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".
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法比托和大导演在“水帘洞”的对话才像是戏剧表演，有如滨口龙介现身，挺有意思。
想起看《年轻气盛》的恐怖遭遇，果然又是这戒色大师的作品……
对苹果的影射明显，每个人都是孤独的，即使有这个身高50厘米的机器人也不例外，服务器阵列黑绿配色致敬《黑客帝国》。
又是展现科技时代人与人的关系，与机器人相处的段落拍的还挺有意思，到后来必须强行出现反派然后拯救世界就没什么意思了，但又不得不存在。看个欢乐，想象力还不太够
前面看不过是把智能大反攻+我机器人+一大堆别的电影设定拼拼凑凑套个可爱皮给小孩子看，不过还是有自己的暖心的点而且确实很可爱，科技到底是冷冰冰还是可以很温情
整部电影都在高喊：“我好孤独寂寞冷啊！！！”天啊！所以人类到底有多孤独？请认识到学会独处的重要性。当然还有社交网络，人花太多时间在虚拟空间构建所谓的友谊、情感纽带，甚至寄希望于AI机器人，而且还得是人类可控的、服从性高的，然而实际上人类才是被控制的那个。想想这部电影背后传达的意义，细思极恐，这实在太可怕了。近年来连动画片都这么无聊了……
看到太多其他动画的影子，可以说是毫无原创性可言。
昔日痛苦的别离（影中的小他），而今深沉的回归（导演）。
程序帮你交朋友，友情只属于社交牛逼症和大数据AI！
有点类似《西西里的美丽传说》，但是差太多了。开始还以为是个马拉多纳的传记片。
人类真是怕孤单的动物啊……无论科技如何发展，不想孤单，渴望朋友是永恒的命题。不太喜欢结尾，为了回归现实友情而强行让ron消失
人工智障觉醒小故事，感情哪有算法。
当为孤独的人而生的科技产物，却促成了更严重的小圈子、更虚假的社交呈现……该怎么办？特别喜欢故事的设定和脑洞，而Barney和Ron的互动应该会让每一个成长过程中自觉“没有那么合群”的孩子感同身受。树林一段让我想起和尸体愉快玩耍的《瑞士军刀男》，同样是两个人与世界为敌，躲在隐秘角落互相扶持。前半段完全值得五星，对不合群又懂事的孩子的成长状况的描绘真实到残忍，因此当孩子们莫名其妙和解，又迎来一个普天大吉的结果时我还是有点失望的，或许孩子的恶往往出于无心，和真实世界的人建立关系才是人们眼中的“happy ending”，但独自咬着牙熬过这段日子从而获得明确的自我认知，长大后才发现社会很大，总能找到同路人，才是人间真实。
简直rnmmp，我再TM一部电影分两次看我就直接被雷劈死算了，偏偏断在最关键的地方？！！！！人物感情完全体会不到，更不要说人脸都认不全了🙃🙃🙃
不太好 还是那种沉迷于AI技术缺乏人与人之间的交流的戏码 这次却感觉不到对交流缺失的振聋发聩 甚至有点根本没解决好问题的缺憾。本来自己的机器坏掉有自己的思想这种套路可以拍得很有趣啊！但最后他到底和家里人怎么多了沟通 没说，孩子们和Ron代码的机器人怎么算是不孤独的交流 没说。不过让我特感动的也有 是他们跳下悬崖后Barney抱起了Ron说“我捉到你了”，Ron却反过来扶起了Barney说“我才捉到你”，这不就是他们俩的友情的写照吗？最后想说奶奶还有那只山羊好搞笑啊出个番外篇吧！
剧情实在是似曾相识，关于人工智能与友情的话题已经是很老很老的梗了，与《智能大反攻》的故事也是十分相像。
索伦蒂诺以马拉多纳做麦格芬谱写的自传篇章。
3.5。《阿玛柯德》式的少年记忆图景总能将我触动。航拍后的开篇不够吸引人但后面渐入佳境。都是欢愉后的空洞，费里尼的大半部分是狂欢的凝练集合，索伦蒂诺这部后半段几条线稍有些散，铺垫做的不够让很多片段过于零碎，不过其实没有那么多客观的剖析，更多的是感受得到的情感上的无比真诚，每个作者都该有这么一部作品。男主实在帅疯了，足以把我掰弯，无法抵挡这种有点卡拉瓦乔风卷毛少男的魅力（比如甜茶哈哈）。想去意大利想疯了。
妄图逃离现实的孩子去往费里尼的罗马，直至壮年回首终省悟，那不勒斯的这片海竟也值得书写。
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