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".
最喜欢看索金在对白方面抖机灵，这部的索金太平淡了，放弃了自己的快节奏是索金取短补长了属于是，所有的缺点顺理成章被放大
Aaron Sorkin別再自編自導了吧，這應該是看過他最弱的一次...多麼希望有一天能再跟芬奇合作。Nicole Kidman提女主可接受。
废戏太多。女主走来走去、走来走去。10分钟就能讲完的故事。新冠疫情、大数据、metoo，还有女主必须有个黑人男朋友。
艾伦索金收了神通吧 写好剧本把拍留给真会拍的人
{★★★} 我现在弄清楚了，你就算扔给索德伯格一堆垃圾，他也能用大数据的方式高效地拼装出一部及格的（但似乎卖不太出去的）商业片。但你能从这部电影里辨识出多少好莱坞基础桥段，这部电影就有多少傲视任何大数据电影的资本。瘦死的骆驼比马大，随手画饼的索德伯格也比Netflix值得急促的心跳和一个比6.2更高的分数。
让黛伯拉梅辛演是不是更生动一些啊……蛮喜欢正式演之前索金整得那些“小段落”。
完美。只有一个缺憾，片名本来应该是ADA的。真好啊，理想的电影，如此简单，沿着墙壁与线缆就建立起了结构与方向。
全片除了展现演员台词功底的牛逼，别的没了。
3分。挺工整的真人改编电影，妮可·基德曼的表演挺出彩的，但是导演还是有点野心过大了，妄想在短短两个小时里塞下年轻时候的故事，戏外和戏里面的故事，看下来实在是有点割裂感，从周一到周五的流水账日记式剧情，也感受不到一个整体的连贯性，这种叙事方式实在不投巧。
至少比同题材的《窗里的女人》好。结合当下疫情和人工智能写出了一部短小精悍，情节跌宕的作品。7.5分
粉头发比较好看鸭，剧情中规中矩，拍摄手法还可以
新瓶装旧酒？实际上装的是鸡尾酒。片名里的kimi智能助手，对剧情的推进并不大，把kimi除去，实际上是一个有点老套的后窗、blow out或the conversation式的故事。而导演拍的也挺复古，配乐也是如此。和之前那些片子不同的是，故事着眼点是有心灵创伤的女主战胜自己的广场恐惧症，所以短短八十几分钟电影，半小时处剧情才开始，之前一直在表现独居女主的生活和她的人群恐惧，而过程中导演也尽量减少了悬疑因素，包括听录音时直接用画面就把凶案表现出来，从而把重心放在女主身上。尤其是从办公室出逃到被捉这段，各种角度俯冲向女主的镜头搭配古典乐，营造了强烈的紧张和不安感。几个坏蛋也被淡化，甚至有一种笨拙的喜感，以至于只持续一分多钟的轻松反杀，让人觉得合情合理，面包车里被游行队伍救出那段更是神来之笔。
She's not the only one listening.
疫情下科技时代的犯罪电影，切入点很独特新颖，另一方面又体现着个人信息的泄露让你无处遁形。但最重要的是，千万不能小看宅家不出门的人
A fila that makes you wonder what happened to Aaron Sorkin’s marriage. 这个故事的完成度依然很好，剧本依然话痨，妮可基德曼依然不老，但是看完让人觉得“为什么拍了这样一个电影呢？”
紧随时代潮流的索德伯格，给多少钱办事也不糊弄，低成本照样高效产出，常规类型化框架内依然可以凭借反套路剧情，晃动的手持镜头制造紧张感和窒息感。不到90分钟的体量，一些角色的置入是多余的，最后反杀虽然爽快，也难免摆脱不了降智的设定。
Nicole kidman这脸都快认不出了。。这电影中间时间线看得一度很混乱
演技很好，但是没有什么感情。也许演员演戏久了，就会自然而然有这样的毛病？
这部Aaron Sorkin没有预想中的好～ 哈维尔·巴登的造型神似男神帕西诺大叔 👀🐈
看了30分钟实在看不下去了，台词多而无用。另外妮可肿胀的玻尿酸脸实在也是看不下去，就这样吧。
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