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".
Jeff演技真的好好。比很多真人演员都好啊，怎么办到的。//就是杜威走得太突然了，啊不会说话但是一直默默做事还贡献了自己眼睛的杜威啊。
斯皮尔伯格式充满童心的废土浪漫，科幻末日公路片，开头一人一狗，成长历练变化，结尾仍一人一狗。专门为狗狗罐头设计的零件简直惊喜到我！
“都造出你一天了，你也该长大懂事了”...
在一片末世之中，一个人类依然可以借由一只狗教会一个机器人如何去爱。只要还拥有彼此，我们就不会是一无所有的存在。
虽然每次看末世片的时候第一想法是一定要死在末世前以及毁灭吧累了，但这部真的很好哭。虽然吧我们人类真的又自私又狂妄，永远不可能和平共处永远不可能互相体谅，但如果真的有一天末世了物种更替了，希望下一个物种还是能记得我们久一点，因为我们也曾创造过如此绚烂的文明，因为我们也曾仰望星空幻想星际宇宙。
比起科幻片，更像是一部人文片
Live a little!
这部就是那种在咖啡馆餐巾纸上攒出来的大制作。没有复杂的故事线，只有情绪的抒发。勉强算个萌宠片儿。
【2021.58】不太一样的末日电影，虽然创造了你，但你属于你自己
只有一个主演的电影太适合汉克斯了，没有用力的表演，但不留痕迹的把观众带入情境。杰夫和狗狗，末路也变得晴朗可爱。杰夫照镜子的瞬间，我简直看到了他内心的惊讶悸动，还有杰夫不停运动的双手，及时表达出他的情绪，天，机器多好，比人更温暖，更让人愿意信任。虽然从起动杰夫的问话开始，就能猜到结局，可是，还会让人有兴致地看他们把故事好好构建起来，坦然接受这样的设定。好吧，不要太纠结杰夫的动力及他的材质为啥那么孔武有力。真希望是个连续剧，汉克斯、杰夫、狗狗，一直在。
【2.5】喜欢这个象征性地将人类命运交接给机器人的结局，尽管这仍旧是一个过分乐观和执着于人类遗产的伟大意义的想象，但至少影片不再像多数末世灾难题材那样，深陷在人类命运的物种性延续上。除此以外，本片之于我毫无新鲜观感和乐趣，疫情下有的观众确实需要温柔抒情的电影抚慰，但在过往电影中已经可以找到大量更好的电影代替时，它的出现不见得是件好事。
老汤姆两座小金人+金球终身成就奖，这部电影会不会为他再拿下一座小金人？
从芬奇穿上西装那一刻开始直至结束，影片完全走向升华，这不再仅仅是一部简单的灾难片而已了，它在向我们诉说爱的伟大，它在告诉我们一定不能放弃对所有美好事物的期待。ps：那张画有他们仨儿的大桥照片真是直接让我破防。
感觉是《爱死机》的无限拉长版。汤姆汉克斯现在是不是苹果的签约艺人了？ —————— 看完《国王的排名》20脸懵逼找不到哭点的我，决定给芬奇正名！Jeff is great！
这部的气质简直是月球+失明症漫记+2012。以及真的是加长版的爱死机诶，于是就像爱死机用表现力来掩盖剧本的问题一样，本片是用汤姆汉克斯（及狗狗）神一般的演技来掩盖了剧本的问题，但因为气质对味也因为Jeff虽然不合理但过于可爱，所以我还算是愿意接受这个故事的叭。（但还是想吐槽能搞出这种几乎能通过图灵测试的机器人了不去拯救一下世界吗大叔！
我该学会不去点开高分科幻片了。不过看完了，最后那幅小人画的时候发觉还是有无声无息地被感动。
机器人能梦到电子狗吗？谁能拒绝狗狗电影呢，杜威只是想要一个球罢了。意外舒服的公路片。
电影里有我敬佩的美国演员 、喜欢的小动物、通人性的机器人……还需要什么呢？看就完事了
一人一狗一机器🤖 荒凉的末日公路🛣 Tom Hanks 无论开飞机✈️还是卡车🚚 哪怕从小鲜肉变成了老腊肉， 我依然爱看！ 最后的蝴蝶是Finch的化身吗？ 重新长草是末日后的重生吗？ Jeff开始懂得人性，有学习能力，是新物种的诞生吗？
在辐射里大概就是和机器人对话然后引出的NPC的故事了
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