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".
影片成功再现【我爱露西】经典情景喜剧的情节，聚焦里卡多夫妇离婚前一周发生的危机和矛盾。
美国人真的觉得自己家的一点破事都重要的要命。
8/10.
Nicole Kidman 的脸到底是怎么了？一度以为她为了接近原型而化了特效妆
男人为了拯救生意和女人，他成功了；女人为了拯救内容和婚姻，她失败了。当Lucy拿出两张手帕时，生活和喜剧的联接被彻底打破，无法再认真对待感情，此后只剩表演。整体制作精良，但在妮可的表演下显得不那么重要了
19年前妮可靠《时时刻刻》封后，那是值得被记住一部电影。而19年后的今天，她要靠一直以来都给劳模姐演的角色封后了，而且是在一部平庸之作里。最大的问题是剧本，就事论事，完全没有做到以点带面。虽然一直以来的野心都是书写“美国故事”，但是呈现出来的效果是被夫妻关系困住了，完成了一部规定动作。导演自己大概永远不愿意承认自己的生涯巅峰就是社交网络了。
她是聪明的女性，可惜却生错了时代，只能在电视上扮演“傻女人”。那个时代的好莱坞没办法给予她机会表达她的声音和想法。而作为一个女性，即使她很努力在维系自己的婚姻，很努力在工作，却依然无法得到来自丈夫和同业男性的足够尊重，十分令人叹息。Aaron Sorkin的剧本还是那么犀利，没让人失望！
5/10。故事一般，摄影还行，对白多得让人晕眩，同时也削弱了影片的视听语言。此外，实在不喜欢影片的叙述方式，既然引入了旁观者的采访，就应当与里卡多夫妇的主视角的叙述内容形成互补或偏差，或者其他化学反应，但影片里看起来十分割裂。
真的好无聊 看的频繁瞌睡 为什么要以save marriage这个nbcs的话题作为人物动机 还不如以好莱坞如何和政府抗争作为主题 J说巴登作为desi太丑疯狂出戏 剪辑也很跳
内容确实有些过满，但剥洋葱式的繁复结构意外地凑效。
好brilliant的演员和编剧 好做作的表演和剧本....索老师你写这个不觉得无趣吗什么时候回来写tv
艾伦的剧本没有感情？感情跟结构，跟逻辑从来都不相悖，难道只有“意识流”“诗意的语言”才能容得下感情？艾伦索金跟露希尔一样是个偏执狂，眼睛里容不下一颗沙子。他想通过严谨的逻辑证明自己的结论，而证明的过程就是他感情流露的过程，最后的结论就是他感情的全部汇集。在他眼里，推理的严谨程度就等于感情的浓度。或许这只是我一厢情愿的猜测，但这个猜测的基础就是我看得很感动。
【22/005】期望不高，但没有失望的传记片。纯粹是去看妮可基德曼的表演，二封的话凌晨改戏完全影后moment。原型访谈+回忆穿插，与《宿敌》无异的老路子，不同的是以星期作为时间点叙事。戏外的造型还是好看的，戏中戏的妆发实在不敢恭维。
D— / 在「七君子」中索金满溢的情绪和配合着粗暴但有效的剪辑，达到了超出其本身导演能力的表达效果，而今剪辑仍保持着某种节奏进行，却陷入混乱而自说自话的表达中。观感和「曼克」无异。
906｜表现欲爆表的索金这次真是讨人厌，导演水平逐渐下降的同时几乎放弃了正常的推进，于是我们就能看到这样的场景：男女主你一言我一语地搭着，然后恢弘的配乐响起，这时我们才意识到这里似乎很重要。整部电影都是如此，感觉索金拿着个手电筒给观众指点迷津：看！我要表现他们的感情了！看！伪纪录片！看！这个社会议题多么令人深思啊！可惜电影不是指哪打哪的打地鼠游戏，披上年代感的伪装也不能掩盖死气沉沉的事实。妮可·基德曼是压死忍耐的最后一根稻草，看到她那无时无刻装腔作势的僵硬的脸就烦。
what are u fucking doing
前聚后虚，前虚后聚，前聚后虚。
会不会大卫芬奇才是索金，这个拍啥都有肥皂剧味的索金是假货呢
生动的诠释了光有一个好剧本而没有好导演的弊端，艾伦·索金还是老老实实的做你的金牌编剧吧，可以说80％都是聒躁且无聊。结尾很好。但挽救不回全片的死气沉沉，妮可的忘词是独属她的影后时刻，不过还是之前的问题，角色都没立起来，二封就更扯了，金球给她是口味独特还是这届实在不能打也不清楚。
男人为了拯救生意和女人，他成功了；女人为了拯救内容和婚姻，她失败了。当Lucy拿出两张手帕时，生活和喜剧的联接被彻底打破，无法再认真对待感情，此后只剩表演。整体制作精良，但在妮可的表演下显得不那么重要了
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