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".
故事行进至最后五分钟才是高潮和感人部分。一个机器人和一条狗的概念很新颖。被机器人感动到，被狗感动到（狗狗真会演戏）感动回归到本质依然是人的情感。所以，有一天世界末日，人类消亡，天空没留下痕迹，鸟却已飞过。如果我们全不在了，那些我们经历过的故事依然会被流传下去……汤姆汉克斯在里面再一次演出了人类最后的孤独。
设定很好，具备爆款的潜质，但也许是限于成本（毕竟更复杂的冲突和更曲折的情节需要更多的特效量和主演的时间），剧本显得过于简单了，除了中间芬奇袒露一生和愧疚的部分让人动容以外，其他时间都是波澜不惊和平平淡淡，多少有点浪费了这个好的创意。
不知道看什么，无聊，快速拖放看完，中间没有一处镜头或者什么有趣精彩的东西让我停下来看，（除了车子快被龙卷风吹走那段），可能这是文艺片，符合豆瓣文艺青年口味，所以分数才会高，我给不及格，很差。
细腻温暖，我喜欢这个结尾。有人走，有人来。想起我只在金门大桥上走过一回，是跟我的父母一起。真好。
前半部分和后半部分在主题上的选择上真是极限反转，也只有印度这个神奇的国家才能诞生这种电影。这片的风格跟《万岁毕姆》很相似，前半部分就是印度人民受难图鉴，真正的主角出场很晚，而且很扁平化、神格化，仍带有一丝阿三开挂的调调在里面，虽然本片也在修补这一点，添加了一个冗长的结尾试图丰富一下主角的过往，但反而显得狗尾续貂
这个片子也太好看了吧！！！机器人可爱得要死。
电影里女人和孩子都死了，因为要抢食物。
trust是什么，逝去的人们不懂，成了留给机器人和狗的课题。小狗演员Seamus真可爱，据说是爱尔兰㹴混血
Ai拥有人性，那里让人热泪盈眶人性指的是真善美爱与信任，而不是大开杀戒，尔虞我诈。一人一狗一啰嗦的零件，都能让人眼眶酸滞。
LOVED BY GOODYEAR AND JEFF.”This is living."又浪漫又伤心 呜呜呜o(╥﹏╥)o
开局一条狗，世界任我走！
耀斑爆发迎末世，芬奇大叔无时日。造个杰夫机器人，继续铲屎陪狗子。
Human experience, is not just imagining, it’s living.
上一个这么好哭又好笑的机器人还是Wall-E，再上一个是T-800。好莱坞惯会的就是新瓶装旧酒，但有些时候不得不承认别人的瓶子的确好看。
~机器人一诞生就是bug，过于智能了，而且情节、人物关系真不是我的菜。。。
在辐射里大概就是和机器人对话然后引出的NPC的故事了
Human experience, is not just imagining, it’s living.
别觉得印度乱、印度穷，印度的电影行业发达程度令我们望尘莫及。
细腻温暖，我喜欢这个结尾。有人走，有人来。想起我只在金门大桥上走过一回，是跟我的父母一起。真好。
世界末日，繁华大都市被黄沙淹没的景象令人触目惊心。一个老人、一只狗、一个逐渐比人还更具备人性的机器人，在这样令人绝望的环境中，如何建立起信任、默契。老人还是死了，他一手打造出来，延续了率真人性的机器人继续使命，陪伴照顾着狗。心里不免难过，当狗也死了以后，机器人该怎么办？
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