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".
导演这啰嗦的劲儿还是去拍电视剧吧，电影真不应该是这样的。。。。。。
男人，只有挂在墙上才能安分点儿。
当一个女人失去安全感。
最后的忘词时刻可以算是2021年电影高光瞬间
大量的对白来去填充故事但剧本本身真的太繁琐了，演员很用力但依然掩盖不了剧本的繁重。
故事本身很动人。比的电影都是考验听力，Sorkin的电影都是考验阅读速度。看完之后还是要感叹Sorkin他父母在Sorkin他小的时候没有因为他比刘星还刘星而打死他足可以获得年度优秀父母的荣誉称号。
7.2 妮可这些年来最具突破性的一次表演，台词很见功力，值得嘉奖！巴登也表现得不错，不过影片在其他方面就没有什么东西可以拿出来讲一讲了。
拍得太长导致整个剧情很空洞无物，妮可的戏份也不吃重，看上去像是一个半成品
还是说，索金还是好好写剧本吧，虽然这次比七君子拍的有意思一些，但一贯毛病是内容总是太过快速、华丽和炫耀以至于总是反应不过来发生了什么就到高潮了，让人感觉只有技术没有内核，此外，他的调度确实没有多高的水准。
sorkin一贯的咄咄逼人让人忽略了这部片的似水柔情。许多场戏把lucy作为一个女人遇到的难题写的淋漓尽致。很多台词是二三刷才能明白的妙。
看索金的作品实在是累，台词的密度和内容，不仅对观众，相信对演员都是极大的挑战。一部传记带出了政治、性别、种族、婚姻等各种问题，实难消化。
只剩下针锋相对的对白，抖机灵多了就只剩下抖机灵了，哈，这不是一句废话。艾伦·索金不太会拍。
索金真的安安心心写剧本就足够了 他的天赋完全不应该浪费在影像上
不喜欢，真的不喜欢，大概是目前奥斯卡最佳影片，男主女主，男配女配所有提名的影片加在一起里面倒数第三个不喜欢的。
在男性拥有至高话语权的电视圈里游走，步步为营的背后全然以家之名。当她回到施展自我的舞台，或忘我出神般全情投入，或冷静清晰地自我抽离。当她回归自身的为难处境，在无数个独自的夜晚浮想织梦、泪水充盈。最后一场聚光灯下的演出，大喜大悲在瞬间交汇。这是她漫漫人生里的又一出玩笑，在最热爱的舞台上倾注了所有心力，却也在这用心最多的一刻晃了神。妮可那凄楚闪烁的眼神，同劳模姐在《塔米·菲的眼睛》中空房内落寞的身影组成了今年颁奖季中最勾人泪水、万分动容的女性形象。
艾伦索金的剧本一直都是十分工整的，女主露西的角色亦是，但角色要表达得过多，且故事走向也越来越乏味无聊，整体看下来并不吸引人。妮可倒是把握住了演技全开的机会，很有层次感。
女性形象很饱满 但性格太偏执和强势 大概就真的会在生活中让人难以相处
很丰富的电影，以为是讲述我爱露西的传记故事，事实如此，但不只是故事，将lucile的一生浓缩在这一周内发生的事，典型的危机-解决思路，其中闪回着她的成长、爱情、事业的开始，夹杂着麦卡锡主义、早期电视的发展、女性发展的困境等议题，直至今天事业濒临失败，家庭也奄奄一息。很有梗，但还是略显冗长，喜欢最后一刻她的失神，强大了一辈子的lucile的不由自主时刻，暴露出了柔软的自己，然而回过神来，现实还是如此，仍旧要演无脑喜剧，面对无脑丈夫，可悲。ps：妮可的妆真的太不贴脸了，看着很僵硬，与其如此不如换个人演了….
抛却所有的电影技巧，这个故事看的人很伤感…一个如此丰满的女性角色和Nicole are lucky to have each other.
剧本其实相当复杂，先不说时间线打乱下的各种戏中戏，台词包含的现实梗颇多，在结构上前后照应的伏笔也是一不留神就会错过。男女主都有一流表演，尤其是基德曼（可能特意化妆出来的效果）的脸假得仿佛动弹不得依然有出色发挥。不知现实如何，但最后那场戏，经过前面多番铺垫，昔日甜言蜜语式台词变作利刃直接让女主片场失语的编排实在厉害，不得不服。90
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