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".
其实是一个理想化的故事，温暖向善的结局不深刻却令人动容。影片最现实的可能就是刑警反思自己最后竟成了最想贩婴交易成功的人，着实黑色幽默。摩天轮上素英与东秀之间达成了自我救赎。恭喜宋康昊，化演技为无形，是高招中的高招。
90分的预期看完后最多80分。是枝裕和还是是枝裕和，裴斗娜的演技好绝，IU的演技也在我预期之上。前1个多小时过于平淡了，我旁边的老奶奶看睡着了(我能注意到旁边人在睡觉也是能说明电影是平淡的)后面有几个镜头特别喜欢，有几个地方的台词确实有让我很想哭，就比如那 好几句「生まれてきてくれて、ありがとう」
英国皇家空军这么不专业吗？一开始炸错三个参加婚礼的女孩一个司机就已经很可恶，还让他们执行如此任务！！人命是疏忽大意可以原谅和挽回的吗！！！纳粹可恨，不专业的军人着实可恶！
一场策划的轰炸计划，两个飞行员，被关在大楼里的人，学校的儿童和修女，流水账一样讲完了……被困在地下室的修女明明可以转过身来，为什么一直躺着一动不动？还以为在等最后有冲击力地展示给观众她全身被石头压住之类的……然后就结束了……
是一部以原历史素材为基础的改编佳作。修女扎针，绝望中依然心系救赎的信仰型抑郁，虔诚灵魂挣扎动人。孩子视角看待战争，天真变体与想象，很有毕加索《格尔尼卡》的出发点。若童真生存于残酷世界，世界也是残酷的变形。
战争无论性质，都必然会给平民带来伤害和阴影。
拿着假想的幻象，层层累加的前置条件来呈现所谓“爱”与“治愈”，终究是舍本逐末，本末倒置。
哪有什么上帝，愚蠢的人类啊，不要战争，愿和平！
感觉好破碎啊整个情绪，还有最后这个和谐大结局怎么这么像国产片思路
笑着的，或哭着的孩子们，我们的未来戛然而止，剩下的故事被一颗颗炮弹画上了句号。
首先感谢是枝裕给我们看到了年度最浪漫的电影 。
过分地平庸，小男主简直就像玩游戏看残影一般通关，伊桑霍克这个反派充满了弱鸡蠢感，故事平淡，牺牲的小朋友太令人难过了，难受，开挂的小妹倒是演技蛮好，可爱。里面太多废的细节，自杀的母亲，凶手的过去，父亲的狂躁都没有讲清楚。
几乎就是小丑回魂翻版，前面大量铺垫基本都是浪费，反派也是毫无意义 😓
4.0，细节节奏台词演员如此完美，摄影写实的应该是没有打灯（现实主义应该有的样子，不美化不矫揉造作），我喜欢，就是结尾实在太完美了，是是枝裕和年老了嘛？对人性有的善意了吗？“是枝裕和近年来愈发心慈手软了，敛锋藏芒的他甚至连一根芒刺都不愿轻易施诸于故事与人物之上。”
2022年3月11號/星期五
一拍小成本就稳起来，无奈故事性太扯。★★★/6.1
挺喜欢的，甚至觉得有点儿治愈，当兄妹两人相拥的时候，同样也是根据小说改编，这何尝不是另一个版本的可爱的骨头呢，或者是我们所期望的可爱的骨头的延续，内容上刻意忽略了凶手的行为和视角，他做了什么会做什么怎么虐杀的变得不再重要，因为他和其他同类犯罪者无异，但是这个孩子是与众不同的，所有的孩子才是重点，其中所包含的所谓的灵异内容只是个噱头，丰富内容的元素，实质的故事就是一个小孩拼尽全力自救的故事，励志加治愈了，另外，心疼阿美莉卡的小孩，童年也太惨了，抵抗校园暴力忍受家庭暴力还得防着连环杀手，一个孩子能健康正常的成长起来也太难了吧，
战争让信仰逐渐坍塌，上帝根本不存在，不然为什么会将赶去婚礼的四人横死在田野间，不然为什么会将导弹的浓烟引导到教会学校。在希望中等来绝望，在绝望中幻想希望，丹麦童谣和德国歌谣交织在纳粹将顷之际。
90分的预期看完后最多80分。是枝裕和还是是枝裕和，裴斗娜的演技好绝，IU的演技也在我预期之上。前1个多小时过于平淡了，我旁边的老奶奶看睡着了(我能注意到旁边人在睡觉也是能说明电影是平淡的)后面有几个镜头特别喜欢，有几个地方的台词确实有让我很想哭，就比如那 好几句「生まれてきてくれて、ありがとう」
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