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".
男人都需要这种榜样和模范去教他成为一个真正的男人。
大本的表演算是让磨出来了，这次真的值得一个奥斯卡男配提名
不错啊，看了很多侦探小说之后，好的厉害的警察都好像有点处于灰色地带。
抛一段引子线性平述，然后再抛一个引子继续线性平述，转折非常生硬，逻辑非常别扭，看完都不知道所以然，不过洗白黑警这点我是搞明白了，正经警察都是无能死板的，只有黑化以暴制暴的黑警路线才能干出实绩，只要能捉“中”老鼠的黑警就是“好”警察，大老鼠捉不到无所谓，最终的社会收益是正的就是正确，有点像当年刚战败后的日本，黑社会组织能够促进社会安定而肯定他们的合法存在，这种模式或许也是适合当下的韩国社会
整个片子确实很温柔，调性处理得很舒服，但很抱歉，我看不进去这个故事。而且，找不到理由看进去这个人物的塑造。
对自传者来说大概真的是经历了人间冷暖情感百态，但对观众来说就不免俗套，以及“只有取得了成功的主角才能被拍成电影”的奇怪暗示。但本片最大的成就其实是带大家复习了一下年轻版阿弗莱克。
剧情好没意思，卧底？黑帮？权钱交易？缺乏刺激点。不过，穿着西装，梳着背头的崔宇植可真是帅气！
音乐不错，车也不错。结局告诉我们男人得有辆自己的车
这样一个平凡又坚定的成长故事本来可以照“父亲”角色的缺失（寻找男性楷模）到迷茫、困顿，探寻自我价值和身份认同的轨迹，用“痛感”使观众产生共鸣，但是讲故事的方式真挺没新意，双线叙事只是让结构更加零散了，成品到了最后搞成温吞吞经典美式鸡汤励志小品也给了我一种被骗的感觉。但是实在喜欢舅舅这个角色和莉莉拉贝，所以还是三星。
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全片没有女主角，导演真的是太狠了，是不是歧视女性啊，女拳警告ing~~演员都还行，剧情推进也不错，没看过日本的原版，蛮有意思的，片中警方办案居然要去拉赞助，而且经常不走程序就去办案抓人，还美其名曰：警察必须要走灰色地带！我不否认个别案件可能一时找不到有力证据，无法按程序抓住犯罪分子，但这不是警察能够知法犯法的理由啊！我始终坚信：权力如果不加以限制，一定会造成强者对弱者的剥削！警察是国家合法的暴力机构，无法想像如果对警方主动游走灰色地带加以美化、肯定，那警察还能公正执法吗？谁能保证所有人都能做到，谁来监督？！不支持片中的理论，看看就好！
里面一些玩闹的剪辑还挺有意思的哈哈哈哈
很喜欢这种小清新的调调，一个男孩的成长是依照着父亲的模样，对于父权的未知让男孩的成长遇到了这群叔叔，他一直在寻找的父亲形象，其实一直在他的身边。
电影里有句话很认同：警察要始终立身于警戒线上方，黑与白，站哪一边也不行，只要市民们支持我们的工作，我们始终都能站在灰色地带上方，当然，稍有不慎，人们会把我们纳入黑的那一方，这就是警察。游走在河边的人，把握不好这个度，那就是“唯独不要当警察”！
大熊真的天生为这种角色而生的呜呜呜呜真的好帅！！！！
剧情太繁琐 没有什么看下去的欲望 反而最后去看了讲解 笑死
对于家庭心理和阶层问题都停留在表面，剧本比白开水还淡，除了克鲁尼以外完成的都挺不错，请克鲁尼不要想象自己能转型成一代导演了。。。
剧情一般，但是演技不错。韩国这系列正常水准。
看在赵震雄面子上多1星，这类故事没有创新的话，真是看得又累又无聊
大荧幕真的厉害 肤质完全无滤镜 把小崔五官看的明明白白；剧类型有些审美疲劳 秘密森林太难逾越
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