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".
坠入爱河 生儿育女 家庭和睦 也有过嫌隙 在得知自己将死 选择以克隆体代替自己 完美的克隆体 记忆 性格 完美复制 从理论上来说 确实是个好的方案 但真正的自己却要接受命运的流放 终死于孤寂之地 本片气质、气氛都不错 也展示了未来的一种可能性 家庭细节也很好 但就是太得体了 太沉稳了 好像假的一样
把人生交给另外一个自己简直比被ntr还要扎心，如果说这是为了爱的终极放弃，那确实是伟大的自私
克隆体延续生命旅程的故事，一切因爱而起，一切为爱延续。本体与克隆体关系的争议从未停止，伴随着种种道德，人伦，情感的问题，人们始终无法坦然接受被克隆体所代替，也许未来科技足够发达，人的生命可以由克隆体延续，但……克隆体始终不是人类
分类：科幻/人性/爱情/剧情/哲学
三星半 创意好 视角妙 执行的也不错 娓娓道来 不失温情
4.5-从《廊桥遗梦》哭到《天鹅挽歌》。不去深究那些深刻的伦理观念，重要的是我爱你，我还能继续爱你。
沉浸而克制，整部剧作还是欠些许火候，只是，最后一秒还是没绷住。
导演对科技的幻想不够充分，又对人性的美好过于乐观。事实上，没有人会希望自己被“另一个人”彻底取代，甚至连自己的死亡都不在这世上留下任何痕迹。
影片采用倒叙、插叙。因妻子波比曾对孪生兄弟安德烈的车祸离世而伤痛欲绝，男主卡梅隆担心自己患绝症死后妻子会在心里无法再承受打击，就选择了让克隆人杰克代替自己好好照顾家人生活下去。主线之中，倒叙、插叙男主、女主相识、相恋、结婚生子等副线。科隆计划一波三折，卡梅隆感觉自己被替代、冒犯，而一再犹豫。在此之前，院方已有两个成功案例，斯科特博士让卡梅隆与第二个克隆计划的女子凯特接触了解情况。了解情况后，再加上自己日益严重的癫痫，最终卡梅隆同意实施了克隆计划。
过去的一切
看的过程中做了各种复杂设想，没想到是个伦理片。
冬天悄悄为我来临
看片过程中一直想看看编导会怎么安排本体与义体真正互换的瞬间以及义体如何回归家庭 回归早了 那就还是《第六日》 还是《真实的谎言》 事实上 尽管有许多手段上的加持 比如这其实是一部打着科幻外衣的家庭片 一部在故事上并没有新意的科幻电影 以及导演在叙事上更侧重表现人物的意识流插叙 回忆段落的无序似乎给了影片叙事一些“高级感” 但由于题材的局限和背景的架空 它又无法讨论到那些关乎生命的根本命题 可以感觉到编导在文艺片与类型片之间的平衡拿捏 他很努力的想提升电影呈现的人性切面 但如果科幻电影没有科幻概念上的升级 那么一切只能是挂羊头卖狗肉 今年的欧美科幻电影创作也正好与现实世界的科技瓶颈呼应 尽管相比2000年有了更以假乱真的特效 但还是在重复20年前的科技概念 即使是苹果制作
如果未来能有这样的技术，我愿意生活在这样虚假的真实中。男主演技是真的可以！
我想 我的爱 还是自私的
。。就因为绿皮书纸牌屋来看看…… 他就能演有钱的black dude没有疑问。
不以故事和场景迷人，只有细致入微的感情~适合心平气和时慢慢的品味
近段时间看过的最好的作品，真是一首优雅的挽歌
虽然，但是，克隆技术违背人伦道德，还是不要变成现实，否则，太可怕了。
全片最有科技含量的地方就是这神乎其神的记忆移植。
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