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".
【3星半】把“论演员的自我修养”给搬上了大银幕，几乎就是在看三位演员的对戏和很有讲究的镜头构图了，也有几个很诙谐的点：一百块钱下赌，相互腹黑飙戏，能载入“影史”的绞碎奖杯名场面（福茂和巴贝拉在提刀来的路上了）。
中间有些地方能带人笑死，有些地方有点无聊，但是总体来说还是很好看的！
威尼斯主竞赛第七场，之前看的都是虚假的主竞赛电影，这部才是真正的《主竞赛》！！！
日本风格影片，深层剖析人物内心复杂情感，每一个所呈现外在形象，其实并不是真正的自我，看似不可理喻的人，也有其温存善良一面，要试着理解过去所不理解的人和事。
这不就是我们朝思暮想，梦寐以求的荒诞喜感吗？通常我们是以阅读体验中臆想出来的幻觉来近距离接触它，现在则有这么一部电影，能让你只用眼睛就能实实在在看见它，多么妙不可言。
罗马moderno，三星半吧，癌症之后睡着了一会儿醒来是开机酒会。Cruz还是我心中外国女演员n.1。在等结尾的惊喜但是没有，latino日常的荒诞。
在整体故事系统的编排上，以排练作戏剧与影像的分割线，而影像本身对于现实的“复原”，意味着表象下的解构，这种所谓还原主义式的戏剧排演，洽洽讽刺着公众对于原型与意识形态的“渴望”。这是整个系统层次可以在商业前提下相对丰富的基础，也是他与片名些许跑题的原因。
0630 比较无法拒绝元电影和美术馆风大房子
算是讽刺的非常直白又浅显的那一挂，看的时候总觉得导演还有什么大招，结果最后就不咸不淡的结束了。三个主角都演得很好，好像不常见班德拉斯和佩内洛普演这种角色还挺新鲜，但女主还是塑造得不好，还是非常被动和平面化的一个角色，可惜了。
一个中学女生的意外身亡，让许多人的人生背负上沉重负担，有的被逼向绝境，有人甚至走向死亡。一件超市偷口红的简单事件，引起的余波却如此强烈，影片张力十足地呈现了普通人的人生困境。有时候，真相没有那么重要，而原谅不原谅，也许能让人从良心的亏欠中走出来。寺岛忍所饰演的人物有意思，“强行的善意”与“虚伪的公益”，让人印象深刻。
#TIFF2021#今年好像各大电影节都多了很多这种戏中戏互文或者带有不同戏剧文本的juxtaposition的电影，特别在Drive My Car之后再看这部就感觉特别奇妙。Official Competition里的黑色幽默节奏把握的很好，特别是克鲁兹今年的状态好的令人惊叹，两位“影帝”间的交峰也笑果满满。只是最后结尾倒有些弱了，如同一开始女导演未讲完的剧本故事一般，蒙着一层雾，让我们最终对于“竞赛“还是未知全貌。
其实我没找出本片一个主线或者说主旨，又或者说故事的 morale，非要说的话我觉得是 nothing is real。
人在重要的人死去之后便开始有了时间，有时间去超市门口蹲着、有时间去了解女儿看什么漫画、去了解他画的画，人们有时间为重要的人“复仇”却不肯为重要的人少出海捕一趟鱼，而这些时间完全可以陪家人买指甲油，也完全有时间听听发生了什么事，大家都是这样 ，挚友离世了才想起曾经对你的帮助、恋人离开了才开始追忆过往，但我有时间进行“复仇”却没有在他们还在的时候 给他们多夹一道菜，多说说话 。
【3星半】把“论演员的自我修养”给搬上了大银幕，几乎就是在看三位演员的对戏和很有讲究的镜头构图了，也有几个很诙谐的点：一百块钱下赌，相互腹黑飙戏，能载入“影史”的绞碎奖杯名场面（福茂和巴贝拉在提刀来的路上了）。
浪花，海岛，上学的伊东苍，笨笨的，慢慢的，弱弱的，怯怯的，老师的批评，父亲蛮横的摔碎手机，她完全不敢反抗。
一堆笑料-07/06/22 at AMC Garden State Plaza 16
总会有些小乐趣，最狂的应该是粉碎奖品。两个演员之间的斗争暗流涌动，导演也一起游戏。
总体走势一般，结局也难以惊喜，但是戏谑中还是在嘲讽。
把社会权力刨开进行解构再重组就很好笑，如同用刀划开伤口再去缝合
所谓的人间惨剧就是第二天在报纸的犄角旮旯处登篇几百字的豆腐块。
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