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".
m21217：骑士成人礼！四星不满。简单故事深学问，信与不信之间摇摆之时要看得深远放弃庇祐勇敢接受荣誉！
“东方人看这个片子相当于毕赣拍了部沉香救母给西方人看”
色调很好，故事太差，整篇敢情是白马王子的大型造星揭秘。
记忆和历史总是充满乡愁，那个我们所说的故乡，它时常有风飘过，带着逝者的尘灰回到他亲人的身旁。我的记忆是黑白，但却总能记起你的世界是彩色，“未完成”的作品呈上，我搭上记忆的列车与你作别，我亲爱的哥哥，希望你这一路上能乘着那阵海风慢慢地飘走。
表以是对经典头韵文学与骑士精神的解构与重塑，实则却更像是仅对“断奶”情结的一次进阶版奇幻演绎，高质量置景艺术的鬼魅表现力，也因大量过于服帖中世纪照明水平的夜戏室内戏，而让按图索骥式的阅读成本累增，观者对高文心旅情绪的捕捉始终受其干扰与影响，不断呈现疲乏态，究其因，不过是一部自离开剧场便已“黯然失色”的风格之作
# 72 Berlinale 主竞赛# 值得金熊
8分，视觉上令人惊叹，摄影、配乐、表演和对色彩的运用都很出色，是那种每一帧都会让人很享受的电影
#72nd Berlinale# EFM online-主竞赛-费比西奖。片名正解：《莱奥诺拉的告别》。谁都看得出来这是被死亡分开的塔维亚尼兄弟中，保罗向维托里奥的告别，非常个人化的一部影片。以皮兰德娄的死亡及骨灰安放为主要事件，以近乎散文电影的方式（搬演+既得影像）描绘了意大利战后社会的微妙图景（不忘吐槽国民性啊），又在多个意义上叩访皮兰德娄的文本：遗嘱、小说题记“今日的年轻人，明日的老人”，以及晚年作品《钉子》。当然片子后一小半对《钉子》的改编又是为了实现两人未完成的项目。情感饱满，看得我真是百感交集……最动人的，莫过于送葬时阳台上挂出的横幅“你的演员”，撒骨灰时的黑白转彩色，以及片尾影像化的《钉子》最后一个镜头叠印成穹顶圣像画。当然这个割裂感也真是不太过得去的坎……#年度佳作#
虽然前后有点割裂，但还是好看的，真实画面插入，停在海面从黑白切到彩色。前面黑白的尤其有意思，意大利人那种幽默感，“棺材里一定是侏儒”。钉子的短篇很有文学性。看完来看导演简介更被打动，以死亡拍死亡
What's the meaning of this film?
黑白部分，具有历史背景的偶像破坏活动，(筑于庙堂之上的圣物，工人的鲁莽不再乎，以及成为飞机上的凶兆、火车上的扑克牌桌、童棺中的侏儒)；
没烂到家，太难看了，节奏太死了。没意思，烂片浪费生命
这是一场赴死的旅程
超级无敌一般，画面制作的黑不溜秋布景又极其简单，剧情单薄，旅程坑长无聊，故事讲述的五马平川。整个故事就是他妈用魔法给他上了一课，他成长了，就这样。在骑士精神消亡的今天，你通过三言两语的第一人称阐述和一些举动，去让观众觉得绿衣骑士这个人品行差是无效的，前面拍不出绿衣骑士这个人的垃圾人设后面结尾也自然软麻无力。
puppypuppypuppypuppypuppypuppy🥺
前边黑白段落非常好，钉子这个段落不认可，能感觉到导演想要表达一种漂泊后对于家乡的感情，就是太简单了，总体还是不错的一部个人感情表达的影片，镜头语言真好，就是太个人化，对于导演来说也许是成功的，对于观众就有些欠缺。
很多剪辑破坏了延续的诗意，一股子想要拍出epic的味道，但是呢，epic的错觉其实是配乐造成的(哦，还有那些摄影）。问题是，它的配乐真的太吵了呀，感觉就没停过，如果只在一些“传说”段落出现那还尚可。所以这种所谓的史诗感在全片到处都能感觉到一点，很多时候甚至替代了语言，与五花八门的摄影和特效一起堆成了视觉奇观，我只想说：哇哦！
55/100，依旧拥有A24的独立调性：一种纵使风格千变万化但仍以优秀审美和求异心理所延续的精神。可惜本片不成体系的符号植入过多，节奏亦在拖累，让本应赏心悦目的风格之旅在某些时刻显得无比滞重。大卫·洛维的能力自然是不高，说句俗套的话叫只有佳句而无佳章。回头看去，《鬼魅浮生》更像个美丽的意外。
画面很美，台词很美，服化道很美，配乐很美，但这故事讲得…真的有点无聊…不得不分四天才看完，也不是高困，就是想干点别的。
这是一场赴死的旅程
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