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".
影片有一个华丽的舞台背景，肮脏、下作和坚持、正义在舞台上角力。对于读过福山《政治秩序的起源》的大空先生来说，舞台上的人们都在为这本书注解。
韩式工业化政治商业片，剧情流畅，水准在线，但是缺点也同样一目了然。徐昌大的角色形象无疑是成立的，但是对于他所坚持的手段作风，金云范和他的选举团队的反应却是前后不一的，知根知底却在关键时刻反对“演戏”，那不是虚伪即是虚假了。这种逻辑上的矛盾问题，暴露出的是剧本的欠缺打磨，铺垫不够，顺拐来凑，也直接损害了片尾那一番交心谈话的力量。
谁是影子？不过是为了正义形象虚构的分身。暗夜里，身与影合而为一，并无分别。
偏爱这种历史政治题材 喜欢里面用光影隐喻现实中聚光灯下的他 和站在阴影为他出谋划策的他 没有干净的政治 在泥潭里能坚持下来的方式可能就是忘记这个过程和手段 只想着出淤泥之后的自由空气 大叔一如既往得优秀 但就是独特的声线时刻提醒我这是李善均 … 薛景求在这里的扮相好精神 俩人的对手戏很好看
想起早些年看的书“人的情谊，再久长，数年、数十年，总归开初那段最是金不换。”读到这里，深以为然。 我总是不大懂政治，问你你就和我讲，女朋友知道这些干啥，女朋友就是被我宠的。其实……我也不大懂你，只是政治和你，你都不愿再和我讲
7分给电影，多1分给李善均。其实今年的百想应该颁奖给李善均。
真理往往掌握在少部分人手里，所以广泛的大众永远是盲目的
韩国电影对韩国的历史进程的呈现也算是不遗余力了,<南山的部长们>拍的就是朴正熙被枪杀的事件,这部电影讲的是韩国总统大选的一个历程吧,以前还记得看过一个什么司机的,也是历史事件改编的,至少,韩国历史在电影里透明的,这也许才是文明该有的样子吧
柏拉图，
按照电影中的主题，我们能不能用以牙还牙，以眼还眼的招数去还击？如果用了同样的方法，那么是否背离了自己的初衷？这是一个很让人值得深思的问题。
尤其是“17年后”…
看完感觉金挺装的，又当又立，个人真的很反感口口声声把民主挂嘴边的人员，仿佛一个吟诵法师。
世界是复杂的，在尔虞我诈中还能坚守初心，也是不易。
也就全體演員值三星, 男主的軍師能力在戲中幾乎沒太多著墨 但這不是演員的問題, 想要拍這種大格局大跨度的歷史劇只用了二小時不到的篇幅, 當然什麼都講不好
代入感太低 过于流水导致看起来跟闹着玩一样 基本不会出现死人和不可抗的意识 就算被牵着鼻子走的人们至少也应该怀疑一下吧 有些情节不能细想 过程都是顺顺利利的一笔带过没讲清楚 当然俩大男主的演技没得说
选举智库因不择手段与主人分道扬镳，并助对手当上了总统，若干年后，相逢一笑泯恩仇。电影把智库之外的人物塑造得跟白痴一样，so easy了
看不懂，什么是选举啊，什么是投票啊？
四平八稳的推进，渐入佳境。人物的色彩单调了点。
好惋惜，都是为了大义，有的人是面子，有的人是里子。面子和里子的决裂，感觉不是道义的不同，追根到底还是不信任，真心觉得金总统是伪君子。
没有人关心是谁操纵了一颗炸弹，他们只关心正义和事业。
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