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".
乱 复杂 细节太多 叙事线乱成一团 看的脑子乱嗡嗡的 如果不是妮可真的看不下去 先好好讲故事不行吗 很明显看出 同为传记片 gucci里的gaga跟这里的kd 还是有很大距离的
抑郁症+白作+女quan师+黑人男友+挑战quan威=流量密码？烂片！反胃！
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 👀🐈
看着毫无共鸣的电影，一对知名演员夫妻在一周时间内经历的大起大落，如果是《我爱我家》的幕后传记相信对中国观众更可以理解，演员阵容强大
这次台词过多成为了累赘，看得很疲乏。看完全片我对Lucille Ball这个角色十分动容，她是立体的，是一团被重重包围着的火焰，本来可以聚变成一颗闪耀的恒星，但被湮没了光芒。问题是，全片透露出的信息实在是太多了，这也要那也要最后芝麻西瓜混成了一盘稀碎的大乱炖。这原本是一部很好的大女主剧，有血有肉有灵魂有梦想，最终的呈现却有些拉胯，着实可惜。艾伦·索金还是更适合拍更加纯粹的政治片吧，要是在白宫里拍两个多小时的话痨片，就会很精彩。妮可·基德曼演得好，但我感觉也只能得一个提名了。
这对夫妻那么多drama剧情 完全没想到选了这段 大家演得都很努力【但是妮可造型真的完全不像 lucy……
工整剧本下是高饱和度的台词和海量的信息。但影片要表达的关键词又在几个重要场景中呼之欲出。妮可·基德曼贡献了又一个鲜明且与众不同的银幕形象，结尾的那场戏四两拨千斤，喜剧表象下的暮色与沉重就仿如最后化身黑白的镜头，令人慨叹唏嘘。
看不太进去。台词太多的电影真的很难进入。故事看似放在一周内可以显得更紧凑吸引人，但时间线根本不清晰，看得人云里雾里。而且他们在担心的事很难被共情。（2022.1.31 上午 资中 卧室 电脑 一个人）
后疫情时代、无孔不入的语音助手与Metoo，Kimi确实是一部充满时代气息的作品。希区柯克式的视听语言无处不在，这一点很让人喜欢。
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。
理想主义的女人和他擅长危机公关的老公鸡糟的一周 就挺无聊的
A / 用《放大》击碎《后窗》直达《审判》。声与画一开始便分离为两条线，前者为闭锁却仍然向过去深潜的人物内在，后者为跃过外部世界封锁的渴望——它们在一个身体跌坐的姿势中碰撞，在想象的召唤中让多重记忆叠合，从而促发人物的空间突围。但索德伯格显然并未天真到让人物畅行无阻，而是将她放入了更为散乱的迷宫中——把《删除历史》里金钟罩般的科技公司拆解成细碎的隔间、回廊、楼梯、数据库，把地面红蓝相间的广场拟态为破碎的星条旗，来往的行人彷如被放进matrix般亦真亦幻。好在声音最终勾连起了那些上手的武器，夹缝空间中物的网络亦是庇荫与反抗的根据——而她依然保有在一片狼藉中，打开那扇门的勇气。
P.S2：射钉枪建议列入管制武器。
中等成本的网大，舒舒服服把钱赚了，索德伯格还把摄影剪辑全包了。
Lucy just wanna move on, and she did it.
艾伦索金强大的叙事能力和效率需要建立在故事本身就很精彩的基础上才能发挥出来，然而这部电影完全没有这个先天优势，看完以后只想问一句sowhat。哈维尔巴登成为了唯一的亮点。
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。
最佳女主角妮可，閃回想起了「時時刻刻」，重新解構歷史有意義嗎，當然！誰掌握了過去就掌握了未來！
被索金狂轰滥炸的输出刺激到疲软，反叛过去的麦卡锡袭来，到移民，女性（一屋子男人里的妮可太像华盛顿邮报里的梅梅，我爱露西这种强调主语的凝视也让人不适，可惜她在情景喜剧里也像测量笑点的严肃电影主演）最终剧作落点回到了戏剧外明星夫妻的婚姻缥缈。感情和怀旧加一星（妮可2封多半还是无惹
70/100 索金的特点还是很明显的，但闪回内容还是长了。原以为会是轻喜剧打底，没想到是这么压抑的故事。一个喜剧女演员在父权环境中走向自我，复杂的背景显得这个人物更加的传奇，其他的倒也显得电影的主题有些分散了。
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