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".
可以可以，我老婆看的爽死了，吃了两包麻辣肉~一个橘子~几块牛肉干
英雄气质和史诗向来由男性写就，道德同样也是。但这个电影说，最勇敢的或许不是可以选择“为荣誉而战”的人，而是几乎没有选择权、却能够在逼近的死亡面前站稳脚跟的人。
扎扎实实的剧本和摄影，章节层层推进，在最后一刻大爆发，可怕的是施暴者在最后一刻仍没有任何悔意，其实我本以为达蒙会输，那样结局会更加荒诞悲凉，可是在人们簇拥着达蒙向前时，又是另一种说不清感觉的荒诞
可以到9分的电影，虽然很多评论觉得啰嗦琐碎重复，无意义的铺垫过多。不过挖彩蛋找不同，也是深度电影的乐趣之一。单纯就挑三段看似雷同的场景和运镜剪辑里，找细微差别，挖掘人物主观心理，就是一篇景然有趣的长文。到玛格丽特自述的时候，本片的立意和品质感陡然勃起。为什么一贯的好莱坞电影对于情色镜头都会有适当的表现，而本片几乎没有，即使是重口强奸的镜头也一点都没有多给。那就是出于女性主义立场，不满足男性观众的口味。不然两边不讨好，一方面是女性主义觉得裸露镜头是对女性的物化，对男性的讨好；而男性观众又觉得女性主义立场是对男性的冒犯和控诉。包括格力斯强奸玛格丽特时候的镜头，动作粗鲁傲慢，且时间飞快，也是对所谓自命不凡的采花贼的反讽吧。其颠覆性不仅仅在于对那个时代男权思想的抨击，即使在今天依然有申诉表达的意义。
一个精彩的故事。充分印证了“历史是个任人打扮的小姑娘”的说法，三位当事人、三种视角，每个人都在有意无意间抬高自己、贬损他人，让掩映其中的真相更加扑朔迷离。玛格丽特在这场决斗中所扮演的角色更为复杂，她的遭遇也成为了当时甚至如今很多人的真实写照。遭遇不公时，首先得到的不是理解或支持，而是至亲之人的怀疑，想要让施暴之人得到审判，却不得不先让自己成为舆论中心，一次次把伤口展示给众人，并承担决斗失败可能带来的惩罚，压力一度让她认为沉默是最佳选择。当丈夫与曾经的挚友殊死搏斗最终获胜时，全场的欢呼着实显得吵闹，这些人究竟在为谁欢呼，为丈夫的英勇？为正义的伸张？还是为确认这位女性确实遭受强暴？从最后的结局看，似乎又有种天道好轮回的感觉，并不爱自己的丈夫终于战死沙场，而她独享荣华富贵30余载，也算幸福终老了。
本以为又是一出人工智能鸠占鹊巢的惊悚故事，结果在两个自己碰面的高潮戏上没有往这个方向发展，反倒泄了下来，这让之前埋下的对机构和人工智能的不信任都不了了之，更没有对这种情感替代行为的深入思考，反倒成了人类要战胜私欲，变相认可了善意的谎言，这个切入并不是太认同，当然阿里的表演还是一如既往的不错。
公说公有理婆说婆有理，交给上帝，真相不重要，上帝就是真相
上次让我有这种感觉的是巩皇
挺好看的，朱迪科莫古装很美。几点感想：1.意识是主观的。2.男人真的很自大。3.女人说不的时候意思就是不，望周知。4司机不是真的爱玛格丽特。5.无论在哪封建专制都是害人的东西，而在这个体制内女人注定是牺牲品。
三大主演演技太牛了，真正的大制作，场景服装及其还原历史，看的很爽。
苹果智能产品概念展望。随着科技社会发展，人活得越来越像机器。克隆人代替品属老题材，记忆移植等同永生，记忆篡改、无备份相当于死去。虽有道德触碰，只是我觉得它完全可以公开，交代好后事，终结也不是可怕的事情。★★★☆/7.1
七分
却只是奉献了一场生死决斗的戏给围观群众
剧情重复三遍，我觉得有点啰嗦，后来才知道这是一种电影拍摄方法。很奇特的是，我竟然对坏人Adam Driver产生同情感，进而对Adam Driver开始欣赏起来。
感觉一般，并没有高分给人感觉的那么好，不要因为是雷老爷子的片就给高分好吧？拍出来的质感当然是好的，特别是战争戏、强暴戏和决斗戏，最后的决斗戏真是非常的精彩，干净利落，血腥刺激，让人看着紧张得血脉喷张。但是，同样是一个故事分不同的视角去讲，重复的情节那么多，虽有罗生门之感，怎么去年的《金刚川》被骂的那么惨，这部咋就没人骂了？还给那么高分？仅仅因为导演是雷德利.斯科特？也太双标了吧。。。另外，中世纪的欧洲人真是野蛮肮脏又愚昧，竟然用决斗结果来断定上帝的旨意，真是服了。。那么多人围观决斗，距离国王和大臣们那么近，也不怕有刺客吗？王权的威严何在？决斗场地像牛圈那么小，哈哈哈。。
事件三方，不同角度叙事的风格，比想象的好一点。
这片Apple TV有4k dolby vision，去年九月上映竟然票房惨败，老导演雷德利斯科特估计心里也是一片WTF。影片还原了中世纪最后一场法国国王和议会批准的“决斗”，不管是服装道具外景还是人物心理活动细节全都追求“写实”，时代和科学知识的局限以及人类这个物种的特点某种程度上被展示得淋漓尽致，有点像窦唯写的那首《高级动物》。如果你看过一些心理学书籍就会知道，记忆并不完全符合客观事实，人类会从符合自己利益美化自身动机的角度潜意识里对记忆进行重新编排，从这个角度看，女主角的回忆感觉甚至被过度美化。
在自己死前 克隆一个自己留给家人 这样会不会以后整个世界都是克隆人了？
要说能克隆，还能编辑基因去掉致病基因而不能治疗现有病症，我是不信的。好吧，讨论的不是技术层面。然而克隆了这一次也不是不老不死。克隆的出发点是规避痛苦，但可以躲掉这次的痛苦，还能躲掉以后的悲痛么？说不定克隆人第二天就被车撞了呢？所以如果是我的话是不会选择克隆自己的
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