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".
洪片的一体两面。一方面托李俊英之口说出，在于不同关系的自然流动，电影不需要冗余的话语或情节，而通过镜头下人物所处的情境，身体姿态弥散而出。正是如此，一句魅力从不同人之口说出，有着相反的效应。另一方面，他又知道如何在日常之中制造超越性的时刻。或明显或刻意，但他会从日常中撕开裂缝，去注视手语的无声时刻，从望远镜注视窗外，让小女孩停在窗前，将镜头变味彩色。电影就在真实与虚构之间反复横跳实现自己。六月开头两天，连看东亚流出的两部不同地区电影，一部无力而愤怒，一部自由而轻盈，真是悲哀又魔幻。
一般洪的电影都属于休息时刻，不投入感情和思考，懒洋洋看几个角色互相夸赞，洒洒陈芝麻。人物没有弧光，都是老树一样稳定的品性，在每个洪尚秀平行宇宙都能构建起一桌酒局。这部意外的很喜欢，可能因为小说家偶尔在一旁的蹙眉让我突然代入进去，不能继续在宇宙边缘静止观察。她对创作和感受和规则和人情和性的表达头一回让我觉得哦，原来就是这么回事，原来在老树林中做一只有眼睛的鸟就是这样的生活状态。结尾看她抽烟的时候也好想抽烟，一口长气叹了出来。总之就谢谢洪尚秀吧，希望他继续用李慧英。
洪常秀的电影有两大法宝：一、在因巧妙地虚构因而又变得真实的日常生活的对话中，真挚地表达自己的创作哲理；二、全方位无死角地呈现给观众金敏喜的美以及对她的爱，如同荣耀一般。故此，结合现实，可做推论：电影是一门具有自反品质与魅力的艺术。
虽然我知道导演的想法，我也知道粉丝的想法，也理解电影节评审的想法，但我还是觉得太普通了。某种意义上，这是小众粉丝的圈地自萌。
“最重要的是有一位我能毫无顾忌地观看的演员，我能观察她，用我的心去感受，她也处在最令她舒适的状态中，而相机，将会在那个时候捕捉到任何从她身上生成的东西，我只想原原本本地记录它的样子。”
还是大段大段的对话，还是洪尚秀电影永恒不变的主题，但是大家都带上了口罩，金敏喜饰演的也不再是爱上有妇之夫的失恋女人，她在镜头前甜蜜的说了“我爱你”。 最后那段镜头竟然看到掉眼泪了。
尬聊和废话，却真实无比。小说家想拍的电影理念指向自身的这部电影，又是一部元电影。故事不重要，人物的连接与表述（包括手语的表达）才是电影的核心。金敏喜捧花那段又是在秀恩爱么…确实有很多潜台词，我还没怎么看懂…
6.9分左右。
我是需要洪导在述事结构上的刺激来理解影片的观众，所以这部并没有特别明显的结构刺激的一如既往的对话合集会让我有点闷，当然这种镜头内镜头外对金敏喜的盛赞实在是~~~~嗯，不用刺激我也懂了啦~~~~
前半个小时因为金敏喜的不出现，真的快要困死了，殊不知，后一个小时开始大秀恩爱，借由她人之口阐述敏后内心：“我就是不想拍商业片啊怎样？管得真宽”，用摄影机互诉爱意，怎么会怎么会拿着花向着摄影机走来，还哼唱结婚进行曲啊，观众就是你们的见证人对吗！为了你，黑白都会变成彩色，还要让全世界都知道金敏喜有多漂亮，还是你会啊，洪常秀恩爱！
洪尚秀、洪尚秀、洪尚秀 他的名字叫洪尚秀
#柏林电影节 一个想法，这种尴尬而断断续续磕磕绊绊没啥point的对话才是真实生活里的对话
还是洪常秀电影宇宙里那些熟悉的演员和元素：吃饭、聊天、诗人、导演、看电影。还有生活化的场景和尴尬的聊天（戏里的聊天竟然带上了口罩，也算一种时代的印记）。不拍戏的女演员和不写作的女作者相遇后的一体两面。情节简约，可感情是流动的。洪常秀把金敏喜拍的太美“目光所及的你总是那么温柔”。电影是虚构的，“我爱你”是真实的。
洪常秀的电影已然成为我的标尺，每年的相遇又重逢都在丈量着我迷影的长度。
8.3 这个黑白对比度，背景和前景的关系像极了纸张上的文字，就像是依靠文字来驱使小说的完成，正如这部电影中小说家的创作方式，先是看到人物，然后以人物为驱动力去构思，随着人物的关系群不断扩充新的可能，特别是书店那场戏，完全是洪遇到金敏喜后的创作方式和影片中的小说家重合了，不拍摄男女情感的洪总是那么惊人
她太美了😭
在第一个场景中，小说家便要求放弃听觉，将表意集中在视觉之上，随后正是通过陆续几次视线的引导，实现了望远镜中的金敏喜、窗外的小女孩以及摄影机背后的丈夫的出场，又或者说是视线创造了裂变以及角色。在这部电影中，叙事的结构与路线的结构重合为一条环线，沿途拾掇然后回到起点，在金敏喜的入睡中休止，随后另起一章，既可以视作在同一条线路上直接往下延展，又能依附于入睡时刻形成上下的层级关系，甚至在此发生了小说家/演员之间视点的分裂与偏移也并不重要，因为她一早便是从视觉中衍生的。
还是偶遇，尬聊那点事儿。这次主题意外的浅显，就是赞美老婆漂亮又可爱，最后再撒一波狗粮秀恩爱，这样都能拿奖你敢信？
像是《在你面前》的延续，前半小时就仿佛每个人物嵌套其中，挥发余韵，而在金敏喜出场后又一秒踏回到敏后人均一吹的节奏里，舒适柔软。
''故事总得有点情节吧！''''我喜欢这个故事，因为真实发生过。''那咱还能说点啥呢。
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