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".
后面怎么感觉都逐渐走偏呢……我以为这部要讨论的是“交友”和“互联网媒介”的问题
20世纪给了非常完美的答卷
●阿荣太可爱了！！我从头喜欢祂到尾！阿荣是个觉醒的人工智能！！
●阿荣太可爱了！！我从头喜欢祂到尾！阿荣是个觉醒的人工智能！！
#大家都很孤独##HOW TO MAKE/BE A FRIEND#
好可爱，真的好可爱！有探讨家庭，但重点在友谊上，以及一些当下社会中常见的问题，比如小孩子或者大部分年轻人都太过于依赖社交网络，把自己的全部生活都展示在互联网上，过着应该“云端”的生活；人工智能和人的关系问题；以及这些科技公司的产品以及信息服务公司对大众的非法监管、收集信息侵犯公民隐私的问题。不过毕竟是动画片，受众是小朋友，所以没法表现的像疑犯追踪一样真枪实弹的，不过最终问题依旧还是那个问题（当然这并不是电影的中心，只是因为导演用了大量篇幅来描述这些问题所以引起我注意了而已）。总之表现的还不错！我很喜欢！（另外，人工智能都逃不过自我上传到互联网然后永生的命运吗👀（好多恐怖片也是这个走向呢，庆幸Ron是善良的小朋友.jpg
保有一定水准的热闹和幽默，刚开始看还是蛮喜欢的，看完之后却疑惑了：这部片的主题是想表现友情的多样性、还是友情需要付出真心、还是批判算法时代的友情……它给出的答案很矛盾，细究之下每个逻辑链都各种反复打脸。看完没有以往那种满满感动，而是觉得深究下去的不舒服。立意没处理好。
好拧巴的故事……前面以为是AI觉醒，结果AI还是工具……那最后最后的结局不应该是AI消失吗
终于还是等到资源上线了，为Disney的操作～👍 小白即将成为新一代Friendship Icon！
近年這類internet cartoon太熟口熟面了哈哈哈，對電子產品侵入兒童世界的批判不算犀利，明顯再狠毒一點無妨 specially private那一環太輕輕帶過了，發展很典型的人機友情故事，人類朋友可寫的不少卻沒有深入探討下去，大概始終是子供向
It's Mad Max meets Sesame Street, live streaming.
还有他们友情的起点那里 别人欺负你 你就照样打回去啊！
这个就是陪伴机器人有自主意识的故事，以前看过电影《人工智能》《机械公敌》都是讲的机器人拥有自主意识的故事，这个自然不如那两个经典，但是动画片应该更适合孩子吧，也有很多欢乐，不过还是觉得陪伴机器人会降低人们的交往意愿，就是一个手机现在多少人都成了低头族，支付宝，微信几乎掌握了人们所有的信息，也能理解国外有人反对手机支付之类的，确实已经毫无隐私了，大家都成了透明人，变成了商家眼里的一组组数据！
凑合，小朋友们看看，其实电影对手机观的看法已经过时
别说小孩子了，大人也想要放下电子产品交朋友的机会
that kid is an asshole，dont deserve it
男主和小白之间的冲突太浮皮潦草。
这个太好看了！！我要放入我的最佳100 ！我都看哭了55555还是摸着我的狗狗一起看的 狗狗就是选择的最好朋友 呼呼噜噜胖胖暖暖 最暖心的是都已经呼噜连天了听到动画片里破门而入那个声音就突然惊醒竖起耳朵环顾了一圈哄了半天才继续睡 而且睡得很轻很久才有呼噜 怪不得大家都喜欢圆滚滚的小动物因为真的很可爱！ 动画片剧情跌宕起伏我好几次以为要结束了结果还有5555我好喜欢阿荣最后也想要他回来啊55555
这个太好看了！！我要放入我的最佳100 ！我都看哭了55555还是摸着我的狗狗一起看的 狗狗就是选择的最好朋友 呼呼噜噜胖胖暖暖 最暖心的是都已经呼噜连天了听到动画片里破门而入那个声音就突然惊醒竖起耳朵环顾了一圈哄了半天才继续睡 而且睡得很轻很久才有呼噜 怪不得大家都喜欢圆滚滚的小动物因为真的很可爱！ 动画片剧情跌宕起伏我好几次以为要结束了结果还有5555我好喜欢阿荣最后也想要他回来啊55555
美国动画长片风格的作品，聚焦点很社会化，能看到导演把库克给玩了一把，同时更指出了高科技长假安排对孩子、友谊、乃至人际关系的破坏。最终的结局很温暖人心，我也希望以后孩子的生活能多接触人，而不是冷冰冰的机器。
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