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".
虽然还有两部是枝裕和电影长片未看，但足以确认本片是是枝裕和生涯最差。大半时间都难看到让人如坐针毡。温吞鸡汤大集合，主题先行故作架势，强行煽情尴尬无比，非血缘家庭的戏不是随便凑几个人物就能成立的，小男孩虽然演得好但本身就是个生硬加进来的角色，宋康昊其他代表作的表演都胜过他在本片中对角色的诠释，李知恩虽然美但真的看不出有演技，裴斗娜的警察线完全是虚浮无谓浪费时间，片中人物都薄如纸片，根本立不起来，所谓的破碎人生不幸前史也都一望而知根本不需要煞有介事地铺陈揭示。视听上也只是及格并无出彩之处。结尾更是无趣“团圆”到以为在看xx主旋律片。摩天轮场景算是唯一称得上亮点的段落。（5.0/10）
75cannes首映/中庸的故事，与我相悖的生养观，一无是处的女演员，是枝裕和的复杂与细腻全都丢失了，很多设计（eg摩天轮的运用、火车灯光）太平平无奇，刁亦男都比他有创意，导演老啦。另，还是认为男导演请慎重触碰女性题材（滨口龙介除外）。
古有等待戈多，今有卖掉羽星。大家都不是坏人，可是我们在生活中真的太久没听到“善良”这个词了。我们都太善于伪装了，直到洗车店的水冲进车内，冲刷掉我们坚硬的外壳，让我们的心彼此依偎，感谢彼此的诞生。希望看到进海飞奔在英超的足球场上。
满分喜剧片 要啥自行车 这就去把《帕丁顿熊2》看了去
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。
前半段还挺好的后面突然开始没必要地拖延……………………IU演技还不错啊挺惊喜的
和之前的烂片比，是强了好多，不过也就是有点意思罢了。帕丁顿熊2我感觉比第一部差多了。还有电影最后又上演了，对方还没追上来，但非要以赢得时间为由，留下送人头地戏码。
对身边每一个人说谢谢，几个人寻找买家的经过看成了一个混搭家庭的旅行，这是另一部小偷家族，这些人怀着并不光明的企图，却发生了真善美的化学反应，孩子是催化剂，所有的选择都是为了孩子能有一个更好的成长环境，也算是这些大人对自己错走的路的弥补。
不够欢脱，也不够洒脱
为人父母的温暖亲情，延续了是枝裕和一贯的风格，可惜不进则退。
画面很韩影，人物设定像极了是枝裕和的《小偷家族》，是一群底层陌生人互相支撑走过人生之中一段的故事。故事本身有更深的可以挖掘的，本来那个卖淫杀人弃子的母亲有非常非常多的发挥空间，但是演员比较木。另外一些台词有点尬。
戏中戏多少有些好笑又心酸…哈维傻白甜迷弟真的太可爱…期待凯奇下一部水准之作。
Not bad！Cage和Javi都好可爱，看完电影做的第一件事是，下载《帕丁顿熊2》！
全程最好看/爆笑的点：凯奇被自己的蒙汗药搞晕倒在地，耳机外CIA大吼一声ACTION！凯奇居然醒了；剩下的就是中年大危机网大版水时长
遗弃婴儿是犯罪，那堕胎是不是合法的扼杀生命，又是一个双刃的伪命题，却没能掀起更大的水花，反而看得昏昏欲睡。
我笑死了 毒蛇太帅了 表演很有层次 微笑可以从帅到搞笑 。然后其实剧本明明就是一个简单的故事 主角是一个演员而已，但是设定这个主角叫尼古拉斯凯奇，而且还找了尼古拉斯凯奇演 这个人是现实中存在的 有几个瞬间就会觉得 尼古拉斯凯奇（真人）好厉害啊！
剧本细节亮点依旧很足，至少看完后有不少场面留下深刻印象，比如摩天轮上流泪遮眼，太巧妙了，既暖心化解人物情绪，也是对演技的抬升，动车进隧道那段也是，是枝裕和对演员也太温柔了吧，技法都用来保护演员了。
Nick Cage是不是可以站上演员肺活量之巅了。
这部电影比小偷家族探讨更多的则是女性议题，从女性生育到社会眼光下的男女平等，它脱离了传统眼光下素英作为母亲需要展现的那种母爱，而是更多地去描绘社会底层妓女这个身份给她带来的矛盾与纠结。后半段的泪点很多，打动我的并不是那些温馨和情感，而是通过素英的嘴所呼喊出来的女性渴望被尊重、渴望拥有自由处置自己身体的权利。
是枝裕和擅长的题材，但拍的一点感觉都没有。情节演进不怎么合理，让人真的无法代入和共情。
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