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".
黑色幽默溢出来了哈哈哈哈哈～感觉等我学好了西语可以再看一遍！认真地在拍weird人类拍电影hhh石头那里笑疯了艹 两位男主演的人设一个是有实力但浮夸，一个是学院派但有点虚伪，化学反应很奇妙！导演真的好符合我审美，蓬蓬的头发🉑️镜头语言也很漂亮！
花音过马路的冲击感和店长逃避男主过马路的音乐节奏都很棒。整个故事的起因最终归结于亲情关系，与其说在寻找真相，不如说是给自己找一个理由。角色们不同的结局都是救赎的一种体现。海豚云的call back突然戳人，虽然彼此不懂对方，但原来一直看着同一朵云啊。
这一撞，再撞，把我移情于伊东苍的美好杀死了。
继《杰出公民》之后越来越喜欢马丁内兹演这种小老头角色了
的确比不过导演之前的杰出公民和蛮荒故事 但是风格还在 看起来依然带劲 用最优雅的演员和最优雅的布景去做最傻逼最真实的事 说到底戏里戏外都在演
创作过程的本身比创作结果更具戏剧化…不管是就喜剧而已还是电影艺术本身都各种妙…导演是个狠人…老头最后明白还是投资个桥比较实在…哈哈哈哈哈哈…
太冗长了，昏昏欲睡。在西班牙语电影里剧情可以说是毫无惊喜，不够疯。
每个情节设置都如此刻意过火，试图为痛苦找到宣泄的理由，但最终却都被“对不起”抵消，无处释放的痛苦肆意蔓延，善意真的能减轻痛苦吗？
从杰出公民以来，两位导演合作的越来越差，笑点包袱创意都挺足的，结果真正涉及到主竞赛才这么一点，坐拥几位大明星，演这个本子是真的吃力不讨好
两位typical “loser” men刻画的挺形象的lol
片内各种冲突都零敲碎打的，隔靴之感，无甚惊喜。三大牌确实有魅力，花式演出了娱乐人的不同维度的装腔作势，各自得瑟又互相膈应。从没有觉得佩内洛普这么美，狮子爆炸头张扬跋扈，小表情有时媚有时酷。老演员伊凡很像国内那些道貌岸然装超然的老艺术家，明里淡泊名利，实则心里酸楚眼红那些流量星，只恨观众没眼光觉得自己曲高和寡无知音。。。安东尼奥神兜兜国际范巨星架势，神气活现一小人敢想敢干。。。最后还是最不要脸成大赢家。
不得不让人深思，究竟谁之过？
善良的人才會被攻擊 那家人包括那記者都不是好東西
但无论结局超市关门大吉，老板去从事苦力，依然改变不了发生的惨剧……
悲剧就是所有牵涉之人都或轻或重且无可挽回地失去了些什么。最后一幕很动人，做父亲的终于在一幅画里找到了和女儿的一丝共同回忆
本质上是对于电影主创人员的讽刺，乐于玩弄装置艺术的女导演，虚伪的作者演员，自大的流量明星。作者演员的虚伪或许更加深入骨髓，傲慢是光环加身之人最常拥有的特性。然而电影文本本身很乏味，就算是加上现实和文本的互文设定也依然缺乏创意，这部电影进入主竞赛单元，或许才是最大的讽刺
謎一般地很有某類北歐電影的氣質：房間大得要命、佈景極簡主義、嘲諷現代性、解構當代藝術⋯⋯但每場戲幾乎都有新的手法玩，所以不會悶，甚至還是能讓人笑得很開心的。
花音的车祸，牵扯了父亲、超市店长、女司机以及与这些人相关的很多人，媒体是一个放大镜，放大了这些人的罪，准确说，没有人是绝对清白的，电影列出了无数次的道歉，到了最后，已经不知道该为了什么道歉，舆论搅合了是非观念，忘却了包容与理性。
直白的讽刺电影圈各种陋习，演员表演是不错的，就是过于平淡直接，结尾有些潦草。
因为这两周刚好在学script analysis 好神奇的观影体验 很灵动！
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