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".
当是枝裕和领着一帮韩国演员，影片完全没有他原来的气质了
3.5前面真的是什麼都好，一如既往的是枝裕和，慈祥的宋康昊、暖心的姜棟元、可以冷豔可以可愛的IU，韓味重到完全没有文化隔閡感，節奏以是枝作品來說是目前最輕快的一部，但是收尾真是一言難盡，可以載入是枝作品爛尾的第一名了吧，既沒交代清楚同時也收的不盡理想，也許這樣的故事注定難有讓大家都幸福的美好結局，但這次的收尾方式真讓我覺得是枝有些偷懶了。IU再次證明自己既是歌手同是演員的料，我的大叔不只是曇花一現，她把同樣孤高冷豔的表演帶到了這部，和姜棟元在摩天輪上的獨白戲全片最佳。生與不生，墮胎與遺棄終究是難解的議題，生出來前殺掉會比生出來後遺棄的罪孽輕嗎 ？將人口販賣組成類似小偷家族的無血緣組合，進行一場公路販嬰之旅，宋康昊没有任何突破，但今年頒給他坎城影帝是明智的決定，是時候該給他一次身為演員的肯定了
3.8/抱着过剩的期待，注定只能剩下。是枝裕和的个人风格还是尤其的明显，宋康昊姜东元裴斗娜李知恩，我最喜欢的几位演员云集于此，摩天轮的戏份真的爱到心里，可惜李知恩还可以更好，但是看她一路走来真的很有进步了。虽然这一次并没有足够延续下小偷家族的内核，但是是枝裕和真的太温柔了，温柔的让人只看到了生育和堕胎的争议，温柔的让人只看到他们都是凡人，而非带着标签在社会生存的边缘人士。
倍速看的，带了些滤镜，导演说和《小偷家族》是同一时期构思的，内核相似也不奇怪。善意是发自内心的，社会这么残酷，可能我们还是想被温柔的故事治愈吧。
还是拍的有点无聊了，少了很多《小偷家族》那种社会议题的尖锐拷问，是枝裕和的温情其实应该建立在一个残酷的，两难的处境之上，这次拍韩语片这个弃婴题材本可以大作文章，但还是拍成了温情糖水片了，最后的感谢你出生有被感动到，宋康昊我觉得影帝拿的没有问题，他轻松自然的表演感觉非常舒服，没有刻意加戏卖弄，展现了一个成熟演员的水准。（5.5/10）
比《小偷家族》更温暖的故事 节奏、人物和可看性什么的都没得挑 但对是枝裕和来说 故事结构上自我重复就算了 重要的是连他对于社会系列狠辣的挖掘都没了 这很难让我满意
失去了是枝裕和昔日的灵魂，尽管议题极具社会性，但所有的情感连结都是莫名失真的，过于童话式的善意只让电影徒有温情却不动人。演员没有发挥出色的，IU尤其过誉。
IU本应是最有戏的角色，但还是略平淡了些。很多场景都很日式风味。
其实素英这个角色很值得挖掘一下，这个电影其实聚焦的是母子关系，母亲和被抛弃的孩子，在“感谢你的诞生”这个桥段里，素英成为了所有人的母亲，这个抽象身份的完成其实很值得玩味，素英一开始是以一个绝对失格的母亲形象出现，到这里在其他人的帮助和要求下彻底完成了母职并进行了升格，很有意思。
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
个人最爱的两段：
延续《小偷家族》还是原本不相干的一些人意外地组成一个“临时家庭”，但明显不如小偷好看，也不如小偷有力量，虽然结尾也是蛮感动的，演员的表现力上就不能比，没有树木希林和安藤樱，宋康昊也还好吧，戛纳影帝，这是当作颁给是枝裕和的吧，所谓的奖就是分蛋糕游戏，同样用一个温情故事去切入探讨社会问题，但小偷家族有个对“家”的重构，而掮客就没什么了，片中几乎没一个坏人，但沉重的问题就摆在那儿，那还探讨什么呢？一切都在最后的温情中消解了，《无人知晓》的尖锐全消失了……裴斗娜的刑警这条线完全融入不了
20220611 megabox coex 舞台问候见到了是枝裕和 iu李知恩 姜栋元 李周映 宋康昊
看前面的时候想到漫画星之子了，洗车那段就很是枝裕和啊。这么看还挺跟时事啊，不过一句谢谢你出生在这个世上也没办法抵御人世的苦难吧。既然没办法让孩子幸福为什么一定要让他出生呢？
如此的大团圆结局，稍微有点社会经验，都知道这个结局非常不现实，且最终通向的很难是幸福的未来。
挺好看的啊，洗车那场戏，明知道是设计，就是忍不住笑和感动啊，没办法，会调教小朋友是天赋，身体里的小朋友还在。 女主在故事中段突然有了秘密，观众终于感受到了她的魅力，后面就越来越好。摩天轮的眼泪，宋康昊跟女儿吃饭，女儿太好看了吧，裴斗娜偷窥很感动的表情，导演摄影也给虚焦了面容，最后一场车里的戏绝了，不让你看宋康昊的表情，只给主观开车，但你仿佛看到他饱经风霜的样子……真的是，舍得，高手
剧本太平庸了，不是这个卡司相信很多人看都不会看一眼，我不懂大家在感动什么又为什么哭，虽然宋康昊完全有本事拿三大的影帝，但这一部都没有他表演的空间，凭什么拿的？最后还是要说连姜东元都肉眼可见的老了.50/100
没看过小偷家族，这个题材拍成童话故事我会看气，听一群人贩在那孩子长孩子短规划未来就搞笑，进行全世界都很善良的观点展示很傻，什么摩天轮，现实只会有（不能讲）
首先剧本并不让我信服导致一直无法共鸣，其次演员并未让我入戏，很多地方感觉演的色彩过浓导致又尬又刻意，再次韩风和日系是有不同的，要是全日本演员我可能还相信这种美好，但韩国我是真不行，严重的形神分离。最后，我认为每一个角色的定位和刻画都是有问题的，至少我是匪夷所思的。
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…
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