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".
意外发现的电影竟然有意外的惊喜，和石黑一雄原著小说内容无关但形而上的哲学思辨让电影内核饱满且与书有异曲同工之妙，摄影在细节上的处理也很微妙，可惜导演双管齐下的叙事策略似乎并不太能吸引人，剧作上有些冗长包括一些情节无法自圆其说，精心挑选的时代背景也没有起到太大的作用
看完之后一脸懵逼，完全不理解。逻辑漏洞太多。片子太艺术片处理，让人完全不知道故事的重点。而且三个女性完全分不清。导致我满脸???
推荐电影《远山淡影》。讲了三线城市/小镇的不容易。请大家多支持艺术事业，支持音乐、舞蹈、绘画和戏剧影视！
难得有一部朴实的推理剧，尽管有点过于抒情的毛病。
编剧: 张良学 / 贺泉 / 吴童立
剧情有点散，完全可以再紧凑一些，给三星。不过，网大拍到这种水准，真不错了。再加一星。
华语近年少有的经典，有时代的衰落，有人物的挣扎，也有舞蹈者的绝代风华，更多有流畅的剧情推动，满格的案情推理，精致的人物扮演，丰满的人物塑造，到了最后的反转，大赞
网大诚意之作，值得鼓励。镜头相当漂亮，角色塑造也很有年代感，是部艺术气息浓烈的悬疑片，不仅完整表述了一起连环案件，还侧面表达了年代泪痕与时代之殇。主角原型：张欣，全国公安系统一级英模、公安部刑侦专家、上海铁路公安局刑事侦查处一级警长，具有高超的凭口述模拟画像的特殊本领。从业30余年经手案件11000多起，通过画像破案超过1000起，被誉为“警坛神笔”、“罪犯克星”。2018年因病去世，年仅58岁。
别的都挺好就是逻辑有点不对，可能我没看懂？
关于这场悬疑的背后，谁是林音，谁是严华，杀人动机破案思路都将淹没在时代的洪流之下。
真的很良心额 拍的很用心调色也好看，灯光置景道具都很好，故事不复杂 但是很完整。
逻辑是比较弱的。有一种理想化了的自圆其说之感。可是，穷尽自己的一生去接近梦想，这本身，既是一种悲壮的挣扎，也是一种涅槃式的自我救赎。
林音：低配迪丽热巴
林音的演员台词功底真不错，一看简介演话剧出身的。。。。
看的时候感觉有点好玩，这些演员都有其他大牌的影子：
很棒啊，看到了许多剧的影子《猎罪图鉴》、《杀人回忆》、《谁是凶手》、《芳华》故事叙事也挺强，镜头很唯美，色彩有种朦胧的醉人感，选角也很棒，一直沉浸在剧情中，希望导演多拍！
比很多院线片的质量高。演员摄影配乐节奏全部在线，虽然剧情老套开场二十分钟就猜到谜底。当文艺片看的话不错。有两句台词很戳我，“梦寐以求的，唾手可得”。“人生像一条夜河，你在其中湍急而过，任你如何努力，都无法在最喜欢的地方停留”。
从推理角度看，逻辑比较完整但也比较简单，基本上看前半部就能猜到结局。从审美的角度来看，取景构图，画面调色，服化道，都很不错，尤其几个连绵远山层叠的远镜头，非常的“远山淡影”，但感觉电影名字跟电影主题好像没啥关系。总之还是一部用心的，值得一看的国产悬疑推理剧。
剧情反转的还可以 虽然猜到了是这种反转 但处理的还挺好的
林音的演员台词功底真不错，一看简介演话剧出身的。。。。
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