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".
世界觀縮得好小也無視邏輯與架構, 想像力豐盛但卡頓在一個虛空裡, 故事當然說得也亂七八糟但誰在乎呀哈哈哈哈, 即使未來一定不是這樣但這繽紛古怪的幻想還是很迷人, 愛因斯坦搞笑很讚, 本質是bottle episode 但卻花不少力氣做特效了法國人的路真的都走得有點偏還是好玩多了(斜眼嫌棄諾蘭)//也懷念起最愛的黑店狂想曲那還是最好的尚皮耶吧 可愛的Dominique也依然不缺席
无聊透顶！我三分钟拉进度条看完，没必要看。
喜欢这种科幻小品，又是可可爱爱暖色高饱和的法国片。庄周梦蝶用在人工智能和人类上，分外合适啊！最后还嘴了一句新冠，笑死。 @2022-02-12 22:59:04 @2022-06-03 23:29:06
想让智能为你服务，首先你得学会他们的思维和他们的想法，以及知道他们优点和缺点，不然智能者不是智能而是机器，而人类也只是智能化的产物
派头是有的，故事平淡了，非得搞个绅士风度的精神出轨也是没什么必要。
最想看的部分没太看着 没啥必要的剧情和文邹邹倒是蛮多
hope the ending of our planet filled with light as well
英国人贱兮兮的幽默感，和一些奇怪但温暖的感情
两任Mr Darcy聚在一部电影里还真是难得。影片里最令人印象深刻的应该就是那份情书吧，战争下的爱情总是那么令人动容！而且是出自一位终身未嫁的女士之手，对美好的渴望是有多么的真情实感。男女主间发乎情 止乎礼的感情戏在现代社会里也是很少见了！英国算得上是戏剧和文学之国了吧，即使战争年代也是几乎人人都是作家啊，文学功底太厉害了哈哈
老式机器人保护主人不被大规模机器叛乱波及将其锁在家中……剧情发展过于荒诞。不过法国电影还是比美国的多了点哲学气息庄周梦蝶都搬出来了~不过搞笑段落还是少了些……
尽管取材自战争题材，但本片纯以文戏胜。整个欺敌计划瞒天过海交代得很清楚，大量的伪造细节展示，并努力展现敌我双方心理变化，烘托出紧张不安、焦灼等待的状态。除此之外，还有内斗和办公室恋情作为支线纠缠其中，使整个故事更加纠葛、更具复杂性和不确定性，但也使电影在叙述使推进略显缓慢。
同样的时代背景下，同样是战争中的文戏，比<至暗时刻>差了不止一个档次。比较亮眼的是演员的表现，几个主演都出色的完成了任务。但是一部片子的优秀与否不是演员能决定的，整部片看下来平庸两个字都要浮在屏幕上了，Not Intense at All，更不要说这种有严肃主线的剧情片里非要加上一段感情纠葛，而且占用的篇幅还非常之大。不管这段感情是否真有其事，它都不应该在此片中成为重点着墨的片段，过于浪漫化隐蔽行动的后果就是让观众完全紧张不起来，导致最后看到宣读行动成功的电报时情绪根本没有堆叠，一脸问号的看着他们瞎激动。
一场人工智能与人类智慧的比拼。刚开始有点不伦不类，随着故事的展开，渐入佳境，好笑好看。就是女机器人有点瘆人。人类未来启示录。
4⃣️Pam的信太感人，让人落泪
看的时候想起 Thursday Murder Club 的那本书名，The Man Who Died Twice，一个死了两次的人。当然这故事里还有一个根本不存在的人，和一些短暂假戏真做的梦。电影探索的是战争时期主角创造虚构、在虚构中投入真情又难免沉迷，是天然很有文学气质的主题。虽然感情戏略尬又细碎，却也还算切题，可以接受。只是不得不感慨脸叔美人老矣。又及，查了一下 Ian Fleming 居然真的在历史上的 Operation Mincemeat 里！
本来当一个科幻片看的。居然是一个讽刺现实的片子。结合上海目前的状况，本来看似好笑的场景，就在身边不停的发生，就让人细思恐极了。
/2022.5.31/不知所云。感情戏毫无意义。
白瞎制作费用，以为能深化些什么主题，结果是我想多了。
为平庸的人婚外恋故事套上二战谍战情报信息和老戏骨的壳，并不能挽救这个事情烂俗的套路和内核……
人物空洞 剧情无聊 热内的东西还是适合有生命的 机器人不适用啊
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