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".
应该是个好电影，演员表演也非常真实。但看得很压抑，现实让人一言难尽。
剧情有些老套了，钢琴弹奏出数学的美，真的可以吗？
數學是所有理科之母，似乎也能用公式說明生活的一切，可以當成美妙的音符被伴奏出來，可以解釋一切拋物線。但當思考陷入公式中，也困住自己的思考，打破常規或許可以看到更大的眼界
非常平庸，雷声大雨点小，从南北问题掰扯到教育体制和中产固化，底层失语，每个都轻描淡写贴一块标签，导演最终的落脚点彷佛是需要给理想主义的数学求知埋下种子和伏笔，但也是紧急刹车式操作。
剧情确实是老套的，毕竟是季风北面的，南棒子的一贯特色了……不过不得不说讲故事的能力还是有的，关键还讥讽了韩国的高雪制度，挺有意思……不过讥讽有啥用，无非是影视人的自娱自乐而已……
就整个片子的内核来说，朝鲜数学家的背景特别之处有何独特表现呢？一个本土不得志数学家隐姓埋名教个孩子基础知识也行啊，甚至其他国家的任何人都可以。就为了安排自己孩子过得不爽要游回去被打死了的情节吗？到底是为了表达倡导学术自由还是为了黑朝鲜呢？这片子太模糊
一群黑窑苦工面对丛林法则，人生路上关于抉择取舍的事并不少，人性的强弱与无情一定程度上也注定了命运 3+
又一个浓眉大眼叛变革命的故事。男一太一脸正气了。有的电影完全不会触动我，但是我不能确定是电影的问题还是我的问题，是射程不在我的触动区内？这样的电影我没法鉴别中和上，差还是看得出来的。
反抗，加入，被剥削者成了剥削者。社会的逼迫，贫穷的无奈，很复杂的刻画，一直在等什么时候逃离……突然的结束了，就是说 这吃人的黑暗社会就是囚笼，无法逃离，能改变命运的，终是幸运的……
不说片子拍摄的怎么样，最先看到都是编剧能力的成熟，对于文科生天书般的数学，角度选得挺厉害，如果我在年轻时遇到一个智者这么跟我讲欧拉定律或者钢琴演奏圆周率，我或者任何一个年轻人都一定会爱上数学！再就是创作思维一直是两边都批判批判就一定没错的，一边是数学研究服务于武器制造偏离了数学家对于研究的自由追求，到了南韩呢，数学只是为了服务考试未来找个好工作的工具。。。
前半段挺好，后面上讲台开始有点跳。一个路人可以点醒你的人生，而一个老师可以给你展现地狱。这也是我的亲身经历。必须要说，韩国的青少年演员真的优秀。
凡人，都有无能为力时的挫败感，凡事，却总有峰回路转后的寄托力！
俗套的剧情里拍出了新意，结局很温暖。3星的故事因为崔岷植的演绎加到了4🌟，崔叔的演技已经出神入化，三马里演技最好个人魅力最强的演员。
整個國家從上到下 的食物鏈 人不為己 天誅地滅 看完真實到很沉重
演技都还不错 剧情虽然俗套但还蛮温暖的 被师徒俩的互相治愈的情感给感动到了
整部影片就像数学公式一样，情节展开及求证过程，结果都很一目了然其实电影立足于热血、励志、坚韧奋斗的核心就好，「身份差异」这种老一套的「精神输出」建议韩影就别再搞了，不咋高级，更不咋高尚。
支线非常随意(朋友？爱情对题目的质疑等) 韩国又幻想 主线谁不喜欢逆袭 就像令狐冲遇到风清扬 爽就完事了 死去的儿子对朝鲜那么忠诚但是出乎意料
简单，只要竭尽勇气，总会解开黎曼猜想
今年看的为数不多的好电影。非常现实，最后电影的结束留给我的是好长时间的压抑和无奈。是不是面对权威反抗无力的情况下，偶尔给予的小恩小惠就变成了恩赐，不公压迫的愤怒转而变成妥协和顺从。贩卖人口之后卢卡指着电线和马图斯说这是他为城市做的贡献，随后导演拍了大量城市的镜头，好像在说，对于这座城市他们算什么。马图斯没有杀掉卢卡，拿着手枪犹豫再三去给昔日的伙伴买了烤肉，熟悉的糖衣炮弹招数马图斯已经学会了，仿佛在用烤肉弥补内心对伙伴的愧疚。参加上流聚会老板的女儿和马图斯两个人就是鲜明的对比，出身已经决定了一切。随后卢卡的老板吹了一个口哨，卢卡像狗一样回头，马图斯和卢卡又有什么区别，这种层层的剥削将永无止境。“选他们还是选我们”，每个人的答案只有自己清楚。
这片子后劲有点大的，开始觉得是寓言，想想又觉得就是纪实文学。身处没有希望的阶层和社会环境，个体利益来说，男主做的也不过是大部分人都会做的所谓最好的选择，想为自己开脱理由太多了。“不差我一个”“我不这么做别人也会”，熟悉吗？
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