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".
没有想象中那么差。最后出车祸和女主给男主生孩子那段多少有点烂，整体上来说还行，男女主演技还是可以的，就是后面男主发型太丑了，说是30多有点沧桑了。
三星半，这么低的分，不喜欢的人应该是觉得太扯太荒诞太文艺腔了，比起爱情片更像是一部思考生命意义的狂想曲(虽然这么说太俗了)，所以后半部才是不老奇事也只是男主的幻想而已，并不是科幻。王朔这么多年了还是在表达“成功不就是挣点钱让傻逼们知道吗” ，不过这样的“烂片”比那些庸俗的烂片可强多了
个人觉得应该值7分以上的电影，打个四星平衡下。当看到佐藤健饰演的角色在离影片结束还有四十多分钟就被抓获后就猜到肯定有反转。都说天灾无情人有情，事实上是有些人定的制度比灾难还更无情。在生命和尊严面前，那些僵硬和不合理的规定都应该让步，这样的执行才是人性化和有温度的，执行者不该像没有生命的机器人一样麻木无情。可惜现实往往没那么理想，联想到最近上海疫情期间发生的一系列事，我们离营造这样一个人性化的环境还很遥远，继续努力吧。清原果耶太可了，想和她交往想保护她（星星眼）。电影里三人吃饭时的面条感觉很美味，决定晚餐就吃面条了。
王珞丹演的好，世事变迁，不同时代的苏凌芳有着不同的特点。
整体是今年看过的比较用心的片子。1.从时间线上来看，拉的很长，历史的厚重感很难撑得起来。2.立意上，再探讨人士，探讨生命，探讨生死，导演需要再提升。3.主线上后来又聚焦在干细胞上，把青春，情爱，生死，世俗无奈都揉在了一起，冲击力不够。3.逻辑上，丁萌萌以身做实验其实可以和爱情失败，紧密联系在一起。郭小鲁可以和丁在一起了，但是内心在苏这里，更符合现实。编剧对现实的理解不够。现实的浪漫主义会更加震撼。后来加上了郭小鲁去非洲体验人生，类似文艺青女青年去西藏净化灵魂一样，受众对象都是白左和文艺小青年，伪小资。4.最后收尾收的，更加潦草，匆匆收尾。
这个调调的电影和配乐还是很对胃口，但是这个故事有点不知道在搞啥，反转和真凶也挺好猜的。
片名即表明导演的态度，且具挑衅性。这是一部抨击日本福利救济体系的政治片，却包裹在犯罪悬疑故事中，又以三一一海啸事件作为背景。说实话，故事讲述得相当牵强，愤怒的情绪表现得淋漓尽致。两位男演员一贯的不会演戏，不管什么角色，永远都是一副面孔。日本的福利制度颇被攻讦，自身确存问题。但福利却是双刃剑，度在哪里还须谨慎拿捏。毕竟人性难测。
很好的题材。明明最该苛责的是制度。却只轻轻带过…重点依旧喂鸡汤搞温情…哎
泪点很多。女主有王朔笔下人物的那种劲儿。王珞丹演技真好，还有老王，倍儿正宗的北京爷们儿感。还有丁教授和妹妹，都太有特点了，这种人物刻画很鲜活的电影非常喜欢，尽管不商业，后半段有点男主独角戏，有些凌乱。但真的非常值得买票。
阿布大叔甘草叶，双青反转最悲怆。
大为无语，是非要政府把饭送到嘴边求你吃才是关爱吗？人自己选择不吃饿死了就要放火杀人？都是些什么巨婴，没觉得你们得不到保护，明明是自己不要保护。反复横跳还要怪人不够关心了，真是惯的。用这漏洞百出的剧情设置来批判社会保障完全没有说服力好吗，没法共情，只觉得公职人员好无辜。最后狠狠吐槽一句，濑濑敬久到底会不会拍电影啊😓tkr到底是不是演技的问题啊，还是脸太好？这几年演了几部社会题材的片子但一直让我觉得格格不入，有时候端着有时候过火，咋回事。
前半段挺好看，交叉展开，老人小孩，情绪情感悬疑都有。后半段要为“悲剧”注解，人物、主题甚至故事都圆得难看，颇为尴尬。
最后十五分钟真多余！死状还慢动作、男主角和刑警的对话也太自以为是。而且为什么要乱更动原作最揪心的部分？婆婆人生最后一段时光那种慢性折磨、贫困边缘之下无助的时间流逝是最戳的，结果只简单以一句过世了来草草结束。男主角因得知老人家最后是过着啥样的生活，所以放火才能激起人强烈代入感，因为几位公务员的各种作为才是致命关键。也侧面透露出这现存体系的矛盾与乡愿。至于警察旁边这小跟班的戏份没必要这么多，把时间挪去铺陈三人拟似家庭和公务员的做法都比这种拍法好。男主角是可以平常去照看老人，但他后来工作地点调动至远方，鞭长莫及才寄托福利单位，类似这点原作都很合理的，翻拍却忽视这种合理性。最后对峙的高潮导演也没拍到位。濑濑还是老毛病。
三颗星鼓励“科幻片”。不过！搞不懂为什么一定要安排青梅竹马—青年分开—中年重新在一起的爱情，还拍的这么像几个花絮接在了一起。如果非要把感情和科幻集合，完全可以学学《降临》。
一般套路 懂得都懂😂 情感满分 剧情。。。 林老师也救不了
日本片子总体节奏就是太磨叽，当然，你也可以说是为了细腻刻画，呵呵
P.S. 对王珞丹的记忆还停留在《后会无期》，这次依旧精彩。
对了，死神永生。
日本片子总体节奏就是太磨叽，当然，你也可以说是为了细腻刻画，呵呵
剧情代入感极强
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