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".
爱情线很糟。
不懂就问，开罗紫玫瑰在先发表的话，那剧本何以得奖？ps北川景子演神了
看到阿乡第一次拍片时紧张到疯狂拉肚子瞬间被击中了
男主年轻像柘植物义务春画里的人，老了像柘植义春本人
去年北影节最后一天的收官之作.前后穿插的叙事跨越了几十年.每次场景转换不禁唏嘘时光在人身上留下的痕迹.对影迷来说在电影院看电影到死真的也是圆满了.
时空穿插 记忆回环 丢失了精神的躯壳被逼进了象棋的世界。丢了的精神世界再也找不回。就像昨日的世界。那个只要还在跳舞就是维也纳的世界。整体其实有些偏压抑。
苏打真帅 咩酱真美 片尾曲真好听
#北京电影节#细腻的电影适合淅淅沥沥的雨天，着急忙慌的我还在湿滑的路面上狠狠摔了一跤……一个选择逃避、毫无耻感、伤害家人的父亲最终获得救赎和家人的谅解，并不是一个新鲜的剧本，但本片把他拍得并没那么讨厌，特别是台词，笑着笑着就笑不出来了。
电影的缘分真的妙不可言！美中不足就是剧本获奖过于刻意和美好了……
故事只能算是山田的平庸之作，不过作为松竹百年献映的命题之作，《电影之神》非常难得，全片处处可见致敬和缅怀。电影之神是什么？是蕴藏在内心的情怀以及落寞中对电影的执著之爱。
山田洋次還是那麼老套地在精準算計催淚的橋段 疫情期間看還是挺感慨的增加了體驗感
令人无感的山田洋次电影，无论是人物故事的情感关系，还是关于电影的情愫，都无法令人产生共鸣、有着共情。两星。
马苏奇大叔演技炸裂！！也许在没有看过原著的情况下观影体验更好一点 这竟然是茨威格生前最后的一部中篇作品改编的
爷孙二人摘掉了口罩，回到了疫情前那段美好的时光，片尾火车离去的片段，离开的不是爸爸，是“原节子”。
还有两个比较个人的point。一是很久没见到的今井翼，大眼睛醒目忍不住一直盯着看。一是最后纪念了本来要出演老年主人公的志村健，结合片中后半段的现实背景实在唏嘘...
与原著相比，开局精准，中局过渡自然，交叉剪辑是妙手，没能在码头收尾，大局观稍欠
完全不忍心看到曾经意气风发的永野芽郁和苏打的落魄暮年…虽说在电影中死去得偿所愿，但回头看过去，或许会觉得这一生实在是漫长得毫无必要，才会如此苦撑吧…（话说最讨厌浪子回头的戏码了
日式神经质真的好好笑，温情的部分也做得很工整和老练，看多了文艺片再看这种喜剧已然是一种治愈... 闪回有一点凌乱，但两个时期对比着看确实有点唏嘘的效果。结尾恍惚间看到了《大鱼》的影子，在对美好往事的追忆中死去大概没有痛苦吧。
虽然水准一般，但是里面因电影相聚，因电影重逢，因电影而关联还是让人挺动情的。
3.5。北川景子和永野芽郁加一星。女主对男主情感线的部分、男主才华的部分，有些不清楚，倒是老人的相伴相随感人。老夫老妻，相濡以沫，历经几十年风雨同舟。
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