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".
是枝裕和拍家庭本身就充满理想化，这放到失真的韩国语境里就变得完全没有可信度了。裴斗娜确实显老了，感觉印象里还是《空气人形》里那样。
是枝裕和：去外国电影市场炒一遍本土已经炒不下去的冷饭✅
在弃养/卖婴儿（有血缘关系切断亲情关系）和领养/买婴儿（无血缘关系想建立亲情关系）的互动过程（公路片模式）中，依旧在探索血缘关系与亲情关系的本质。几组人物之间的关系（多数表现为情感替代）描写细腻。
私心加一星吧，还是挺喜欢的。是枝裕和自从拿金棕榈后就沉迷于拍外语片，依旧把玩着过去拍日片的风格，却没什么突破，塑造畸形家庭这个主题翻来覆去的讲也拍不出新的花样了，二流剧本仿佛不是本人所写碎得可怜，流动性太差。演员表现都可以，黑暗中吐露新声也是加分所在。
从寄生虫到掮客，一部最佳影片一部戛纳影帝，宋康昊真是稳坐韩国国宝级演员的宝座。就本片而言，是枝裕和并没给观众带来太大的惊喜，倒也值得一看【三星半】
태어나줘서 고마워，赤ちゃんは宝物である。那是小太郎，一果，소영最想听到又无法听到的一句话。关灯后，黑暗中，소영慢慢，对每一个人都说出这句话，感谢你的出生。如果注定无法被祝福的孩子，出生之前杀死TA，出生之后杀死TA，哪个罪更轻？有小偷家族的影子，一些陌生人因缘巧合生活在一起，会发生什么呢？导演对소영没有指责，更多的共情。没有哪个女人天生就是母亲，在学习成长。两次经过隧道的黑屏，姜东元用手横在소영面前，滚落的泪水，一滴一滴，被抛弃者，抛弃者的尝试和解。我们一起养吧，要是这么能重来就好了。那些藏在背景中的脆弱无助，怕是소영最后的防备，童话是温柔。是枝裕和镜头下的IU 有村架纯，太美了。谢幕的ost赞。
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这小孩是不是有啥魔力啊，亲爹被亲妈杀死了，亲爹的老婆花了几百万然后还找黑社会抢他回来要养他，有大冤种夫妇花几千万要养他、养不成了还要时不时来看他，人贩子为了他开始不爱钱了、变圣母了（当然还杀了人），女警察案子没办成最后硬是给他养了三年然后还给亲妈。我不理解。
是枝裕和+韩影阵容最终变成了不伦不类，虽然同属东亚文化圈，但是日本那种不可名状无法形容的清淡和哀伤强硬塞进戏剧冲突与社会讽刺性极强的韩影中时还是稍显违和。或许韩语和日语的发音之间的区别与印象也是阻碍我理解本片的一大原因。
人物丰富度最高的年轻妈妈角色完全没有演出来，扁平无聊面瘫，所有缺点于一身。宋男主的发挥可能还不如寄生虫的一半，很难理解戛纳评委可以感受到他的表演。综合看也是剧本毫无深度的原因。
娃娃脑袋比iu还大😅😅😅中肯的说 出戏的很 丽姐这个角色 演戏撑不起来啊 硬着头皮点了 明显不成熟 稚嫩的演技 跟前辈们没有对比性 也不知道怎么就感化了 然后跟男主的气氛………😅好不搭………没有演出那种真的爱娃但是想跟娃装不熟等等拥有故事成熟的女人感 演技生疏 继续努力吧唉
演员能演一次是枝裕和的电影真的很幸运，好和不好的地方全都暴露得很彻底。IU和姜栋元资源那么好，但难获主流奖的原因，宋康昊对角色有哪些思考和设计，裴斗娜能被国际市场接纳的原因，这部电影里有很直观的答案。演一部戏能解答演员职业生涯中的问题，真值。不过我对这部电影实际评分应该在2星半，IU演技上的现存问题对成片质量的影响难以忽视。
跟小偷家族用的同一个营造假象的路数，只不过这次连人物动机都搞不清了，水土不服的破剧本找一帮名角加个偶像都撑不起台面
是枝裕和就是擅长把普通场景细腻化，洗车，火车隧道，摩天轮，关灯夜话这几个场景都挺温暖的
是枝裕和总是能轻易地把观众引到警察体制的对立面
如果不知道这是是枝裕和的电影，我可能会觉得它还不错。只可惜，看过《小偷家族》和《无人知晓》后，我对于这部电影的评价，恐怕只能是空有其躯壳了
首先要承认，看是枝裕和永远是处在一种安逸的舒适区，节奏、台词都是正正好，只是故事搬到了韩国，犹如在韩料店点了日料，虽不是格格不入，但总觉得该去隔壁日料店点才对啊，这种不紧不慢的节奏不太贴韩国人，另外影片兑了太多鸡汤，这和之前的是枝裕和又还不一样，在反映故事之外还尝试解决问题，这就又少了一份现实的力量了，使影片来的温暖，又太过流俗。
如果是悬疑片 或者犯罪片 完全可以直接把孤儿院那孩子干掉 hh 当然这种展开在导演的电影里是不可能存在的 不过不知道为啥 总感觉演员演得都好假 尤其是洗车那块儿 为什么会笑？为什么要那么刻意 真的开心吗？我会这样问自己 难道是因为不是亲生的？之后的展开也有些差强人意 裴斗娜工具人实锤 或许我该把这部当作商业片 别较真 别过脑子比较好 但又想着如果可以把今 敏的《东京教父》和河濑直美的《晨曦将至》掰开揉碎结合一下 或许会出现不错的效果也说不定
「感謝你的出生。」他們不需要快樂，只需要世界上有一個人因為自己的出生有一點慶幸，這樣就能讓他們在黑夜裡感動。
韩版《小偷家族》，更像公路片，这里也有没有血缘的人们临时组成的家庭。
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