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".
三星半。Tim Roth把一个不主动，不负责，无所事事的中年富二代刻画得入木三分
挺能理解这种人走到生命的尽头百无聊赖心如死灰的状态的，不想解释不愿解释放任自流，飘到哪是哪的。其实在接到他们母亲已故噩耗时，罗斯和甘斯布的表现就已经埋下了伏笔，一个歇斯底里无法控制情绪的崩溃，一个沉着冷静毫不惊慌（只因为他已置身在其中已不恐惧），阴冷而疏离，一切都是那么虚无苍白，结尾的空镜好评。
有钱人的任性、不顾一切、潇洒放纵，令人羡慕。直至结尾，夜间城市街道游走、阳光下的海浪、椅子上的衬衫、地上的鞋子，给全片做了一个很好的总结——虚无。
This movie gives comfortable mood in the first act and heartwarming in the other hand It give the big issue that your yakubd.net love is true or just one word. Many thing I don't like which all characters are flat and awkward conversation.
感觉还挺好看的，光看名称和封面就感觉内容也可以，就是有些地方在真实一点就更好看了。
黑岛结菜姑娘真是我的菜，但男主真的太丑太土了，那个嘴巴，天
头尾照应的两句“也要当胜者”挺戳人的，听了确是会喷咖啡。不景气下的年轻人
很好的选角哇，Tim Roth活脱脱一腹黑版Casey Affleck。没有后三十分钟的释疑的话可以给到两星。
开头用镜和色彩都很吸引人，剧情弱爆，格局小了 2022年1月3日 rs pro2
夸一段，骂一段。 夸：结构清晰，用三段正午的太阳暴力的将主人公按在自己命运里。每当出现正午暴晒的太阳镜头，我的头皮也好像能感受到烈日下的灼热和暴躁，导演就是想让我站着说话不腰疼，去指责主人公的种种“不负责的行为”。如果不是我过度解读的话，我觉得这个正午太阳有两层含义：1.是暴躁的观众体验，刚刚已经说了。2.是主人公对自己的期望，如果把日出日落比作人的生命周期，那么片名则是主人公的命运所在，正午的太阳则是生命最旺盛的时刻，正是主人公想停留的时刻。 骂：除了太阳的意象之外，我讨厌剩下所有的意象和一些新闻的播报的片段，这种处理的手段太过简单，并没有和故事本身去做很好的嫁接，只是在找补而已，强行推动剧情。 本来一开始挺喜欢的，后来越看越讨厌。
有部分尚可的动作，节奏，画面质感，镜头语言等，前半部分铺垫稍长，且对后半部分的塑造作用有限，总体归于尚可一看。
居然是A team的导演，局面设计挺好看的，美国龙门客栈，感觉现在这种简简单单就是好看的片子越来越少了，要珍惜
Tim演出了虚无的感觉，没有矫揉造作。癌症直接将立意拍到地上。
名作家骚扰打字小姐姐被告，法院传票寄到家里刺激了深受抑郁症困扰的前芭蕾舞演员妻子，导致妻子自杀还带走了小女儿……看上去很惨是吗？问题你作家和该隐有一毛钱相似之处吗？该隐是好端端被善妒的亚伯杀了，上帝才补偿给他伤害7倍偿还，你的妻女双亡跟被性骚扰的打字员有关系吗？就因为你个管不住下半身的成功人士一贯以为自己能随心所欲，后面的一系列骚操作打击报复更是把人渣本色演绎到底，这是什么天怒，明明就是人祸！导演把一个狗血故事包裹上宗教外衣就能美化犯罪者了？
最后武士口花花，职业操守斯巴达，气球机枪打工人，肥佬黑警雷神锤，西部对决加班牛仔妹；小差馆大龙凤，再多来那么两三个赏金杀手就更完美了
也不是在一些エモい的地方取景就可以拍一些エモい的故事
前面那个什么评论啊？什么叫中国人不配看电影啊？你踏马谁啊？这电影就是有头没尾啊，手法高级但没用好啊，就是有人不喜欢啊，星际穿越都有人打1星你在这里激动个鬼啊？让我愤怒的电影多了去了，我本来觉得这值个2星，那你既然要这么说那就1星呗。啥也不是。
this is fun! few movies not winking at the audience.
以为是无责任心摆烂王的任性后半生，嘛结果又是生命所剩无多想按自己意思活。不是不可以就是…这个桥段看太多，出来多少有些失望，还显得之前的编排特作。一想到是这个理由害死了妹妹更生气了。猪和开肠破肚的狗隐喻没太悟出来。p.s.小破旅馆跟豪华度假酒店的质感真是没得比。
pff30 原来我以为充满无法一言以蔽之的意象、有耐心和张力的节奏、撒点聪明的黑色幽默和见微知著的人物剪影就应该能生产好电影，但当一位墨西哥导演也用这种欧洲auteur的格式做作品的时候，我就会多想……我就会想啊Franco你到底是要干嘛，你是要讽刺还是被白老头们同化了。这片子值得看，不过在家看还是去电影院看都没差……
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