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".
越是在信息社会快速发展的的时代，独立的思考越难能可贵。
2小时28居然又来了个反转！我说那个善良的老警察怎么会有那么多证据，原来是男主！男主真是经历了从英雄到人渣再洗白的过程。
皮鞋匠最懂女人心，所以选择单身；
一星给圣诞节，一星给三位女主演。俩小时坐如针毡，在看一篇流水账，毫无生活气毫无冲突的爱情片？喜剧片？文艺片？主线情节更像是一堆网络流行语录包裹下的一个中年男人的幻想。老白的魅力在哪？无。三个女人抢这碗剩饭？老乌那段我看到justin说那个女演员晕倒我就猜到老乌要领便当，可能伏笔伏得太明显之后看到就毫无新意了。Justin的角色是为了说新时代男孩子也可以化妆，没有什么娘不娘的，咋说呢，想法是好的，但是太生硬了，为了说而说，而且没啥深度。btw Justin, get out, ok?全场就你最出戏。
印度真的好喜欢埋深情节啊，套中套的写法真的是，还是很有效的。不过因为拍得太重演得太重了，其实后面或多或少也猜到了些，不过按一个商业剧情片去看的话，还是比较有时代意义，尤其是对于现在的中国来说
竟然被网上V号营销成功了会看这么一部大烂片！是2021年最大的精神污染，不敢承认看过它！！！
反转推动情绪，情绪转为力量，虽然庭审略显儿戏，节奏推进也较差，但想要表达的真相、正义、法律、人心都一一表达到位了
在《爱情神话》当中，我终于看到了期待已久的成熟爱情。近些年来，国内大银幕上的爱情片大多刻画的是青春故事，少有对成熟男女爱情的呈现。地域上，更多的影片则选择北方作为背景，但这部片子用吴侬软语的上海打底，弄堂巷尾，也确实展现出令人惊叹的生活质感。除此之外，影片中对于男女角色的新定位以及男女关系的再思考，也是格外有趣的。当男性角色和女性角色都脱离传统的刻板印象，他们之间又会碰撞出怎样的火花？大家可以走进电影院，坐到《爱情神话》的观众席，一探究竟，这的确是今年年末的一出好戏。
中文翻译成宿敌是什么鬼，直译过来应该是人民的名义才对嘛！
后半段庭审反转一个接一个，
剧情挺好 就是律师刚出来那段 故意唱反调 而且几处逻辑让看的人想唱反调 这一点有点倒胃口 总的来说反转之处还行
这密集的反转让人闻到了商业电影金钱的味道...
48:33 警察在街道上追捕犯罪嫌疑人的这个场景，应该是想表达，他们很低调的，不以警察的身份来追捕嫌犯的过程，因为前面有交代过4名犯罪嫌疑人为政府的党派做过一些脏活。但是在这一时刻警车离开时，并没有亮警灯，而音效师画蛇添足地加了一段警笛的音效，就和前面低调行事而相矛盾。
印度电影行业的发达程度以及敢拍程度真的令人望尘莫及“一个国家的尊严就等同于它给女性的尊严”
皮鞋匠最懂女人心，所以选择单身；
民众的声音太好引导了
ps看过的第一部没有传统歌舞的印度电影
在精神灵魂上结合了意大利式喜剧和老上海喜剧电影的气质，沪语方言和小资气息看起来是一口气，而且是流动的。这得益于剧本将重点放在了人物身上，研究他/她们的个性和关系网——以老白为中心，由他的表象发散到周围女性隐秘的内心，如何展现自我、表达自我，看他/她们的互动，看男女之间对“甜蜜的生活”&“爱情神话”有多大的差异。创作者知道如何轻盈、流畅地呈现这种无形的差异，沪语对白的灵气和知识分子式口吻当然也帮了大忙。btw：我喜欢创作者对费里尼电影的真诚敬意，光明正大地希望被大家看到自己的“致敬”，而非藏着掖着的欲盖弥彰。
导演和编剧尽了最大的努力将一个如此宏大、深刻、复杂的问题结构化地叙述和表达出来。结尾稍显仓促和混乱，但瑕不遮瑜，敢拍能拍这才是最重要的。
社畜看不明白的中年小资爱情！上海人谈恋爱的对象：港澳台胞、外国人和上海人！
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