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".
这种古欧故事对于不了解欧洲历史的我非常不友好...我觉得最后高文逃过一劫了，因为选择了诚实和守信
“献给我的孩子们，今日还是青春韶华，明日就垂垂老矣。”
越是老导演的片子反而更加返璞归真，影像也不难理解，还能拍摄就是最大的意义吧
6/10。洛维致力于制造绘画感极强的空间，镜头下高文横穿泛着雾气的泥地，流落于巨人出没后翻天覆地的广袤空间，又站在长满藤蔓形如洞穴的绿教堂入口，提供了一个主角完成从平凡到神格化的游牧空间。高文成为了一个意志薄弱被欲望反复诱惑的耶稣，他厮混于妓院不去礼拜、勉为其难地打赏问路的男孩、受城堡女主人的引诱失贞，并在落实荣誉的最终阶段害怕牺牲，当神性的光辉消隐，故事重回到人身上：全景大环摇中被男孩打劫、捆绑的高文变成白色尸骨，又在镜头运动一周返回后恢复血肉之躯，以空间位移来构建一种时间—历史，使主角收获‘‘发现自我’’；因背信弃义而称王的时候，黑暗冷寂的宫殿里高文翻出母亲保佑他的绿色腰带，随即人头落地，于幻觉中重塑自我的高文坚定了勇气，俯身面对执斧的绿树人。影片乏善可陈之处是为最终做出崇高牺牲的铺垫太少。
6.5/10。一首童话诗，极美的装置艺术电影。剧情孱弱到可以忽略，红蓝黄绿色彩纷呈，放空脑袋听着配乐享受即可。我很爱这部透露出的诡谲氛围感，上路吧想成就伟业的年轻人，上路吧不问归期。“目击众神死亡的草原上野花一片，远在远方的风比远方更远。”
以后这样的作品能不能不要再进主竞赛单元啊，够浪费时间的，意大利电影有时候真的很踩雷
放得下的归土，放不下的归海。多么蓝的大海，多么红的头发！作家手执长钉，永负其罪，直至在红发中燃烧。
其中加入的歌谣和韵味都与原著优美的长诗体遥相呼应
导演运用了很多视觉上的小心思去诠释这样一个叙事诗的题材，和鬼魅浮生一样，整体调性过于装腔作势，使得虚伪骑士毁灭过程流于表面。
期待了一年的电影，不失所望，离奇鬼魅，又是一场造梦之旅。高文逃走我满脸懵逼，看到结局才松了一口气。Every hero has a journey,我们都在成长。/二刷，光影美轮美奂，尤其夜里湖边那场戏,今年最佳了。真的，得在电影院看
画面大部分是灰暗的，节奏的缓慢的。我反而对片头的大白鹅挑衅山羊🐐印象深刻。
神叨叨的………就是觉得这种结构和叙事蛮神奇的，他为啥一直带着那条绿腰带
8.1 对于传统神话故事的现代化解构，将这场冒险的起因由阴谋转为了权贵间的游戏，彻底了瓦解了骑士精神同时又赋予了高文爵士崭新的动机，一种在时间和空间错位之下非纯粹的追求，去除这种执念的他才能得以新生。电影的诸多意象符号处理的很复杂，一定程度上影响了观感，但仅就表层而言还是看得很爽的。
巨人 树精 公主 中世纪 骑士。万分期待！好美啊！开头快睡着了，被指路的小男孩叫醒了。狐狸到底什么来历。好玄幻啊，巨人。最后的公主是个什么，是最后那个城堡的女的吗，那个城堡的主人为什么亲他，是gay吗？不过捆绑play真对外国人胃口。非常玄幻，非常满意。除了基本没听懂，而且我太困了。最后还有彩蛋，结果大家都散场了。
低齡兒童向，典型的美式套路。如果不是被困在斷電斷網的雪夜，大概率是看不下去的。
“人是必须要被克制的东西：因此你当爱你的道德——因为你将因道德而毁灭。”
悲欣交集（撒骨灰这么俗 也能流下两滴猫眼泪
看哭了。前半段是告别，后半段才是属于莱奥诺拉的故事。送别了一路，不仅仅是因为他是受尊敬诺贝尔奖得主，也不是他是侏儒似的住在孩童的棺材里让人发笑，送别记忆是由战争，历史与记忆共同组成的。影像化的极简和转场的合二为一已经出神入化，送别路上的风尘苦楚，撒骨灰的色调转变，再到最后一幕的三像一体，年轻的，成熟的，老去的，有声，而回音的收尾。《钉子》除了是完成"未完成"的作品，也是一出纪念，如同《平行母亲》的任务是将女性之痛与历史挂钩，而《莱奥诺拉的告别》则是用未完成的和已完成的两部分，代表弟弟送别哥哥，用未完成的献祭已完成的。解决一场影像的割裂与对战争和平的反思，一场导演的技法与影像个人秀，只需要一句"to my brother"。
很多隐喻符号意识流的东西，不懂用典会看得云山雾罩。
大卫·洛维的新片，这次没有在美国现当代社会的语境中讲故事，而是换到了英国的古代传说中。或许，洛维更适合这种奇幻故事。
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