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".
最后结尾有点拉胯，中间部分还是文牧野的风格
易烊千玺这几年走势越来越好，感觉能望到刘亚仁的尾巴了，就是角色是感觉单一了一些，不管如何中国有这样一个年轻演员也是一桩好事
谁都有难处，虽然结局是he，但是整片看起来就是小人物的人生，景浩不过是万分之一的成功者，更多的人熬不过那些苦难
全员演技牛👍👍👍
拍的真好啊～演的真好啊～易烊千玺的演技又升级了，一些细微的感情抓的尤其好，为了妹妹好拼，二十岁又是孩子又是新大人，现实随时让人崩溃但在妹妹面前又要坚强，彤彤也好懂事。作为当年的新深圳敢拼敢做第一个吃螃蟹的人，虽然是不得已的选择，但好在最后成功了(T＿T)
快被磨平了，对上层建筑的态度基本倒转，但能做的部分都做得足够好了，留存在生理层面的体察心和兼容类型的真实触感仍然可贵。能认同宁浩和文牧野们在践行的中庸之道，比很多人强，撑下去吧。
说起万里野孩子形象，其实挺难的。平时的四字弟弟是内敛的，一举一动是得体大方的。突然放松肢体，成为一个混不吝的野小子竟也没有一点违和感。
——“我能问个问题吗”
野心不小”
易烊千玺演技👍👍👍
2021.10.16，在单位看的第二部影片，意义非凡，并且看的满腔热血。看到有英雄将标识弹转移后壮烈牺牲，看到伍万里的意气风发去应征，这就是时代的楷模！影片有着大量的中国与美国伙食，装备等剧情的对比，更是让人佩服那些抗美援朝的真正伟人！
弟弟未来可期
看这样的电影，我没办法不带入自己，我也没办法不哭出来。我理解功成名就的结局，在这样晦暗的时代里，希望是比黄金还要珍贵的东西，只要熬过去，就有机会再见到光明。
战争很残酷。电影画面感很强。
单位之前组织看了 比预计的好多了，看完了还很震撼
前面很好哭，转折和结尾到底什么玩意…2.5
真的值回票价了。平凡的生活，不平凡的笨小孩，我们每个人都是没天赋的笨小孩，只要你愿意努力，总会收获奇迹。全场有笑有泪，完全被真实带动了，感叹于只有在这片热土上才能发生这样的奇迹。还有易烊千玺，一如既往的牛，把景浩那股倔强生长的劲演活了。
当然缺点也很明显，三个导演的拍片风格有点互相抢的意思，能看出些许的割裂感，有些特效场面不知道是什么原因充满了塑料感，但是总的来说，这已经是中国电影工业目前能拍出来的最好的战争片了，强烈推荐电影院里观看，能看IMAX版本的就更好了。
拍的真好啊～演的真好啊～易烊千玺的演技又升级了，一些细微的感情抓的尤其好，为了妹妹好拼，二十岁又是孩子又是新大人，现实随时让人崩溃但在妹妹面前又要坚强，彤彤也好懂事。作为当年的新深圳敢拼敢做第一个吃螃蟹的人，虽然是不得已的选择，但好在最后成功了(T＿T)
春节档现实题材影片，这是唯一的一部，也是最值得期待的一部，不仅有华丽的制作演出阵容，还有关注大时代视角和聚焦小人物的关怀，在当下的大环境中难能可贵，也值得影评人大书特书
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