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".
索伦蒂诺以马拉多纳做麦格芬谱写的自传篇章。
学校里面孩子们拷贝解锁机器人限制是高潮，之后感觉就趋于平淡了
这是个关于信任的故事，信任是成本最大的选择，却也是收益最大的选择，利益是一切具象和抽象本质，而利益的本质是信任，人类社会需要一个更好的故事，否则将永远陷入厮杀和争夺。放弃一切反而得到一切指的就是选择，一个人从来需要的都不多，得到自己想要的，和拥有一切选择的权利才是圆满。最终，我更倾向于，已经发生的都是命定，而未发生的，始终都有可能，并非希望。
你无法不将这部小品与八年前描绘罗马的《绝美之城》相比——前作华美庄严，大气滂沱，而这部献给那不勒斯的新作却完全是另一种美法。舒缓和煦的画风自始至终，虽然剧本中没有强烈的情感流露，但偏又能让你感受到一股真诚而厚重的情绪寄托，这种观感像极了阿尔莫多瓦的自传体电影《痛苦与荣耀》。
影片末尾望去黄昏海岸线边的城市，点点灯光，导演自然有自己具体的私人回忆涌上心头，但对于屏幕前的人，只是一种用几个形容词描绘的抽象感触，说是共情更像是自我感动，所以对于电影便是微微领略他人异域生活，找一点喜悲品尝，没那么多情感洪流。
本来想看看有什么天马行空的想象，结果还是个套着科技新玩具外皮的温情牌，腻了腻了。最离谱的是在云服务器找备份，就硬盘显灵呗？
对不起作为从业者我可能真的无法观看这类影片，设定上不符合常理的地方真的太出戏了。而且明明就是很老套的故事
越是依赖网络越孤独，不再单纯是一个工具，相互喜欢陪伴，把互动建立在现实世界的伙伴，才是真正的朋友。
每个孩子都有一个小白的时代，社交建立在固有的网络模式之上，非理性跟风显露，号称的坚固友谊死板单一全不可靠，与此相对的，跳脱程序的阿荣在一穷二白的情况下与巴尼真心相处，开发了更适合孩子个性释放的交友准则，怪胎不怪，只是缺少足够的理解。
导演的自画像？用《上帝之手》去比喻男孩的成长，我还是不太能get到这个点。
这几年好些导演开始拍自传性质的电影，不能说是潮流，算是人生进展到一定阶段后的一种类似乡愁的情绪——是这些塑造了我，但也回不去了。故事本身比较normal，而意大利有种魔力，以它为背景的故事就像被艺术之手点了一下，充满美感。
2、只有失去，才能长大，亲人是这样，ZC也是；
只有承受足够多现实的痛苦，并且怀揣勇气，才能去创作虚构的艺术。年过半百的导演们近年都趋向于回到故乡，呈现私人的回忆，探寻当年自己迈出第一步的原因。
把虚假当真实，把囚笼当自由，娱乐至死。
程序帮你交朋友，友情只属于社交牛逼症和大数据AI！
三星半，当Siri智能到变成大白找你玩……让我们重新定义友情，按照传统公示，和你做朋友=认识你的基础信息+了解你一切的喜好，然后一顿操作猛如虎，帮你互联网筛选同类项，好像他们就成了你的朋友？未来世代交朋友的定义因为科技而改变了，喜好相似却并不是朋友，让我们成为朋友的是差异和吸引，也是机器无法量化的相处的感情。当脸书遇到苹果，谁也别说谁是好人，反正商业化之后，失去了交朋友的初衷，也失去了用户隐私。其实最后化解危机的处理方式还是很简单粗暴，虽然寓意是把手机给的孤独感替换为真朋友吧，不要被互联网大数据裹挟了，但反而不如森林里救人来得动人。两处亮点：爸爸反思奶奶说小孩有时也照顾大人，小机器人床底下亮起灯光乃全片高光。
结尾机器人并未从小朋友的世界里消失，
尽管隔着文化差异，但还是在屏幕中感受到了生活的影子。c'est la vie。
1.旧朋友会离开，新朋友会到来，旧朋友也会重逢；2.情感细节：怕光的小男孩，给他光，光让我们辨认彼此。
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