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".
还不够疯不够胡逼 算是个噱头吧 希望好莱坞能再看看nick fking cage哈哈哈
不知道外國人啥感想，反正本看日劇的只想把坂元裕二的woman拍到失智臉上，出身不幸還單身帶娃只會最後帶到絕症，後續都給你想好了，就說別生了！！！！PS結局令我感到找了一群韓國人拍晨間劇
哎现在的观众可真是难琢磨啊，没看之前还以为是枝裕和这次得有多烂啊，结果竟然还挺好看的？？剧本有效率，细节铺的也恰当，人物虽然有点悬浮但总的来说可以接受。最后我想了想，我国文艺片导演要都能有这一半会讲故事，大家也不至于在国内各种电影节反复遭受折磨了。
不忍心说不好，但全片又像为了这份“不忍心”而在努力一样，然而该怎么批评“不够残忍”呢？现实都已经这样了
凯奇加油啊，还记得2000年左右凯奇真的很厉害。后来也有战争之王之类的电影出品，只不过为了还债，烂片居多。
卖孩子的临时团伙的旅行生活。看完后感觉并没有那么惊艳，也确实是导演是枝裕和一贯的风格，平静却又温暖人心。也有点像翻版的《小偷家族》，只不过“小偷”变成了贩卖人口“掮客”
2022戛纳影帝+天主教人道精神奖。像是一个是枝裕和韩国粉丝拍出来的空中楼阁一般的模仿作（而且这个粉丝可能只看了最热门的的几部），有做成极为精彩的悬疑片（有几处悬念设置和揭示方法真是非常精巧），或者相当不错的喜剧片的潜质，结果白白浪费了。掮客线胡编，刑警线基本都是废戏，宋康昊影帝纯属过誉（所以我就说这个奖对人不对片嘛……）。不过转念一想是枝裕和其实也走到李安式的优等生电影路线上了，一个套路（非血缘家庭）概念先行，写什么作文都套这个梗，看着就不免令人生厌。当然转念一想，能把一个韩片拍得这么像韩片，无论是抓马感和塑料感都能十足还原，其实也能说明是枝裕和的技术还真是不错的。
行云流水，一气呵成。剧情似曾相识，但更像是一个女主播的故事。小偷家族升级版，但比小偷家族好看多了。裴斗娜这发型怎么有点像陈翔三点半。结局的处理略显草率。
看完这部电影我难受了许久，不是因为宋康昊竟然凭这样的表演拿下了影帝，也不是因为用韩语来呈现是枝母题所扑面而来的尴尬，而是因为我发现我再也欣赏不了它了，那种纯粹且一厢情愿追求美的善。
C. 看时感动，看后下头。是枝裕和仍然能用信手拈来的“小确幸”赚走暖意和眼泪，但过分关注于写单场戏内的细节，情绪的断点全靠“氛围感”轻飘飘地连接，不仅无法服众，在人口买卖和生育这样的严肃议题面前，甚至是极具欺骗性的。“谢谢你降生在这个世界”固然治愈，但当弃婴的正当性建立在“出生之前杀了他就不是罪了吗”这样的台词之上时，所谓的治愈也变成了作者对于性别政治令人不安的自我感动。是枝裕和的“童话故事”经不起任何“因为所以”的推敲，而观影过程中被撩动心弦的那一丝触动，也在稍作思考后变成了古怪的回味。2022.5.26 Debussy
低配版《小偷家族》，奉俊昊打卡上班，姜栋元“忠武路小生”还有很长一段路要走，IU像个AI,说她是戛纳影后有力争夺者真是辱唯了
过于温柔的小偷家族，角色构成和核心理念都非常相似。前半部十分平淡，人物转变也过于迅速。得到了后半部融入角色心理，行为动机才站得住。但也只是站得住。故事里，无论是不得不抛弃孩子的年轻母亲，还是怀揣着伤痛做掮客的二人组，以及等待犯罪现场的警察，都对于买卖孩子这件事过于宽容。尽管不得不承认有些孩子也许卖了会得到一个更好的人生，但这是一场自以为正义的拿孩子人生的赌博啊。打掉孩子罪更轻，还是丢掉孩子罪更轻，也许不得而知。但可以肯定的是，这两者都是罪。是枝裕和式的细节元素还是比较有趣的，关上灯互相感谢对方来到世界的仪式也很温暖。这个剧本留给演员发挥的空间不是很大，其中宋康昊的演技还是比较细腻的。
不知道外國人啥感想，反正本看日劇的只想把坂元裕二的woman拍到失智臉上，出身不幸還單身帶娃只會最後帶到絕症，後續都給你想好了，就說別生了！！！！PS結局令我感到找了一群韓國人拍晨間劇
色调和配乐，故事，确实是是枝裕和。太过童话了。现实更像是《新鲜》或者那部没有条目的红颜色海报纪录片。这是一个骂丢弃孩子的母亲，而从不骂让女人怀孕单身生育的世界。这是一个让女人生育，然而不保护女性和儿童安全生命和健康的世界，这是一个把全部资源用来保护加害者的世界。着实的地狱是看了是枝裕和这部电影只觉得童话感十足的割裂的世界
也算是可爱的。结尾女儿问有没有人看过《帕丁顿熊2》，已经看过的凯奇什么也没说，只是陪着再看了一遍。这个片段dejavu了。谁没在爱的人面前撒过几个温柔的谎呢 ★★★☆
7/10 这部电影对于主演们的意义要远大于在是枝裕和本人职业生涯中的意义。虽然没有看到饼叔的飞踹，但是这样一个与诙谐的韩国中年大叔、看似斤斤计较但正义感爆棚的小人物不同的角色，对于宋康昊来说大概能打开一条新的演艺路线。李知恩的表现很惊喜，大概是因为我一直以为她只是一位女团成员从而有刻板印象，让我想起易烊千玺和《少年的你》。但就故事本身而言，主线剧情延续了《小偷家族》里对“家庭”概念的反叛，这部关注了弃养者，而《小》则描绘了接受被（直接或间接）弃养的孩子的一群人。蛮有趣的是，是枝裕和对于演员的调教，有一种更靠近日影而非韩影的感觉，大概是语调中的平静吧。
算是小偷家族姊妹篇，一个骗子家族的故事，都是边缘人凑成的临时家庭，都在人性的善与恶之间摇摆，但基本是全方位的倒退，整个特别拧巴，也更俗套，把拐卖儿童美化成这样，让人完全无法接受。饼叔靠着近几年最不起眼的一次表演拿下了人生最重要的一个奖，估计自己都觉得懵。
把好莱坞的做作拿出来嘲笑一番，但嘲笑的方式有点奶头乐
虽然不能成为合法受保护的家庭 但各种形式上的责任分摊与舍我付出早已超越血缘了
3.5 #2022Cannes 发挥稳定，但没有很大的惊喜。裴斗娜的角色个人觉得不够立体，性格在观感上存在割裂。首先是她外形看起来比较冷酷，加上警察戏份中台词和情感流露不是很多，大部分时间感觉她都是比较严肃的，但她在和她丈夫的对话中展现出的多是温柔、甚至可爱。猜测是时长不够被剪了？虽然说惊喜不足，但故事讲的还是很好。场刊分个人觉得是因为这部电影的弃婴议题，外国人无法理解。东亚文化在西方存在水土不服。更新：听完broker的发布会，我很敬佩是枝裕和。他不希望用血淋淋的现实去谱写这个议题，而是这种涓涓细流般的情感和故事去触动人们的内心，去思考和关注这个电影里内涵的社会问题。他能关注到并深耕于此，且表明了将继续研究，已经是在弥补某种视角的缺失。他的电影就如同他展现出的他的性格和人文关怀，温柔细腻。
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