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".
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）。
IU怎么说呢？感觉出努力了，也不能说都演的不好。但是她其实还是没明白，好演员入门的第一个要素是，进入镜头前忘记自己在拍戏…… 要不然偶尔就有一种她的脑海里知道，【我在演戏】的感觉。
我想都有吧。
正好和《瞬息全宇宙》问题相反
希望下一部继续拍日本的故事，换了种语言味道确实不一样
出乎意料的好。好几个片段是近期看电影笑得最大声的时候，同时还穿插着各种Meta元素和电影梗太过瘾了。真心希望尼古拉斯凯奇一切都好。
哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈 四星好看啊，分太低了拉一拉呀～前半段去掉家庭戏可以说是有神作倾向，后面就又开始淘气了哈哈哈哈哈疫情以来很久没看到这种舒适的电影了（当然可能因为我曾是nick的大粉丝
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。
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。
这个点子很不错啊，主线剧情也很顺，但所有细节推进都太白给，导演太差了太粗糙了玩得也不够野。凯奇还完债还是好汉！
跟“小偷家族”同样是临时拼凑的家庭，却缺少了深入人心的力量。可能这个无巧不成书的道德困境剧本更适合冷眼旁观的法哈蒂吧，被是枝裕和的温情鸡汤调兑后反而失真。看到大家都善良成这样了，中国拐卖儿童的人贩子估计梦里都会笑醒...
影中人玩得好开心……
停留在车窗上的花儿 小心翼翼能捏住 甩甩手也能把它撵走 但孩子却是一辈子的牵挂。素英在【生下来送出去】还是【存在就毁掉】哪个罪恶感更重的伦理线徘徊 得不出答案 东洙被问到【更远是哪里】也同样答不上来 也许一起洗车时开个窗大家都湿透了是快乐 窝在小镜头前合照一张留念是快乐 也许游乐场狂欢一下小游戏是快乐——也许只是大家凑在一起说说话一起笑笑就是快乐 本就这么简单不是吗？所以呀 摩天轮上用手挡在你面前 不是想给你打马赛克 因为你给了我太多可以原谅妈妈的理由 我只是简单的不想看到你哭 只愿 全天下的人 都能因为出生而得到感谢。（PS裴斗娜的侧脸好好看。IU也意外演得不错！）
与其最相似的其实是《海街日记》，不直视痛苦，而是试图用虚伪推销痛苦。这才是真正的残忍。
戛纳入围提名，IU演电影跟其他前辈在一起还是差多了，故事本身没有太多精彩之处，胜在情节线索之间的联系。btw开头我还以为是寄生虫...
戛纳评委太惨了，看了话痨片《未来罪行》又要看大闷片《掮客》。一部去精华版《小偷家族》，一个毫无意义的无聊剧本。表演也没有亮点，所有人都是一副苦瓜脸，姜栋元和IU如同两块木头，宋康昊稍好一点，戛纳影帝没问题，但不该凭这部片子拿。
很想知道为什么日本导演到中国拍片会有CCTV8电视剧的味道，韩国导演到中国拍片会有廉价恐怖片的味道。为什么是枝裕和拍《真相》是那样的，为什么是枝裕和拍《掮客》是这样的。是什么在影响跨地域的质感。
emmm........老掉牙但还是讨厌不起来Cage（女儿美貌
看前面还挺好的，但是到了后面，这不还是颓废老白男振奋起来成为大英雄的故事吗？？？这还不如星之彩和父母杀孩子那个电影来的坦诚。还不如查宁塔图的忠犬有思考。在老白男的意淫里，他还是要变强变牛，然后顺便对老婆孩子态度好点，然后一切完美了。但一定是按照这个顺序，他先是自己变强，然后才可能对老婆孩子态度好。如果他自己过得不好，那就不可能对老婆孩子好。要他先好，然后老婆孩子碰碰运气。 way to go, man, way to go. 而且这个电影本身就是大写的自恋。I don't get it.不是你说自己没过气还很行，就真的行。不行is不行。鸟人就不要提了，完全不具备可比性。
想知道如果凱奇看完劇本以後不同意出演，導演會怎麼辦
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