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".
那些说本体赢了然后不得不扮演复制体的，可能没注意一个细节。喝水的时候本体是扎了头发+圆领T恤，复制体是披着头发里面是衬衫。本体毒发死亡后，复制体穿了她的外套，但是里面的衣服没有换掉。所以死的就是本体，复制体说自己是本体，因为一来可以避免法律制裁，二来其妈妈和男友其实都是喜欢复制体的，合谋害死了本体，心照不宣。结尾哭啥？因为这也不是复制体想要的生活啊！
有点偏喜剧 缺点一大堆 但总体不算烂 可能是我比较喜欢这个演员 还有那个男配角…造个克隆人也太快了吧 一眨眼就冒出来了 男友和妈妈对于这件事的态度实在令人费解 也太白眼儿狼了吧 扯犊子扯大了…结局有点不舒适
所以Sara二号最后为啥子要哭？？？如果我只有一个男朋友一个妈 没有朋友 他们还都希望我不是我 那我可能只会想要换个地方过活吧。
女主角总是一副哭丧脸，她把生活过成了一堆臭狗屎，不仅身患绝症，对母亲冷淡，男友对她冷淡。即便如此，内心深处的温情仍然促使她克隆了自己，希望克隆体代替自己继续生活。无论多么旁，人总是希望活下去的。愿所有负重前行的人都能坚持到最后，只要光明磊落地活着，受罪也是好的。
克隆自己在未来应该是有可能的，但是，通过决斗来确定哪一个应该生存，这只可能是美国式的思维吧，我反正觉得不太可能。不过，这部电影的确带给我一些思考，关于对待人生的态度，对于生活中的事物怎样做出取舍
好悲伤的结局，她赢回了人生，却输掉了一切。
不知道克隆人在木屋里说的重复人生是不是真心呢
铺垫半天，就这？我以为得打一架，另外没看明白的看这里，结尾是克隆，给女主喝了毒药，然后刚问的怎么开车所以还不熟为了赶紧赶来就撞车了，来了后为了做自己所以假装说自己是本体，原因就是因为她这一年当老好人当烦了，所以她战斗前才来找女主说受不了她妈妈的无聊信息之类的，最后结局也确实做了自己，装成本体拒绝男主去不爱吃的餐厅。
切入点不同。《天鹅挽歌》是不舍当下 ，本片则是困在当下。但无论是表现手法/文本高度/人物动机/叙事转折/演员演技等各个方面吧，本片都明显不如前者。算是个低配姊妹篇吧~
每次画面一跳一跳，串台似的画面一出，就觉得是在看「艺能人金广发」。
满屏的丧气。剥离掉很多现实社会的问题之后的一次实验，结果是人心依旧叵测，无论谁家的柴米油盐，都充满酸甜苦辣。
确实让人想到天鹅婉歌，形式与主题不错，拍的确实烂，不如天鹅挽歌完整精致。
挺有深度的结尾。活下来的是本尊。因为只有本尊想做本尊。
有些悲哀的结局，选择克隆体来代替自己的人生与自己的家人继续生活下去，什么样的人才会做出这样的选择，女主被误诊绝症晚期，看到了冷漠的宣传广告还是毅然造了替身，然而克隆体却比她更好的融入了本来属于她的生活，无论是男朋友还是母亲，明显更喜欢克隆体，一年后的决斗，女主看似学习了很多格斗技巧，但实际她活的很累，决斗前一天花光了所有的钱又被告知还要延期一个月，并且还得支付克隆体的费用，最后二人走进树林，出来的到底是谁，各有各的解读。当人生已然活成这样，绝望孤独会压死最后一根稻草。
有点出乎意料的精彩 最后是本体还是替身 想了一晚上
问题1，copy为啥哭呢？是因为她也腻了妈妈和男朋友？还是为original的死感到难过？
本是一个荒诞的科幻制度为基础，聚焦在女主自绝症，亲友的冷淡，寄希望于克隆人的传承，到最后被克隆人“剥夺”了人生，导演没有刻意藏匿线索，稍动点脑就能知道结局，我杀死了那个他们蓄谋的“我”，并陪他们孤独的装成我，好无奈悲剧的结局。
首先，你得先看看自己是什么东西，才能自我认同，才能自我救赎。
想法很好，但设定中两个人必须死一个的缺陷有点大，剧情推进也缺少故事性，完全服务于情绪与性格渲染了
克隆人完全成了原来的她，忍受着原来的一切。
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