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".
3.5. What a sweet boy！
达妹真的好魅，男主为我上了一课如何温柔接受爱而不得……
无法共情，再也不想看到这种不痛不痒的故事拍得不痛不痒的了
没想到是小哥自导自演。丝滑体现在男主身上。好久不见里奇
在车上的镜头是全片的亮点
真不错啊，虽然现实与理想并不相同，但不妨碍自己发光
22岁姐狗男孩的眼泪，我都懂！！！看的过程中想到queer as folk里Justin和Brian这一对。20±是个奇妙的阶段，对同龄人无感，对成熟人类的性吸引力倒是折磨得死去活来。kidult的设定也给角色大加分，温柔男生小鹿一样温柔的眼睛和长长的睫毛是这个年纪不可多得的宝藏，但注定迎来「你需要未来，但不会是我」的终极必杀。Leslie Mann是演出太迷人了，是我最喜欢的女演员之一。Looking里的温柔公0 Richie居然就演了个纸片人就走了，好想他。
淡淡的惆怅，每个人都很可爱，女主酒后笑嘻嘻含情脉脉的眼神，谁能受得了
6分。用五个男性角色分别代指女性对男性的恐惧，前面森林风光片，后面贡献名场面，手臂和套娃cult上榜，A24玩的真嗨。
其实就是恰如其分的成长过程中的一段小插曲而已，欧洲的电影其实拍了很多了，我不知道为什么在美国却拿到了观众奖，是最近美国的商业片盛行的原因吗？反正，男生的这种丝滑与女生的这种无奈，恰恰是我们所经历的，可是，爱就应该在一起啊，又何忌年龄、家世和选择。因为考虑的那些，其实就是不爱了。
母子 兄弟 重组家庭 自闭症 抑郁症 单亲妈妈 元素很多 什么都沾一点 但什么都没深挖 甚至只是“说一嘴”的程度 btw 导演是对soulmate有什么天大的误解吧？真的挺“自我感动”的 建议打发时间也别跳这部了吧
蛮合我的口味，没有狗血也没有鸡血的欢快和伤心夹杂的青春故事。男主非常可爱，善解人意，幽默风趣，正义感强烈，甚至音乐品味不错还会跳舞。看他人前如鱼得水其实内心里也满是无处对人诉说的苦闷，或许这也是他喜欢年长女性的原因之一，尽管他的母亲已经算是很温柔了。然而爱情不能只靠心动和感觉进行，最后还是互相祝愿着告别。好在错过这一个灵魂伴侣，以后的人生还能遇到其他的1199个。遗憾的爱恋是成长的捷径。达妹在这部里显得很有魅力。几场派对的BGM都很好听。
曾经编导过《机械姬》《湮灭》的亚力克斯·嘉兰在今年编导了这部《男人》。
《男人》2022年科幻恐怖类型电影的一部佳作！
A nice coming out of age movie对话幽默音乐好听，达妹贡献了精彩表演，22岁和10来岁的男孩子，年轻的抑郁症妈妈和自闭症女儿构成了成长和弦，成长就是一个个把真心交出去也要准备心碎的时刻，但是被爱着（被爱过）的感觉就如同暗夜走了很久的路抬头居然看到有盏灯是为你点亮～
被片名吸引，然后从电影开头起就轻易地陷入，很久没遇到这种看起来毫不费劲的片子了。看完结尾有点说不出的失望。不过Cooper Raiff未来可期。
Death is sweetest homeland for MEN.
【SXSW 2022】Dakota Johnson笑起来有几分像林嘉欣
看的时候想，啥时冒出来的小俊美帅哥儿，年纪轻轻还要留小胡子儿，看完来看演职表，不得了噢，原来还是编剧和导演，简直是逆天了，前途无量。全片透着一 股轻盈、青春的气息，就像夏天喝上一杯沁凉清爽的类似柠檬汽泡水之类的解暑饮料，连小小的忧伤里都带着丝滑的甜蜜，是，也是只可能是年轻人拍出来的电影，甜到哀伤，用在这里倒一点都不觉得腻味做作，反而很贴切。达妹三十出头，但明显有人妻妈妈的感觉了，西方美女老的确实有点快，要好好保养了噢！喜欢她的自闭症女儿的那个演员，好舒服，哎，这样的小电影小情绪真的蛮适合我的，而且，看似没有剧情的那些有一搭没一搭的台词都写得极好，妙不可言！
好烂，完全共情不了，大胡子的22岁男孩爱上年轻妈妈，喜欢那句 你是在克制接近我还是在克制远离我。
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