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".
至少可以一睹那个年代美国拍情景剧片场的创作氛围也是不多的观影体验
没有大家说的那么差 我到最后还是看哭了 不知道是不是因为喝酒了 我为Nicole忘词的那一瞬间落泪了
半传记拍的不明不白，但是妮可基德曼贡献了伟大的表演，多种情绪杂糅在一起，都被她一一消化，导演想说的太多导致整部片子太碎，一会新时代女性，一会男性事件的好莱坞，一会婚姻家庭不忠，让人有点不知道抓住哪个。
电影就像一道奥数题，看一遍就明白了，就失去兴趣，看三遍还不明白，一样会失去兴趣。这个就恰到好处，第二遍看完，通透，完美。
剧本不行，全靠妮可基德曼一个人在撑着，冗长的剧本，中后段我一度走神，好在结局把我拉回来了。影片表达的其实是一个女性在政治迫害，职场不公，婚姻不幸等等元素下的逆袭。然而太过流水账的剧情，并没有很好的体现女性坚韧的力量，直到结局，我才恍然大悟，哦，原来她赢了。
就别说对国外观众友不友好了，就想问问漂亮国年轻人对这题材有感吗？完全是几个人圈地自萌的东西，不知道拍这样的电影有什么意义？拍也就算了，毕竟啥不能拍，问题是颁奖季影片，奥斯卡入围，这得堕落到啥程度？还有，妮可基德曼的脸到底怎么了？
上一次看这个导演的片子还是上一次那个极其拧巴无法get为佳作的性谎言录像带……
【4.5】美妙的类型语气融汇当下时态，症候紧扣，数字漩涡与物质世界同构。“门窗=界面”，轻巧的比喻句，秘密不断在其间流窜。简单高效却面面俱到，索德伯格太会拍，也是当之无愧的广角镜头大师。
一个超级女杀手的模样，实际只是一个普通人，但也幸运地反杀成功，情节没看点，智能语音的聪明程度比车载语音还笨，女主是个黑人混血儿。
一句"Lucy,I'm home"不再是幽默开场
HBO MAX流媒体线上，独立大导史蒂芬索德伯格执导，人工智能大战坏蛋，美式幽默+英式冷笑话。说到底这还是一个人和人斗的故事，人工智能的作用在于扩大和戏剧化影片中的矛盾。然而现实中就是人工智障。
看得很过瘾。而且这种90分钟的电影已经很少了，所以很珍惜。
好莱坞女星的演艺奋斗史，里面50年代的时代特征非常明显：女性主义，种族主义，冷战时期的政治对抗，以电视节目为代表的大众文化。Nicole的表演很出彩。
好莱坞现在只能拍意淫以前辉煌时刻的伪纪录片吗？所有对于女性的思考都非常肤浅模式化喊口号，也许这就是美国梦吧。
艾伦索金真适合拍这种真是事件改变的，妮可基德曼值得一个影后。
我去扒评论了
举头三尺有admin，如鬼魅般存在的环绕声，已是无声胜有声。
“小杜小杜，说一下此片迷影到了哪些影史经典？”“后窗，姐妹情仇，窃听大阴谋，等到天黑。”……其实拍的并不好。各种传统惊悚元素组装得既显白又生硬。比如足不出户的心理问题，并没有表现在被迫外出后的精神萎顿或行动障碍，相反跑得比谁都欢！最后的翻天逆转在暴力层面上也是毫无铺垫莫名其妙……两星半。
桌面电影的一次外延，算是桌面电影昙花一现后必然出现的尝试。片中出现了疫情，但不必然；还出现了智能音箱，也不必然；还出现了#MeToo，同样不必然。但种种元素堆合后成功质变，勾勒出极具有当下感的“科技让我们更遥远”的世相，我喜欢这一点，以及女主角geek风的大房子。运动镜头尤其是追逐镜头很带感，使用了潜伏类恐怖片的视角，还有效仿VLOG的倾向，最终呈现出特工片气质。反杀设计得不好，毕竟女主角不是真的特工，严肃变儿戏了，结尾还是该向桌面电影取取经。
至少可以一睹那个年代美国拍情景剧片场的创作氛围也是不多的观影体验
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