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".
手捧着花金敏喜美得心颤！观感很好诶，没之前那些尴尬了哈哈哈
导演用写爽文般的任性和自恋表达了自己的品味和鄙视，太NF了。
表象是创作力衰竭，进入瓶颈期后因一次重逢、一种偶然、一场会晤而顿生的灵感再现，这种灵感是创作者有意为之的、带有目的性的自我挖掘与试探，试图在灵感匮乏的时期以崭新的形式激活另一条思路。内核却是几次创作飞速蜕变，创作力只增不减，从文本到形式在细微处呈大幅变迁，神来之笔屡现，这种蓬勃的创作态势在其当下的阶段成为某种步入大师殿堂的证言。值得深究的是，在表象与实质内核间，文本用以反讽的作用以及其实际目的。连贯风格的同时，仍以令一般观众无法察觉的文本变化来隐藏其内里深刻的蜕变，从细微的变化中掌握叙事的主动权，在影像真实与否的疑问中传递超脱于一般电影语言所能给到的信息。色彩变化只为一束花，一个镜头特写只为纯粹的真实与烂漫。短暂的几帧画面把先前平整的叙事给打破，影像与现实进行互文，电影成为其收纳生活的艺术品
不知道该打几星，两星四星似乎都很合适。行了行了，知道你们很甜蜜了，下一个。
三星半，其实小说家的角色就是洪本人，借角色之口充分发挥自己的表达欲，借用影像记录真实的一切，而“不是纪录片”又剥离剧作和真实的联系，这种模糊了现实和虚构的边界，显得未加修饰又格外动人。结尾金敏喜哼的婚礼进行曲更是圆一个戏外的梦，同样模糊边界一般用电影讲述现实中的愿望。
在第一个场景中，小说家便要求放弃听觉，将表意集中在视觉之上，随后正是通过陆续几次视线的引导，实现了望远镜中的金敏喜、窗外的小女孩以及摄影机背后的丈夫的出场，又或者说是视线创造了裂变以及角色。在这部电影中，叙事的结构与路线的结构重合为一条环线，沿途拾掇然后回到起点，在金敏喜的入睡中休止，随后另起一章，既可以视作在同一条线路上直接往下延展，又能依附于入睡时刻形成上下的层级关系，甚至在此发生了小说家/演员之间视点的分裂与偏移也并不重要，因为她一早便是从视觉中衍生的。
不是记录，却生发出无限的真实。洪-金的婚礼在过曝的黑白中冲洗出彩色，是属于影像的温柔。
表达欲的重新构筑：通过不断学得并尝试的创作手段，甚至是概念转变性质的创新（写作—手语—影像）来挖掘未曾探索的巧思，随即思维的不易读取性便可成为直观化的视觉要素进行直接意义上的接收，把剥离信息的掌握权交还给观众，而洪（李慧英）要做的就是这点—对文本层面的另维加工。当然语言与表述是不可或缺的，只是在“创作者”的身份之上掩饰上一层“审视者”的标签，我们在画面中看到的被拍摄的故事就好像本身存在，再由演员们进行一场拙劣又尴尬的表演秀一样，审视者则站在一旁进行不必要的“指导”，电影的文本框架就演变为了一份伪装的真相，一部记录的小说。就像我们之前一直注视在旁人簇拥下笑着的敏喜，而在最后目睹了她孤身走出影厅的恍惚一般。我们需要的，就是这种温柔的欺骗。
一边梳理媒介变迁一边阐释艺术家特质，开始只觉“通俗易懂”，愈看愈发现真相不可知，直到最后，银幕内外的人们都在与自己灵魂的分身对望，而那难以启齿的爱也终于连接了影像与现实，妙笔不要太多哦。
我揣测整部电影是从最后那段捡树叶的“家庭录像”倒着发展出来的，是本来就有这段生活里的录像，那个帮金敏喜捡树叶的老人很可能就是她母亲，而小说家随口说的故事就是洪尚秀和金敏喜的故事
其实前面真的还是挺重复的。习以为常的故事。但是那个结尾，太浪漫了。好像这次没有人再对着金敏喜直接说你可真美啊这样的话。但是那个结尾，每一个镜头都在说你可真美啊。她独自哼唱着结婚进行曲，仿佛那就是他们两人的婚礼。所谓小说家的电影，就是他们的爱情电影吧。我爱你！我爱你！
但从作者史而言，未免有些大打“场外”牌之意了，结构性处理得更加微妙但也意味着削弱了影像本身的美学风格，以至于粗糙再次凸现了洪尚秀金敏喜“场外”的特性。
这节奏就很催眠，走到哪都能偶遇，世界真小。“电影是拍给特定的人看的”，被秀到了。给你花花～
应该是看的第一部洪尚秀电影🎬，个人风格极其强烈，是那种静下来看能获得能量的电影。当然，女主角金敏喜实在是太美太好了，我要在假期把她的电影都补一补。
与其说这是小说家的电影，不如说这是导演的生活录像。洪尚秀再一次用他和金敏喜的灵魂爱情撑起了一部电影。台词依旧是文学式的，但静止空间的大篇幅对话到底是不是电影呢，电影不更应该是没有台词也能够运转下去的吗。
最近洪尚秀改做手工电影了，编导摄剪制全都自己来，明显水平下降很多，这是必然的，技术问题固然多，但其实对他来说也没大所谓，最大问题一是演员选择不到位，二是结构设计平庸俗套，三是长期以来的被宠坏的表白欲终于已经到了恶心的程度，最可气的是还有揣着明白装糊涂的电影节和揣着糊涂装明白的吃瓜群众继续纵容他们俩生产低质电影
聊天场面一串连着一串，不适发生在店主和雇员，雇员和诗人，导演和演员，甚至年轻的助手和小说家自己之间。人与人关系的建立不仅依靠情感，也有看不见的东西，增加交流的阻力。直至遇见金敏喜，小说家和女演员完成一次镜花水月般的相遇。洪常秀把小说家和女演员身份的交叠与分离藏匿起来讲述，从一场场谈话里完成二人主体的交换，在生活片段里埋下残酷的成分。世人只聊金敏喜，殊不知洪才是眼光毒辣的小说家。
柏林。疫情时代的电影。一位小说家写不出文章，便到处逛逛汲取灵感，进而与金敏喜聊出了要拍电影的想法,自然又有趣。金敏喜太有气质了吧！才知道导演洪常秀和金敏喜是夫妻，我果然是韩国影片领域的小白了。前半段我因一个镜头而联想到一些有趣的想法，就是那望远镜镜头慢慢地放大到散步的金敏喜时，我以为这个镜头会衔接上放大的画面，继续记录同个地点不同的事物，然而还是切回聊天的场景，看来我是想多了，假如这是个长镜头或许会很有意思...
金敏喜太迷人了，被结尾的笑容和告白甜晕了，好的我就是窗外目不转睛盯着她看的小女孩。一般情侣在vlog秀恩爱，人俩在电影节上秀。
洪的后现代性不就是巧遇嘛，写偶然性真的比写必然性要容易，要写也得写暗含着必然性的偶然性不是吗？
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