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".
构图很apple，克隆所的风格好像《机械姬》里面那个林间house，想想这生意一条龙，跟用户说绝症治不了了建议克隆，克隆人送过去还让本尊留下临终关怀顺带套路下一个潜在用户，机智呀！另外，克隆体的创作设计这些抽象能力和本尊应该不完全一样吧？
好吧，一个文艺科幻片，为了情替换自己@@没有太多剧情冲突，还不如月球的挣扎更抓人。好在大咖们演技都在线。
借用“克隆人替代”来表达人之将死的各种情绪变化，虽非新意十足，但影片营造的氛围和质感还是非常到位的，加上阿里平稳深邃的演出，本片能够在同话题电影中排位靠前。至于克隆和精神复制的科幻成分，其实仅仅用于打造故事背景，无法深究。特别是伦理方面，绝对不允许从肉身到精神完全一样的两个客观存在并行于市的！
洗脑片，为明显存在道德问题的科技应用做意识形态的铺路，看不明白么？
克隆人题材，焦点不是伦理问题，而是生命的延续和人格的交接。
无论是站在原本的我
现在已经活在虚拟现实的世界中了。挽歌长鸣。
为了家人，我接受了我！为了家人，我成为了我！因为，我们深爱着我的家人！
在克隆题材下，选择没有野心的“托孤告别”。其实是老生常谈的话题，但是高科技的环境下，电影有了同一人一心两面的刻画可能。站在两个角度上的同一个人可以有镜像般的面对。接受死亡、接受自己的破败、接受另外的可能，而从另一个角度，这也是对自己的相信。马赫沙拉·阿里太稳了。
不错！人工智能多大程度上能取代人类？苹果告诉你：100%，不知道苹果公司把乔布斯的意识备份了没有？不过对我来说，这片的亮点是，终于在一部科幻电影里，看到不是透明的显示器了…透明显示器的设定真的太不人性化了…
年度遗珠，无论是本片的质量还是阿里的表演，都堪称2021年为数不多的上乘之选，也凸显了学院奖的固步自封和对科幻题材的偏见。它营造了一个轻未来的世界，用一个身患绝症的人选择克隆出几乎和自己一模一样的人，瞒着不知自己即将死去的家人，继续他的陪伴和存在。本质上，它在探讨了临终关怀的自我和解，忒休斯之船那种自我同一性的困惑，也是一个人选择如何有尊严的死去等等情感面的问题，科幻元素是高概念设定的手段，却并非故事的核心动力和主要卖点，甚至于它更像一碗绝症梗的鸡汤，只是因为那种精致的摄影、颇具轻未来风的艺术设计，和阿里细腻熨帖的表演，有一种沁人心脾的味道。
从我身边远去
1. 作为科幻片但没有任何新意，讲克隆技术的电影已经有很多了。旧瓶装的也是旧酒，对家人的无条件的爱早已是陈词滥调，因而所有人物形象都扁平而无活力，演员很费劲。2. 正如不知所谓的湖山风光，如此一个和社会伦理联系紧密的主题，为什么会被隔绝在社会之外讨论。3. 科幻电影的社会价值之一是对科技理性的批判，然而这部电影的黑科技完美无缺零bug零差评，完全没有任何对技术理性的警惕。4. 也许是因为启用了月光男孩的演员，电影似乎想模仿一种文艺风格，大量特写和长镜头却让人尴尬。5. 记忆也许是个可以深挖的点，但却简单粗暴地描述为数据复制。记忆怎么可能被数字化呢
终于看了个好片子定定神 话说一直以为有反转比如Jack突然暴走了比如轮到Poppy了……到最后想起来是部苹果片啊……那肯定不会出现那么反科技的情节了哈哈哈
为什么没有生离死却那么让人心碎？
好喜欢，平静的接受了命运的不公与自己将会失去曾经拥有过的一切。其实不是科技让人变得更好，而是人性中善良的那部分吧。
当我在空中飞舞
从宗教角度思考，延续我们生命的克隆人未来产出的各种业力，无论好坏，怎么算?
看片过程中一直想看看编导会怎么安排本体与义体真正互换的瞬间以及义体如何回归家庭 回归早了 那就还是《第六日》 还是《真实的谎言》 事实上 尽管有许多手段上的加持 比如这其实是一部打着科幻外衣的家庭片 一部在故事上并没有新意的科幻电影 以及导演在叙事上更侧重表现人物的意识流插叙 回忆段落的无序似乎给了影片叙事一些“高级感” 但由于题材的局限和背景的架空 它又无法讨论到那些关乎生命的根本命题 可以感觉到编导在文艺片与类型片之间的平衡拿捏 他很努力的想提升电影呈现的人性切面 但如果科幻电影没有科幻概念上的升级 那么一切只能是挂羊头卖狗肉 今年的欧美科幻电影创作也正好与现实世界的科技瓶颈呼应 尽管相比2000年有了更以假乱真的特效 但还是在重复20年前的科技概念 即使是苹果制作
即使把家人托付给另外一个“自己”，内心也会一定觉得肯定是哪里出错了的难以释怀。
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