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".
我挺喜欢的。。戏中戏也是讲明白了，非常能get到妮可从肢体到眼神再到语言的喜剧形式，僵脸妮可似乎在喜剧的戏中戏中更多了一层表达，导演也算是能平衡喜剧与严肃的对立，挺好的！
熟悉的台词密度，果不其然是索金的手笔，但没想到他的片子也会沦落到需要演员去捞的程度，剧本确实太一般了。作为男女主双提，巴登的感觉相对差一些，妮可基德曼毕竟戏里戏外两副面孔，有点交了两张卷子的感觉，会加一些分。影后8，影帝6
纪录片的方式，追述一段冷战时代广播秀的往事。
3.5 索金还是在剧本上有一个一以贯之的问题，就是过于急迫的在一个故事里塞太多东西，政治、婚姻、女性声音这些放在一个故事中都很难说清楚，野心太大反而说得多而乱。妮可的表演是没有任何问题的，但是不得不说打针打得有点点过度了，有点可惜，她和巴登感觉是在两个轨道上，甜蜜的时候有点牵强，后面演分崩离析反而好一些。
这种标准冲奥传记片，还是关于好莱坞自己之前那些破事的，我真的看腻了，索金现在是不是越来越执着于奥斯卡了，连着来导演，剧本打磨都没有以前好了，机关枪台词加几个倒叙，也不新鲜了啊。妮可表演不喜欢，但还是看出来不错，巴登和西蒙斯这奥提真就没啥必要了
妮可真的别打针了，有几场戏直接额头反光。但这次表演很努力也很好，把那个年代里Lucille Ball遇到事业和生活双层不公待遇时的失落和内心的抗争通过眼睛演出来了。巴登不是演得不好，但确实和妮可对不上，所以看起来这对夫妻确实一开始就名存实亡了。
对老片子扣当时拍摄的细节，对影人是一直自我缅怀吧。
控制规模、场景、投入，控制得非常有效，拍出的电影情节比较紧凑，完美使用了希区柯克后窗的套路，从窥见案件，到掩盖犯罪，是一个情节链条自动跑了下来。
某些方面和《尼姆岛》异曲同工，Purell洗手液瞩目，大概是社恐标签吧。
另外，闪回的插入把剪辑和节奏确实拖得不轻。
本来想讲述一个智能化时代的惊悚犯罪故事，但除了智能音箱与网络的互动之外，整个故事设置与叙述方式还是非常老套的，最终还得回到电钉枪杀人的传统上来。女主角的形象与表演，让本来已经很拖沓的剧情更加不吸引人。影片的主旨仍是揭露资本的罪恶，只是为了能够上市，真有人不惜花如此代价，费如此周折，死几条人命，最后让自己锒铛入狱吗？索德伯格真是后劲不足啊。
索德伯格也是相当赶潮流了，新冠疫情+大数据时代+Metoo，把这三大热门话题融合成了一个90分钟故事，拍得有速度感有反思，女主单枪匹马挑战强权也算copy自己的《永不妥协》了，至于对《后窗》的致敬打破了从偷窥者视角切入，而是以被窥看者作为主角，正好暗示了信息时代每个人都面临了被监控的命运，片中有两段让人后脊发凉:一是女主虹膜信息被授权只是因为同意了某网站条款，二是犯罪者轻易通过定位和搜索记录成功拦截女主位置。
最后她选择在剧中装傻，但现实中还是骗不了自己。
Sorkin一贯的大量对话台词妙语如珠。利用特殊化妆改变演员外型去贴近原始人物，不知道到底是好还是不好？形似而神似？
索金太牛逼了！真的是螺蛳壳里做道场，屁大点事儿都能写得如此细致动人，最后的反高潮太漂亮了，女主角这个角色就是为了奥斯卡影后写的吧，且妮可基德曼也演绎得特别入木三分！只是这个剧本实在太拉仇恨了，真的就像索金在影片中暗戳戳讽刺的那样，好莱坞只有三种编剧：蠢货，王八蛋，和我艾伦索金！
史蒂文·索德伯格2022年作品，大失水准的作品，层次太低，技术含量又太少，角色选择更是不行。
戏中戏。戏外正剧，戏中喜剧，考验演技。但是为什么每一个人说台词的时候都像是机关枪一样快，都赶着去投胎吗？
挺好玩的。
前面真的好难懂哦，但是最后还是男人没个好东西！！！
之前觉得艾伦·索金的剧本里的对话是他身为剧作家最值得夸耀的地方，可是在这电影里只觉得这一大段一大段的对话从演员嘴里背出来都会烫嘴。
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