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".
无言以对，那些童言童语。Joaquin 的自然流露和 Woody 的鬼灵精怪产生了最奇妙的化学反应，2021年最后一天，这部电影带来的启示和幸福感满满。
多说一句，论治愈程度，比《健听女孩》好太多。糖水喝多了会齁着，淡茶却能让人找到内心的平静
I hate children.小孩子确实是一种随心所欲、不讲道理的生物。但是正是这种真实撕开了成人世界的虚伪，刺痛了我，孩子不会按照世界要求她们的样子生长。做母亲的责任太大，好在我不需要。小朋友的演技真好，对着华金都不输。
What a bittersweet, healing, and intimate movie. Joaquin, Hoffman, and Norman are spectacular. The children's words are innocent yet profound. One of my favourite of the year. 9/10
据说明年剧场版主角是哀酱和老琴，柯哀党狂喜樱井挺喜欢写酒厂线嘛
虽然依旧柯学，但已经是近几年的剧场版里难得的故事完整，逻辑自恰，笑点泪点拿捏精准的合格作品了。
很好看！每次都有不同的感动，不同的惊喜，超爱安室透！
个人认为比去年的好看，警校5人组还是挺帅的！
emmm可以说比较失望，除了再次证明影帝是影帝，浅显的主题松散的叙事贫乏的冲突，离菊次郎的夏天差太远了
文艺款育儿/家庭关系系列，过程是互相救赎款。背景是底特律，LA，纽约，奥尔良这几个美国极赋特点的城市中孩子对世界和未来的感知，内里是舅舅和外甥的相处，理解并从孩子的角度认知自己和世界突然是一种全新的和自己和平相处的方式，黑白镜头下的美国几大城都变得那么平和~~~~~
电影里纪录片的设定，会让剧情显得更真实。
这部剧场版真的是太让我激动了！！！
柯南yyds，真相只有一个，鹅鹅，好好看，感兴趣的真的可以看看
广大男性卷起来，请多拍男性带娃的电影，不要让女人把这个市场垄断了
9.1/10 #PFF30 Fiction and Non-Fiction. 以一种社会纪录片的温柔视角(城市地貌的重评估-纽约大部分拍摄位于中国城附近；与孩童思维的反思-真实的与孩子的对话和观察)，来逐步构建“反抗”的孩子与“失意”的成年中的关系，拷问家庭中Motherhood，或Parenthood，的定义。正如滨口在《驾驶我的车》中重估文本性质和指向性一般，米尔斯同样重估了话语(对话/采访)的含义，通过未来(孩子作为未来社会的主体)评估未来的方式来短暂脱离现世泥淖(黑白也作为“去现实”的手段)，建立新的和解/理解。孩子掌握着Apparatus(录音机)，然后允许观众去通过他聆听世界，聆听城市“噪音”，聆听他人，并尝试理解，理解世界。
三星半。电影的一切元素都很登对，最难的部分可能是如何让观众对这类平淡无奇的生活流入戏并达致共情。
#NYFF59# “养儿方知儿女恩”，男主吐槽娃有多么难带，被女主一句“welcome to my fucking life”呛回去。快速精准的镜头剪辑，居然把这个有点老套的故事带出了舒服的节奏，Joaquin和小演员Woody Norman的演技都很精彩。
恰好在看此片之前，观看了韩国电影《姐弟的夏夜》。差不多的题材，相比之下，此片相当不成功。韩片将身段放得很低，趣味横生，且能从中窥见生活中的惊涛骇浪。而此剧则端着架子，似乎有着更多的文人气。整片絮絮叨叨，无趣且不动人，又故意拍成黑白片，更显做作。导演似乎不愿结束此片，最后还像做年终总结似地，将整个故事回顾一遍。对儿童的教育及如何与他们相处，影片中所展示的，也许过于放纵了。对孩子立规矩，恐怕对于剧中男孩更为需要。
看到第一个黑白镜头的城市风光眼睛就湿了也不知道是为什么 一直在抹眼泪 Mike Mills 的电影都好温柔哦 / 另外这似乎是第一次被 Joaquin 的表演折服
今日在吉隆坡看完首映，开心，绿川光的声音出来我就圆满了，多了就不剧透了，期待M26
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