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".
开头跟普通日本当代片一样烂 后面用来把剧情画面转到过去的那个桥接创想方法超赞 接着导演对演员演技不屑的话也深得我心
在电影里死去，电影之神。不知道我老了要靠哪部戏来回忆一生的故事。
以为会是迷影之神作，结果却像“作神”之影迷。2.5
在电影里生，在电影里死。（片尾字幕都能哭一哭）一直活在过去，又一直关照现实。祝老导演长命百岁啊。🙏
一篇在及格边缘徘徊的命题作文。作为松竹元老，那个时代的亲历者，导演应该能提供足够的细节，来还原这家片场在整个电影工业的百年沉浮任何一个片段都好，但最后还是拍成了一部精神致敬家庭剧。这软绵绵的抒情戏码甚至把剧中吐槽清水宏和小津的幽默感都减弱了。
山田洋次寫給電影的情書，劇情不好說，就是滿一廂情願的片場生活緬懷與那個時空下的愛情故事，創作的部分很輕易連想到伍迪艾倫的《開羅紫玫瑰》，同樣的復古、迷影情懷，我更喜歡3年前的《今夜在浪漫劇場中與你相遇》，這部有太多一廂情願的地方，說不上特別有感，倒是老爺子死去的方式與復古的北川景子走入銀幕之中，算是不錯的收尾吧，復古的景子造型超級超級美，永野芽郁也是超級可愛，松竹製片廠100周年紀念作品，勉強達到任務
7分。山田洋次导演的作品，即便老土，但还是好感人。不过，整体好像两部他的片子压在了一起。
感情線刻劃太薄弱，在人物設定上，三位角色年青與老年的形象差距太遠，而劇情留白了一大段時空，這些留白的時空太過漫長，讓人總覺得格格不入。
结局有点草草收场。
除了配乐不错就没啥记得的地方。。。没懂一个地方 说的是Catholic out 说明是新教徒 小男孩一家都是新教说明这个community是新教 那么为啥打砸抢呢 cousin还要带着buddy打砸抢。。。
今天的我已经无法以非女性视角看任何影视剧了，虽然我很喜欢电影的质感尤其是年轻的时候的那些戏，但也不妨碍我觉得这简直是一部臭昭和大男人主义的电影，又赌博又酗酒，欠了债还要连累妻子女儿为自己还债，七八十岁的妻子为了存钱还要去电影院扫厕所，我的天啊。然后电影的最后还要意淫美丽女明星穿过银屏来到自己的身边，明明是当初自己懦弱地放弃梦想却还要一直讲电影梦，这个角色我实在是看不出有一点可爱之处。
无论喜欢与否，一位89岁高龄拍了一辈子电影的导演，他有独属于他自己的艺术见解和创作执念，他并不需要创作一个无瑕疵的人物，这世界也不存在“完美”的电影，哪怕这片子叫电影之神。
印象最深的2个角色：北川景子饰演的桂圆子演戏一塌糊涂但却人间清醒的指出“选择和他结婚会后悔，选择不和他结婚也会后悔”。有点《一一》那味儿了。中川雅也饰演的出水宏人物笔墨不多，但演绎的十分有趣，甚至值得单独为这个人物拍一部影片。
很暖心幽默的日本电影，何时何地都不该忘了最初的梦想，这是人生活着的意义之一，获得幸福的方式之一……
充满了拧巴的元素和奇怪的节奏，但情感冲击力是真的强。快速的人物塑造和极高的叙事效率，线索的穿插处理还是不错的。
北京节的巨幕厅，中文字幕在一块小屏幕上，看得贼难受。整个观影过程中身边的小情侣爆笑不止，甚至最后老年阿乡断气的场景都在笑…就个人来说，全程基本没笑点，明明是部周年纪念片，大家却当成了喜剧片来看。导演对于电影的解构颇有《天堂电影院》的调子，包括回忆的插叙，但剧本《电影之神》却是《开罗的紫玫瑰》的翻版，但影片却又着重讲了淑子和阿乡的爱情，所以影片究竟想表达什么…？影片前三分之二三个人的回忆还行，到了后四十分钟突然老爹剧本获奖…颇有些不伦不类，影片结尾女主从荧幕走出来带走年轻阿乡的灵魂…好尴尬…还有就是女儿的旁白在影片中出现了几次，可总体来讲影片的叙述完全靠回忆穿插，突然奇怪的感觉…
各种违和感...某种意义而言，这部松竹100年纪念作品如实反映了如今“松竹”的XX
辞职的转折确实太过突兀，没人能这样轻易放弃，从这里开始，好不容易垒砌的积木算是彻底塌掉了。
不喜欢男主，扶不起的刘阿斗的模样，灵光一现式的才华撑不起自己的人生，也没法给别人幸福，为受苦大半辈子的妻子不值。。。但，泪点恰在老两口看着妻子年轻时的照片，互问照片里的人后来可好？嫁的老公可否给予幸福？颁奖典礼上的发言够俗套，但照样踩准泪奔点。。。开着小影院的老友，最后因疫情经营困难，男主家人出钱出力提供帮助，很暖。。。昭和女影星很美艳仿佛松阪庆子。
我不想终结在看电影的路上 而是拍电影的现场
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