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".
互帮互助毫不利己，是枝裕和镜头下的小人物到了韩国突然“迪士尼”化，实在很难不想念《小偷家族》。虽然但是，还是有关了灯后非常动人的时刻。
本电影是一个挺好的研究对象，对于宋康昊和裴斗娜这种高水准职业演员，在两个世界名导手中会呈现出什么样的表演状态。事实证明奉俊昊擅长塑造具有漫画感的人物，这一点在世界影坛可谓独树一帜。本片最大的问题是人物的悬浮。是枝裕和导演为了达到这一复杂主题的合理化，将几个主要人物塑造得过于美好。忽视了这些人物身上非道德的一面。每个人物似乎都有不得不走上拐卖道路的理由，但每个人物又几乎都拥有完美的道德观念啊，这两者是矛盾的。这会令我联想到黑泽明《七武士》中的农民群像，我猜测是枝裕和真正想塑造的是这样的一群人物。是枝裕和在影片前半段的每场戏中都塞满了人物前史信息，几次差点露怯。但好在还是没太影响。如果是枝裕和未来还是如此理想化的塑造他心目中的边缘人群的话，我想片子大概还会呈现出相近的窘相。
是枝裕和就是擅长把普通场景细腻化，洗车，火车隧道，摩天轮，关灯夜话这几个场景都挺温暖的
怎么可以这么无聊且寡淡，看完什么记忆点都没有
是枝裕和的日式溫白開碰到這些個南韓演員，搞得我灌了咖啡都差點沒扛住，直到iu和裴斗娜天台上的那場戲，笑出了聲才終於清醒了一些。
依然是导演非常擅长的对于新闻事件中边缘人物的延伸，但很奇怪的是同为东亚文化圈，但反而没有另一部合拍片《真相》来得更是枝，故事及内核上接近《小偷家族》，套路上又有点《东京教父》，但基本上都全方位败阵，感觉还是会有点水土不服。剧本算是比较完整，但线索过多且略显功能性，特别是两个警察的角色，而且人物的转变也显得欠缺说服力，过于圆满的结局也让整个事件的批判性有所削弱。不过依然有着导演特有的闪光点，裴斗娜车窗上落花，最后车里的合照，最喜欢洗车那场戏，一个小小的意外让这个“家”有了羁绊，当然那句最重要的台词，虽然说之前就有预感，但在有防备的情况下依然破防。“谢谢你出生在这个世界”。7.3
电影好慢热，感情在线，依旧是是枝裕和，少了些韩国本身的味道。我觉得在成熟度上又回归了下，而不像小偷家族那样是被所有人喜欢。我还蛮喜欢的。女主演的真好。
得分：7
以前看过的2部黏黏糊糊日常琐事，可能是换了韩国演员，也可能是没有在局限于室内，此部感觉到了一些硬朗，我还蛮喜欢这点改变的by男二号粉的滤镜
日本导演拍的韩国电影，有些不伦不类。是枝裕和固然是一位好导演，但在处理更富有戏剧冲突的剧本时，他的功力是要打折的，即便是《小偷家族》都不好。此片就像包裹着日式清晰，但此类剧本通常处理起来需要韩式爆裂演绎的催化才更能感染人，所以故事始终缺了一份力量感。而这个结尾简直是牛头不对马嘴，仿佛开车出去无所事事逛了一大圈，怅然若失回到了原地，才忽然想起刚才是要出去买烟的。
依然是熟悉的味道，即使是换了国家拍，还是属于是裕和的家庭伦理。
致力于帮陌生人组建家庭的导演，现在看电影都得当当代艺术看了，得结合导演的所有作品看。IU的角色要是文淇演说不定能更灵一点
相遇再美好，本質也是棄子販嬰不是嗎。我在被溫柔擊敗和下頭之間反復橫跳，所有人的出生都應該是因為愛，隨便生養，就是在創造地獄。可是摩天輪裡的那隻手令我狂哭不止，導演太亞撒西了西八😭
还可以，但一想到这是是枝裕和，还找来了宋康昊裴斗娜姜栋元，就感觉很浪费了，大家都没什么发挥空间，比小偷家族各方面差的岂止是一星半点
这回摩天轮的最高点终于不再有亲吻，只是约定终生的情感还是来得太突然。“谢谢你出生在这世上”还是会带来触动，但这触动又不够深。也许是可以不被原谅的“恶”浮于表面，最后得来的“善”就显得有些奢侈。
1.iu演的是森系文青，姜栋元演的是公务员卧底（我真的觉得他分分钟要反水），裴斗娜演的是裴斗娜，宋康昊演的是宋康昊，大家都演了些没有人性瑕疵的好人，究极无聊。2.同样的是枝裕和，同样貌似平淡，不知道为什么日本演员真的会精彩一些，水土不服？3.有点看够了生旦净末丑的刻意配置了，大家一定要选一个场景刻意温馨（文牧野学这个学坏了）
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清淡变成了寡淡，温情变成了温吞，一直到故事结束，五个人都没有被拧成一股绳，还是个散装家庭。女警察那条线，几乎可以说是败笔，冲淡了我对于剧情的期待。总的来说，挺失望。
很是枝裕和 一样孩子的题材只不过换了一个国家而已
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