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".
就很想哭，一切坚持和执拗，外人觉得甚至过了分，却在二人间是默契。再大的危机和灾祸都可以共同抵御，也躲不过一些在爱和婚姻里的来自极久远女巫的恶毒诅咒。
妮可女主提名还是很有说服力的，其他的提名没啥很强的说服力，只能说看着还行不够亮眼。。。剧本嘛还行吧
索德伯格再次发挥其快狠准的创作特色。从疫情封锁期间的人际关系与过于自我防护的心理入手，结合时下最流行的家居人工智能设备，编写出一个相当贴地气的犯罪悬疑剧本。观众看到的全是热门话题：后MeToo时代的女性意识、疫情下工作环境的转变、黑人维权运动等，而内在却是老派的类型架构推动叙事。传统与现代两者却融合得无比流畅，更不时浮现出致敬经典的情节：德帕尔马的《凶线》、希区柯克的《后窗》，令阅片无数的影迷大感惊喜。
被海报骗了 怎么有这么烂的片？太简单粗暴了 要啥没啥 剧本 叙事 技术层面都一无是处 （刚出门那段社恐心理外化还可以 但也不能来回反复啊？） 最大的好消息是这片就一个半小时
有技巧有隐喻有思考，但是文本实在太单薄，撑不起来，缺点难以忽视。
觉得索金的剧本还是有点门槛的，这次我被拦门外了。不喜欢。
一流编剧二流导演Sorkin跳出了舒适区，于是两方面都成了二流。
电影就像一道奥数题，看一遍就明白了，就失去兴趣，看三遍还不明白，一样会失去兴趣。这个就恰到好处，第二遍看完，通透，完美。
最佳女主角妮可，閃回想起了「時時刻刻」，重新解構歷史有意義嗎，當然！誰掌握了過去就掌握了未來！
真的是太拖沓了，90分钟完全能够解决问题，大导演到底在干嘛
美国早期情景喜剧实录，当下真人戏外采访和戏内叙事线相互穿插，戏里戏外关键元素互文携手向前。这是一部行业外的观众叫苦，有写作经验观众拍案叫好的非常规传记片，有些片段能顺便把我拉入写作状态，讨论研读剧本中加入具体画面真是神来之笔。全片的叙事线是由一次意外引发的一系列连锁反应，在故事的边边角角之处又顺带讲了女主一路从演艺最底层走到万众瞩目的经历。
妮可很努力 哈维马马虎虎 其他主创都在捣浆糊
5.情怀剧本，落在婚姻问题上真得太没意思了，只能看到妮可一个人的表演，连巴登都没有发挥空间
表演可圈可点，但叙述上乏善可陈，编剧出身的导演过度重视台词而造成了其他视觉表达的缺失
切入角度看起来挺大，还以为要有什么讽刺寓意，但其实它回归的反而是比较小的命题，难免有些失落，但女主和男主演的还是不错的。
#小两口的午后影院
6.5分，打星属于情绪表达
——你们注定会分开，没有人像你们相爱，但是他们平淡无趣反而得到了求不得的可以永远在一起的诅咒。
就别说对国外观众友不友好了，就想问问漂亮国年轻人对这题材有感吗？完全是几个人圈地自萌的东西，不知道拍这样的电影有什么意义？拍也就算了，毕竟啥不能拍，问题是颁奖季影片，奥斯卡入围，这得堕落到啥程度？还有，妮可基德曼的脸到底怎么了？
记住一句很random的台词 'The world he is from has a very narrow definition of manhood.' 哪里又不是这样。
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