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".
一本正经调侃2021美国大乱象，吐槽没那么有趣了。
改编自何西阿书的电影 男主真的好帅好帅而且好温柔喔 看的全程我妈：“这么好的男人去哪里找？”真正的爱就是包容 原谅 忍耐
玛丽苏 宗教救赎 女主很漂亮，画面油画感强烈
跟何西阿之后三次出走，但是完全不一样的性质；第一次是因为对“宫殿”那种稳定生活的留恋和对新生活的不确定；第二次，当她开始接受新的生活，生命中开始恢复就像旧的伤口开始愈合还很脆弱，保罗的出现刺激到她的伤口，让她又回到不被人尊重的感觉，甚至觉得有点不配；第三次已经有了爱的能力，觉得自己不能给何西阿生个孩子，同时觉得米莉亚姆年轻充满活力应该比自己更配得上何西阿所以才离家出走，是为了成全；直到最后完全被医治可以坦然的爱与被爱！
That’s the life I want to offer u: one full of colour and warmth, beauty and light.
‘What did I learned at 2021? I learned nobody learned anything from 2020.’
同Don't look up恰好构成互文。
女主角很乖 这个角色主要是原生家庭特别有问题 确实不是她能选择的 后天又强迫性恶性循环 但是男主其实原生家庭也很有问题哈 他爸爸那么暴力但是他很渴望温暖和被爱 这部电影要从心理学角度去出发应该是完全不能去搬弄的 女主角是真漂亮 只是角色设定我到后面觉得她很作 但是也能理解她不够坚定自己特别强烈的self hate怕自己是个负担 不过还是觉得太作了 悲惨的人还是跳不出那个圈 说难听点这个角色的悲哀吸引了另一个悲哀的人 没有互相救赎和治愈这个说法 都是幻觉 and女主让男主很辛苦的 负能量磁场影响巨大 真的要强烈自我改变和察觉很难 花时间 最后告诉大家 如果一开始女主角长得不漂亮不是金发碧眼不是皮肤白皙的话 直接全剧终我栓q
从现实的角度看，太不切实际
感觉才看2020版没多久，2021版就出来了。最喜欢Philomena Cunk的吐槽。
good luck 2022, twenty twenty two or twenty twenty too?
像翻译后名字一样 让你相信会有一个人可以这样爱你 不管发生什么都坚定的爱你。ps 女主有些造型真的是好美
好久没有这样好好地看一部电影了。
Damn the love at first sight.(งᵒ̌皿ᵒ̌)ง⁼³₌₃
一直不理解这种举国之力产出的垃圾的意义，包括Death to 2020以及Dont look up这些夸张戏谑一本正经拐着弯吐槽，又不好笑又不正经，有这点时间宁愿看一部认认真真回顾的纪录片，人类所经历的苦难应当严肃。现在这种无非是数码垃圾，没有任何价值，后人打开以为当时就这样，也或者严肃地说会被challenge不严谨或观点偏颇引发争议吧
主创也很愤怒，却克制，喜剧效果比Don’t look up更出彩。影视作品是展现一个国家意识形态的播种机。
总有一个人，视你如珍宝，爱你、惜你，胜过爱他、惜他自己。
或傻得可爱，或蠢得可恶，戏谑中反讽，回顾并诘问。
好久没有这样好好地看一部电影了。
如果说2021学到了什么的话，就是没人从2020年学到什么。周而复始，看来要成为每年的定番了。
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