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".
马丁说，如果他编不下去了，会让一颗彗星把维斯特洛轰了……世界很可能就是这样死于大数据中的。
女性主义电影未必要将镜头对准女性，也可以以女性视角讲述男性
看简介以为是同性文艺片，其实是一部复仇凶杀片。看前半部以为Phli是糙老爷们，其实是内心柔弱的Gay。以为Peter是柔弱的少年，其实是心狠手辣的凶犯。全片晦暗悠长，铺垫太多，节奏过于缓慢。幸好摄影还不错，能弥补剧情的啰嗦。
Just mind-blowing！每一秒都讽刺的恰到好处，feels fucking ridiculous, 但就像一面现实的镜子，每一幕都在过去的两年看到过。
电影差评比较多的原因有两个，一是它讽刺了太多人太多东西，二是它打着喜剧的幌子，演员也在卖力地夸张的表演，但是出来的效果却并不好笑。好笑的部分都在预告片里了。一部喜剧但是不好笑，必然会惹怒观众。但是，这部电影最难得的地方是主创真的很悲观很愤怒，只是无解，能发现问题，但是没有办法，非常无奈
在理想状态下，这部电影应该让人在大笑之余，感到深深的忧虑、无助乃至恐惧。它没有很好地做到前者，但在后一点上却是大致合格的。我自己也会在两种情绪中摇摆：绝大部分时间里，必须相信人类值得也能够被拯救，否则便再无未来可言；但偶尔，也会哀叹人类的寿命实在太短，所以只有极少数的一部分人，才能有幸见证我们这个物种凭借短视和愚蠢而努力挣来的那个末日的最终到来。
视听极佳，镜头传达的信息很多，可我觉得前戏中无关情节有点多，以至于将主角的地位放在后面才逐渐清晰。
相当慢热以至前四十分钟都很无聊，但！越看越来神，直至最后野心暴露火力全开 ！选了这么个题材又攒了这么多不要钱似的巨星却搞成了一部反高潮冷笑点社会讽刺片，谁能不唏嘘一句奈飞有钱任性呐 。＃果然要宣传任何主张最紧要就是编个slogan然后植进一首洗脑歌里＃
灾难是所有人的，利益权利才是自己的，这讽刺绝了。
看到最后才明白，虽然菲力身上有缺点，却是这堆人里最单纯而正常的人。他的死更让人看见深藏在他性格里的可爱和真诚。而另外三个人，都是戴着好人面具的可怜人：一个是油滑的趋炎附势，一个是懦弱的一蹶不振，而儿子，从骨子里散发着令人窒息的阴毒和变态，这种性格养成源于他病态的母亲，而菲力竟然一眼就看穿并抛出橄榄枝。虽然他的外在形象和表达方式放现在来看不太政治正确，但这些也只是他迫于当时社会环境的伪装而已。除了他自己，没有人看到过他的内心。
把火山般的段子讲成了打火机般的效果，说得就是这种。6
▫️竟然有很多人觉得这部电影“讽刺”的不够高级，What？！我觉得这已经不叫讽刺了，这根本就是毫不掩饰的现实世界！！每天的阴间新闻难道不比拍出来的要更傻逼更让人震惊100倍吗！！不是电影不高级，是这个FuckingWorld本来就低级！！把“彗星撞地球”换做任何一个全球事件，简直就可以当作是记录片看，世界，妙不可言。
phil虽然性格有点怪异，脾气也不好，但罪不至此，小孩的转变之点有点奇怪，基本全员谜语人，太多内涵隐藏在电影细节背后的草灰蛇线，导演极度克制，磨刀霍霍了两小时却没有向牛羊，最后的情绪没有了一个抒发点，戛然而止 3.5；
冷酷的哥哥、沉默的弟弟、脆弱的弟媳、陰柔的繼子，共同生活在廣渺草原裡的牧場，一切事務不一定是誰說了算，最後還得看哪個人夠狠。
哦Peter，你跟你爸说的一样 strong到ruthless 看完开始怀疑他爸真的是自杀么？恋母可是紧接弑父；整个压抑到painful to watch，this miserable woman;“they were mine”!!!; 旧约 诗篇 Deliver my soul from the sword;my darling from the power of the dog. （用剑释放我的灵魂,并把我的爱人从毁灭的力量手中救出.）；Peter大学回去那一幕 对母亲说我不想我的朋友遇见某个特定的人 就对phil有敌意 而且保护欲也很强；怀疑Peter在树林里被phil裸着追着跑之前，看见那本隐藏的杂志上面有Bronco的时候 就有在设局了
好久没看到人类成功灭亡的电影了，所以要给满分，希望这一天早日到来。
《流浪地球》的背面。值得拿一个最佳剪辑奖，喜感全在语调切换的瞬间，嘲讽是摆在明面上的，因为这种荒谬的现实就在身边不断发生。其实人物不是弱智，而是不加掩饰，但用全明星阵容来诠释也实在很有胆魄了，好莱坞又齐心协力向过去式的川普大竖中指。跟路易·C·K新专场的一个段落莫名呼应：所有人都是要死的——某种时代情绪的显影。所以虽然没有人戴口罩，但这无疑是一部笼罩在疫情阴影之下的电影，决策层对毁灭性的危机熟视无睹，而公众完全被大数据算法的资讯推送操纵。既然人们拒绝相互理解，那么不如回到爱人身边。
金融家控制政治、政治操控媒体，媒体操控大众，一切信息舆论皆可娱乐化，没人在意真相，一切皆可娱乐，最终娱乐至死！荒诞吗？但现实就是这么荒诞！印象最深刻的是凯特·布兰切特饰演的早间节目主持人布里·伊万特，一个情史丰富，受过高等教育，看似是一个时尚前卫的独立女性，我以为她会有不同于普通人的独立思考，在关键时刻能表现出智慧的一面，结果发现是我想多了。结尾很舒适，脑残女总统和冷漠科技富豪带领的地球“幸存”者们，在太空仓里沉睡了22740年后着陆在一个伊甸园般的美丽星球，然而却发现，他们不过是跨越万年去给一种叫Bronteroc的鸟类生物送食材。
拍的很细腻，人物刻画、布景、运镜都比较极致，但是需要很大的耐心看完，而且看完了心情会比较抑郁。。。。。
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