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".
温吞水般的节奏，底层，犯罪，临时家庭，感觉就是专门为韩国市场翻拍了一遍《小偷家族》。当然剧本还是很是枝的，该温暖就温暖，该治愈就致郁，每个人物也都有其相应的独特作用。
很多人抱怨是枝裕和在重复讲故事，父母子女的关系都不再新鲜，反复剖析来去也只是新瓶装旧酒，但这是一个致命的缺点吗？自我重复并非错误，艺术家一生中感兴趣的事情毕竟也有限，他们能够将自己的兴趣耕耘到其他人难以企及的深度，就已经是很了不起的事情。
温情有余，人性幽微复杂之处根本没挖掘出，每个人都善良的过分。饼叔的表演也没想象中惊艳，那些动辄四五星的都是IU粉？
是枝裕和、宋康昊、IU、裴斗娜，没有人能拒绝这么一个阵容的电影，但这部电影观感很奇怪。它从剧本层面看是好的，演员的表演也是好的，可是呈现出来东西就是没达到本该有的效果。摩天轮和关灯说感谢这两场戏才有了一些是枝裕和以往的“力度”，其他部分则绵软无力。
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。
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。
本以为，冲着情怀，这部片子应该也在7.6左右
剧情漏洞百出，充满笑话，怎么会这么轻浮？其实这故事根本撑不了两个小时，你就看他搁那儿编，难道小偷家族一部片子把是枝裕和榨干了？而且你妈宋康昊连釜山话都不讲你凭什么拿影帝？除了其中的几场戏他应该都不用动脑就能演。我可没把是枝裕和当成煽情导演看过，这干什么呢？图什么呢？没得拍不如不拍。
3.5 #2022Cannes 发挥稳定，但没有很大的惊喜。裴斗娜的角色个人觉得不够立体，性格在观感上存在割裂。首先是她外形看起来比较冷酷，加上警察戏份中台词和情感流露不是很多，大部分时间感觉她都是比较严肃的，但她在和她丈夫的对话中展现出的多是温柔、甚至可爱。猜测是时长不够被剪了？虽然说惊喜不足，但故事讲的还是很好。场刊分个人觉得是因为这部电影的弃婴议题，外国人无法理解。东亚文化在西方存在水土不服。更新：听完broker的发布会，我很敬佩是枝裕和。他不希望用血淋淋的现实去谱写这个议题，而是这种涓涓细流般的情感和故事去触动人们的内心，去思考和关注这个电影里内涵的社会问题。他能关注到并深耕于此，且表明了将继续研究，已经是在弥补某种视角的缺失。他的电影就如同他展现出的他的性格和人文关怀，温柔细腻。
1，求求是枝裕和了，你还是回到『步履不停』『比海更深』的家庭群戏路线上来吧，社会问题你就别玩了，难看死了。
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
Nick Cage是不是可以站上演员肺活量之巅了。
好失望，非常温吞且失效的生活流质感。勉强可以看做一个前《无人知晓》的设定+《小偷家族》的架构，是枝裕和一直都在探索边缘人的生活，并试图赋予这些底层世界无限温情。但是在遇到一些偏社会现实的题材时，是枝就显得力有不逮了，因为他的温柔风格会使得整个片子的立场变得拉扯和模糊。《小偷家族》是个特例是因为本质还是在一个家庭片的范畴内构建世界，螺蛳壳里做道场的感觉。但是这一部里，“家人”这个关系是没有充分建立起来的，同时也没有对于现实的尖锐表达，所以整体看起来就非常顾此失彼，看不到力量也看不到态度，沦为腻歪的鸡汤堆砌，就连自我重复的程度都还差得远。宋康昊的演技也只能算是正常发挥吧。
稍稍有点失望，可能之前是枝裕和小偷家族给我留下的印象太深了，细腻温情残忍冷酷无奈体现的淋漓尽致，这部相比手法过于相近，主题不错，结局过于乌托邦了。
过于温柔的小偷家族，角色构成和核心理念都非常相似。前半部十分平淡，人物转变也过于迅速。得到了后半部融入角色心理，行为动机才站得住。但也只是站得住。故事里，无论是不得不抛弃孩子的年轻母亲，还是怀揣着伤痛做掮客的二人组，以及等待犯罪现场的警察，都对于买卖孩子这件事过于宽容。尽管不得不承认有些孩子也许卖了会得到一个更好的人生，但这是一场自以为正义的拿孩子人生的赌博啊。打掉孩子罪更轻，还是丢掉孩子罪更轻，也许不得而知。但可以肯定的是，这两者都是罪。是枝裕和式的细节元素还是比较有趣的，关上灯互相感谢对方来到世界的仪式也很温暖。这个剧本留给演员发挥的空间不是很大，其中宋康昊的演技还是比较细腻的。
中后段的连环崩坏似乎是可预见的，因人物在此除了浅层的边缘符号功能，和完成台本硬塞的“传话”任务外，其内在情感逻辑再无细微的串联和变化，由此让这个临时组建的家庭变得颇为别扭，不自然，更无法像《小偷家族》在齿寒的现实辙痕里，洒落大音希声的感动。或许，是枝最好的作品仍在于用凝缩（形而上）的生活气息和经验，去反哺特定的题材表达，而当类型化的社会元素（悬疑、黑帮、凶杀）开始渗透，他便完全被绑在了温柔的陷阱里，变得愈加无所适从。
剧本细节亮点依旧很足，至少看完后有不少场面留下深刻印象，比如摩天轮上流泪遮眼，太巧妙了，既暖心化解人物情绪，也是对演技的抬升，动车进隧道那段也是，是枝裕和对演员也太温柔了吧，技法都用来保护演员了。
人物弧线也好似玩笑。
“感谢你的诞生”这句话的意义要高于这整部影片吧。
我想了一下，还是给了三星。这部电影涉及两个命案，来龙去脉全都被留白，那是残忍的间隙，可以填充你我的想象。以及，那段关灯后的对白，实在动人。活在这世上的每个人，都欠一句：“谢谢你的出生。”
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