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".
一人，一机器，一条狗，在世界末日里享受生活，简简单单，却让人心情舒畅，倍感惬意。这是一部几乎没有高潮的片子，但当狗狗把球丢在芬奇面前时，我却热泪盈眶。
这剧本不好写。虽然主角之一是机器人，但没有AI觉醒之类的老套，讲的还是人。没有故作深沉，却在一个个大大小小的事件，汤姆汉克斯的沧桑神态，和机器人的一个个动作细节中道出了人性的善良、自私、渴望、矛盾。不矫情，深度恰到好处。
事实是，平淡的故事也可以波澜壮阔，与其希望观众把自己无限代入主视角，不如想想如何把主视角感知的波澜壮阔用镜头叙述表现出来。
好久没在电影院看到这么燃的华语电影了，对！你没看错，是华语电影，不是华语动画电影。虽然是动画，但他少有的热血和少年气超过太多真人电影了，不仅画风水准很高，音乐也非常好，使用的剧作结构非常类型片化，几个转折点和细节都很到位。故事内核聚焦于留守儿童的教育和成长以及童工和农民工等非常现实的议题，形式上结合广东舞狮文化，两者匹配的非常成功，这种片子放在春节档都有的一拼。
也太好了吧！没想到年底收获了这部院线电影～
想不到除了皮克斯还能有别的电影能让我哭这么惨…每个人都要经历成长
画面好看，运镜质感，调度丰沛，细节考究，剧情流畅，节奏极佳，题材现实，生活气息浓厚，人物塑造典型，配乐契合，就连卡点都那么熨帖，令观众看到了国产动画的曙光。
抱着去看看的心情去看，一开场的女孩子舞狮就被惊艳到了~ 两人踩单车在巷子里乱窜的片段大爱，非常有那种老城的生活气息~
上山、下山，每个人有自己的路要走。赞电影尊重现实，没有给主角们一个因舞狮夺冠就走上光鲜未来的结局。很喜欢电影里满满的乡土文化，感情充沛的插曲，堪比实景拍摄的细腻画面，和即使明知是煽情套路也让人留下泪水的感人片段。虽然大量打工少年和留守儿童可能不会看到这部电影，但看完电影的你和我难道不会对他们更多尊重和关爱、不会懂得无论身处何种境遇，每一个个体都可以在自己的人生轨迹里创造精彩吗。中国的动画电影做出了成人和孩子都可以欣赏的好故事，很棒👍
还有师父的那句“别认”，即使睡在最下铺，看着角落的狮头，不能认。
因为影片中浓得化不开的粤味，影评都要强调向周星驰致敬吗？我倒不觉得，周星驰从来是天马行空，反而能看出《功夫熊猫》的影子。这部动画片非常贴地气，在广东票房市场表现似乎一般，令人诧异。
真好。尤其是后半段。影院即将下线，切勿错过。
2021遗憾之一没有去电影院观看这部良心巨作。很喜欢里面的每一帧画面。
这个片子一直留到了感恩节看，为有空调暖气有抽水马桶的生活感恩。我爱看废土，也爱看科幻，但这个废土科幻片不是我的茶，虽然看之前也预料到，老汤出演这类片子多半是个温情片，我还更愿意看威尔斯密斯带着狗带着枪杀来杀去。看片感恩的时候不免感叹，美国中产阶级价值观真是在好莱坞一百年不动摇，人类都快灭绝了，还坚持过有狗有房车的生活，奔向美丽的三藩。。当年库布里克设想的电影A.I.里的小男孩，是由真正的机器人出演，斯皮尔伯格做不到，二十年过去了，宇宙中心搞人工智能如火如荼，可《芬奇》还是做不到，我能活到看到库布里克梦想实现的那一天吗？
论走心好故事的重要性。一人，一狗，两机器人的末世科幻片，没有反派，没有动作戏，也没有大场面（除了一些cgi极端天气），节奏极度缓慢，却极其引人入胜，理工绝症男主创造了直立AI机器人只为托孤，而孤居然是条狗，这也太暖了吧
三星半吧，不就一个典型的低成本机器人题材科幻片？比《机器人与弗兰克》《超能查派》等没好到哪儿去。还不如《寂静之地》当初给我的惊喜呢。本片基本还是套路，除了机器人萌一点（满口毛子味道英语？）。这个机器人塑造得也太“人性化”，形不成人与机器关系的思考——就当它是汉克斯的傻儿子好了！由于角色只有两个“人”，导致缺乏真正有力的冲突，特别是落入陷阱一场，简直是匆匆带过。结尾回到父子关系上，也缺少真正的情感冲击力，明信片就很套路，金门大桥上的照片墙同样套路。怎么说呢，就是比较简单、温暖，但难有震撼和回味。
标准的“孩子”成长为“大人”的故事，没有什么奇迹发生，happyending的结局背后，也铺垫了很多主人公们的努力和积累；最后一越更多的是勇气，每个人也继续回归了生活。有类似少年漫的燃、搞笑和中二，也有现实题材的落地，非常难得
疲惫生活中有过英雄梦想又怎样，终归还是有漫长的疲惫生活。但也幸好还有过英雄梦想。
简直比脑残偶像网剧还难看… 三分钟猜到结局，情节从头至尾极其俗套，一处亮点都没有。剧本各种硬伤，槽多无口。男主冲着咸鱼师傅一顿吼李白的时候，我脸都抽了。披着带点中国元素的壳子，制作内核完全欧美模式。都什么年头了，还有这么生硬的“热血励志”… “你可是被木棉花砸中的男人” 🤢
广东自然风物表现得比较好，可是广东风俗就完全无法代入了。曾经吐槽过一反映澳门的电视剧里，让当地人生啃黄瓜，这片竟然也有，不敢说广东人完全不这样吃，但拿黄瓜当水果那样吃是少见的。人物来说，给人感觉就不像广东人，无论体型、脸型、做事风格，就像是一群北方人生活在广东。更别说被人吐槽得很多的在广州打工，几年都不回家。感觉这片就是用一个励志主题来结合舞狮，但广东风俗文化是很不到位的。
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