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".
以后还是看看剧情片，这个剪辑跟故事有点跟不上
虽然妮可基德曼在这部片里脸假的像塑料女模，但演技还是值得肯定的，很喜欢这个故事，尤其是结局，最后一幕算得上是针妮演技的高光时刻，非常喜欢。妮可值得一个奥斯卡提名。
话说妮可长相变化这么大的？几乎完全认不出了。
2022.01.14. 个人很喜欢Aaron Sorkin的剧本：主线的《我爱露西》片场五日 + 辅线对Lucille Ball夫妇过去的不断闪回；主线是Lucille Ball在那个敏感年代面临被爆料是共产党员的巨大危机，辅线是丈夫“疑似”出轨的婚姻危机。这样四个维度的交织在剧本的设计和处理上做的都很好，片场五日的小高潮一个接一个，剧情还是非常紧凑的。在《每时每刻》和《兔子洞》之后，难得见到妮可如此精彩的演出，祝颁奖季好运。
台词太满啦!剥去这一层接一层不间断的冲突和对话，剧本其实相当薄，是经不起时间考验的!删去一些为了额外加分而添的音乐片段会加分不少。有点可惜Nicole这么卖力的演出……
我觉得还是酷的，室内戏调度打光非常希区柯克，尤其是结尾暗室戏非常非常《后窗》，zoe真的是印象中的cool girl，这个造型和角色完全量身定做，再拍十部我也能看哈哈哈哈
感觉还可以啦 能体会到电影的主旨，女主对home的追求，以及对check the wrong box的反抗
化妆真的堪比特效，返老还童了（in a good way)
一个超级女杀手的模样，实际只是一个普通人，但也幸运地反杀成功，情节没看点，智能语音的聪明程度比车载语音还笨，女主是个黑人混血儿。
抑郁症+白作+女quan师+黑人男友+挑战quan威=流量密码？烂片！反胃！
艾伦索金收了神通吧 写好剧本把拍留给真会拍的人
最后她选择在剧中装傻，但现实中还是骗不了自己。
索金正常发挥，不算特别出色。演员都挺好。想讲的东西太多，情景喜剧史，拉丁裔移民，女明星的婚姻，60年代麦卡锡主义，都揉在一块显得太乱了，重点也不突出。
以为是人工智能的惊悚片，结果kimi就是个高速响应plus人工即时纠错版的Siri，有点无语，可能深意主要还是在于当今时代个人信息和隐私泄露的反思吧。不过也正是有获取信息的漏洞主角才能从蛛丝马迹中发现犯罪事实。说来仍是基本相信技术是中性的，会发生什么全看人和人规定的制度。btw这电影一半时间都在铺垫，好在后半段的追逃挺赞的。
三星电影+一星粉丝滤镜 虽然毒妮额头平整到可以反光 还是希望我大毒妮能够拿到女主提名 因为除了脸不能动 演技还是到位的😂
真的是太拖沓了，90分钟完全能够解决问题，大导演到底在干嘛
个人偏爱这种错乱的叙事方式，让我在这个过程中和女主一起感受耀眼卑微幸福沮丧自疑自信。“我想有个家。”
《后窗》叠加新冠疫情背景，前面让人昏昏欲睡，但最后10分钟的反杀有爽到。
比预期的好啊，索金写剧本还是可以的，好莱坞的守旧、性别歧视和各种潜规则还有lucille强大的内心和婚姻的风波都很索金式犀利，喜欢。就是索金确实导得不太行hhh，各方面都很平，没太展现出电影的特点，感觉更适合舞台剧？超爱最后lucy听到i‘m home的走神，以及看电视剧幕后制作过程好有趣啊，编剧们关于女性视角和lucy角色塑造的纠结也很棒（那时好莱坞这么离谱的吗怀孕都不能拍？？
这片子不行啊，女主再酷也不行。人物不够丰满，故事节奏不好。而且作为一个从业者看这个电影，我很难想象一个AI平台深度学习系统的数据标注员能住这么好的房子，工作这么随意扯淡一样。
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
