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".
一群成熟的中年人在上海说着abc，保持体面又复杂的生活状态，有着精致冷清又不饶人的上海味道。也不知道现在评论为什么刷过去，大体都是好评，疑惑于为啥自己看得云里雾里，我只觉这部电影讲了一堆废话，没什么内涵。能感觉到导演想表达的态度，可这部电影拍得太浅显，令人看完以后只觉乏味无聊。有时候玩艺术，一旦玩得看起来很高级、故弄玄虚，往往就是最令人反感的样子。一群小资中年人端着过来人的姿态，叉着手吹牛皮。
现实主义题材力作，直面多种印度社会问题，主角律师在法庭上的发言振聋发聩！虽然最终变成了复仇主题，但是瑕不掩瑜，这仍旧是一部非常有感染力的好电影！
太精妙了，片中每一个人物都是一枚随波逐流的纸片棋子，不停地被分解和建构..仔细看就会发现片子里象征世俗正义的那帮人，说到底不过在履行自己的道德和权益——因为本该如此；反叛道德秩序那帮人也在行使自己的价值和权利——因为全世界的人都知道事实上就是如此。眼看着周围的邻居们思索思索再思索—创造，我们也惊呼要增强民族自信，柔和一些——喏，折中的温暖现实主义。而那些只能隔海相望的这帮电影朋友，脸上带着兴奋的潮红，惴惴不安地沉入剧情，朝着我们想都不敢想的刀刀见骨的现实主义失控驶去..
肉眼可见地有不少小缺憾，但本精神上海人还是狠狠爱了，全程咧嘴姨母笑谁懂？聒噪的阿姨，嘴碎的大叔，狭窄的弄堂，还有街边的梧桐树，这不就是我生活过的上海吗。这片子最好的地方就在于它完全没有包袱，导演没有包袱，一众演员也没有包袱，所以显得特别轻盈自在，以至于看完回过头再去想，这么举重若轻的女性视角，这么单纯呈现状态的爱情片，国产片实在是有点少见。调侃自己曾经的“争议点”，只不过这次换了个男生；调侃两性关系，“十三点”、“野狐狸”藏匿在家长里短茶余饭后；甚至冒犯经典，索菲亚·罗兰是口中ONS的谈资，费费的《爱情神话》也是众人吃蝴蝶酥时的消遣，特别不摆架子，特别不高高在上，又特别触动人。即使经典让人完全看不懂，也能像一个开关，啪唧一下触动更多可能。正所谓，生活可不是神话，但爱情却处处有神话，喜欢。
三个小时的电影十足漫长，随时来的歌舞声也不非常下头，也没什么高超手法，部分情节有点过于小学生，虽然…但是…友邻评论的人们共情的共的都是电影之外的东西特别贴切。
以戏论戏，并没有拍得很好。后面的连串反转，也过于表面化。至于高分，不言而喻了。
又是国内没法立项，立项也没人投资，投资也没法拍完，拍完也没法过审的电影。国内编剧老是抱怨悬疑剧太难拍，来看看人家怎么先扬后抑，反转再反转的。说说剧情吧，终于有部电影触及印度社会的根源问题：种姓制度。这种与社会脱节落后的种族制度，才是造成印度各种社会恶象的根源。希望这部电影带来的些许影响，真的是可以推动历史的车轮再往前行进少许，而不是像电影内容一样，被权力裹挟着的舆论，变成统治的工具，风口浪尖潮起潮落，都只是掌权者的余兴节目。总的来说，故事是真的好，但是煽情方面还是差了点，可能和叙事结构也有关系，五星没问题，瑕不掩瑜。
讲自己“不过是犯了全世界男人都会犯的错”的蓓蓓，称自己“老公失踪，有钱有闲，状态最好”的格洛瑞亚，把自己两万块的Jimmy choo说成是两百块只为让男主不要过于愧疚的李小姐，三个女人的一台戏足够精彩。女性即使年轻不再也依旧可以浪荡潇洒，魅力四射，以自己的方式谱写自己的爱情神话。
前80分钟平淡无奇，后80分钟真相抽丝剥茧的过程看的头皮发麻，反转到怀疑人生。 印度拍电影总是有惊喜，什么题材都改拍，都能拍，集政治，人性，法律，悬疑，真相于一体的佳作
还行吧。有些不通顺的地方。整体还可以吧。看完感觉印度要完犊子了。
前面反转2次真的很好看啦，后面结尾是在埋伏笔？有2？上升高度大可不必，太像韩剧了。
更因为那段罗马往事的长篇独白，
老实讲，电影想反映的社会问题有点太多，东一榔头西一棒槌的。前面以为探讨的是女权，平等，校园(职场)霸凌，后面又开始说政治手段，警官勾结。总之就感觉有点too much
后半段的法庭辩论反转太精彩了。
无法不推荐。如果不是这个起步的评分，很可能因为这一句话的剧情简介错过。
剧情真的很拖沓，动不动就慢镜头。。。讲的点太多，倒是反转很无聊，不如拍连续剧吧。只能说三星的一星给题材吧
神片算不上，但印度电影真在觉醒，被蒙住眼睛捂住嘴巴，总要有人出来呐喊吧。哪怕是微弱的声音，我们还没有被逼到绝境，懂的都懂
老灵额！确是一部与上海气脉相连的佳作。魔都的精明、世故、软糯与包容劲儿，那种华洋杂处传统与现代交汇的气息，还有既忙于油盐酱醋又欣赏得了高雅艺术的底气，都被本片轻盈鲜活得呈现出来。每位角色都刻画得不同于大部分电影中的刻板印象，尤其是女性书写更是丰富而不羁，展厅里李小姐、格洛瑞亚对老白的“女性凝视”令人印象深刻，直言不讳揭露文艺作品中男性视角下单薄片面程式化的女性形象，并让他代表中国（直）男导演道歉。满嘴名言看透人生的“哲学家”修鞋匠讽刺又喜感。多次复现的“艺辉国际学校”与“红拂杂货铺”都属导演的作者签名。烟火味十足的同时也不忘迷影梗儿，老乌的索菲娅罗兰爱情神话与李小姐名牌高跟鞋的真假已不再重要，毕竟只要情感真挚便已足够，结尾如神来之笔，投影仪之光闪耀跃动，观众与演员穿透银幕合一。（8.5/10）
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