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".
现实中:朝中社最新消息，半岛的太阳战无不胜的金大将军最新命令，韩国若执意扣押朝鲜人民数学家，人民军将对全世界所有的数学研究所进行核打击，希望韩国不要在错误的道路上越走越远
社会阶层得跃迁太难了，尤其是在这严重内卷得时代，向上的阶梯注定是用同行者的肉身堆砌。抛去无用的仁慈和怜悯，即便是个工具人也要当最有用的那一个。剥削者和被剥削者的唯一区别在于内心是否燃烧着可以吞噬一切的剥离人性的不惜任何代价都要过上更加体面生活的强烈欲火。
有屠龙之志的少年最后还是成为了那条恶龙，想起集中营里管理犯人的工头…最大的恶龙竟然是参选的议员…
怎么中间突然断截一样……前半段的风格蛮喜欢的
屁股决定了大脑。想起来精英部队，巴西拍这种片子有自己的套路。
原来数学也可以这么有趣！前半段我真是太喜欢了！
故事很治愈 一个逃亡在韩国的朝鲜数学家 一个家境贫穷试图拼搏的年轻人互相救赎的故事 政治线确实稍显干瘪 不过整体效果很不错啦！（和女学生弹钢琴那段真的很感动！感慨数学乃至科学的美妙）
-聪明的人是第一个放弃的
那个胳膊上被烫出的疤痕，埋葬了他的过往，也宣告了他的未来，他再也回不去了。人从来都是逐利的动物，遵从着严苛的食物链生存法则，现实就是如此无奈。
还是很多亮眼之处，值得学习和借鉴。对于数学的学习和喜爱，对于他人承蒙的苦难的理解和宽恕。
巴西美男，罗德里格·桑托罗，看到一半时，才发现是他，虽然脸上有岁月痕迹了，但还是很帅
现实主义的作品，巴西城市化进程中非法用工问题与人性蜕化问题。
屠龙者终将成为龙，永远不要试探人心。人贩子必须死。
个体在面对有组织群体时往往是绝望的，绝望的久了，也就产生了打不过就加入的愿望，这也是助纣为虐的由来
崔珉植演技真的很好 但是剧情尤其是校园里一些玛丽苏情节就很接不住他的演技
勇气。解不出题时，不是生气或放弃，而是说这道题真难，要不明早再挑战吧。要有这种放松心态，那就是一个数学家该有的勇气。就这样以淡然心态持之以恒的人，才会解好数学题。"
-有勇气的人，解不出题时不生气或者放弃，而是说着这道题真难，要不明早再挑战吧，要有这种放松的心态，那就是一个数学家该有的勇气
韩国“周润发”的崔岷植化身流亡的北韩数学家的故事，套俗中不乏温情，巴赫我的心头爱，数学真的很美！
巴赫无伴奏大提琴组曲第一首yyds！喜欢巴赫的人果然数学都好，除了我……
当众揭露的其实也是教育界的阴暗面吧。要不是数学家的稳定输出还有女生的帮助，男学生就没了啊。当然泄题、无辜的考生是占大多数的，我是这么认为的。看着多少觉得——相当无奈啊。但也没办法，花了那么多大价钱，肯定需要些成果出来啊。最后，还是希望也能遇到这样的数学家/人生导师和知心好朋友叭。
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