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".
7.5/10 惊喜之作。并非所有值得铭记的时光都被塔科夫斯基作品中那样朦胧的诗意捧起，抑或与<罗马>式的沉重历史缠绕共生，在贝尔法斯特的阴影里，我无法不去承认还有另一种更活泼的，杂乱无章的，同时也无比真挚的乡愁的存在。无可辩驳的，影片的影像结构十分混乱: 不时出现的透视镜头，莫名其妙的特写和艺术渲染，以及开篇就大张旗鼓但却再无回音的那组长镜头，其视听技巧呈现出的效果似乎与主题并不适配，只是在不断地把观众从共情中拉起并继续着自己的构图游戏。唯有当作为观众的我们选择相信这位阳光天真的小主角，尝试以他的视角环顾四周，那些写满刻意的戏剧化表现才或许真的有了意义: 它们作为包容却逐渐无力的故土的一部分，陪着贪玩的少年最后一次继续着脑海里的的臆想。
用糖霜和技巧把时代和童年回忆包裹了一层又一层，导致整部片显得花里胡哨的糖水娱乐片（多南有唱歌♥
非常私人的回忆，从电影的精致程度就可以看出导演对这段记忆的如数家珍，即便故事的背景是纷乱的时代，但孩童的视角总能让人感受到一份纷扰中的天真烂漫。最喜欢的就是影片中主角在看电影和戏剧时画面忽而转为彩色，让人深切的感受到光影对导演儿时举足轻重的意义。
@STHLM电影节 太适合做闭幕电影了，忧伤又暖心。爱尔兰版jojo rabbit
很喜欢 虽然很多人拿来与罗马比较，但私人认为比罗马更有共鸣更易代入。尤其中国也有那么多离开家乡的人。里面的妙笔太多了 帮外孙出主意作弊的爷爷 画丝袜的奶奶 抢加酶洗衣粉的孩子，为了和心爱女孩坐一排而拼命读书的小男主，拉帮结派的小太妹……家乡的符号不就是由这些元素和妙笔组成的吗？
影片讲述上世纪六十年代末七十年代初的北爱尔兰，小男孩一家因为新教和天主教之间极端激进的宗教冲突被迫从贝尔法斯特搬去英格兰。
挺私人的。看得出是真情实意的情感
1、看来看去觉得相比于其他影片，这部影片评分还可以，于是匆匆买了票，到了电影院发现，除了我们全是带娃的来看的，娃还不超过五六岁。2、电影院座椅特别舒服，把自己想象成幼儿园小孩子，还是可以看完的，也没有特别无聊。3、也算是次神奇的观影体验了。
在家隔离第二天，换着花样陪小侄女，今天认识了汪汪队…………………
到不了的地方叫远方，为了逃命，也就顾不上那些乡愁和瞻前顾后了。WOT
看不出一点水平的电影。明显更像是戴维斯电影的仿作，居然一堆人看成了落马
想不到吧！我竞然看过！😅陪侄子看了半天！还行
就好像那些拥有远离故土的勇气又有将记忆中的黑白讲述出来的能力的孩子，童年时代一定都受到过伟大影音的影响似的。
给黑白的多南打一星，电影本身两星不能再多了，完全没有深入一个故事来打动观众，都是各个片段和事件转折的叠加，如果不是黑白估计会更加难静心看下去吧。
@STHLM电影节 太适合做闭幕电影了，忧伤又暖心。爱尔兰版jojo rabbit
36/365 清明节看一部阴间电影达成✔️ 歌好听詹米多南帅 勉强能看下来
《羅馬》的拙劣跟風作，我仿佛都能夠聞到陣陣銅臭味了。很努力在電影中尋找生活質感卻屈指可數，情感與牽絆都顯得過度加工，反倒是充滿了賣弄、造作與矯情，尤其不喜歡電影的攝影，構圖充滿美感不假，卻偏偏設計感重到都齁了，反感程度甚至超過了多到快讓電影像MV集錦的插曲們。即便如此，我又依然喜歡Judi Dench在其中的表演。
从开场城市宣传片一样的PPT开始就可以感受到导演的平庸，黑白画面的使用似乎是在掩盖棚景的胶感，时而使用儿童视角时而脱离，非常杂乱琐碎，想到哪拍到哪。用了北爱的历史冲突和家庭的经济状况做为背景，但就只拍了表面的冲突与状况，完全没有其他更深或者更多的交代，所有的沉重都被淋上了糖水，苦难与歌唱是割裂的，让人无所适从导演的表达，治愈吗？这真是导演的私人记忆与感情，旁人很难共鸣。Judi Dench贡献了全片最感人的表演，她的眼神为本片增加了许多层次。我个人不太喜欢小演员的表演。
and don’t look back
不理解这部片子评分好低，我还挺喜欢这种调调的，让我想起了自己小时候的街区，搬家引起的不安和恐惧，长大了再回去小时候的街区觉得像梦一样
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