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".
48:33 警察在街道上追捕犯罪嫌疑人的这个场景，应该是想表达，他们很低调的，不以警察的身份来追捕嫌犯的过程，因为前面有交代过4名犯罪嫌疑人为政府的党派做过一些脏活。但是在这一时刻警车离开时，并没有亮警灯，而音效师画蛇添足地加了一段警笛的音效，就和前面低调行事而相矛盾。
近来印度电影反转玩得挺溜的，这部电影真的就是反转反转再反转，而所有反转的内因又都是体制本身的腐败导致，某种意义上，电影的主题其实讲得尤为深刻。
国产电影里难得有如此开明的爱情观：轻盈、自在，成年人之间的爱情同样好“嗑”。上海话温柔好听，烟火气十足。“白老师”徐峥、“老乌”周野芒、“小皮匠”宁理组成上海男人群像，多才细腻、精致细心，宁理老师每次出场都仿佛阿拉丁神灯那样的爱情精灵，只不过召唤他不是擦灯，而是擦鞋，修鞋、丢鞋、不让赔鞋几场戏 每句台词都让人回味无穷。上海这座城市在编剧导演邵艺辉镜头里，不再是那种脱离现实的昂贵与华丽，而是结尾白老师在小院里支张桌子请朋友们吃晚饭也要铺上桌布，放上桌花的仪式感。同样喜欢老乌的结局，太浪漫了！不管几岁，爱情万岁！
虽然但是无解啊，结尾也没有说啥，就是希望之🔥可以燎原么？
电影不错，但是短评里一顿疯狂赞扬印度制度的，不知道为啥不移民去印度，按说就算当不了高种姓，应该也不至于沦为贱民，“至少那个国家的人民有尊严”嘛
无论是在法庭上如何慷慨陈词，伸张程序正义，揭露种姓歧视，打到政治倾轧，最后都落在了暴力私刑。当然，最可笑的是群众、学生，乌合之众。
有结果无过程，有转折无推理，关键时刻音乐加慢动作，最后翻盘全靠降神，但看在格局份上，三星增加一星。
红拂的临期商品；夜奔的小资咖啡——全程沪语、中西混血的正宗海派风情，出自一位非上海的女导演之手，嗲额！剧本也是老卵，金字金句接踵而至，不乏唯上海人才能听懂的本土笑料。
好电影，探讨的东西有点多，但又能做到不紊乱，很不容易。这种电影能过审，上映，就是胜利。
剧情剧情 这就是我想要的剧情，看的我热血沸腾。
zz的武器是情感，要民众的情感。警长最后也担心孩子会报复才反戈一击的。电影长是长了点，但一定还是要看原本。悬疑的设定很好。
政客利用人民的情绪，人民太容易被社交媒体影响
豆瓣特供版《小时代》。不懂男人，不懂中年男人，更不懂上海，全是自以为是的猜想，虚妄的符号之下，空空荡荡。
就是上海女人不知道皂基和氨基酸的洗面奶有点扯。
千万不要被片名劝退，反而你看完电影后还会觉得片名非常有意思，因为电影竟然埋了一个很大的电影致敬梗，也算是含有很重的电影元素了。或许这也是不少人愿意给出很高评价的原因之一吧。结尾确实回味无穷，很有感觉，看完之后不禁百感交集，产生很多感慨。这里不得不提一下周野芒，曾经饰演水浒英雄——林冲的他，这次演起上海老克勒也是游刃有余啊，特别富有韵味，让我印象太深刻了。至于徐峥、马伊琍、倪虹洁、吴越也都演技在线，沪语飚起来真的很爽，或许因为长期在上海工作生活的原因，所以看的时候会有额外的滤镜吧，熟悉的街景，熟悉的味道，熟悉的梗，算是魔都电影的典范之作了。至于电影所探讨的那些话题，如今已到而立之年的我也有了更多的体会，爱情这个东西呀，真是玄之又玄。也借这部电影，祝福自己吧。唉😔
皮鞋匠最懂女人心，所以选择单身；
不知道什么时候印度电影的现实主义成了个标签，主要题材好，就能捧上天。
看完觉得也只有上海配得上腔调这个词，是拿腔拿调装腔作势的褒义用法。走下坡路的王琦瑶们就算住鸽子笼也要蹬一双Jimmy choo，老鞋匠有自己的cafe time，街头咖啡馆叫夜奔小超市叫红拂，就连这看似烂俗的片名都来自费里尼。台词句句有嚼头，话有所指又声东击西，人类的多样性，活法的活泛性，电影的开放性，还有这闷骚算计又甜腻的中年浪漫，轻轻重重真真假假深深浅浅，灵的啊～从《繁花》的“七匹狼广告”预告片来看，打不赢啊。
最好一场戏是两男三女第一次围桌，
前半的铺垫过于冗长 精彩的就是后头 所有的真相用大约倒叙的方式呈现 真相无法战胜 也无力 这个国家的人口已经全球第一 接下来呢 问题还在 没法改变 可能 大家都一样 但 他们可以说我们不可能
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