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".
真是童年回忆啊
平遥影展开幕片。难得观看到柬埔寨电影，也是一部青年导演的处女作，作者本人的童年往事构成了电影文本的创作基点。自我挖掘的自传式书写——这大概业已成为一种自特吕弗以降的“作者论”的主流叙事，面向亲身经历的回溯视点也意图向观众传递一种“敞开心扉”的真诚。不过，本片的风格基调似乎太过模棱两可，尤其表现为纠结于纪实与诗意，在现实主义与超现实主义之间凌乱徘徊，二者的转换往往显得唐突甚至没有必要（譬如，出现了一段对“荒废的白色大厦”的梦境叙事，其表述方式显得“类型电影化”，甚至接近某些惊悚片的视听手法，从而破坏了整体韵律）。不过，也有不少桥段组织得相当巧妙，譬如片尾母亲和孩子的对话，一组正反镜头将两个人物各自发生的不同动作交错剪接在一起，时间的运动及其流逝就这样在画框之外得到了十分微妙的隐喻及其表征。
柬埔寨。长片处女作。平遥。难看。撩撩几个人物，故事没讲清，人也描不全，整个观影过程十分煎熬，偶尔有几处亮点。（见到了贾樟柯，气场很足，虽然有点油腻，但还是很可爱的啦～）
帮我女儿打个5星，记录4岁半的宝贝第一次去电影院完整地看完一部电影。
大人就别凑小孩子的热闹了…现在回过头来看动画片，真的好幼稚。
失望 我一个很爱看图图并且台词都能背下来的真的很失望 就是之前的剧情稍微改了点 台词都没怎么变 真的很失望
有一些剧情感觉像是童年回忆搬上了荧幕，开头的剧情让我慌了一下，我以为胡图图失忆了。
好看，陪儿子看的！重点儿子喜欢，我就是一个陪衬😁😁
#21PYIFF 3.5星。讲述柬埔寨人们赖以生存的精神家园白色大厦面临拆迁；朋友远去法国离开家乡，跳舞梦想的破碎，精神家园被摧毁，以少年的视角非常细腻的描述了这种复杂的情感；刻画的父亲（当地人群）形象：隐忍、善良、愚钝……被工业化发展抛弃的城市注定经历四分五裂，楼房拆毁、年轻人离开，最后一个镜头，那种复杂的伤感衬着蓝色的夜晚，忧郁的晚风，真的非常非常美，一刹那我想到了《月光男孩》，以及骑摩托车的画面非常《青少年哪吒》，很喜欢。
抛去炒冷饭，个人觉得主题关爱老人挺不错，现在老龄化在上涨，我们也该更多的关注老人群体，从娃娃抓起，不要过多的沉迷于网络世界，带动孩子多做一些公益活动。虽然剧情歌舞有点尬，但是我觉得还是挺感人的。关爱老人就是关爱明天的自己。
很平淡，没有大起大落的情感，每天都差不多的过日子。然后，房子要拆了，朋友要分开了，和过去告别难免要消沉一阵子的。 柬埔寨1400的拆迁补偿有点惊讶…
大耳朵图图是童年的回忆，小时候最喜欢的就是图图啦，小怪也很可爱，通人性。平时都是在电视上看，现在在电影院可以看啦，大荧幕上看的和电视上感觉是不一样的，而且还有这么一群人陪着一起看，虽然说在观影的时候有很多小孩在霸王龙小分队跳舞的时候跟着一起跳这样很影响观影，但是同时也带给我们很多欢乐，关爱老人在行动！
适合带着孩子一起看的电影，非常有教育意义，关爱独居老人，让孩子有爱心，图图和他的小伙伴用自己的行动告诉大家
国庆带着小朋友来看这部电影 发现很有年代感啊 比如 那座机 还有那邋遢大王的主题曲 那不是80后的童年嘛 哈哈哈哈 关爱老人的主题挺好的 关爱今天的老人 就是关爱明天的自己
柬埔寨之声，一种独立表达，开头骑摩托那场戏还挺好，后来就变得越来越薄，最好想意味深长一点，却是太薄了一点。
小孩子看还可以，有一半都是以前看过的，感觉像拼凑起来的那种
#PYIFF2021#其实前半段三个男孩在街上骑着小摩托游荡是很有趣的，带到金边的城市环境，三个男孩既有点年轻人的自信又透着因穷困带来的没有底气，撩妹、跳舞、看日落。但后半段回到家庭内部，就明显和前面有所割裂，节奏变慢。全球化、拆迁、阶层剥削等多种问题轮番出现，男孩面对父亲的截肢无所适从。
在原有动画的基础上，添加了新的内容，图图的大电影都还挺有深意的
作为一个失眠患者，重度睡觉困难户。我度过了无比香甜的一个半小时。绝了，除了展示困境啥都没有。废戏不好。科长特别乱制片监制了。都是啥啊。
电影观众最多5岁，不能再多了。9岁的大宝表示剧情幼稚，大班的小宝倒是看得津津有味。
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