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".
在资产阶级和市场经济的初期，艺术不再真实而成为了金钱和利益傀儡，也许在真正的找到内在力量之后才能有不被左右、不会幻灭的底气吧
“停止幻想，开始生活。”傲慢的贵族对于渴望拥有贵族身份的人无疑是更加蔑视的。
场景和配乐真的好华丽啊！可这剧情推动全靠旁白？？有声书？？？
卢西安不是马丁伊登，马丁伊登成功后不知所措，卢西安成功后找到自我的支点和意义。然而庶出的贵族身份，就是卢西安的枷锁和宿命。在平民泥潭和贵族沙龙间里外不是人。卢西安幻灭后才不知所措。否定了他的文字，他也没有生存意义。
真好看。起这个名字真恰当啊。我们拥有过幻梦一样的快乐，财富和地位，最终却依旧变得一无所有，长了一张初恋般脸庞的女孩去世了，最初的坚持也破灭了，好像一切都变得很干净，如我们来到这世界的第一天。
路西安，毁就毁在了他是一个诗人，单纯而经受不住诱惑，低估了人性。却也是罪有应得
电影基于巴尔扎克的小说《幻灭》，每个人物都很真实，讽刺的主题到现在也不过时。纯粹的诗人，艺术家，纯洁的爱情，公正的心灵，在每个时代都是最难守护的东西。电影总统很好，稍微美化了一点点诗人跟贵妇的爱情，没有追随把原著小说里面两人早已显露的对对方的厌烦。不过不影响观影感受。巴尔札克真的太善于运用语言，在电影中每次直接引用原著都让人对原著再添一份向往之情。
巴尔扎克的戏剧剧情上来说还是可看的，质感还不错无功无过吧
贵族文化盛行的时代，乡下的穷小子即使有着出色的才华，被巴黎的大染缸污染后还幻想能够左右逢缘恢复母亲的姓名登上贵族的平台，结果被人出卖失去了一切，最后回到了开始的地方。电影把巴黎社会各色各样的人进行了描绘，历史感很浓厚，虽然时间长了点，但静下心来还是能沉浸其中。
幻灭，可怜即可悲，同情又觉得一切都是顺理成章的KARMA
2022年4月20日观看。没读过原著，但这片子拍的还不错。
凡所有相，皆是虚妄，浮华的巴黎勾起的欲念如同海市蜃楼，终会幻灭。喜欢简单通俗易懂的叙事方式
回到电影，男主命运和文字的命运一样载沉载浮。从古典诗歌，到香艳八卦，再到小报广告，文字和人性一起堕落。现在回看巴尔扎克的剧本，觉得和21世纪现实那么呼应。
上承拉辛下启巴尔扎克的时代 唯美浪漫走向批判现实过程中一枚外省文学青年的跌宕史. 恰逢传媒业大发展 文学诚然还可以滋养幻想 然而在日益"现代"的巴黎 只有充当一名词汇贩子去兜售"鸭子"才能养活文字人. 贵族尚有余力豢养 大众蓬勃好奇则宣告资产阶级文艺消费降临 小报构成了比宫廷更趋丰厚的滋养土壤 然而天真青年骨子里却仍持有贵族迷思 野望进一步跃升"头衔"阶层 自然悲剧如期而至. 这本的辞格蛮有意思 19世纪法兰西戏剧风 3.5
很久没有看到过经典文学名著改编的新电影了，改编自法国作家巴尔扎克的同名小说，今年凯撒奖最佳影片，拍得即古典优雅又现代意识流，非常值得观看！
电影基于巴尔扎克的小说《幻灭》，每个人物都很真实，讽刺的主题到现在也不过时。纯粹的诗人，艺术家，纯洁的爱情，公正的心灵，在每个时代都是最难守护的东西。电影总统很好，稍微美化了一点点诗人跟贵妇的爱情，没有追随把原著小说里面两人早已显露的对对方的厌烦。不过不影响观影感受。巴尔札克真的太善于运用语言，在电影中每次直接引用原著都让人对原著再添一份向往之情。
nethan一出场我：他要不是同性恋我吞一千斤铁。 哦原来他就是多兰
nethan一出场我：他要不是同性恋我吞一千斤铁。 哦原来他就是多兰
还不错，超出预期。就是发现Xavier Dolan的脸已经经不起大银幕特写了。
经典就是，故事简单又意味深长，现实中总感觉似曾相识。
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