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".
完全镜像反应导演的情况让人想很多但没什么意义；如果那个小女孩是即性的就牛了
我只想说，那些没有快进完整看完此片的柏林电影节的评审以及观众，真是让我佩服。一句话，电影不应该是这样子的。
虽然我知道导演的想法，我也知道粉丝的想法，也理解电影节评审的想法，但我还是觉得太普通了。某种意义上，这是小众粉丝的圈地自萌。
小说家，是电影的主角，她与人聊天，聊着聊着和演员搭上，她喜欢演员，突然想让她拍电影，拍出来的电影就是小说家的电影，看着只有聊天，但一点也不沉闷，对话很家常接地气，很好看
我是真的被突如其来的电影本身给齁住了。还是更喜欢洪尚秀绵里藏针的人物对话，不合时宜发言却不自知的男人，将其拉走的女人、转头假装要加酒不接茬的女人。超高对比度的黑白画面，白色字幕隐身一半，不知道这又是什么特殊的粗糙美学。
一部東亞人生感悟的話癆電影，先要對生活腳踏實地去體驗擁抱熱愛，才能在專注的事業上免除後顧之憂，而不是反之亦然，逃避之旅始終無法填充空虛空洞空心，當然，能有志同道合、三觀相似的人對話溝通協攜，那就更要感激涕零了。導演的私貨太多了，簡直把金敏喜拍成了仙女了，狗糧誰不愛呀？
为随手纪录的生活瞬间创作一整部电影，有什么能比此种创作层级的颠覆更动人？
看完全片的我：骚瑞，作为多年洪粉，我对洪导最近戒烟还是戒酒毫不关心，对洪导有新欢（即使不是金）也无任何意见，但是看着一脸精明的金敏喜佯装单纯天真的忸怩作态，真的倍感恶心......但她和洪是绝配，因为两人骨子里都很享受名利带来的拥簇（也就是无论制作什么作品都会有人给出长篇大论的赞美），但在表达上绝对遵循“这是我自由的选择，我只渴望自由地自我表达，我追求纯洁的艺术，名利对我来说什么也不是”。不过洪的狡猾在于他会设置某些场景嘲讽自己的虚伪，而金在他的视角下永远无法开口，永远死气沉沉。
我好像看懂了，又好像没有。但可以肯定的是我不喜欢。
洪导什么时候在他的电影里不出现“你好美”这三个字，才是真的转变了他的电影风格
一句话的剧情介绍充满了洪尚秀式的随意，散淡甚至随性的剧情像签名般典型，创作的过程变成创作的结果，创作的主体即表意的目的。将场外的花边融入剧情，才更好理解这不过是老头毫不掩饰的花式秀恩爱，仿佛满屏蹦出字幕“我们敏喜就是好看”。剧中小说家的直率一方面让身边朋友避之唯恐不及，另一方面又时常毫不掩饰的戳穿人情世故的虚伪，然而她对女演员的喜爱又极为直接，更借此呛声爹味十足的劝导（都分不清是不是有夹带私货），难免理解为小说家即洪尚秀本人的投射。而作为剧中人物的黑白的金敏喜，她在电影中拍的彩色纪录片，不仅美得发光，而且还哼唱着婚礼进行曲，这是不是他们互相的告白？即便我们不知道这部虚构的作品讲了什么，只知道是洪尚秀对金敏喜的爱就好了。
我是冲着金敏喜才看的这部电影的，
完全镜像反应导演的情况让人想很多但没什么意义；如果那个小女孩是即性的就牛了
没有金敏喜的洪尚秀是无目的顺滑的随性聊天，有金敏喜的洪尚秀是有目的并陷入僵局的无趣硬聊。演员们的尬笑倒很有趣…
感慨，每位老面孔都像是《哭泣的男人》中的东木本人，承载着来自观众的记忆，情怀，情绪，共同收束在最后的影像中。注定是一部对每位观众都有着私人意义的电影。
1. 洪常秀不喝真露/初饮初乐，改喝塑料瓶装的玛格丽塔（？）了，这个宇宙是不是要崩坏了！2.导演就是想让我们看看金敏喜捧小白花、哼婚礼进行曲、说“我爱你”对吧？甜晕了，齁死了，怎么这样！
很難說什麽，因為太愛了。洪導，我精神上的父親，我會像您一樣生活，像您一樣寫作。
终于有了现实与操盘手的对话，算是洪老师最大的突破了，被那句互相的我爱你所感动，原来爱就是这么的普通，而他们的电影也正是他们的生活，他们的生活又恰恰好是他们的电影，这便是爱的力量，也是电影所表达出来的爱意以及对电影的爱。挺好！
看到片尾金敏喜捧着白色小花出镜那种自由轻盈的状态 眼眶一下就湿润了 故事一定要有plot么？影片要有结构吗？基础都是人与人 真实的情感涌动能模糊一切边界
都在夸洪金的恩爱，但我对他俩实在羡慕不来；我要赞美李慧英的카리스마！教训一身爹味的权海骁那里实在太搞笑。
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