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".
时空穿插 记忆回环 丢失了精神的躯壳被逼进了象棋的世界。丢了的精神世界再也找不回。就像昨日的世界。那个只要还在跳舞就是维也纳的世界。整体其实有些偏压抑。
不能嫁给文艺青年啊！北川景子咋那么像张雨绮？
为了抵御盖世太保的心理折磨，一名被纳粹监禁的律师在国际象棋的世界里寻求自救。影片拍的极其文艺，看下去需要耐着性子。
翻了一些评论，显然，在现在，人们已无法原谅性格缺陷者，无法共情失败者，在这个割裂严重的世界，90岁导演的悲悯之心少有人能体会了吧。
浪费了一个这么有仪式感的题材，完全看不到主角的魅力和人物的弧光。一辈子喝酒赌马欠债，老婆不离不弃，女儿帮忙还债，然后晚年突然就靠着一个年轻时偷基顿点子写出来的剧本逆袭成人生赢家，这不就是男人们的童话故事😅 特意来看洋次郎，演得呆呆的，竟然还挺适合角色本身。相比主角，男二才是更具人物光环的那一个吧：对自己有清晰的认识和明确的定位，爱读电影理论，对电影有见解，喜欢看卓别林，听肖邦，弹吉他，踏踏实实工作一步步实现人生梦想。这样的男人难道不香吗
可能以前看的时候没有注意，山田洋次的电影竟然如此有纵深感，配合这古老的故事看起来反而有剧场效果，很有复古魅力。
11thBJIFF最后一部，服下这颗电影致幻剂
很討厭男主角這種我行我素、不體諒別人、只造成別人負擔的渣男性格，身旁竟還有不離不棄的妻子和死忠的摯友，實在感動不了，決定給不及格。人品不行再有才華都要打折扣。唯一可看的部分只有純樸專情的永野芽郁。是說，後來從螢幕走出來的創意變成恐怖片的創意了嗎？
山田洋次還是那麼老套地在精準算計催淚的橋段 疫情期間看還是挺感慨的增加了體驗感
导演一贯的风格，平淡有温情。北川景子好漂亮。
整部片子有些割裂，但看到最后却还是被感动。
把太阳留住！把毕生都留给电影的电影人，是好难分心的。与其说是狗血三角恋，不如说是庸常生活与浪漫梦想之间的牵扯。最后一幕，园子步出银幕，从老人身上拉出的身影，毋庸置疑的生命力，正是无法在现实中把太阳留住的电影之神。九十岁的山田洋次浪漫透顶。另，影片中的大景深镜头妙极。山田电影中的笨男人真是太有趣了！
好睇，除了拍電影的人，戲院、影迷、影評人、電影獎項共同組成了電影文化，真正了解和喜愛這種電影文化的人很難不被導演的赤誠打動
难道只有音乐文学舞蹈才能称为精神世界？
不觉得这个电影是个悲剧吗？ 非常流畅，尤其前半部分，看过山田洋次几部作品，都感觉前面比较好，后面有点拉。有同感的吗？山田的台词节奏真是舒服。
虽然名为《电影之神》，实际上着力点放在了亲情爱情友情上，对电影的自我指涉反而沦为了配角。年代戏比现代戏拍得好
这个故事拍的OK，但不精彩，靠男主的表演撑起了一部戏。
为当年的松竹、清水宏和小津爆哭。如果电影之神真的存在，也应该是像米沃什的“时代精神”一样，走来走去。
虽然因为行程原因错过了前20分钟，依然觉得最终去看这部电影是对的。全场观众又哭又笑，虽然两段故事都比较老套，但是看电影看到死是多少人的梦想，导演对ゴウ真的很温柔。很多人为女主的选择不值，但是重来一次，可能她还是会选择才华横溢的那个，虽然才华不能当饭吃。
咩酱昭和扮装满分。和苏打感情线突兀感觉少了一段。令人落泪的地方还是老年组老头子的领奖词啊。所谓爱情真是一个愿打一个愿挨，放今天有点受不了。PS：电影之神的点子用五个字来说就是打破第四面墙不是？
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