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".
全韩国阵容但依然日式，感觉是拍了一部韩国给的命题作文
三星半。是枝裕和五成功力，仍然是他熟悉的“如鲠在喉”般的故事，优点是稳妥工整，缺点也是，不完全是水土不服的原因，像是CJ为他凑了一个顶级局，但拍出的却是部及格片。
特地来看IU的，整部电影很是枝裕和，节奏比较慢，有些剧情不知道想干嘛，看到快睡着了，海景的拍摄就很海街日记，画面风格挺清新的。IU演孩子他妈戏份很多，从头到尾都有她，全程看脸了，很喜欢这个有点酷酷的坏女孩造型，低音讲话很好听，还有难得看到粗口骂人的丽丽哈。剧情真是无法理解，坚持把孩子生下来却要遗弃，跟着两位掮客卖孩子，一路还被裴斗娜扮演的警察追案。把孩子生父杀了之后自首了也就判三年？跟姜栋元的纯爱感情线发展也有点莫名其妙，下雨的话记得带伞去找我，结果也没找啊？宋康昊的演技也没表现出来，整体也挺平淡的，最搞笑的是小男孩，添加了几分活力，小婴儿的眉毛被吐槽挺可爱的，临时组建的家庭轮流照顾孩子，孩子妈念着每个人的名字说“谢谢你来到我身边”，能够相遇就是种缘分吧。镜头拍摄很喜欢用相似场景专场，裴斗娜
这个电影的故事本身非常简单，如果找中国人来拍会更合适，不了解日本导演拍韩国电影为何。如果不是自己有小孩子，是不会跟里面的人贩子共情的，看到里面的小朋友就想起自家孩子的可爱与点滴。所以，那些不会被孩子的天真可爱感染的人贩子真的是恶魔啊！
开头看出凶手是谁，中间看到小偷家族的感觉，直到最后波澜不惊，几条线也没有很好的感觉，相比较这么多优质的演员，只能算是勉强及格的电影。
旅行版《小偷家族》，虽然很爱是枝裕和，但实在是无法接受这个剧情走向，宋康昊几乎没啥存在感啊，居然能拿影帝？无法理解…
比导演的前作要弱一些，而且更擅长选用的社会特殊职业来诠释社会问题，相比之前，弱化了很多人性的探讨，一样由于人物的弱化，结尾的留白就显得那么的无力，要不是是康昊大哥，我估计看一半就擦掉了。再接再厉吧，其实这种职业好多好多，俗称底层人物的遍及，要是真的这个在大陆能拍，也能拍出一个系列。
爱是枝裕和，但这部和《真相》真的让人看得好累
散装家庭，本来就是硬凑。《小偷家族》是先拍成了一个家庭，大家都信了，再拆了给你看。所以残酷感挥之不去。而《掮客》硬凑感就比较强了。男二没有什么表现力啊，男二和女主，更是毫无化学反应，女主对婴儿，我也看不出纠结复杂的感情。感情都没到那份上，说“谢谢你出生”多少就有点扯了。还有就是，怎么开始上航拍了，俯瞰众生嘛这是，还是情绪起不来，就硬起。总体而言，我还是吃是枝裕和这一套，至少洗车那场戏，以及之后的互告真名，写出了水平。还是老实在日本拍片吧！
“谢谢你的出生”，跟《小偷家族》一样，是枝裕和依旧在讨论非血缘关系的家庭联系，叙事节奏缓和，表演真切，将“掮客”这类人换了种思路去表现，母亲的加入也合理地让观众情绪往“这家人”身上一边倒（但真正可恶的人贩子去死）宋康昊戛纳影帝实至名归
是枝裕和拍得真好。
是枝裕和总是能轻易地把观众引到警察体制的对立面
可能因为导演是是枝裕和，比起其他韩影又多了不少的格外的温情，确实很像东京教父，这种临时拼凑又注定不可能长久的家人会有一种特殊的感动。
本来觉得剧情很平，很是枝裕和，直到我忽然间明白大叔为什么不见踪影。
今晚总算把《掮客》看了。没想象中那么好。仍旧是一贯的是枝裕和风格。温吞软水，用力绵长。宋康昊保持了水准。戛纳影帝，实至名归。 电影里裴斗娜一直在吃麻辣烫里的“豆腐卷”。馋了。没忍住。跑到街头连吃了5串。确实好吃。上次吃这个，好像还是十几年前吧。那时候，好像刚好在《汉江怪物》认识宋康昊不久。韩国的文化输出，不服不行啊。对我来说，只能吃豆腐卷聊以自慰了。
值得一提的是，这是一部看不出痕迹的是枝裕和韩国电影。是枝裕和这次最大的突破应该是剧作上的主线带副线吧，并且尝试在每条故事线附加不同的类型风格，IU宋康昊这条明显是他最擅长的家庭剧略带喜剧，冲突和人物设置都是熟悉的配方，表演上也基本没啥亮点，整个戏都显得特别意料之中意在言中，过于平平无奇了，“突破”失败。另外，IU和mayu的某些侧脸瞬间实在是太像了…
绝望中的母亲总是希望孩子能走向远方，越过海和星空，不用回头。
还是太乏味了。像是枝裕和自己“效仿临摹自己曾经佳作的仿作”，或者说像韩国的是枝裕和粉丝的学生作品，温情小伎俩失去以往的力道，剧情人物安排也有挥之不去的设计感（又是一组不完美的边缘人物抱团取暖，又是要背负了黑暗的过去但内心又无比善良）。平庸、平淡、套路，其实问题都没那么大。本作最大的弊病还是在于对苦难的粉饰、对严肃社会问题的浪漫化重构。只能说那些糖霜一样的小确幸小温暖带来了巨大的欺骗性，剧作里弃婴、贩婴的“正义性”还要建立在IU那句反堕胎立场的台词之上，如一些评论所言，实在是虚假的自我感动。最后再来个温情的收尾，都不知道还有什么现实映照可言。宋康昊戏份如此之少，发挥得如此之平庸，竟然能水到戛纳影帝，只能说IU拿影后都比这合理。
每个都有难言之隐的边缘人拼凑成临时家庭，
我强忍着往下看，每看一会儿就想暂停。看不出是枝裕和的影子。
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