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".
去哪里找到这么多演技这么好的小朋友有呢？ 最后那段奔跑，女主演得太好，镜头跟得太好，谁不落泪？
前面真的有点看不下去，尤其裴斗娜这个人物背景没有交代的很完整让人一头雾水。但是进入了后半段，从洗车戏开始就渐入佳境，依旧是这样非血缘关系的亲情关系探讨，是枝裕和纯熟的令人感动的剧本力量。“谢谢你出生在这个世界”这句话能感动大部分人。
虎头蛇尾的感觉，最后地下室里的小孩结局如何？虽然应该感觉是都没戏了，但也要有个交代啊。那个改邪归正的男生最后如何？盖世太保总部被炸了几下，除了逃出来的人，其他也都死了？
是枝裕和的每部电影中，“道德选择”是推动故事的重要动力，但是在《掮客》中，我却看不到选择，只是看到了比《小偷家族》还要童话的韩影故事，每一个主人公都神圣到了极点，将本来就无烟火气的故事变得更为虚假。
最后一幕的长镜头，我的心随着母亲的表情一同起伏。影后级别的表演。
好无聊……
宋康昊跟姜东元这一对带小孩的场景老是让我想起《宝贝计划》真的出戏。
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空袭前半段剪得像MV，然后变成了各种误炸。
温和到波澜不惊，所以戛纳陪跑也不奇怪了。那个叫羽星的男婴一路上不哭不闹，好吃好睡，从容淡定，好像对自己的未来未卜先知。是个有福气的孩子。所以，是枝裕和是拍了个童话吗？
兒童的部分用兒童的視角來演繹，充滿童貞，但最後反而更沉重。
你说这是恐怖片吧完全不吓人，你说这是破案的吧完全没推理，你说这是剧情片吧完全不科学。。。姜子牙的坐骑，扯淡呢
盟军误炸丹麦学校,一个好题材没有拍好。剧本太糟糕,上半部分情节杂乱无章,单调乏味,没有主线。盟军几个当事飞行员完全成了工具人,误炸后他们应该很有故事,可惜完全没有提及。6.4
电影有着一个无比震撼的开头，知道真相的你，也会像那个小男孩一样，张开口，却什么也说不出。战机低空飞行的镜头和平民日常作息交错进行着，给人一种无形的压迫感。虽然轰炸后的抢救工作，显得有些刻意和主旋律式的拔高立意，但结合最近的乌克兰局势，仍然不失为一部反战倡何的佳片。战争就是战争，就算它是正义的，也会带来阴影，而且，对于受害者来说，永远不会消散。
小朋友好帅气，这个black phone到底响了没有也可以有两种解读。不过因为电影的主题是要为了自己而战斗，我觉得电话并没有响过，这些全部是Finn在自救。PS，我觉得这是个新IP系列的开端，很多细节可以挖掘，包括Ethan Hawk演的反派的过往。
made。。真好看。两位小演员演技太好了。伊桑霍克也很creepy。电影缺点在我看来一是伊桑的做坏事的动机缺乏，可能只是单纯变态？二是小女孩和鬼魂们的戏份太少了，本以为小女孩会有更大作用或鬼魂们会来报复一下伊桑，结果并没有发生。
叙事有点混乱，无用的支线有点多，战争中人们的命运真是难以预料。
仔细思考，英军造成的伤害可能比德军还要大，还要严重。而它却代表正义
修女问上帝在哪，不识字的纳粹辅警脱下军衣，有心理恐惧的小男孩开口了，小女孩被困时最后的询问……很多片段都令人唏嘘，战争留给百姓的创伤，很难愈合，愿和平永驻。
7.0；被朋友推荐看，期待很高，但看完感觉一般。男主角小孩的表演比较弱，表演痕迹很重，其它小孩的鬼魂帮助男主，这种帮助算什么呢，友情？同情？反抗？就是不太能找得到一种可以带入的能够共鸣的情绪进去，只感觉到有一种小聪明在里面，不感动。
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