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".
观影途中我在脑海中列了一张批评质问清单，但是电影尾声回到火车里的场景，用皮尺丈量的那一幕，那一瞬间，我大哭一场原谅了一切。我太爱苏打了，他眼里的光、额头低落的汗、在片场的种种认真和痴傻、宣告梦想时的自信和纯真，都一次次打动我，苏打本人让我对这个并不讨喜的角色怀有飞蛾扑火的那种执着，“我没有想着要让阿乡给我幸福，是我要让阿乡幸福。”
怎么说，没有认认真真去看.边工作时边看的，是冲着野田跟菅田将晖看的.以为是将关于毕生为了电影而执着的故事，没有看完，但似乎是讲爱情的.主要的还是老年的泽田.可能不太专注，所以并没感动到我.不知道要不要再看.看的时候就记住了一段野田扮演的寺新的一段台词：“将来想成为电影影评家，或者就是寻很多钱，将来在东京郊区开一家电影院.”最后也实现了.年轻时我们会选择那个意气风发为了梦想不羁的人.为梦想拼搏的样子是真好啊.但最后踏踏实实一步一步完成自己梦想的人，更有魅力，不是吗？
2022-04-19
我也不要拍那种女儿嫁人父亲难过的幽怨之片
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对于二三十岁开始放弃自我，最后靠孙子助攻拿到奖项的烂赌鬼，很难产生共情。还好有永野芽郁在，观感好了一些。
改编自茨维格的作品，被纳粹幽禁的男主阴差阳错得到了一本棋谱，在之后的日子靠背棋局来缓解被囚禁的困境。将短篇小说改编成电影，原著精巧的设计对于电影的时长来说难免短了些。免不了会加入不少情节、时空、人物。男主演过《无主之作》中艺术学院里戴帽子的教授，演技超赞。
山田洋次还是在继续带给观众快乐，平民喜剧，对亲人的宽容也让人受启发
出于这样的感慨，导演才设置了这样一个“妻子”的角色。影片的闪回和幻觉的流畅转场，对人物心理刻画和情绪渲染起到很大作用。尽管茨威格小说的精神世界并不容易改编，
山田洋次已经有寅次郎系列垫底了，其他作品无非都是锦上添花，他在日本影史的地位肯定不会低，92岁还在拍在亚洲甚至世界范围内也已经可以封神了，特别是对比那些年纪小四五十岁却已经无片可拍的导演简直天上地下。
从晚春到开罗紫玫瑰，
其实故事还不错 两个时代并行呈现 岁月的痕迹就足以让人唏嘘 年轻真好啊 间隔的那几十年还是应该带上一些 可以增加点说服力。
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昆仑德语字幕组译制。7.0。不算成功的一次改编，茨威格小说的精神世界并不容易改编，不如说是借用了象棋的故事。双线交叉闪回叙事并没有为平庸的剧本增色多少，没有更强的戏剧性反而观感困乏。奥利弗马苏奇比较熟悉的演员了，演技在线把一个精神肉体被囚禁的状态成功表现出来，似精神分裂一样。
BIFF 2021#第五部，大概是我今年最爱日影？卡司太合胃口，苏打咩酱景子不必说，还有两位海女，戏份不多但被我认出的翅膀，电影整体轻松有趣又有泪点，最后以さよなら形式出现的志村桑名字在大屏滚动的时候明白了这部可能在我这可以再给五颗星。坚持拍摄并呈现出这样的作品的大家辛苦了。
电影本身3星。茨威格，还有电影的营造，加1星鼓励。看过原著，电影有故弄玄虚的感觉，不如小说精彩。
抛开迷影情结不谈，キネマの神様完全掩盖了男主对妻子和女儿长期剥削的本质：妻子爱我不舍得和我离婚，所以我可以随便差遣，女儿用自己工资帮我还高利贷，我继续赌马喝酒，那是我的人生价值啊！而且结尾也看得我整个梗住，敢情女演员才是心之所向？北川景子的昭和造型在这部里特别美，相对来说回忆部分是比较出彩的。
我也不要拍那种女儿嫁人父亲难过的幽怨之片
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