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".
结局太莫名其妙了，我想看的是小孩被卖掉的结局。
3.5 期待值非常高的首映，但看到煽情片段的时候心想：完蛋了自己无法在这个时刻流泪…阳光小美女+东京教父+小偷家族 釜山版 #Cannes 2022
中后段的连环崩坏似乎是可预见的，因人物在此除了浅层的边缘符号功能，和完成台本硬塞的“传话”任务外，其内在情感逻辑再无细微的串联和变化，由此让这个临时组建的家庭变得颇为别扭，不自然，更无法像《小偷家族》在齿寒的现实辙痕里，洒落大音希声的感动。或许，是枝最好的作品仍在于用凝缩（形而上）的生活气息和经验，去反哺特定的题材表达，而当类型化的社会元素（悬疑、黑帮、凶杀）开始渗透，他便完全被绑在了温柔的陷阱里，变得愈加无所适从。
即使国情不同，broker的本质还是人贩子，是枝裕和尽力从每一个角度在美化这个形象，试图让观众放下道德戒备以关注动人之处，包括但不限于请宋康昊这样憨厚老实形象的大叔出演。简直太有说服力了，谁都得跟着他想想弃婴被送往收养家庭还是呆在孤儿院更好。
已经降低预期了，没想到还是大失所望，无血缘组合照搬《小偷家族》，生而不养又是《无人知晓》，可是枝裕和的这种自我复制恰恰少了对社会尖锐的发问，每个人设都是善良无害的，警察线和掮客线都温吞得像是白开水，买卖孩子的行为毫无推动力，最后硬生生营造出孩子被众多人疼爱的温馨感，甚至还提出堕胎不比弃养道德的奇怪观点，就好像是那种鼓励生育或是宣扬宗教的宣传片，演员也没什么发挥空间，宋康昊凭这个夺影帝还真是水分很大，裴斗娜演这么个可有可无的角色也很可惜。
很奇怪，很拼凑。是枝裕和贵在慢，但是这次承载了太多剧情所以剧本推进节奏很离奇，日韩差异的水土不服还在。如果能改成五六集的迷你剧就好了，每个人物都可以得到拓展。作为电影，大体上的呈现是可以的，很是枝裕和。
自我调侃的尼古拉斯.凯奇有一种别样的魅力，搞笑的地方常常从现实跳进影片里，来回切换更加有趣。其实后半段就觉得这应该是戏中戏，不然中间那些无厘头简直离谱，不过总体来说，终于从低潮走出来的凯奇，值得掌声。
还挺喜欢两个人的情感关系的，但是格调一开始起那么高，最后又变成好莱坞式的意淫也挺没意思。
中后段的连环崩坏似乎是可预见的，因人物在此除了浅层的边缘符号功能，和完成台本硬塞的“传话”任务外，其内在情感逻辑再无细微的串联和变化，由此让这个临时组建的家庭变得颇为别扭，不自然，更无法像《小偷家族》在齿寒的现实辙痕里，洒落大音希声的感动。或许，是枝最好的作品仍在于用凝缩（形而上）的生活气息和经验，去反哺特定的题材表达，而当类型化的社会元素（悬疑、黑帮、凶杀）开始渗透，他便完全被绑在了温柔的陷阱里，变得愈加无所适从。
人物弧线也好似玩笑。
对我这种凯奇粉丝来说太好笑了，make the fucking cage great again！
工整且乏味，但是却不算是是枝裕和的正常水准。题材老酒装新瓶就不提了。小偷家族我就已经觉得有些太明显了，这部却宛如儿童带拼音版本的小偷家族。家庭血缘和爱的主题，讲得越满越着急似乎就越难动人。每一个演员都是好演员，但是IU裴斗娜和宋康昊却都在这个真善美的故事变得乏味。除此之外，是枝裕和镜头下的日本美得意味深长，但是韩国却乏善可陈。故事发生在釜山首尔或者是上海北京都没啥差别。缺少了对故事背景文化的领悟和欣赏，这些小人物的故事就变得无比乏味且啰嗦。是枝裕和这次就像是做小学一年级数学卷考了个高分的数学系高材生：手到擒来且漫不经心
3.5星，前面觉得尼古拉斯凯奇自己演自己这个创意很有意思，到后面主线剧情反而俗了。凯奇还是那么疯，是让人想到《我心狂野》的那种疯。啊我是真的不喜欢《帕丁顿熊2》TAT
一时之间不知道该为这个幻梦般的温情乌托邦感动还是质疑，是枝裕和把东京教父带到了韩国，把圣诞节雪夜置换成了大海和旅行，但宋康昊那种圣母的关怀却没让我干涩的眼珠子掉下一滴眼泪。
又是以平静的口吻讲述一个残忍又温柔的故事，但因太多戏剧的设置让整部电影处于一种人工善意的滤镜里。是枝裕和的“平庸”之作依然细腻动人，是和自己的前作《小偷家族》《无人知晓》相比失了那种震撼的力量。
我不管打低分的人，反正是打动了我，我自己也是到了结婚生子的年龄，但是我没有自信我能做个好爸爸，我有我的苦衷，所以我不结婚生子，这是我对世界最大的责任感，这剧本写得好，演员也演得好
戛纳评委太惨了，看了话痨片《未来罪行》又要看大闷片《掮客》。一部去精华版《小偷家族》，一个毫无意义的无聊剧本。表演也没有亮点，所有人都是一副苦瓜脸，姜栋元和IU如同两块木头，宋康昊稍好一点，戛纳影帝没问题，但不该凭这部片子拿。
感动的时刻也是有的，但这次总觉得没着没落、毫不可信，明明这个故事可以更好的，无论是韩式激烈狗血煽情，还是日式伊坂幸太郎，都绝对会比现在更好看。
人间有大爱，仿佛看了一出知音故事会，不过对照《无人知晓》，应该是作者有意要爱满人间吧。
说多了，凯奇真棒，电影太伟大了
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