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".
软科幻小品，其实关于所谓克隆人的探讨never let me go更有意思。对于此类和自己克隆人见面的题材，往深了想其实不是记忆和肉体的事情，而是灵魂的问题。本片结尾很温馨也伤感，整体画风呈现出了苹果商店装修风格，不知道是好是坏了😂
中规中矩的水准之作，没有太多惊喜，但质量没话说，三位主角的演技也都统统在线。三个章节三个视角，细微的差异让重复变得富有层次。在大量的铺垫后，最后的决战戏也足够精彩。朱迪科默的注视下，那《角斗士》般的生死决斗显得如此丑陋，讽刺至极。决斗场上的一次次激烈的反转，早已没人在乎这两个雄性动物的优劣，只剩对朱迪科默的担忧。结果为何已不重要，父权制下的女性命运在这场决斗中被丢上了决斗场，身不由己的痛苦在一次次拉扯中被无限放大。
”I love you,cam.Always have,always will."是jake眼里的画中画 是poppy对cam最后的告白 亦是最后的告别 最后跟儿子喝苹果汁吃毛豆那里感动 全家只有狗狗pig认出了不是主人 又是一部看了一眼就知道会喜欢的电影 让我想起《HER》 配乐无比好听 画面构图色调配乐都恰好 建筑设计 装修氛围也很喜欢 即便到了科技更加发达的2040年 即便能克隆一个自己 也还是无法治愈那些疾病 真实却又存在遗憾 2040年好像离我们并不远了 是感觉会再看第二次的电影 是十佳了 PS.男主的穿搭很有质感 还有各色的帽子也想拥有同款
软科幻外壳下的关于生命的探讨，通过克隆人，男主像照镜子一般实现了生命中的最后一次自洽（男主演技不错，人物弧光很明显）。想疑问的是，既然剧情中的科技已经可以克隆人，那为什么不可以治愈本体的不治之症？
男人之间用决斗来解决纷争，特别是爱情方面的，如普希金，法国数学天才埃瓦里斯特·伽罗华。
为什么阿里戴大金链子也这么性感？疑问：脑科技已然发达到连记忆与潜意识都可以移植的程度，为何纳米医学仍解决不了脑肿瘤的问题呢？即便一个人乐意从“我”这个身份里彻底退出，将自己的人生完全交托给“世另我”来完成，克隆人作为一种工具性的存在，人类就有权决定“它”的出生么？有权把它放置在预先规定好的命运路线里么？
原以为只是简单的罗生门 每个视角不同的小细很有意思 玛格丽特part中段开始简直想冲进屏幕打人~ 朱迪在这部电影里好漂亮呀
我一直以为丈夫是丑男 看完才发现是马达?只能说古代装扮真的不显他 演员阵容真的有点豪华
也许有人不相信未来克隆人可以替代自己，也不相信现在人可以看到启承转退和人心意向。选择替代，就要承受所有的挣扎和不舍。选择知晓，就要咽下所有真相和疼痛。都是沉默和不可说。
硬着头皮看完这种公说公有理婆说婆有理两个多小时都讲不明白的老掉牙剧情电影对自己来说简直是受刑。如果有人说这是一部女权电影，那只是他一厢情愿相信女主罢了，也或者说他纯粹就是个看热闹不嫌事大的搅屎棍。
我希望人类啊，不要虚妄地抬头只望着月亮，也不要紧盯着无数六便士的反光
PRINCE ALI又有新作啦~一出手就是杰作😄虽然克隆人伦理被玩的有点烂，但这剧拍的如同舒缓清新的文艺小品，演技太好了😘他和Naomie Harris非常有化学反应
还说poor old millennials是怎么得罪雷导了，看完确实觉得气场不合。罗生门结构就大可不必，明明已经站队了，不然可以想象《狩猎》那样充满猜疑 神经紧绷的效果；命题作文让角色脸谱化；还有大部分观众真是厌倦了liberal woke culture...光是看剧情简介就不想买票进影院。
演技没话说 抛开科幻的设定 内核找的角度无新意 没有打动我 Awkwafina有小惊喜 潜力挺大的
朱迪演得好啊
老美的温情科幻片永远是关于中产精英的，只有他们会在占着各种技术红利、享有最人性对待的同时还逼逼赖赖叽叽歪歪
借鉴罗生门，朱雀在前也依旧有惊喜。
世人不在乎真相如何，谁是胜利者就向谁欢呼，这是真正讲了女性受压迫的电影，非常好的主题，除了女主角没人在乎她是不是被强暴，马特达蒙和大本编剧，可以说狠狠打了前两年达蒙说了句公道话，就被不怀好意的煽动分子辱骂者的嘴脸。七分
P.S.无论如何，接受不了有夫之妇出轨，就算老公对老婆不好，在没有离婚之前女人出轨，这个女人也是个渣。不爱就离开，不要一边吃着碗里的嫌弃不香，一边偷腥。选择婚姻就是选择忠诚。否则请不要结婚。
最后的生死斗好看！现在最后一口气没上来的电影太多了，高潮戏货真价实的难能可贵
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