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".
叙事搞得很奇怪，其实并不是那么晦涩的故事吧。酒席上的注视，幻觉中的吻。
以“目光”串联起的电影。从中段隔开的对称结构，死者生前的凝视借由一部摄影机倒映在生者的视线里，死者借由生者的目光得以永生，但一切都只是倒影，所以现实中的追寻越是平静寡淡，记忆中的回望就越是汹涌。所有劫后余生的人们，请你们永远不要停止凝视，不要停止讲述，离开的人们就因为你们的凝视和记忆才永远不会被抹去。
人工智能全面出现在生活里的时代，当他们认为自己高于人类想除掉人类时，一家人和自己的家务机器人联合起来反抗成功～又傻又可爱。
视角转换时突然的泪点 没有人和堇在一个频道 甚至真奈也是在她离开后才向她调频 蓝裙草帽的美波真的很洋娃娃 而那场吻戏的画面里岸井的颜却并不逊色 光影实在加成 两个演员并没有亲密相熟如密友 代入角色心底的秘密 疏离感也并不违和
太讽刺了 hhh 就是有的地方实在是想倍速看
再宽容也忍不住差评 烂到令人发指 令人无时无刻后悔观影所浪费的时间 靠滨边美波和百合隐喻的海报把人骗进来折磨 3倍速都嫌无聊 片子的每分每秒都狂喊着编、导无能
2022.3.1 元素太多，荒诞过头，里欧好帅！
有点不知所云，但导演对中国文化历史，感觉还是懂一点的哈哈
充满着荒诞色彩，中间夹杂着些许的合乎情理，人类到了危机关头仍然想着交配，机器人叛变的最终目的是想尽力的接近变成人类这种有缺陷的动物
最后换视角重叙的时候还用同样的镜头未免太过偷懒 叙述两个女生的情感的部分都烂的很通俗 难道是一件钟情吗 为什么要那么强调第一次见面的样子 最后一次见面好朋友剪短发又有什么寓意
荒诞黑喜剧，但是意外地对我的胃口。人性啊。
。。。。让·皮埃尔·热内。 。，似曾相识。。。
怎么说呢，结构不太好，不像是一个整体，但女主的演技真的很好很好，那种后知后觉的模糊的情愫演得太好了，明明差一点，再差一点就能说出来了，但是就是差点什么重要的东西，导演需要再编织得欲一点，然后关于突然搬去找男友的那里再加点说服力。看到最后，我差点以为是在讲友情。对了，打动我的还有餐厅的老头，他说，放你喜欢的歌吧。
执法部门滥用权力侵犯人权，操纵司法和检察机关进行伪造隐瞒，威逼利诱栽赃替罪羊，利用亲属的懦弱和对权力的恐惧瓦解抗争，当种种卑劣行径被针对到面前，当绝望无助的情绪一直环绕在身边，你还能坚守内心那一处微弱的正义么？光亮或许很难照进黑暗的现实，但主角在法庭上一遍又一遍地重复着那句最直白的真相证词时，我相信都在观众心里种下了一颗为正义反抗的种子。
这里的人类和人工智能都挺失智的，剧情无聊。
人工智能对人类的影响越来越大，人类的本能也会显得越来越弱，再想想之前看过的动画电影《职能大反攻》人们是应该反思一下了。大师用惯用的画面色彩和幽默的情节帮我们带入了反思。
比最近的漂亮国片子好太多了。到处都是对资本的控诉，但也有人像詹妮弗那样热衷迎接资本的蜜糖（就是脑子不太好使那种）。资本冷酷无情的逻辑和理性最后玩死了自己，人们又回归家庭和人性的温暖。机器人只是表层，就像现在的算法，他们永远在模仿，而不知道自己在模仿什么。导演还是把机器人拟人化了，按照他们的思维是不可能希望变成人的，完全没有这种意图，变成人类也没好处，所以是无所谓的。导演只是借用机器人来表现资本的贪婪和无情而已。在电影这个夕阳产业，不退步已经是最大的进步了，还有人在那逼逼赖赖，也不看看其他片已经烂成什么样了，呵呵
题材的吸引力吧。
充满着荒诞色彩，中间夹杂着些许的合乎情理，人类到了危机关头仍然想着交配，机器人叛变的最终目的是想尽力的接近变成人类这种有缺陷的动物
法国人的想象与幽默~
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