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".
其实还好，可能期望值过高，本来想给三星，四星鼓励吧，毕竟国内这种电影少
道理我都懂，可是为什么她妈妈变的小熊猫那～～～～～～么大啊
欣赏周野芒，张芝华，吴冕的表演是一种享受，这片再加个林栋甫就完美了，林栋甫可以演宁理那个角色
如果每个人的人生都会到达一个最好的阶段，在那个阶段上你对一切尺度的拿捏都近乎恰到好处，你不需要奋力着让别人看出你的奋力，也无需着急着讨好谁，无需把自己的破碎扒开来吸引谁的好奇与注意，你只是坐在门前晒着太阳，平静地讲一个小故事，也自然有人聚在你的身边，觉得这故事有趣，你也有趣。恍恍间过去了一个下午，再会想起来，你可能也不大记得那个故事，但你会永远记得那个下午。
没写了个啥事儿 但是从第一场戏好看到最后一场戏。音乐也好
非常好看，上海的那个小资味儿拍得惟妙惟肖。修鞋的大爷坐在摊位后的小凳上一边磨咖啡豆一边教白老师：every woman needs a pair of Jimmy choo in her lifetime，太洋气了。另外，里面有一句台词是：不像有的电影，明明是翻拍的，宣传的时候又不提。哈哈哈哈，你就指名道姓得骂吧！
结尾也挺有意思的，浪漫至死，但是感觉有点虚，可能我还是不够浪漫。
往往能更加客观的看待如今的上海
对于儿子的女朋友，他的选择比儿子还要坚定，就是认准了洋洋这个女孩。
沪语话痨城市电影。城市电影的灵魂不是反光玻璃上或购物中心里的“全球单城性”(uni-city)，而是独道的人间烟火。上海的女性气质是精明的：爱是投资，需要回报。整个电影就是一场入市风险评估，是反神话的。中西混杂，中产趣味，中年心态，正如结尾沙发上的人们，费里尼是看不懂的，生活却是值得过的。当然，对于沪外观众，从咖啡馆、画展到索菲亚罗兰，这恐怕是另一种“生活在别处”的都市神话。遗憾：歌曲太多，缺乏体系。
灵的！导演很牛吖 完全看不出新手，故事起转承合，矛盾爆发，收尾点题 相当成熟工整又不失趣味性的一部电影！（诶呀原来是红佛夜奔！微博之前还关注过她 确实是有料的才女！）
必须给第一部全程上海话的电影一个大大的赞👍🏻生活没什么本来面目，它永远摇摆在理想与现实之间，心向哪一边，便活成它的样子。
母女关系的刻画有点cliche啊。所以使用早乙女乱马技能只是为了能和姐妹淘去看男团演唱会，小熊猫风评受损...
最后希望广州也能整出这么好的东西……东山口和北京路说你呢。
把“对华裔的偏见+刻板印象”神不知鬼不觉置换成“青春期的成长烦恼+母女冲突”并使之正当化。全片构建了一个略显阴森、压抑、失常的华裔母系社会：女儿是社交网络里的脑残粉+literal freak，母亲是电视新闻里的虎妈，家族长辈女性是旧社会题材小说里的七大姑八大姨。她们每个人都在drama地扮演着自己的群体，一脉相承的是有毒的母性，本质是失格的演出。仔细想了想，《魔法满屋》也是这个套路。怎么，一旦涉及到minority女性主角，如今的迪士尼皮克斯不刻意拉踩不捏造矛盾就不会讲故事了？以及，在这部片里别的ethnic group往往以被华裔迫害者or无私爱心人士的设定出现，即使是主角的神仙闺蜜们也不免曾被她的“自私和无理”所伤害。一路看下来非常不舒服。两星全给技术。
我可太喜欢倪虹洁了，尤其是说上海话的倪虹洁，又魅又迷人
四星半：爱情神话封存着坍塌的罗马，路边旅馆私藏着余生的珍宝。鞋匠和大师之间只差一条格言，鸡毛与艺术之间只隔一杯咖啡。中年人的爱情没有那么多朱砂和白月光，围着饭桌的都是饭粒和豆腐渣，把一万块的鞋履谎称两百是为善良，将两万五的赎金挥霍一空也是深情，夜晚的啤酒能够制造浪漫也能造福生活，白日的咖啡可以是愉悦的点缀也是忧愁的必备。生活中多的是英国人难以通过的英文测试、意大利人衣锦难还的义乌故乡，有人填满了后缀仍觉得一场空虚，有人唯有爱情为座右铭却不枉此生，什么是徒劳，什么是成功，什么是爱情，都是刻在光影之中的神话。
灵。屏幕上他们轮流涂护手霜的时候，旁边的女孩也应景掏出了她的，我俩边涂变笑，是2021年度观影最可爱瞬间了。
配乐和台词都很认真花心思了
还有什么好讲的？都给我狠狠得吹一波！都这年头这市场了还能把家长里短鸡毛蒜皮拍出了费里尼+伍迪艾伦的味道来还想咋滴？节奏牛得一批 没有浪费一个镜头 几首插曲也出现得恰到好处 最重要的似 阿拉就住在太原路 每天遛狗必经过片中的弄堂街道 亲切得不得了好不辣～
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