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".
我这种文化沙漠干嘛要看这部电影啊！完全就是被预告片巨人给吸引罢了！
以后这样的作品能不能不要再进主竞赛单元啊，够浪费时间的，意大利电影有时候真的很踩雷
重点在路上，让我想起中国的古代神话故事，第一个想到的是《倩女幽魂》，都是考验。
爱尔兰外景后加工。亚瑟堡应该是蒂珀雷里郡的凯尔城堡，进入绿教堂之前那个缴纳忠诚的堡是奧法利郡的Charleville。这些古堡，都因为维护和旅游运营，没有被片中直陈的恐惧绿色重新吞噬和循环。电影的气氛营造和节奏控制相当不错，纵使完全没了解过亚瑟王传说和之后的英诗，看不到好多知识和隐喻，也算能伴随享受这个失去荣誉和尊严的逆向成长之旅吧。那就当是绿叶对根的情谊吧。
私人影像诗，无感，但导演都90多了，厉害。
强风格弱叙事，铺张纵逸的美术风格，恍如跌入了迷魅郁热的浓雾阵法，巫女的魔法中香料和色粉沸腾满眼符号与意象的缭乱。缚网紧缩，咒诅的时日在背誓之人身后叩响命债的摇铃。那段炫技般奇观巡礼的年华飞速缄默消逝的神游幻境替代了史诗成长的渐进节奏，天顶崩毁，众叛亲离，铬黄和翠绿两种主色翻搅传奇再生的文本复活，视觉享乐的苔藓侵占电影语言的坟茔。在审美标新立异的层面上A24爱好者没有失望，而作为Dev Patel多年影迷，能看到他不再被肤色偏见所困，得体从容扮演自己文化传统中骑士篇章的主人公，感动之余似乎望见亚瑟王传奇在未来可以跨越阿瓦隆迷雾，走出自锁窠臼。
质感感人。这种片扯故事讲内含谈所指那就陷入了导演中产阶级意淫的空虚之夹了。
很文艺很私人的一部作品，当男子把骨灰撒向大海那一幕挺感动人，最后半小时的“钉子”有些难懂。
男孩成为骑士的成长之路，缓慢的美学电影，坚持让我看完的主要在于极佳的影像和视听语言了。
致学龄前儿童的童话故事集节选，童话小镇的居民们因勇敢的女孩和她的好伙伴生活变得更美好，唯一的问题这个红色的三米巨犬确实不够可爱
降神格的高文的骑士精神寻回之旅，然后这是圣诞劝诫电影
不应该在David Lowery的电影里过度强求叙事性，但这样的一个故事，如果没有它该有的叙事性和逻辑性，那么带给观众的只会是各种“一厢情愿”的解读，可能到最后，对当时历史风貌的感受要比所谓的骑士精神更加深刻，人物也确实拧巴了点，看得不算轻松。
喜欢狗狗的电影，尽管情节很简单，满满的都是爱
今日还是青春韶华，明日就垂垂老矣，伤感又豁达的愁思和告别.
追忆、缅怀与反思，是电影也是纪录片，不仅是一个诺贝尔奖作家的骨灰归乡记，也是整个意大利的二战战败史，最后用这个作家写的一个小故事作为结尾，颇有点儿寓言和反思的味道，用暴力来终结暴力是一种小孩子式的思维和处理方式，但这就是战争
不过基本的美德 善行与坚持 守诺与怜悯等等还是表现的不错
作家的骨灰用写满文字的报纸包裹，小男孩提起小狗的后肢玩耍。
概念，美术，摄影，配乐都是一流的
就像中国导演拍摄一个琵琶行给西方人看一般。没有了亚瑟王系列的故事基础，缺乏西方宗教文化的铺垫，看这个电影基本上就是云里雾里。甚至连在电影中做法的女巫都不认识是大名鼎鼎的摩根勒菲，也不知高文骑士在其中的背景和现在，以及未来。高文在一路上的种种行为，也无法通过和骑士精神相联系，然后进行分析。 这样看来，作为一个非西方，甚至非英国文化的观影者，只能把这个电影理解为 一个骑士的旅行。。
整部影片还没有简介精彩，可能电影实在过于冗长，完全没有神秘感和紧凑的情节。
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