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".
脑洞很大，特别特别松弛。有许多小心思在里头，两个演员的境遇与电影剧情两兄弟互文。
三位演员都好棒，小潘已证明不用激情也可以吸引人，班德拉斯邪恶真好。给电影的情书，黑色的那种。
太棒了，看到奖杯被搅碎的哪一刻最近的抑郁全好了！
观看体验极佳，因为太好笑了，还有一些看起来很突然但实际非常到位的细节，比如Lola的腋毛，Felix说Ivan的老婆是Lola的女朋友，比如Ivan和老婆在家喝红酒听重工业实验音乐，而且家里养着一只能四处乱跑的橘猫……Gosh，太精准了，笑疯了，尤其Ivan这个角色承担了太多，看的时候我不停地想到，那究竟是还没火的金世佳金老师，还是已经与那啥公寓割席的王传君，还是陈道明…
每个情节设置都如此刻意过火，试图为痛苦找到宣泄的理由，但最终却都被“对不起”抵消，无处释放的痛苦肆意蔓延，善意真的能减轻痛苦吗？
让演员都玩嗨了，吻戏真是有够特别的。导演应该也不准备去戛纳跟威尼斯了，把金棕榈跟银狮一起卷了。
表演出色，喜劇性強。但一切盡在預料，缺乏驚喜或震動。總體而言是有趣的片子，值得一看。
#金鸡 父亲粗暴偏执的恨需要这么多这么厚的爱意才可以被逐渐的融化。但是自杀的女司机和被迫放弃父亲留下的社区店的店主他们的人生呢？演技真的好，也是真的压抑。好久没看这样不用配乐推进的情绪堆叠了。
感觉表演痕迹太重 和drive my car 高下立见
不自信的花音默默地在学校里承受，又默默地用对抗发泄情绪，最终酿成惨剧。家庭之间更良好的沟通显然非常重要。将自信黑成恶意的形容词，是多么不良的动态呀。人为什么不能勇敢地相信自己呢？
《侧颜》的加强版，但显得有些过于刻意，少了侧颜里那种诡异的感觉。
3.5。设计的过于刻意而且节奏平淡。手法重复多次
演员都很出彩！佩内洛普真的是永远的女神！粉碎机的一幕特别有沉浸感，大概可以算是一种当代装置艺术？故事走向毫无惊喜、台词异常直白，强行被灌输并不新鲜的概念……回想起来太糟糕了。
在高效的前十來分鐘四場戲以後，交代了不被理解的女兒與暴躁的父親形象，迅速奠定了基調。但，片名出來以後是要幹嘛？老套的事件寫法，焦點反覆在不同人物之間拉扯，但人物淪為了表現（導演想像中）的日本民族的高度自省與內疚感的工具，而不像「人」，剩下半小時也不想看了。
本质上是对于电影主创人员的讽刺，乐于玩弄装置艺术的女导演，虚伪的作者演员，自大的流量明星。作者演员的虚伪或许更加深入骨髓，傲慢是光环加身之人最常拥有的特性。然而电影文本本身很乏味，就算是加上现实和文本的互文设定也依然缺乏创意，这部电影进入主竞赛单元，或许才是最大的讽刺
相信对我将来的剧本创作和要拍摄的故事会影响很大，最具日本教科书式的温暖动人电影，感动感恩，必须二刷三刷心领神会。人生从此不再空白。
3.5吧，癌症那一段我真的满头问号，结果是演戏。老头死的那一段我也是满头问号，虽然事先有些料到。但是他死后我满脑子都是那人居然没被抓，这居然查不出来。最后的最后，老头居然毫发无伤一样，我更满头问号了。老头应该是死了吧，但是这部片重点也不在他是不是真的死了和凶手是不是会被查出来啦。btw，全程得盯着法语字幕真是有点让我不能集中在两人表演上了。
校方踢皮球，媒体瞎剪辑，渔民变牛郎，不懂少女漫，热心大婶之吻，失传超市便当，透明指甲油，天上海豚云，但最绝望的还是葬礼上的母亲道歉，太苦了，所有人都好苦
三星半，不温不火的，很好的讲了一个轻松的讽刺故事。下班之后去影院看部这样的小品还蛮愉快的。
人类的悲欢难以相通，哪怕已经非常努力。太累了，藉海豚云圆个场
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