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".
希望这部电影能助凯奇，拍一下投资大的电影，至少别浪费演技。
是枝裕和怎么这么拉了，如此轻佻的剧本，真是几乎找不到一点好
无趣的戏中戏，凯奇并不会因此而翻身，但哈维却有可能迎来新的发展！
已经降低预期了，没想到还是大失所望，无血缘组合照搬《小偷家族》，生而不养又是《无人知晓》，可是枝裕和的这种自我复制恰恰少了对社会尖锐的发问，每个人设都是善良无害的，警察线和掮客线都温吞得像是白开水，买卖孩子的行为毫无推动力，最后硬生生营造出孩子被众多人疼爱的温馨感，甚至还提出堕胎不比弃养道德的奇怪观点，就好像是那种鼓励生育或是宣扬宗教的宣传片，演员也没什么发挥空间，宋康昊凭这个夺影帝还真是水分很大，裴斗娜演这么个可有可无的角色也很可惜。
这玩意就是同人吧，这绝对是个有钱的粉丝写的剧本吧！
大概凯奇演烂片太多了，所以稍微有个能看的就咋咋呼呼的。有些小聪明和癫狂的桥段，整体一般。凯奇要翻身还得继续努力，接点别这么胡闹的剧本。
爱惨了这种故事。元叙事、元电影再加元人物的迷影狂欢。各种玩梗，凯奇真是要笑死我。
to much narcissistic shits
用是枝裕和自己的话说，他最喜欢拍的是“带大人气的孩子和孩子气的大人”。他总是喜欢以极大的克制去呈现出人们的生活状况。不论是《奇迹》、《步履不停》还是《海街日记》，是枝裕和总能拍出以为血缘和疏离的为主题的感人的电影。并且从他出版的众多自己电影的小说也能看出，他对文本的设计，编剧的技巧是有一套完善并且实用的体系的。但是虽然连续尝试使用日本之外的演员阵容甚至叙事语境，早期作品情节中的犀利已经逐渐消失了，取而代之的是越来越显泛滥的温情，曾经严丝合缝的匠气也显得过度设计了。在《掮客》里，唯一闪光的地方似乎也只剩对于演员的“调教”了，也因此像锦上添花一般帮助宋康昊拿下又一座影帝奖杯。功能化的并且扁平的角色，突兀并且显得没有办法的结尾……作为作者电影的佼佼者，是枝裕和一直追求拍出“不是给观众提供答案，而是
8.0 之前标记想看时的理由是『今年亚洲电影的唯一期待』，这份期待没有失望。高分给予导演一贯的风格以及韩国基督宗教背景下的落地。可以说是《小偷家族》的前传、镜像版《德州巴黎》。所谓俩掮客一母亲人设的道德保险在于公路片的特性铺垫下完成，同样辐射在裴斗娜身上。人与人之间相遇同时倒逼自我意识的思考，诸多『圣人人设』的遗憾在于对『圣人』的态度，这其实是对现实当下的失望投射。人人都可以是圣人，且应当成为圣人，不同世代都有征兆让人思考并表达出『人之所以为人』，而这部电影的尝试做到了。明场面#摩天轮上单手遮眼的定格画面
钓鱼执法的警察和假戏真做的人贩子，谁才是掮客？
想知道如果凱奇看完劇本以後不同意出演，導演會怎麼辦
除了梗之外，整个剧情稀烂。但因为情感还挺真挚，勉强不算烂片。
看似宋康昊姜东元是掮客，其实里面的每个角色都是掮客，于是大家又互相救赎了一次~
非常日系风格的作品，没想到宋康昊会凭此片拿奖。虽然以往很多角色都能稳拿🌚就整体表演和故事都很平庸吧，背带裤小男孩到是很亮眼
是枝裕和的作品无论是什么语言在表达，内里永远是不变的，特别是那种缓缓流淌的温暖；只不过这次的“小偷家族”的确是有点复制自己，不同的可能就是以公路片的形式呈现。行走在半空的摩天轮、熄灯后的酒店深夜、还有退潮后的海滩...这些极易刺激人情感共鸣的场景，都深深的刻满了是枝裕和的影子，虽然似曾相识，但多少还是会让人感动。
比不上《小偷家族》，但仍值得一看。依旧是没有血缘关系的几个人聚在一起，彼此汲取着点滴温暖。整体节奏是平淡了点，很像生活中的那种平淡。回过神来发现探讨的是关于弃婴这样一个严肃的社会话题，每个角色都代表着一种切入的视角，有时包容，有时又矛盾。最喜欢洗车场和摩天轮的两场戏，都是封闭空间里不经意地感受到那种片刻的幸福瞬间。
淡得仿佛是喝完10杯白开水以后的第11杯，没有泪点、没有隐喻，立了很多flag以为主角团至少要死两个人，最后就这么平淡结束，是不是有点可惜了宋康昊裴斗娜……作为我看的第一部是枝裕和，好事是以后看他的其他电影会被对比得更好，坏事是我不想再看是枝裕和了。
75cannes首映/中庸的故事，与我相悖的生养观，一无是处的女演员，是枝裕和的复杂与细腻全都丢失了，很多设计（eg摩天轮的运用、火车灯光）太平平无奇，刁亦男都比他有创意，导演老啦。另，还是认为男导演请慎重触碰女性题材（滨口龙介除外）。
伏笔、线索的处理也极端简单。
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