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".
可以7分吧，两个男主塑造还行，历史就不行了。
比较慢热的历史题材，流程式铺垫，除了箭在弦上临场感的营造上不平衡，其他的虚实历史表现角度方面都算合格。
根据畅销书改编的历史果然是不太靠谱的，这其实就是给《慕尼黑协议》加了点虚构的谍战佐料（为了剧情反转竟还安排了个莫名其妙的守护天使），以此塑造一个颠覆世人史观的张伯伦：当希特勒的阴谋通过间谍之手以秘密会议纪要的形式呈现在张伯伦的眼前，他仍装聋作哑，坚持在协议上签字，目的是为盟国争取一年的备战时间？表面看是忍辱负重的冒天下之大不韪，实则顺应欧洲民众的厌战情绪（毕竟一战的伤疤尚未愈合）。非要这么编，似乎也是一个探寻历史的角度，但如此舍身取义兼有大智慧的爱国者居然被世人曲解了？张伯伦下台后不久就去世了，但就在他生命的最后一年里，也就是丘吉尔主政之始，他都没有放弃给丘吉尔添堵，仍活跃在反战阵营中，备什么战？这是绥靖至死的意思啊，完全说不通。但此片的优点也很明显，表现力特别强，以一段友情牵动欧洲命运。
当历史英耽看很好嗑。喜欢这类大变局前夕的电影。不过不同意片尾的文字，美化了。
希望，是有人在为希望做准备，在努力。慕尼黑的边缘没有和平，只是都在为全面的战争做准备而已。
"I'd miss you.." "Good bye!"
近年来英国二战电影的佳作。视角独特，不是讲小人物如何改变历史，而是反其道行之，讲小人物在大历史下深深的无奈，表达了一种历史宿命感，令人深思。对张伯伦的妥靖策略也重新进行了诠释。制作精良，卡司表现出色。唯有希特勒外形相差太大。8.0
最后那几行字也是挺一言难尽的。
有些说putin是当代小hitler的，不是坏就是傻，被西方洗脑洗傻了
从张伯伦角度讲述一遍二战爆发前的情况，剧本不错，能给4星，值得拿奖的影片。
卡司不负我望 这种半架空的剧情知道历史就知道结局了 所以比较弱也可以理解
1932年，一切都是捕风捉影，谁也不知道“为了德国的未来”会造成欧洲怎样的苦难，政治家的口号是拉选票，搞“一揽子政策”，更好的表演，更多的选票，很难有人看到口号背后驱动的运行机制会让民众会承受哪些代价，本质上的意识形态是什么，知识份子阶层不得不从一片吵闹中摆明立场，不断转译、据理立争；1935年，莉娜知识分子和犹太人的双重身份让她洞悉这个政权的吊诡和惊悚之处，也很快成为反纳粹主张的祭品，直到爱国的保罗发现国之为国的暴虐和阴郁是以莉娜的牺牲为代价；1937年，保罗获得跟希特勒共处一室的暗杀机会，但终归被朋友休及时报信按捺住一腔热血，所幸，武统欧洲的机密文件得以保全成为“反人类”证供。恶的势力不可抵挡，至少张伯伦争取到了同盟国统一阵线共同参战反法西斯的盟友，冒险没有白费，否则世界会是纳粹的世界。
慕尼黑协定的意义暂且搁置；双男主都很出彩，小人物为改变历史而努力，英国线的家与国，德国线的政治冷惊悚，尤其是 Paul 和希特勒独处时的谈话看得手心冒汗，历史选择的重负实难承担，结尾的牛津美好时光太好哭了......
Jannis也太帅了，上一次看到他还是科里尼案里的纳粹，果然德国演员👍
的确是惊悚片，一看到奥古斯特就想逃。为两个主角的气质和梦一般的开头结尾加半星。
慕尼黑协议被洗白为为了准备和德国战争准备拖时间的策略了？
决定人类历史走向的风云时刻，两位高材生想要逆天改命，但最终无法阻挡历史的车轮滚滚向前。深洗张伯伦的影片，我基本上快信了他的曲线救国哈哈，这和我学的历史书不太一样呦~
故事还算流畅，帅哥好看，cp好嗑，仅此而已。
很特別的視角, 講述張伯倫曲線救國的故事, 不知道真正過程是真是假, 只有當事人才能知道了
这么多明星拍的这么波澜不惊，还努力洗白了张伯伦
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
