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".
《天鹅挽歌》，天鹅临死时的叫声是最凄美的。科幻的外壳包裹着一个普通人弥留之际的道德伦理困境，克隆范畴的哲学探讨并不罕见，于是导演冷不丁的倒灌了一碗鸡汤，用爱来解释一切。
这部电影的外包装还不错，但是内核我真的有点受不了，齁得慌。
都太过于残忍了
以前一直觉得
“我也曾幸福过 自由漂浮 仰望星空”
Ali演技实在好，几乎让我忽略了剧情，好喜欢，特别是那双含泪的双眸深深打动了我。
实在无法融入内容当中，太碎片化，披着科技外壳好似高大上，还不如一本正经去描述，苹果出品的电影个人都好闷...
科技再进步人类都不能跟死亡和解 也不能停止欺骗 只是骗不过狗
密恐+老鼠恐+深海恐+血浆肠子恐的我，全程数次一眼毙命。以及，剧本套路到，几乎猜中了每一个转折。不过哈利奎恩真的真的真的太可爱了！
科技與人倫的壁壘遲早都會被打破，只是現在的我們都還是很難想像，出於為了不讓一個家庭受傷，而讓另一個自己介入，這樣到底是真還是假？是好還是壞？用「延續自我」的方式來讓一切如昨，這是否是我們另一種假意的溫柔？
DC终于找到了合适自己的血腥B级英雄片路线，受不了漫威的正能量了可以来爽一下～
星味少了些，好在有滚导音乐和趣味的加持，印象最深的肯定是鲨鱼萌萌
num num！好久没笑得这么开心又爽又high了！年度最佳商业片！应有尽有还“ZZ正确”鲨萌，队长行走的荷尔蒙，波点男形象树立地太成功！rats the lowest and most despised slay! Harley Quinn负责美美的
极慢的叙事节奏，细腻的人物描写，Mahershala Ali精湛成熟的演出，虽然Swan Song走的不是软科幻人文的新路，但这路走得却格外稳健踏实。
小丑女好棒！！！主题不错，老鼠才是城市的主人，反对政府的控制，反对墙的控制，反对各种控制。DC加油，鲨鲨比心。
借着DC宇宙玩了俗套打怪电影皮囊下的恶趣味，人类和僵尸，英雄和反派，这都算什么，主角可是密集啮齿类大战触手系单性繁殖棘皮动物啊！
故事就集中在交接的过程中，虽然情节比较单调，但凭借《月光男孩》和《绿皮书》两次问鼎奥斯卡最佳男配的阿里，一人分饰两角的高超演技是电影的一大看点。
不能细究，无脑看就完事了。又黄又暴力，有笑又泪点，极佳的爆米花电影。前面太搞笑了，奇奇怪怪的超能力，一打就废，哈哈哈哈笑喷了。鲨鱼男和小老鼠有点可爱，反差萌了属于。小老鼠拯救国家，训鼠者这么吊，是怎么被抓紧来的？
没想到有一天我会说出这样的话：蠢萌蠢萌的鲨鱼怪可爱的……
真的一股苹果味，高级，政治正确，但也高级到无聊
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