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".
一个月后再评价，剧本和成片的距离是一部广播剧
震后创伤与社会保障问题引发的悲剧，情感上能理解却没有太好的表现出来，几个角色都很苦，最后黄色马甲串起来三人不知道是不是原著里也有，感觉有些刻意了。三星半，宽叔和砂糖都属于正常发挥，清原非常出彩。
原来是一部政治生活片，演员们表现都不错。看这阿部宽的样子，年轻的时候一定帅气十足。
割裂感太强，背景和故事比例拿捏失衡，想讲述的太过缥缈，导演把控能力也有很大问题，所以才导致后半段给人一种干细胞的大型广告。
怎么说呢，可能不是我喜欢的类型吧，依然是讲地震灾难之后给大家造成了后续的一些问题
一段时代印记背景下的尘封旧事，文学作品，演绎和叙事都没啥问题，但故事没什么意思
开局不错，虽然最后还是拉稀了，不过演员们演技都还在线，老王演技最棒了，2021年算是国内不错的电影之一了，四星好评吧~~
"恕我冒昧，在我认为，是应该受到保护的人是否真正受到保护。"
原来活着是一件如此艰难的事情。“法律和扭曲的信条保护不了值得保护的人，却对非保护不可的人视而不见。”
有些黑幕只是试探性挖掘的浅尝辄止，显露了冰山一角，伪善的部分被淡化了。
平庸乏味的前半场+彻底崩坏没眼看的后半程。所谓三王的“王炸组合”结果就这？！长镜头连定格落点都不稳，还能说什么……纵使科幻魔幻都力争创造令人信服的体系，编排逻辑自洽的行动，何况走的是现实主义年代怀旧路数，那么请问，奔赴捷克后的种种是怎么成立的？实验室能这么用？那个年代的异国生活是这么过的？出走非洲又是什么鬼？爆炸意外让男主拥有特异的慢放视觉，也烙印了一跑就摔的创伤，但导演似乎常常忘记后者，只在特定时刻拿来烘托下情绪。干细胞等超现实要素尚能容忍，可只顾完成情感线而缝合的离奇情节完全脱离现实经验，硬跨哲学高度也不怕扯着蛋。尾声的吴彦姝也因为逻辑梗阻的设计白白浪费了演员的口碑加成：容颜未变的一生挚爱出现在面前，怎么又不认识了？不是说好“爱足以抵抗时间”吗？真不懂直呼感动的观众如何代入的
题材非常棒，人物描写很细节，对于灾后人物心理的前后差别也非常耐人寻味。就是反转太明显，从惠姨去世同福利社对峙那眼神就感觉八九不离十了。刑警也很多槽点，比如凶手披着长发没带手套这样都没留下证据。但总体而言还是一部值得一看的电影。
6.2分低估了，我愿意给五星拉高这个评分。电影剧情表现的主题宏大却又很简单，人总会老去，死亡，是每个人都要经历的事情，谁都躲不过这个坎，这是一个永恒的话题。人生中会经历很多东西，生命的意义在于传承吗，好像是也不是，传承的记忆，知识，在几代人后终究还是会被遗忘，消失在宇宙中，比一粒沙还渺小，发不出一丁点儿声音，打不出一丁儿点浪花，但是每个人活着的当下，活着的刹那却又是那么清晰，那么美好。电影演员演技在线，音乐和画面转场和布置都很棒，故事完整而又有岁月感，看完让人感觉像过完了一生，就如同薄荷糖般，那么的美好，那么的纯洁。第二天买的高粱饴，味道还不错。
缓缓看下去，慢慢的泪流满面啊。疫情之下，感触好深刻，现在大家都难，请多些宽容和理解，一起改变和行动，希望我们的世界越来越好。
后面tm越来越扯
这戏写的特好，但看着难受。最后没看完，心里堵的慌
那天太阳升起来了，啊，好美，真的好美啊。可是……可是……我啊，就这样，再也站不起来了。即便再怎么哭喊，也站不起来了。
“这当然是你的幻境，但它也是真实”幻境亦作为突触的暂时连接和神经细胞间的电活动而物理性地存在，只是它转瞬即逝，我们的眼睛无法看清
泪点很多。女主有王朔笔下人物的那种劲儿。王珞丹演技真好，还有老王，倍儿正宗的北京爷们儿感。还有丁教授和妹妹，都太有特点了，这种人物刻画很鲜活的电影非常喜欢，尽管不商业，后半段有点男主独角戏，有些凌乱。但真的非常值得买票。
这个调调的电影和配乐还是很对胃口，但是这个故事有点不知道在搞啥，反转和真凶也挺好猜的。
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