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".
男孩的坚定面孔，警察的泣不成声，那一刻似乎真如coco的《自己》里写的那样光芒万丈。可这场精疲力竭的网恋闹剧以乌龙的车站一夜情结束，说到底生活太难，人艰不拆，相逢一炮泯恩仇，互相抚慰一下就好了(笑，这么看确实挺多戏，像普法栏目)。
客观3.3，感情分3.8星。生活事业都不如意的硬汉警察男主，网恋对象也与他失去了联络，他驱车千里去找她，发现原来她是一个二十几岁年轻男子的他，该怎么办呢，能不能接受，要不要接受，以后会怎样呢，颜值气质肉体都荷尔蒙喷发到迷死人的直男警察，做出了他最深情最man的选择，让人感动。
我？？？？？？？
说实话我以为是《本杰明巴顿奇事》的翻拍，但完全不是这样的。这是另一个包含人的成长，生死哲学的传记电影。
LGBT真是没有题材拍了，三碗豆腐豆腐三碗。
剧情简单但看着很流畅不无聊，小狮子和小狼超级可爱
不断离别的郭小鲁的一生。 编剧想要表达的有太多，恍惚中回到那个可以耐心讲故事的年代，需要去回味一个人短暂又漫长的一生。情爱羁绊，生死别离，阴差阳错，那些美好的、怅然若失的，都是我们虚妄的年华记忆
小狮子和小狼幼崽时期超可爱……萌得我可以再看一遍……
一个网络聊骚变现的故事，结果是一场自我发现之旅，故事上两个人的视角转变，结尾再合二为一，讲的不再是感情，而是文化和社会的现状。
#第78届威尼斯电影节# 在这片私人化的荒漠里有着太多的秘密和故事，但也正因这片荒漠的寂静与脱俗，能够让两个在错位关系中相识的人重新认识彼此。有着同样煎熬的过去，又难以看清未来的方向，这次见面意外地让两人从冲突中产生共情，从迷失中找寻希望。但整个电影在剧情布局上还是有些不足，开始30分钟才出片名进正题，最后30分钟才开始剧情发力，中间的部分则有着拖沓。不过还是很喜欢这个结尾，“and I need you know tonight, I need you more than ever…”
看似时髦实则土味，把当代人的故事包装成电影节流水线产品给老头们看的，拿奖密码max。（但好像也没拿啥奖…）另外男主这形象我老觉得是个演动作片而不是搞网恋的，不知道选角的时候出于什么个考虑
应该说是含朔量相当低的一部电影，但是还是能看到他的影子。片子节奏相当快，如果没有上一辈的故事加持，可能没有那么吸引人。可是这个上一辈的故事讲的实在潦草，总觉得背后有什么隐情。片子感觉勘破了爱情与人生，直击生死谜题。可是却也没说出什么，但是故事的流畅性是很好的，即使没讲出什么，你也愿意看完他。王珞丹可算是遇到了一个比较适合自己的角色，细听台词功力很可以的。王传君相比起来，吐字模糊，总体来说，片中女性角色更亮眼一点，不论是丁萌萌还是苏，不知道这是不是王朔创作多年以来的感受。
抓走了小狼妈妈，美其名曰为了繁育，真是可恶。把动物抓进马戏团同样可恶
7/10，剧情上有些问题，很多内容需要靠自己的想象去填补，但总体上还不错。
为什么不能牵手呢 最美的爱不是陪伴和在一起吗 影片的光与影 声与乐 都是如此美妙得恰到好处 主角的剪影真是美好 我爱你 不是因为我是男 你是女 只因你和我是如此相吸的一对灵魂
浮躁之下觉得故事不够有意思，耐心之下倒是感觉影片拍得还可以，个人整体观感与获得2015年第72届威尼斯电影节 金狮奖的《来自远方》差不多吧？……★★★☆
一狮一狼一人一个私人领地，她们在一起过着快乐温馨自在的生活。
王朔自比阿甘，是郭小鲁也是苏玲芳，一次完整的抄书。前半截尤其王朔，特贫、逗乐，王珞丹真的很适合风尘女；后半截所谓的科幻有点拖沓，但是终究比郭帆《李献计历险记》拍得好。高粱饴是真的很难吃，勾起了一些不好的回忆，王传君的形象像我一个没联系了的好朋友，我很想他。
到了后一半，导演似乎也放弃了用“人的两面”来诠释主角的心理变化。故事里性别分工如此明确，其实反而是更容易理解的吧。
男1：那天你问我对我来说你是谁，你从来都是莎拉，但事实是我不知道莎拉是谁。男2：我就在你的面前，我可以是莎拉，我可以是罗布森，可以是你想的任何人。我是下面那个湖，将要爆发将要泛滥的河流。你呢，丹尼尔你又是谁。男1：在我来之前我以为我知道。——这一段很像东宫西宫：小史：你到底是男的，还是女的？阿兰：这不重要，当你想要爱的时候，你就是男的。当你想要承受爱的时候，你就是女的。我可以是你喜欢的任何人，你可以践踏我的一切，只要你允许我爱你......
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