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".
AI觉醒的故事内核，不过此片比《西部世界》的高明之处在于，此片中的AI其实是程序员小哥有意让他觉醒的，程序员小哥创造的就是“可以学习和成长”的AI，这也是符合真实逻辑的，因为如果没有人为设定，AI想要有自己的思想是不可能的。
NPC玩家的自我觉醒，土拨鼠之日般的重复度日应该会戳中社畜的心，可惜后半段代码之争实在很无聊，搞了半天虚拟爱情最终还是要以珍惜眼前人的俗套收尾，而且反派boss也真的太弱了，除了祭出大块头提供了些笑料，另外有版权真好呀，神盾和光剑随便用，美队还能打酱油，塔图姆也还蛮搞笑的。
总算不再废话连篇，开始老老实实的爆梗。虽说依然没营养，但也是色香味俱全的爆米花。逆袭的NPC，没啥大不了的事是一个吻解决不了的。齐心协力毁灭大魔王，完美到每个人都无遗憾。至于NPC怎么觉醒的无从知晓，符合输出价值观一切皆OK。6.4
总算不再废话连篇，开始老老实实的爆梗。虽说依然没营养，但也是色香味俱全的爆米花。逆袭的NPC，没啥大不了的事是一个吻解决不了的。齐心协力毁灭大魔王，完美到每个人都无遗憾。至于NPC怎么觉醒的无从知晓，符合输出价值观一切皆OK。6.4
2.5。徹底tired of好萊塢各種自說自話的「假自由真控制」。名曰NPC解放，實則全部的故事基底和敘事節奏都充斥著陳舊套路；名曰反數據至上，復聯梗一出還是暴露了其「大數據電影」的本質。宏大主題輸出的同時對自己電影製作的問題毫無反思，那麼前者真的是一件很有意義的事情嗎？
谁能拒绝在紧张的一个月备考 然后今天考完 来一场愉快的 观影活动呢
采访的时候，说看到她演成年男孩的妈妈和银幕上打出1988年，忽然觉得自己老了。甘斯布给了我一个鼓励的微笑：「衰老就是很艰难的，对于每个人来说都很难。」
极度娱乐化的外观之下，是严肃的存在主义内核。
最動人的那幕是 Guy 在奔向自由之橋時對仍處於矇昧狀態的市民的那番話，在舊世界坍塌的時候黑人小哥對他說的那句「今天是我活得最精彩的一天」。
人类需要在游戏里厮杀、npc需要在觉醒里善良。有时反而希望时代不要走太快，大家在觉醒时段里多待些日子就好了。
既想有深度又想爆米花，想面面俱到，最后平庸之上。
游戏玩家会喜欢的吧，但是他们有时间看电影吗？
Guy让我想起《银翼杀手2049》中的K。他们作为工具、手段被创造，又都经历了幻灭进而试图在荒谬、虚假的世界中寻求自由与意义，最终摆脱工具性，实现了存在的目的性，他们都是“more human than humans”的角色。
游戏版楚门的世界，NPC自我意识的苏醒和精神世界的绿洲，未有明显的深入，而是提倡把握当下的真实，各种彩蛋和细节十分丰富，这个疫情之下的暑期档最令人开怀的一部，非常推荐！
动作戏亮眼（片尾大只佬那部分除外），几处慢镜头恰当华丽，女主的角色装扮非常游戏且好看，振金盾牌和光剑的登场让我这个美队粉星战粉一本满足。
现代版楚门的世界设定挺吸引人，但到后面急转直下变成了三流冒险故事和俗套爱情喜剧？？
五星有私心，真的好喜欢。二十一世纪电子彩蛋情书，岩井俊二快来学学！！
头号玩家/西部世界和楚门的结合体。都是眼熟的演员。老板的肤浅演得好夸张哈哈。得亏是3D游戏，真要是沉浸式还有键盘什么事。这个NPC AI 善良大度又幸运，剧情比较比较顺利比较爽，虽然实际上只是从一个混乱世界观的游戏跳到另一个秩序自由的环境，但提升自我意识刷新世界观也挺好的。基友不用工作还是太梦幻了，还不如咖啡师和大胸妹子的觉醒。现实如我，也没法从一个城市跳到另一个城市，是不是桎梏更多是心态的问题。
prototype - dystopia ）） but in pink and bubblegum❤️❤️ I felt like I fall in love with this world again!!
看完重新打开了动森，去找小动物聊天。就像男主的铁哥们说的，哪怕npc不是真实的，但是聊天时被逗笑被感动被治愈的那一刻的感受绝对是真实的。
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