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".
前面反转2次真的很好看啦，后面结尾是在埋伏笔？有2？上升高度大可不必，太像韩剧了。
巧妙地把各种矛盾融合到了一起，就是BGM有点吵
"一个国家的尊严 就是它给予女性的尊严"
太喜欢了，私心给个五星，轻松愉悦的女性群像戏，但又完全不狗血不做作不尴尬，还是女导演会拍女性啊，三个女性都太有魅力了，而且完全不雌竞，男性怕是很难get这类电影吧，而且中年人之间那种直接甚至目的性明确套路满满的感情线不比小年轻的矫情造作无病呻吟好磕多了，中年人的感情也很可爱嘛，最近院线看的最喜欢的一部了，推荐给小情侣，看完绝对不会吵架哈哈哈哈
一万六的Jimmy Choo亦真亦假，中年人的爱情要素描心动更要目的地无差；
有点大杂烩了，加了太多东西进去，曾老说印度这个民族永远不会灭亡，是有道理的。
其实现在大多数国家都是这样 舆论被少数人操控 自以为正义和一头热的网民是被利用的棋子和助长社会戾气的帮凶 而极少数对一些争议提出质疑和全盘考虑的的人 基本都会立刻被骂的狗血喷头 导致理智的声音越来越少 而无脑网友日渐增多 这是我们这个时代最悲哀，也是最难改变的地方
很难想象一部包含了大量政治批判、甚至是种姓批判的电影在印度是如何过审的，后一小时四十分渐入佳境，法庭上的辩驳情节十分出色，但想叙述的元素太多了，其实前一个小时可以不要，或穿插在法庭辩驳中，后十分钟通过不断的切镜头短暂地交代了律师的经历，给人一头雾水的感觉
必须用“灵”来形容此片——灵动的气息轻盈而美妙，痛点与笑点均触动得犀利而含蓄，正如成年人之间的推拉进退一般，点到为止地暗流涌动，即使在被生活捶过一遍遍后仍有接受改变的勇气，台面上的机锋交错与美术馆三人对话堪称名场面；精准把握当前语境的命脉，对女性的情感观和生存价值标准有令人舒适的把控，甚至侧写了有关“男孩化妆”的话题，以及男性的自我调侃自黑都是极易拉好感的。
正义？活的长才有正义，死了就要靠别人的良心和勇气为死者声张。副督察的自首式反转有点突兀，起源是他儿子的车祸，老实说也很奇怪。除了这点其他立意反转都很好。
一万六的鞋求个欢喜，不合适断舍离；
你把故事背景换到zg，我觉得一点也不违和，但肯定过不了审。
暴露出的险恶
一部我在简中边偷乐边等续集的电影，导演别逼我求你。
中国大银幕上太稀缺的城市电影（人物、故事和情感都与城市融为一体），通过女性视角去展现属于成年人的两性情感关系，虽然是小人物、小情调，但蕴含着极大的生活能量。作为爱情轻喜剧商业片来看又比很多同类影片（无论中外）多了一丝灵动，这得益于导演的一些调度小心思为影片质感做了有效提升。今年小荧屏上有《爱很美味》，大银幕上有《爱情神话》，国产爱情喜剧影视作品也算是功德圆满了。
这是今年看到的最妙的华语电影。可以说，它是一个骨子里是欧洲电影的上海电影，也可以反过来说，它是一个骨子里是上海电影的欧洲电影。既有老派上海电影的精神，也有侯麦和伍迪艾伦电影的气韵。它妙在，就靠画家白老师为核心的几个人，一条街，一双鞋，一个画展，一部电影，几顿饭，一个亦真亦幻的爱情神话，螺蛳壳里做道场，却构成一个有时间感有空间感有回味的故事。也妙在，它没有传统的启转承合，而像是在生活里切了一段，结构却已经在里面悄悄藏好，故事启动力都很微小，却密不透风，腾挪跌宕，每一秒钟都敦实，像一个没有话剧痕迹的话剧。还妙在，所有演员都精彩，没有一瞬间的戏接不上，也没有一刹的情绪塌掉。最意想不到的是，那个关于索菲亚罗兰的梗，轻描淡写的铺陈，看似漫不经心，最后却成了整个故事最悠长的一部分。
【2022年第58部】无论是从社会题材，还收从揭露人性，这部电影方方面面想要表达的东西都表达到了！
剧情挺好 就是律师刚出来那段 故意唱反调 而且几处逻辑让看的人想唱反调 这一点有点倒胃口 总的来说反转之处还行
绝大部分电影都是有时态的。比如看港片，《八星报喜》《精装追女仔》《赌神》都是过去时，《智齿》《浊水漂流》《拆弹专家》是现在时。我特意去学习了一下关于这片的讨论，发现无论是正方还是反方，尤其是激烈抨击此片的，都没太理解片里吴越说的三个字“过去式”或者被那看画的路人甲文艺中年重复了一遍的"过时”到底指的是啥。拍片的人是不是心里有数呢，也许是宁愿做梦吧。当年老崔有句著名的歌词“不是我不明白，这世界变化快”，执迷于校准片中生活与人物或者为其辩解的，不是沉浸于还活在过去的错觉里，就是还没分清此时到底是过去还是现在吧。
要表达的东西太多了，后面就是为了反转而反转
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