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".
看到有“电影博主”说这个电影“太私人”，你就知道有多少代笔在糟蹋电影两个字了
“天色尚早，但很快就会暗下来，趁着白日漫漫，我们一起去散步吧。”和drive my car相似的结构但是不一样的生活，我喜欢看起来开心的电影。
完全镜像反应导演的情况让人想很多但没什么意义；如果那个小女孩是即性的就牛了
“自由”的拍电影。是从这部看到洪常秀他的理念。从这部片子开始才看出，他为什么放弃摄影组和一切技术，回归亲手操作展现现实与电影的互文。当金敏喜和摄影背后的洪常秀互相说「我爱你」和金敏喜被风吹得不断眨眼还一直看着洪常秀的眼神，他两个在电影与现实两个时空重叠，此时，洪常秀的主题不再是一层不变地不断重复自己，他的生活或许有了新的进展。小女孩的设计可能是私人的（不能喝酒的金敏喜说要处理生活上的事），或许吧。
第一次看洪尚秀的电影，怎么说呢，确实挺独特的，但也确实看不懂（看了一圈影评感觉更晕了）。感触最深的应该是全片透露出的自然放松的气息以及银幕内外每时每刻的互文吧，但片中的一些小彩蛋和弧光还是没办法get到，所以电影本身自然也不太好评价，不知道后面有没有机会慢慢看懂他的电影。
中间快进一下，却在1：25措手不及地哭了。
姐姐太美了，姐姐就算演公园一棵树，也会美到闪闪发光。
洪常秀一如既往用镜头去捕捉人物的特质，在一次次对焦深望里反而坠入了无可估量的眩晕失重，是日常对话里的不适，也是熟悉场景中的陌生。
陷入写作瓶颈期的小说家见后辈，偶遇导演，就女演员不拍戏的问题互怼。最后小说家竟然萌发出自己拍电影的念头，并去做了。没想到这部电影正是金敏喜和洪常秀的故事，简直太逗了。故事中的金敏喜因为丈夫忘记生日而生气，在公园里自己采野花，做成花束，面对镜头微笑的样子太美了，从她的眼睛里分明看到了未曾露面的导演丈夫。戏里戏外，真真假假，假假真真，看似没有冲突的故事，却意味深长，这就是洪常秀电影的魅力。像短篇小说，犹如白开水一样的剧情，虽然尬，却舍不得倍速，每一帧都是值得回味的画面。
难以分辨是小说家的电影还是电影人的小说。随意流畅到不在乎“电影”作为影像介质的边界。关于创作人生的对话精彩，充满点睛之笔。在电影院看的感觉又很好，因为终于对那些细小的喜剧时刻拥有了共鸣。但当然什么都比不上金敏喜那一刻的天真真诚与美好，不能用“美丽”来形容。为她拍的影像，为他唱起的婚礼进行曲。I love you. I love you.
这么“自我”以及“自私”的影像日记却一而再再而三的感动着不再相信爱情的世俗的人们
除了省略与回旋之外，有些神来之笔。最好的是望远镜的发现，另外，就是最后段落的主观镜头，一半彩色一半黑白，金敏喜溢出来了，这已经不是电影了。但它还是电影。
-You're so Pretty!ahhhh//评审团大奖//不如《引见》深入，但更本能、自在，既是一次自反，又给未来两人的创作埋下了伏笔…
好没意思，以后不看洪尚秀了。补看了友邻短评里分析的那些微妙之处和戏外狗粮，依旧觉得没意思。
看完全片的我：骚瑞，作为多年洪粉，我对洪导最近戒烟还是戒酒毫不关心，对洪导有新欢（即使不是金）也无任何意见，但是看着一脸精明的金敏喜佯装单纯天真的忸怩作态，真的倍感恶心......但她和洪是绝配，因为两人骨子里都很享受名利带来的拥簇（也就是无论制作什么作品都会有人给出长篇大论的赞美），但在表达上绝对遵循“这是我自由的选择，我只渴望自由地自我表达，我追求纯洁的艺术，名利对我来说什么也不是”。不过洪的狡猾在于他会设置某些场景嘲讽自己的虚伪，而金在他的视角下永远无法开口，永远死气沉沉。
其实前面真的还是挺重复的。习以为常的故事。但是那个结尾，太浪漫了。好像这次没有人再对着金敏喜直接说你可真美啊这样的话。但是那个结尾，每一个镜头都在说你可真美啊。她独自哼唱着结婚进行曲，仿佛那就是他们两人的婚礼。所谓小说家的电影，就是他们的爱情电影吧。我爱你！我爱你！
算是这几年来洪尚秀最轻松的作品了。公园散步借小说家之口说出最想说的话，小说家完成拍电影的梦想，一天之中见完老友，完成拍片却没能直接面对作品。彩色部分回到现实，现实的甜好过虚构的甜嘛？
有很多让我犯尴尬癌的场景 可又觉得禁不住的好看 洪尚秀拍金敏喜的作品好多惊喜 金敏喜真美 美到流泪
后知后觉我已经在一次次洗礼中默默接受还祝福了😢。
有点意思的小品，感觉比起之前的话痨作品，这部更细腻了些，两位女强人的邂逅之源吧
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