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".
2022年世界各地的导演和编剧们还在讲身份认同的故事。
当我喜欢一个人时，思考一下，如果ta不是这个性别，不是这个外表，不是这个声音，我还会喜欢ta吗？
应该给打五星的，不是说没有批评的地方和不足之处，而是这样一部电影实实在在应该给予支持与鼓励。
故事比较另类离奇，个人有点不是太能理解和接受，感觉有点硬刚的意思！
一狮一狼一人一个私人领地，她们在一起过着快乐温馨自在的生活。
找到自我与现实威逼的故事，性别与这个世界的对抗。
生命开始的时候，我们哭着迎来自己；生命结束的时候，我们又哭着送走别人，在人生路上，我们是孤独的无助者。
中年大叔线下见网友，参悟了自己的真心，看懂了生活。片中人物的情绪从镜头漫延而出，配乐很好的烘托心境。人物背景和所陷的困顿交待的也很彻底，又点到为止，没有过于抓马，不会使人觉得影片里的角色只是在走程式，反倒真实的抱有恻隐之心。丹尼尔面对事业家庭多方压力，最终驱车索爱，从生活里透一口气。应和了开头的浪漫，跑步放空时，能同时做到想你，却又和跑步一样让我喘不过气。丹尼尔印发多份寻人启事，终于莎拉的伙伴提供了线索。可两人的几次见面，从欣喜忐忑转而变为愤怒疑惑。好像这一切不该发生，两人怀有的希冀只存在于个人在网络上的情感投射，两人依旧面对着各自的荒漠。莎拉在生活中其实叫罗布森，跨性别而一直不被家人和教会接受。新的城市是再次试错的地方。但令人伤心的是，成为一名异乡旅者却是出于被迫。
这男主真是垃圾，抛下一大堆问题跑路，想着和网恋对象见面直接跑过去贴寻人启事，就这样毁掉别人的生活。画面也缺乏美感，没看出有哪些亮点，这种片就不值得两个小时。
故事刚开始感觉还可以，越看越乏味，与印象中的巴西电影有出入。
so 跨性别的接受度就还蛮低的 可是小哥女装好美啊！依旧是老生常谈的包容 多元 这个故事很简单 我以为警察本来就是同性恋来的 原来是异性恋啊 所以其实 性别不重要 爱上的那个人本身才重要啊 他是谁 他是她 无所谓的 结尾挺好的 算是开放结局吧 小哥没有接受“治疗”真好 在一个病态的社会 对性别有着病态的刻板印象 该治疗的是社会 而不是对自己性别认知另类的那个人 没招谁没惹谁 自己舒服就好 何必强加上“病”的名号呢
景真美，女主真美，小狮子依偎在女主怀里拼命抓住的时候 心都化了。此生最讨厌马戏团、猎人和打着研究课题保护野生动物的所谓科学家，真巧 片子里所有的男演员演得都相当讨厌，除了小男孩，演科学家那个演员…醉了 片子最后一句话：莫扎特和梦想家兄弟情深 不止在电影中，现实中也一样，它们会一起住在加拿大，终身受到保护
王珞丹王传君王朔…三王基本是文艺界的标榜了。王老可以好好讲故事么？青梅竹马、意外分合、国外求学、错爱、车祸、破镜重圆、借腹生女…都全了。王老可以好好讲情怀么？柏拉图、看破生死、植物人不离不弃、容颜不老却永远爱恋…也都足。王珞丹的几个年代扮相都可，明艳青春、中年疲惫…王传君也没有脱离儿童期的呆萌，始终如一的憨厚。but元素太多情怀太满，应接不暇…王老可能真的是老了
一度恢宏，如此宽广。（这个月的惊喜来得这么早，这个季度的惊喜来得这么晚）
不喜欢最后结尾的搞基，相别两宽应该更美好，毕竟前面的主题都是寻找真实的自己。
总要找点什么摸得着的东西，填补这该死的空虚。
最后你还是选择了来到车站，与那副你爱的灵魂相爱一次，或许没有结果，但不会有遗憾。
两个孤寂的人儿相遇 有过真爱便足矣 我也许可以留下来做消防员 男主身材和那啥太棒了吧 我为自己不能做零而感到遗憾
网恋被骗的故事，大部分时间都在描述无用的信息，也不知道主题到底要讲什么，人物转变也无迹可寻。
男1：那天你问我对我来说你是谁，你从来都是莎拉，但事实是我不知道莎拉是谁。男2：我就在你的面前，我可以是莎拉，我可以是罗布森，可以是你想的任何人。我是下面那个湖，将要爆发将要泛滥的河流。你呢，丹尼尔你又是谁。男1：在我来之前我以为我知道。——这一段很像东宫西宫：小史：你到底是男的，还是女的？阿兰：这不重要，当你想要爱的时候，你就是男的。当你想要承受爱的时候，你就是女的。我可以是你喜欢的任何人，你可以践踏我的一切，只要你允许我爱你......
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