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".
无言以对，那些童言童语。Joaquin 的自然流露和 Woody 的鬼灵精怪产生了最奇妙的化学反应，2021年最后一天，这部电影带来的启示和幸福感满满。
很现代的影像风格和剪辑，却讲了一个传统的家庭的故事。叔叔在照顾侄子时完成与母亲、妹妹的和解，喜欢声音采访这个设定，将「聆听」这一关键词自然而然地结合起来。凤凰叔的表演一如即往的稳定。
电影建立在大人应该时刻虚心向孩子学习并且理解他们的基础之上，这本身就是一个让人略不适的居高临下的视角，因为对这份“应该”的宣扬，正暴露了前者无意识里对后者的轻蔑。换句话说，把孩童的言语和所谓思想摆上台面作为“对象”理解和阐释，甚至将他们像先知一样供上神坛，企图作为对大人自我反思的替代，反倒是对他们存在的稀释——因为整个过程里只强化了“孩子是大人的凝视对象”这一论断本身，而不管结果如何，最终被满足的只是“观看者”的欲望。
优缺点都很明显吧。想法都不错，但形式化的表达方式还是有些做作。最后成了华金的个人表演秀而已。
And when the time comes to return to your star, it may be hard to say goodbye to that strangely beautiful world.
剧情很简单，就是一个帮助有点陌生的姐姐带孩子的故事。但是导演的手法真的很丰富，通过声音设计、剪辑、essay的适时插入、小男孩的精彩人物设置和台词等等，让这个片子立体精彩了起来。虽然后程有点乏力，但是整体来说片子还是可看性很强、很温馨和具有启发性的。华金和小男孩对手戏实在是精彩，互相成全，小男孩可以冲一下男配的奥提。PS，带娃真的太辛苦了。@NYFF59
本来不怎么期待的。也就一年贡献一次票房。结果发现竟然很好看。伏笔埋得不错，逻辑自洽，回忆穿插的也好。最后虽然逃不了柯学、、但是キミがいれば响起来的时候还是泪目了。回想起十几年前不断刷剧场版的年代。好久没有看过这么好看的柯南了。TAT
emmm可以说比较失望，除了再次证明影帝是影帝，浅显的主题松散的叙事贫乏的冲突，离菊次郎的夏天差太远了
主剧情比较主流 但很喜欢完美融入进戏里的真实采访 孩子们总能找到成人生活中的盲点
自认为这是最好的一部剧场版！！
片子的优缺点分明，但缺点更突出，占据整个片长三分之一的访谈看似是主线，但却展现了隐隐的乏味感，非常影响观感，这点比较失败。男主的阴沉心情和照顾小孩从有趣到劳顿无力感，女主的通话抱怨以及熊小孩的任性胡为，都造成了整部黑白片子呱噪的底蕴，单这些就能掩盖片子所有好的方面。
柯南的还不错建立在和前几部比的前提之下。不知道是不是错觉，这部柯南好装
通畅！！
很好看！每次都有不同的感动，不同的惊喜，超爱安室透！
有的时候人生还真的需要引入一段新的关系来改变自己，影响他人和体悟人生。
Joaquin也开始性感了啊，男人老了真好。
Love the books mentioned in this film,too.
全程都是小孩粘在身边喋喋不休，观感可以跟《暗处的女儿》一拼
全程都是小孩粘在身边喋喋不休，观感可以跟《暗处的女儿》一拼
还不错～ 期待2023的“早就想见你了Sherry”😎
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