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".
剧作层面上，缺乏优质内核，在我看来，这样的美学层次，不应该配这么缺乏层次的内容，非要说，只能总结为一种由小我走向大我，但远不够，流俗。
生命的定格的瞬间凸显战争的残酷
我在那片丛林中看见无数个自己：
看了一个小时才基本理清人物关系，感谢后排社区党员的好记性，不然我连谁死了都搞不清楚。。
美院作品，观感很好。美术和场景调度都很好，适配度高，画面细节做得也比较到位。整个氛围营造得有紧张感，将抗战题材打造得很类型化艺术化，我喜欢。不过，表演、台词、配音、声音处理都确实比较差。
C-，参加的某观影组织搞的活动，映后交流来了导演和男一，有一半多时间都是“哎呀我和导演老朋友了呀”“哎呀导演我是你以前的学生呀”“哎呀导演我朋友也在里面演戏好巧哇”这种浪费时间的话。竟然没有哪怕是一个人问，为什么这电影是该死的如此地暗，抹着奇怪的滤镜。为数不多值得称赞的是方言配音，故事发生于浙西南，当地人民确实是丽水那边的方言，国民党确实是宁波的方言，共产党是四川、湖南那些地方……里面的小孩“小哨子”，我们浙江这边确实是念“小叫子”的……好乱哦，大家居然能互相听得懂吗？导演说想要“诗意”，我只感受到了“单薄”。但不管怎么说，男演员还是蛮帅气的惹
美中不足的是不知为何没有用演员的原音，对我而言声音设计有点喧宾夺主。剧情上也没有《一个与八个》那么具体，比如关于白匪战俘的描绘还可以更丰富，可能这种形式大于内容的作品也不能太苛求剧情
这部片太沉闷了。为赞扬牺牲而鼓励牺牲是一种病态。在个人情感上，自我保存和长远才是人的本性。义务、责任都是在最危及的情况下失去分析和理性做出的情感判断。
的确是一部非常有风格特色的影片，20220604浙江特别献映场，中国美院的这位编剧老师人超好，特别温柔解读非常到位，还有导演，以及监制万玛才旦，和摄影师的映后解读，后悔没一开始就录音，开始记录晚了。也加深了自己对于电影似真似假如一场梦般的理解，对诗性的认识。为了营造真实，降低了饱和度，多场看起来会有近似黑白的感觉，幸运还是临境杜比全景巨幕的观赏，仿佛能想象遗憾没能大荧幕看的《智齿》在影院能给到观众的强烈视觉震撼力了！对于影像的深深魅力继续不断学习慢慢领悟。
这是一部足以打破人们对主旋律电影固化思维的好片子，没有夸大英雄，用真实的小故事还原历史，深入人心感动观众。
“我们都是自己人”也是挺讽刺的，只能说胜者为王吧。上面斗争的时候，苦的永远是老百姓。
3.说战争吧 没什么大规模的枪火 都是大家拿着枪放几下 摆个架势 说文艺吧 偶遇的渔家女天然的正义
受宣传“诗性电影”影响，抱着一种奢侈的期待去看这部主旋律，有意的和《伊万的童年》做了对比，发现本片所谓的诗性仅留存于画面形式上，文本仍是“纯粹的”战争，节奏、意象也未跳脱出类型的框架。必须说出，导演有意营造的动静统一被拙劣的斯坦尼康毁的一塌糊涂。很遗憾没有在片中看到我军排泄的场景，刻意的性别命题也过于神圣。人只是像人而已。
确实很美，但是内容与题无关以及剧本松散，没有主题。
印象里有几个天马行空的设计，但看到最后也没琢磨明白。
P.S 我今天才知道中央美术学院和中国美术学院不是一个学校
3.5 将战争中容易被忽略的环境作为抒情表意的角色之一，拍摄手法上刻意缩小人物突出大环境，使故事和人物有种被水状空间包裹着前进的流动感；镜像剧作结构，三场幻觉、象征性的表达，有意模糊敌我双方二元对立的传统模式，而主要表现战争对于人内心带来的恐惧，隐晦的表达出对战争的态度。很多东西还能深挖，只能算框架里的高分答卷。
除了部分摄影和最后一个镜头的设计，妥妥的抗日神剧😅
4.0，在如今语境中难得一见的战争片，风景美，摄影好。结尾一分钟道出了一切战争的真相，导演很勇敢
一道命令下，一种读书人的执念和自豪，一颗保家卫国和视死如归的心，这便是朴素而又真性情的红军战士。
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