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".
有趣，結尾有點弱。Penélope太有魅力了！
每个人的刻板印象和作品本身呈现的刻板印象。冲突之后就会和解，怕只是创作者的美好愿景罢了。（顽固不化的人私以为只有走马灯才会将其融化。人类这种生物，赶紧毁灭吧啊。）
并没有任何感动之处，片中没有任何配乐，这种冰冷的客观也是一种情绪表达。迁怒于他人只会使一切变得更糟，于事无补。有个bug，最肉疼的第二撞重卡司机线没了。
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。
在整体故事系统的编排上，以排练作戏剧与影像的分割线，而影像本身对于现实的“复原”，意味着表象下的解构，这种所谓还原主义式的戏剧排演，洽洽讽刺着公众对于原型与意识形态的“渴望”。这是整个系统层次可以在商业前提下相对丰富的基础，也是他与片名些许跑题的原因。
後者非常沉重悲傷時代革命的場景有錢人被搶被虐，再上演黑勢力黑吃黑，劇本與鏡頭都很強勁。
第一个想夸的竟然是这个取景地的空间感，完全不像是试读剧本和排练的地方，但是又和这个非常artificial vibe的故事很搭
不错的故事，沉痛也释怀，但是少一个情节支点就是卡车司机线，这也导致整体稍显单薄，比较可惜。
この間見た「drive my car」に似ているね。身内の死、自省、人と人の繋がり、助け合い。何か物足りないところがあるというのも共通点の一つ。
拍电影，看电影，看拍电影，拍看电影。你骂我，我骂你，你们骂我，我骂你们。
从杰出公民以来，两位导演合作的越来越差，笑点包袱创意都挺足的，结果真正涉及到主竞赛才这么一点，坐拥几位大明星，演这个本子是真的吃力不讨好
挺有趣的 专门讽刺电影从业者的喜剧 威尼斯戛纳圣塞等知名国际电影节的奖杯被扔进机器粉碎掉 是电影节影迷的high点了 荒诞喜剧的核心是 一个人越想做什么事 最后反而做不到 且另一个人不费吹灰之力就做到了
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…
讽刺力度不够啊，可能也是送去展映的片子吧。有些点以为出来了但又吞回去了…班德拉斯和佩内洛普真的是西语演员里的宝藏呜呜
故事非常有社会话题性，但处理得仍限于话题。日本电影越来越沉溺于独有的一种文艺气质（包括影像上的审美），太不屑于渲染，太偏好留白，以至于故事讲的依然只停留在社会热点上，这是导演的问题，倒并非剧作的技巧。最好看的是片名出现之前，即核心事件的发生。事件对每个人的影响，导演选择了白描的方式，而这都在观众认知中，观感就会较为平淡。事件发生的刹那，两车撞人拍的确实惊心动魄，但其实最重要的是涉事人的视点与感受——不仅自己被无意间卷入其中，现场的血腥惨烈也使他们坠入梦魇。尤其女司机自杀，不仅是女孩父亲不接受她的道歉，更是那刹那间的地狱般景象让女司机让她无法回归正常生活。松坂桃李与寺岛忍的支线设想的有趣，但没做结实，最为遗憾。也是松坂的局限性，他缺一点肆无忌惮。结尾很喜欢，古田新太的海豚与女儿的海豚，泪目。
到头来，女儿还是偷了东西，父亲终于也承担了其中的一份罪恶感，这个事件里的每个人都带着罪恶感，所以不可能相互原谅，只能任由时间淡化。对捕风捉影的无良媒体的讽刺的几场戏特别好。
节奏控制的很好，演员演技也全部在线，故事深度差一点，太自省了，搞得观众看的很累，像海边下跪那场戏的台词 太累了阿…，倒着抽烟细节很好，整体不错
伏笔设置还挺巧妙的，不过影片节奏挺拉胯....还好有三位主演精彩的表演
7分。威尼斯主竞赛单元的参赛电影《主竞赛》。富豪想拍一部获奖电影，找来金棕榈女导演，买了诺贝尔文学奖小说的改编权，再加上一个实力派演员和一个获奖无数的明星，这样的组合，还不横扫主竞赛？电影展现的是正式开拍前的排练阶段，两个演员相互不待见，导演又有层出不穷的前卫想法，把演员们搞得晕头转向。终于所有戏都排练好，马上要正式开拍时，实力派演员出了意外，只能让超级明星一人分饰两角。黑色幽默式的讽刺，全片高潮在搅碎金棕榈、银狮奖等重量级奖杯那段。
整体碰撞在一起，导致：文艺之中参杂着黑色幽默，甚至带点神经质，气质直接拉满。
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