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".
国产电影里难得有如此开明的爱情观：轻盈、自在，成年人之间的爱情同样好“嗑”。上海话温柔好听，烟火气十足。“白老师”徐峥、“老乌”周野芒、“小皮匠”宁理组成上海男人群像，多才细腻、精致细心，宁理老师每次出场都仿佛阿拉丁神灯那样的爱情精灵，只不过召唤他不是擦灯，而是擦鞋，修鞋、丢鞋、不让赔鞋几场戏 每句台词都让人回味无穷。上海这座城市在编剧导演邵艺辉镜头里，不再是那种脱离现实的昂贵与华丽，而是结尾白老师在小院里支张桌子请朋友们吃晚饭也要铺上桌布，放上桌花的仪式感。同样喜欢老乌的结局，太浪漫了！不管几岁，爱情万岁！
印度真的好喜欢埋深情节啊，套中套的写法真的是，还是很有效的。不过因为拍得太重演得太重了，其实后面或多或少也猜到了些，不过按一个商业剧情片去看的话，还是比较有时代意义，尤其是对于现在的中国来说
文艺电影看不懂，该快进还是得快进。
迷住了戏里戏外的所有人。
看到有网友说“半小时弃了”，真为他感觉惋惜，因为真正的主角真正的核心，直到1小时21分才正式开始。2小时40分钟，也担心过白费时间，但并没有。那种在一分一秒中，犹如海面涨潮一般被层层展现的真相、被慢慢堆叠的情感，在最后轰然崩塌了。
将近3个小时，真的太长太长了。不得不说印度真的很敢拍啊，他们难道没有那种类似广电总局的存在吗？
一名大学教授的残忍谋杀案引发了学生骚乱，一位警察展开调查的同时一名律师在法庭上寻求正义。
一堂社会学教研课，期待第二部
讨论的话题非常有意义，剧情反转的设置也很爽文，但就一个问题，印度的法庭是可以这样随便一人show的吗？
看到最后，着实有些沉默了！琢磨了一会儿，突然想起这是不是就是古人说的“半部论语治天下”？仁义礼智信，而不是单单的ZZ丛林法则！又或者，搞ZZ本来就是一片黑暗森林？不然为什么那么多昧良心的ZZ玩家
暴露出的险恶
厉害极了，112分钟实打实地熬过去，却好像一句话没有说。到底是什么样的时代容得下一群人如此自我陶醉，如视无物地活在梦里？日新月异，每不到半年街道便要再被从头到脚美化一回的上海，到底能留得住多少濒死的记忆，又能供多少人游戏般起居和做梦？只怕电影拍的既非上海，也非人情，更不是文艺，只不过是幸运地站在中产尖端的人群如何自我消解、恬不知耻的意识形态罢了。
拍的真是太棒了，如果没有最后一段转来转去的，会给5星。
电影确实还有很多缺点，但是辩护律师在庭上控诉的每一条我都想给10分，尤其在现在看来又现实又讽刺，不论是从哪一点出发，不论到底能否有现实的改变，我们至少要有反思的意识
中年人的爱情戏最好看。
如果不选择上海本土背景，是绝对发挥不出精气神来的，比如女性意识崛起（3个性格迥异的女人）、海派精神（生活与品味）、外来人口涌入（协管的苏北口音）、迷影情结（费里尼）。第一场饭局戏的唇枪舌剑瞬间满载惊艳，第二场饭局戏“上话人”周野芒的台词功底引人入胜，绝对是金马奖最佳男配提名水平。生活流的国产片算是稀物，考验着剧本的扎实及创作者的缜密与思辨，年度华语神作之一不为过。不过大众接受程度还有待于市场验证。
徐峥的角色简直是失意中年男人yy的天花板：有钱有房有技能、离婚但是他没犯错、儿子高高帅帅、生活小有情调、什么都会一点、做的一手好菜、能耐心照顾孩子发福但是没脱发、三个女人都喜欢他，一夜情一波接一波，这哪里是讨论中年人的爱情，简直就是爽文模板。跟人滚完床单还一副委屈巴巴的样子，总让人觉得像个完美受害者。
对于一部题材如此大尺度的电影，你不得不感慨，虽然印度穷乱，但是印度的电影却一直在往新的高度挑战。
最好的办法是放弃连根拔起的荒唐念头，用锄头也好，大斧也好，把树根的主干切断，挖出最大的隐患，而那些残根在见不得光的地下，得不到养分的输入，也会慢慢腐烂，最终成为泥土的一份子了。这样对将来另起屋宇也好，松土种菜也好，不会产生大的阻碍。
人物关系暗潮涌动的群戏一直都是最难拍的，一个导演懂不懂戏，会不会拍，只要导演的机位一摆，能力就一目了然。片中有两场群戏的调度让人很惊艳，关系镜头、角色的情感关系和演员表演的情绪反应都给的很准确，两场戏的情绪也给到很到位。一群演技了得的演员，全程上海话，演一个充满城市感和烟火气的上海故事，可以看到纯正的上海气息。剧本写成熟现代人的爱情观，因为是女导演的缘故，在男女角色的处理上，三个女性角色的爱情观紧随当下的时代，带着不同的女性观点，是国内大银幕少见的，带有很强女性主观意识的女性角色。编剧的台词功底也很厉害，男女之间充满试探性的台词，常常带着复杂的潜台词，夹杂着充满机智的幽默感，能写出“下坡路”和“去爬山”这样的俏皮话，你怎能不爱？
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