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".
我们都懂，国人对外语片最高的评价是“真敢拍啊”
分给题材，叙事和节奏太乱了。160多分钟电影太冗长，前面一个小时太慢了，铺垫过长了，要素过多，一个都没讲明白。只能说印度电影都比我们敢拍。
你可以说这是某一部分的真实上海，也像是经由老乌讲述的索菲亚罗兰，像那双 Jimmy Choo，有一点真，又好像不是真的。到得后来，我们关心的早已不是真与假，而是人要如何直面自己的余生。几乎每个人都在海量细节和绵密台词的加持下稳稳立住，以至于连鞋匠的咖啡时间，我们也不会觉得有那么难接受。好的故事就应当这样讲。你说老白喜欢做饭，他就真的是贯穿全片地在做饭，在张罗点心，在餐桌旁生活。片尾微信对话框里，两个人一个没有标点，一个则一丝不苟地连明天见都要加上句号。你会因为这些被细心关照到的东西而信任讲故事的人。记住这个导演了。
多重反转，揭露批判了种姓制度、学阀和官僚腐败，精彩。
8.5分，不愧是擅长扇耳光的民族，扇得那个脑回路啊跟拨浪鼓似的
看似是徐峥与三个女人的故事，其实主体从头到尾都是女性，男主反而是被动方。睡过徐峥的女人们从先前微妙的修罗场，到最后反而彼此成了朋友。大家一起嘲弄男主过时的男子气概刻板印象时，我在屏幕外也笑得解气：这是一部“女性同盟”电影，男士非请勿入🤣
太精彩了，今年四大电影节这部电影没获奖，我TM绝对不认可。
不必崇拜阿三的电影，若是没有层层的迷雾笼罩，这片天空抬头望也有繁星，只是雾霭茵茵，何以见星！
肉眼可见地有不少小缺憾，但本精神上海人还是狠狠爱了，全程咧嘴姨母笑谁懂？聒噪的阿姨，嘴碎的大叔，狭窄的弄堂，还有街边的梧桐树，这不就是我生活过的上海吗。这片子最好的地方就在于它完全没有包袱，导演没有包袱，一众演员也没有包袱，所以显得特别轻盈自在，以至于看完回过头再去想，这么举重若轻的女性视角，这么单纯呈现状态的爱情片，国产片实在是有点少见。调侃自己曾经的“争议点”，只不过这次换了个男生；调侃两性关系，“十三点”、“野狐狸”藏匿在家长里短茶余饭后；甚至冒犯经典，索菲亚·罗兰是口中ONS的谈资，费费的《爱情神话》也是众人吃蝴蝶酥时的消遣，特别不摆架子，特别不高高在上，又特别触动人。即使经典让人完全看不懂，也能像一个开关，啪唧一下触动更多可能。正所谓，生活可不是神话，但爱情却处处有神话，喜欢。
/2022.6.29/非常理想化，但确实真的勇啊！
所有的局都是有看不见的手幕后的操作， 最可怕的是暗局，如果男主的儿子没有发生意外，谜底可能永远也无法揭开
这是个操蛋的世界，还好可以从电影里找到希望，看到未来。
总体还是挺不错的，后半段还挺紧张的，但是前面真的剧情节奏有些慢。
剧情挺好 就是律师刚出来那段 故意唱反调 而且几处逻辑让看的人想唱反调 这一点有点倒胃口 总的来说反转之处还行
千万不要在律师法庭陈词的时候退出，非常值得五星
1. 电影是好电影，题材由点及面涉及很多热点话题（很难不联想到我国一些事，所以你的国家我的国家大家都一样）情节跌宕多重反转，法庭戏不少台词都是能截图永留存的水平，缺点也有，时长疲惫，音乐铺得太满（毕竟印度电影）；2.“一个国家的尊严等同于它给女性的尊严”（道理都懂但我就是不改系列）；3.法律是道德的底线，刑法是法律的底线，然而这中间还有一条隐形的线叫程序正义，可迟来的正义还算得上正义吗；4.你以为的事实有时只是别人想让你看到的事实，无论哪个时代哪个国家，媒体都应该是真相的传声筒而非政治的喉舌；5.年轻人切忌过度激进或温水煮蛙，任何时候都不要急着站队，有时间多学习，不要在微博自诩判官；6.每每看到别的国家拍出这样的电影，我们总是会思考我国的审查与尺度并痛恨薛定谔的404（叹气）；7.陈思诚👌
节奏有点慢，观点蛮尖锐，印度政府还比较自由啊，这也能上映
来之前看过一些影评都夸，声称女性主义电影，进去直呼上当，头一次见围绕男主角为第一视角的女性主义。非得睡同一个男人才能将几个女人联系起来吗？想不通。
又名《野猫猎杀记》，强于《误杀2》。一位影帝「大叔」领衔三位视后级别「大妈」，操着一口吴侬软语上演的一幕幕奇葩的追爱之旅。虽非尽善尽美面面俱到 ，却也算幽默辛辣妙趣横生吧。徐峥身上确有十足的上海弄堂里小男人的那股劲，头脑灵活细腻体贴却又家长里短死要面子，对于老白那种与女性过招疲于招架的形象塑造几乎绝了，活灵活现（他拿捏小人物早已驾轻就熟）。几位女演员的角色性格迥异，在群戏烘托方面也算出众（毕竟都是演电视剧的老油条了，台词功底相当了得），加之对于女性主义与男权世界的探究也比较辛辣，一针见血，张力十足。其实对于这类电影，权当做圣诞节的佐餐小菜即可。电影的艺术性我们大可不必过于挑剔，片中致敬费里尼的片段已经是对电影艺术感的最大化表达了。邵艺辉大荧幕，算是及格。
反转确实没想到，民意是真的很好被操作，三哥真敢拍，方方面面的黑暗都涉及了，而我们只能看看。
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