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".
反转出乎意料却也合情合理。种姓、女性权益、放纵的公权力、操纵媒体……说教味有点重，但问题一直不解决只好一直说下去，至少还能说，但似乎只能说。
雪天一盆火，苦药一勺糖。有房、离异、文艺、颓唐，不爱出厅堂，挺会下厨房。男人共情的是我熬了半辈子鲫鱼汤也该老来one night stand，女人幻想的是我倔了几十年总会有半个肩膀一袋吃食。沪上当然是精致的摆盘，但每一个要素都戳在普通话审美霸权的肋眼上，你能怎么样呢？导演一等一聪明，端上一锅老少咸宜浓淡适中的汤。微信里来来回回差半步就是油腻，牺牲了老乌总算是有了妥当的圆场。中国每年应该有十部这样的作品，一不小心让它出头了，其实真不是故意的。
今年看过的最佳！！！开始以为讲女性权益，接着又以为是革命片，看下来发现是弘扬正义，捍卫事实与法律，批判政治与媒体，没想到它最后是部复仇的爽片。ps 双男主并不需要对手戏。
“这就是政治。为了赢，会玩任何肮脏的游戏，政治家最大的武器知道是什么吗？情感!公众的情感!是疯狂，他们的思想，智慧还有决策都会被这种疯狂推翻。当他们因为这种情绪而忘记一切的时候，我们就能实现统治!” “当一条狗被杀死时，人们会去抗议，但当一个人被杀死时，连狗都不会有反应，这种信念从何而来？让提出问题的人闭嘴的政治，让指责的人戴上手铐的政治，但无论你如何试图让他们闭嘴，无论你把他们关进哪座监狱，都会有人提出问题，而且必须有人回答。”
肉眼可见地有不少小缺憾，但本精神上海人还是狠狠爱了，全程咧嘴姨母笑谁懂？聒噪的阿姨，嘴碎的大叔，狭窄的弄堂，还有街边的梧桐树，这不就是我生活过的上海吗。这片子最好的地方就在于它完全没有包袱，导演没有包袱，一众演员也没有包袱，所以显得特别轻盈自在，以至于看完回过头再去想，这么举重若轻的女性视角，这么单纯呈现状态的爱情片，国产片实在是有点少见。调侃自己曾经的“争议点”，只不过这次换了个男生；调侃两性关系，“十三点”、“野狐狸”藏匿在家长里短茶余饭后；甚至冒犯经典，索菲亚·罗兰是口中ONS的谈资，费费的《爱情神话》也是众人吃蝴蝶酥时的消遣，特别不摆架子，特别不高高在上，又特别触动人。即使经典让人完全看不懂，也能像一个开关，啪唧一下触动更多可能。正所谓，生活可不是神话，但爱情却处处有神话，喜欢。
咱就是说，印度这个老嫂子，电影是真敢拍啊。这高分基本都是给题材大胆的吧！电影还是印度套路，歌舞部分不多，剧情反转反转再反转，政治，媒体，女性，种族歧视等等，都涉及。四分
像是伍迪艾伦的对话机锋和文青自嘲，加上是枝裕和的生活细节，轻巧又妥帖。不会爱得要命，但看完后心情很好，这才是令人惬意的圣诞夜小品嘛。全程上海话特别好，是浓浓的在地气息，也是接地气不悬浮的生活感来源。小皮匠的咖啡时间是上海，骑着共享单车买外贸裤衩是生活。
金句频出:
PS：最后来个复仇情节属实没必要。
所幸底色是徐峥。
瑕不掩瑜，真相一步步反转，但普通人真的很容易被舆情牵着鼻子走，尤其是像血气方刚的学生，最容易被当作棋子。
所幸底色是徐峥。
除了皮相，
不知所云
最后一个长镜头，主演们的观影习惯，我认为费里尼有被冒犯到，也引起我的生理不适。我不认为，这是一种致敬方式，如果仅仅讲一个嵌套费里尼《爱情神话》的“罗马假日”式的偶遇故事，就是「神话」了，那爱情，未免也太肤浅了吧。全片像极了上海地方台的生活情景剧，丝毫没有get到笑点，徐峥与小女孩的台词抖包袱，也是一个“尬”字了得。你可以说，它是夹带了导演私货，献给上海的情诗，是不是也可以说，在上海这样开放的大都会，却使用了沪语甚至只有上海人才懂的梗，来呈现故事叙事。真的想说，这也太狭隘和没有格局了。全片可惜了这阵容卡司演员，导演拍出40集电视连续剧既视感，但却连情节剧的叙事能力，也没有。可能抱有太高期待，全程真是失望透顶。如果「题眼」是离异人群的中年友情与爱情，那我也不愿意接受这种假惺惺的扭捏和造作。
看电影前看到有人做BGM整理的我：不至于吧；看完电影的我：下午那个帖是在哪儿看到的来着？？
节奏太慢了，法庭对轰开始部分各个角色的描写太不专业了，故事各种转折也很粗糙。
后半段的法庭辩论反转太精彩了。
印度电影的节奏真的奇奇怪怪…最后的落脚点太大了，反而减分，种姓制度和政治腐败这种社会大问题戳到了又能有多痛呢，反而是即时正义的概念更吸引我
一部电影，反映了多个社会问题，编剧太强了
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