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".
一个多小时的电影其实就是解释了什么是平行空间，没听过这个概念的可以看看，估计还会觉得很玄乎，其他东西就别期待了，剧情很拖沓，我用1.5倍看也完全没问题，演员的演技马马虎虎及格线吧…
被朋友抓去看的点映，本来是一脸懵逼走进去的，结果看完了发现电影竟然还不错，有北美小众电影那味儿了，作为科幻悬疑片来说剧情有超出预期，好几个地方都很紧张，虽然结尾跟我预想的有差距，但瑕不掩瑜吧～
就…
「你應該從現在起一睡二十年，然後醒來，告訴別人自己本來可以成為什麼樣的人。」
导演蝙蝠侠，主演蝙蝠侠。大本导的作品都挺有水平的，克鲁尼导演的片就一直是那么无聊得平平无奇。。。
小男孩长大后的样子，刚看完纽瓦克众圣，一直出戏。看完了好像没看又好像看了，说不出什么…
深夜看电影真的容易多愁善感，这回忆录分明就是写的我的故事啊……虽然我读不起Yale，也泡不到辣妹。
原来是抖音关注的编剧雷神拍的，来看一下。不好不坏吧，嗯！
又是那种致郁系故事，从大城市逃离的东出代表了一大批被都市生活压得喘不过气的群体，他们集体患上了表象或隐性的病症，变得不再关心周围人，伤害其实是不断扩散的，你被环境所伤，回过头又会伤害至亲，所以奈绪那个角色更让人心疼。高中生那条线略显刻意了，喜欢三个人跑步的段落，一言不发的默契，就像知道彼此都是边缘人，只有奋力跑一个目标，不做他想。
想一下这样的电影找找大明星，然后上映前稍稍营销一下，票房应该不简单吧！这也是一种怎么说国产电影的悲哀吧，明明很好的电影却因为演员什么的没有流量，上映时间沉寂之后才被发现！
本·阿弗莱克的银幕形象越来越成熟了，他本身的形象也确实符合所有人童年印象中那个帅气洒脱却又值得依靠的老爷们。影片本身也是回忆录的影像化，沿袭下了平淡与怀旧色彩。
《时空罪恶》 or 《致命ID》 or 《闪灵》？
昨晚喝多了酒，早上起床头疼，看完这个电影真的太美好了，生活总是有很多意想不到，你可能会从悬崖跳进海里死掉，会从东京搬家到北海道开始新生活，会在路边偶遇喜欢狗的女孩子，会送你最好的朋友去医院，会自杀未遂，会怀孕，会每天遇到跑步的人然后和他一起跑，会收到医院陌生人给你递的一支烟，也会遇到最爱的赤狐。BTW，奈绪好美
我在用自己不断验证——人的喜欢不会改变，看《草之韵》到一半，感觉和《你的鸟儿会唱歌》好像好像。人们漂浮在函馆上，用各种方式运动，飞行滑翔奔跑匍匐着。
普通的人 普通的想法 普通的活着
3.5/5，《我丈夫得了抑郁症》的另一面，嗯，看到男主去刷盘子的时候莫名想到了同是展现阶级跌落的瀑布，嗯，戏里的两条线像是过去与现在的时空交错，虽然我一度觉得没必要，东出昌大的丧还是出了层次感，但是没有打动到我～
P.S. 你们怎么突然亲起来了…
两星半。乔治·克鲁尼这几年拍的片实在是太浮泛了，他应该试试超英片，不过是屈尊给大制片厂当傀儡而已（笑）。
老歌大乱炖外加各种怀旧情怀的拼搭，尽管整体能量温暖、积极并且偶有笑点，尽管Tye Tye很可爱；但最遗憾的是它始终没有抓住角色真正的独特性- -边看边会思索，为什么要知道J.R.的故事（然而在面对《少年时代》时，就不会存在这个疑问）。Uncle Charlie为J.R.提供了安全感，大本也尽可能去还原了一个“男性楷模”的角色；只可惜两人的互动因为年龄的更换变得有限，也没有更多空间耕耘默契。《在下、鄙人和我》示范了三个时空的“自己”如何对话，如何探索- -这里或许只是勉强完成了1.5个。
片子还行，节奏不够紧凑，稍有点拖沓，不是很能抓人眼球，有些地方的逻辑也不是很说得通，很多地方可以展开说没有展开，不该太花时间的地方又花费太多片长。但在国产片里来说，算得上是佳作了，景色拍得很美，演员不是帅哥美女但是耐看，有些地方颇有点耐人寻味，值得二刷发现更多细节，小成本拍出了一套好戏。希望国产片还会有更多类似的好作品，不再是满目垃圾脑残片的天下。打四分，零点五分是鼓励分。
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