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".
末日公路片，只有在误闯医院被追逐和回忆母女被射杀这两段有体现出末日里人性的凶残，其余时候都是温情脉脉的，温情到没感受到多少末日气息。
看似很简单的故事，却又那么长。末日，一个老人、一个机器人和一条狗，荒凉、绝望。我很好奇为什么芬奇造出一个机器人只为了在自己死后能照顾一条狗，慢慢的我才发现，当世界一无所有只剩下可怕的荒漠和辐射的时候，能有一个活生生的生命，是多么奇迹的馈赠。孤独，孤独，还是孤独。当芬奇被火化后，杰夫和小狗也最终达成了和解，走完剩下的路，因为，他们只有他们了。我不知道未来是什么样子，但我无法忍受孤独，如果必定会是消亡，那请将温柔和希望延续。
2. 瓦力也没有那么坚牢，一跌就散，遇不到他的EVA。
Jeff演技真的好好。比很多真人演员都好啊，怎么办到的。//就是杜威走得太突然了，啊不会说话但是一直默默做事还贡献了自己眼睛的杜威啊。
世界末日到来了，我只能相信狗。🤖这是我见过演技最好的机器人。
希望将来出现一部以“大气层消失”为主题的电影，看看太阳底下到底有没有新事。
故事只有一人一狗一机器
末日公路片，设定不错，就是有点枯燥，末日生活不太有趣这样
看演员表里还有“母亲和女儿”，还以为是芬奇遇见了别的人类，没想到是这么发生的。在芬奇离开后，只剩下机器人和狗的画面，太像动漫了。
末日废土上的公路逃难，像极了《荒野生存》《老人与海》《我是传奇》中孤独求生的故事。太阳耀斑爆发，人类与人工智能、动物之间缔结了比人与人之间还相互信赖的依存关系。呆萌纯真、充满好奇心、喜欢效仿“大人”、热爱探索又到处闯祸的杰夫像极了为救大哥而被迫出生的二宝，必须要早熟、懂事、甘于奉献又要磨灭自我。几处伏笔差点以为要黑化，幸好一路治愈到底。人类文明的荒原上再现蝴蝶蹁跹，芬奇穿起正装在太阳伞下与杰夫聊天，那一段拍得实在太美。汉克斯真是老天爷赏饭，从疫情中脱险后连脸上的沟壑都会演戏。
Goodyear：作为一只狗，我经历了太多。20201127@石龙影城
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一个简单的故事却拍得挺戳人的。里面有一个桥段真的有扎到我，就是本来小狗有名字叫Goodyear，但是芬奇说因为只有他们俩在，所以有没有名字没关系，真的是一种极致的孤独了。联想起来牛老师的二姑妈，二姑夫去世后她就养了猫，猫也没有名字，一下就破防了。
苹果tv这回是do well了（基地的阴影终于没了～
虽然末世也有多处极美的大片级景致，机器人具有超级细腻的共情能力，最后一抱看得几欲落泪，但汤姆死后到jeff和狗建立信任有些太快，如果能多一点细腻的渐进过程就更好了
末日爆米花最是浪漫
5. 也只有机器人儿子，不会知道狗肉煲很香。
人的好与坏。芬奇好几处向我们展示了人的坏。但也正如芬奇所说，“Humans are full of contractions.”人的好，得细品才知道。说实话我品得很有限。十分看重狗的安危有点像是为了自己的不作为而赎罪(当然有罪恶感也是人的品行)。还有“live a little”/"human experience"(人与物/自然)，还有金门大桥上挂的各种明信片(人与人)。这一些属于人类的高级情感享受，但也很简单。
剧本太工整了，完全都可以猜到下一步该做什么了，可以说是为了催泪而感人，又因为需要按照好莱坞的套路把每一个环节都点到为止，导致整片的剧情都在赶节奏。因此那些本应很感人的情节，虽然确实还是感动了我，但感动之余的感觉是被套路了一样……这种腔调我并不是很中意。
—最后杰夫和good year完成最后的旅程，是升华的部分。
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