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".
C’est important de rester vivant, mais c’est encore mieux de rester humain.
女主太美。借用女主的一句台词：活命很重要，保持人性更重要
电竞线中，团队合作交流比其它剧要好，细节也比较丰富。父子感情线选用了心理早熟的差生儿子与落魄老爸，而父母感情是不爱孩子的富婆+爱孩子的穷爹有点俗套，优酷的弹幕三观令人震惊。
Ps:吃鸡游戏实拍场景还原度高、游戏术语专业、大决战悬念迭起看得热血沸腾。
几乎是站在免于受苦的幸运儿视角看待疫情，最后的关爱算是提升吧？
浪漫的法国人，French France.
目前为止，最好的国产网络电影，也是最好的国产电竞电影。游戏场面高度还原，叙事流畅不拖沓，第三幕调动了几乎所有的视听和叙事手段，成功制造了情感上的燃点。虽然不玩儿手游，但也数次破防。
我看到的第一部关于新冠的故事片，笑过后有点感慨...
搞笑是加分项，游戏还原肯定是不够专业，但很精致。没有资本撑着网红就啥也不是，一句台词说清楚。这个电影证明游戏/电竞题材不一定要拍成脑残偶像剧或者燃情鸡血甚至爱国剧
在封闭的状态下穿着防护服戴着N95看这部电影，会有共情也会有不同的感受，封闭、隔离真的带给了我们另一种不同的生活，邻里关系、家庭关系等等好像都变得更亲近了一点，也会让我们注意到一些平时总是忽视的东西，网络的作用在疫情爆发后显得更加突出…也许法国的疫情生活跟我们有很多差别，但是总归人们的情感都是有想通的地方，一栋居民楼里的人们也正映照着社会上不同人的千姿百态，也展现了隔离期间许多的生活细节，楼下科学家真的是很讽刺的一个人物设定，也是对社会某些现象的讽刺。但是，他们还是不戴口罩，前半部分还有对中国和亚洲人的额…最后的升华还是不错的，航拍也很漂亮，最后两个小孩在街上奔跑的镜头也太解压了吧！解封之后也要去街上跑一跑，呼吸一下久违的新鲜空气！
骨子里面就是一个特别传统和老套的小人物励志片，但是导演的小心思和编剧在人物塑造上呈现出的真实感让这部网络电影呈现出了非同一般的生命力。作为一个不玩游戏的人，游戏的部分也就是看个乐，看得出导演应该是游戏的资深粉丝，视听设计和动作设计都在还原游戏感，而不是让一群真人在游戏时间聊天打屁。影片最让我惊喜的地方反而是现实部分的设计，不再是遵循前6分钟原则的粗糙叙事，而是深入角色的境遇和内心，做到了真情实感，这一点真的不很容易，大部分院线电影都做不到这一点，导演真的前途无量！
故事差点，但是不耽误情节好笑，最后结尾突兀点，但是不耽误眼泪哗啦哗啦往下掉。新冠是时代的痛，只能寄希望于L'humanité solidaire了…
题材很取巧，看一看其他国家的人在疫情开始的时候是如何生活的，还是很有意思的。
可以算是国产网大截止目前的最佳作了。游戏场面非常惊艳，不只是视效扎实硬核，更在于，它几乎动用了所有能想到的视角和调度。情节的推进也利用了游戏的规则。故事上老套了些，基本是把《钢的琴》又演了一遍，好在真诚。要说网大的上限，其实不在制作，可能在价值观吧。要下沉，则必须要赢。孩子的表演很棒，未来可期。
画面有真实感，情节也有代入感。终于不是披着电竞外壳谈恋爱了，女玩家正经刚枪，光这点就值得点赞，电影本身场景、动作、足够炫酷燃炸，因为热爱，所以即使面对暗箱操盘的大佬给出的诱惑也绝不妥协，面对捷径的召唤也能守住底线，希望所有真爱游戏的人都能痛快赢到底。
在上海封城一个月之际看这部电影感慨万千，虽然法国人的隔离和中国相比如同儿戏，但它用喜剧的方式调侃了疫情中的苦辣酸甜和生死考验，一样动人的是灾难面前凝聚的人性光辉。
很温情的社区电影。从一个个的小矛盾引出各个小家庭不同的阶层、习惯、价值观。但最终凝聚成一个温暖的大家庭，这是近期看到的让人嘴角上扬的法国片，推荐。
我真的很喜欢法国人，他们总是这样真诚的袒露自己，把人性的弱点一一展现出来后，又告诉大家爱可以治愈一切。如果爱这个东西真的是某种实体，那么我只相信她存在在法国的艺术品里。
非常温情的电影 戏剧化得反映了部分法国人隔离的现状 隔离的只是病毒 而 隔离不了人们之间的温情 尤其是片尾 看着法国陡增的疫情指标 实在感慨万千
都别做爱了，保存一点体力抗击新冠病毒吧！！
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