结尾太童话了，以至于让人在想导演怎么会这么温情……摩天轮那段还可以，其余部分一般，感觉跨国拍的难度都大于写出这个剧本的难度。
每个角色都丰满而真实，有趣而温馨，鲜活而不失艺术化！结尾很不够韩国的黑化，总体比较主旋律，但是又折中了观众心心念的一些期盼！比如我就非常希望这个孩子能让最后一对夫妻收养……或者他们组成一个奇怪的家庭……
或四两拨千斤或不疼不痒，此片显然是后者。
看不到真正的恶，同样也看不到真正的善。拍不好悬疑片的是枝再度迷失异国，其导演的最大着力点，大概是努力将社会背景、演员表现融入自身风格的调和，拧巴正如预期，而细腻挖掘角色深度的长处也在这个疲于奔命的过程中流于童话，抑或笑话。
音乐第一次响起来就觉得嗯 确实是枝裕和。节奏和故事架构都是熟悉的样子 但看下来并不会和舞台水土不服。欧尼虽然在故事主框架外围(还有海报也是)但不影响她的每一分钟戏都看得很快乐。喜欢天台上下两段 小细节里有饱满角色情绪。
是枝裕和可能是要凑个水土不服三部曲吧，上一部《真相》我已经什么都想不起来了，这次看《掮客》也是这个感觉，毫无记忆点，完全没发挥导演细微处见真章的能耐。IU演得不行啊，角色发挥空间不小，没看出导演的调教，宋康昊也只是正常发挥。
我还真没想到是IU救了这个本子，IU对于这个角色“平”的演绎恰恰真实且动人的，若是没有摩天轮那场戏，这个非常想使劲打动人的本子可能真的会变成一场宏大的自我感动，调度方面还是有一些可圈可点之处，环绕式和跟踪式的调度蛮有韩国电影的感觉的，但是刑警线的鸡肋显然让文本大打折扣，优化一下的话，完全是一个小时四十分钟就能讲完的故事…
画面好看是好看但，很像反复练习的应试文。关于生、养的所有表达都让我觉得有文化，或者说性别鸿沟了。几个好演员像时令蔬菜，但被做成了一碗麻辣香锅。
3.5到头，故事浮于表面，无法被感动……太散了，韩版流水账式《小偷家族》，多少还是有点违和。暂且不提电影究竟想表达怎样的生养逻辑以及伦理观念，我的疑惑点在于，弃婴生母的背景故事真的需要这么抓马吗？（即使已经这么复杂的人物设定了，但是女演员依旧演得很没劲儿）
比起颠覆更多狗血的感觉。第一次知道Baby Box这种东西，就是说，将 一种危险但无法避免的违法或背德行为 官方化，到底是鼓励这种行为还是保护这些人呢？另外，人类（男的？）对血缘的执着有时真的freaks me out，哪怕它似乎在讲一个后天家庭的故事
是枝裕和这次用了类型化，传统的戏剧式结构下，用一个整的悬念包裹住这个“家庭”——究竟送子的下一站在哪？“掮客”的题材是冰冷和现实的，成为装载的背景，无论是弃婴到福利院，还是收留弃儿去卖淫，影片的主体笔力放在人物变化以及情感上面，即女主对于孩子的情感变化和这个家庭的关系变化。我一直对于人物的动机无法认同，他们组成这样一个家庭去干这样一件事，在这个过程里抱团取暖，一定是需要外界对他们很冰很冰才可以，也就是他们这个戏剧行动一定是在很冰的外围下做起来才有意义，我没觉得他们有多么惨，我也无法在这场行动中共情他们，是枝裕和对微妙情感的处理还是很到位，我不知道有什么原因，这个电影在多线索去撕扯这个类似于公路片过程中，将一切消解了，我更想看到的是我前面提到的：明明那么冰，明明很陌生，却能一路同行互相温暖。
影帝的话我觉得姜东元演的更好啊，开头感觉在看电视剧，还是日本式内敛版的，这么好的题材可发挥的部分拍的如此平淡如白开水,是枝一直就很中庸，中规中矩一向如他，近一点的《小偷家族》远一点的《如父如子》《无人知晓》都是类似题材翻来覆去的拍没有一点惊喜
戛纳电影节影片陆续陆续放出，不过，不管是柯南伯格还是是枝裕和，都过了高峰期，是枝裕和不同点在于:叙事能力一直不是是枝裕和的长项，是枝裕和那几部代表作，编剧显然有神助攻的作用。是枝裕和的长项也是日本的一脉传统:情感白描。
体量上就感觉是小做一波，但这种片子拍出来确实自己开心啊，挺满意的
头一次来高先电影院，也一同标记
这个女警察的身份设定有点让人震惊，刚开始以为他背后有一些隐藏的故事，所以她也是被父母抛弃还是生不了？怎么最后就收养了羽星………然而并没有，就很神奇，包括东秀之前就是因为杀人蹲的监狱么？后来为啥又杀人…。嫖客的老婆找孩子要自己养也不了了之，很多情节交代的模凌两可
当是枝裕和变成了“是枝裕和”模式，大概就是此片的模样。我猜导演在和南韩演员们导戏的时候一定有交代过“希望各位演得淡一点（别像演自家片一样那么有‘张力’）”之类。几条线并行没问题，串起来却松散又慵懒，没有多少单元场景能看的，设计得太淡了，淡到昏昏欲睡。
即使有那么多的似曾相识，是枝裕和还是贡献了震慑人心的戏法。看似真善美的结局，是他给予残忍现实的最大善良。
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