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".
正在上海经历着第二次封控的时候看这部电影感触格外深，回想起20年疫情大爆发初期在法留学担惊受怕的日子，回国后不得已放弃读研开始工作，却又在好不容易适应了职场生活之后遇上了长达两个多月的上海大隔离。一抢而空的物资，焦虑过载的新闻，无穷无尽的居家办公，在二十几岁最应该享受青春的年纪，甚至忘记了摘掉口罩是什么样子。
这段属于全世界的集体记忆，带着死亡的恐惧，也让所有人都见证了人性中的那些美好品质。
坐标上海，这时候看这片真的很应景，法国人真是用自己独有的浪漫和幽默诠释了当下的疫情的生活状态。ps:马丁真是像极了，当下被封闭在家的那些焦虑过头的老年人。
电竞线中，团队合作交流比其它剧要好，细节也比较丰富。父子感情线选用了心理早熟的差生儿子与落魄老爸，而父母感情是不爱孩子的富婆+爱孩子的穷爹有点俗套，优酷的弹幕三观令人震惊。
我真的很喜欢法国人，他们总是这样真诚的袒露自己，把人性的弱点一一展现出来后，又告诉大家爱可以治愈一切。如果爱这个东西真的是某种实体，那么我只相信她存在在法国的艺术品里。
父子俩被房东赶出家门，儿子再彷徨手里也牢牢握住爸爸的奖杯，感受了这孩子对于父亲能够再次成功的渴望。最后肖汉赢得的不只是比赛，更是向肖太阳证明了他心中的超级英雄一直都那么棒。
有的人把人生当游戏，因为在里面他能掌控别人的人生
我爸说这是狗的一生
非常符合类型所需，看着依旧是普通底层年轻人造梦。节奏梦快，瑕不掩瑜。
OK的，没想到被网大真真切切燃了一把。亲情元素、热血情节、过硬技能、演员也不出戏、再来点小反转，网大成功密码，即将把握。可惜大概看到了一万部中外电影（夸张手法）的影子吧，GeMing仍在继续，电影人们，我相信你们。
最后比赛那一段，果然是碟中谍、戏中戏，黑鲨和大佬贤之间的反转又反转，戏剧张力可太强了。激烈的游戏过后，心术不正的黑鲨终于被淘汰，有自己的坚持、有自己梦想的肖汉则是终于获得了自己应有的胜利。怎么说呢，虽然是电影，但是真的很有教育意义！
结尾部分给续上了 不然前半段感觉只能打哈欠
还是逃不了缝合怪的阴影，继承了日漫和港片的遗产。抛开大型广告片的前提，抛开俗套剧情和直男倾向，单就制作上还是很精良的，包括地图道具的还原，还有技战术的表达方式，挺不错的，而且热血让人看的下去
各色人物，用黑色幽默的手法去塑造，还有点意思。四合院似的法国民居，一直都蛮感兴趣，从爱在第二部曲开始。
该死的疫情🤬
又是一波疫情 被迫窝在家。于是打开了这部有点应景的电影，很温暖 但可惜的是每一组故事都不够完整 看过之后还是会迷惑为什么孕妇和健身小哥突然就和解了 房东和妻子也和好了… 最爱的是管理员一家 可爱友善无私真诚淳朴…不过 还是致敬所有受苦的人 感谢人类的团结 人类如果都能在一天出生 一天去世该多好。
惊喜了，比想象的好，+1星鼓励一下，中年危机落魄男，让我感同身受，其实好好把故事讲好，配合吃鸡梗和还原就很可以了，新人导演有前途，各个主角演员符合，人设合理，女主漂亮~据说是《青簪行》女二，现在好了，这剧凉了。。。少了一次成名的机会，不过是金子总会发光的~
我说这男主怎么敢在低谷期参加决赛呢，原来之前是cs总冠军。虽然成电影看着挺过瘾的，但是现实中不建议这样铤而走险，毕竟是一场赌博。但电影嘛，就是做梦，做梦不妨大胆一些、理想主义一些！
同是网大，还是觉得谢苗那部东北警察故事更好看。
作为网大，值得四星鼓励！
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