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".
在我眼前随风而逝
后劲十足，看完后，情绪一点一点慢慢涌上心头。克隆人沉重的伦理道德问题，被用亲情细腻温馨地慢慢淡化，软科幻的外皮下，是探讨责任担当与离别的温情。男人之间的承诺，夫妻之间的感情，父子之间的温馨，处处触动人心。不舍的是背后，是对死亡的无奈，是对家庭的担当，是对妻儿的担忧。最后一次，临别的分离，是第一次也是最后一次和儿子喝啤酒聊心事，是最后一次跟妻子说我爱你。情绪一层一层的铺垫，最后carmon无憾而悲恸的一行泪，彻底击中我心。阿里的演技值得一个影帝，虽然我还是很希望加菲能拿。A24出品真不错。
过去的一切
很细腻的软科幻，堪比十五年前的暖暖内含光。
🍎好喜欢搞这种科技奇观但是故事体量其实一集40分钟美剧就能说明白的温情科幻…男主还是不错但是这个故事明明还是BC当年短片Inseparable 比较好看
83/100。2021的科幻片里我看过最好的一部。满满的《黑镜》既视感。我本来对这部电影是没有什么期待的，但它给了我一个大大的惊喜。全片的运镜都很美，很有科幻感。克隆人的题材已不新鲜，但马赫沙拉·阿里的表演将一个平常的故事变得触动人心。淡去了对伦理的探讨，以“爱”为内核贯穿全片，本片显得非常温情。为了爱、为了让所爱之人幸福，你愿意被替代、在异地孤独地离开人世吗？
（8.5分）质感像天鹅绒般细腻。电影以克隆人凭借力，展开一个男人未亡时最后的挣扎。翠色的远峰深处，潺潺的雪水源头，与世隔绝的智能小屋，内外景和服化道以及配乐共同致力于塑造软科幻的世界，编织起主人公焦灼绝望的情绪。“死亡以痛吻我，我却报之以天鹅挽歌”。马赫沙拉·阿里的表演当仁不让地以一己之力支撑起影片的骨架，一半是火焰，愤怒地燃烧又自顾自喑哑地熄灭，一半是海水，仿生学般精确、克制却深邃，作为演员遇到这样的剧本是真的幸运。略可惜是导演没有在神秘的三人公司上做更多文章，如果不是格伦最后的两行泪相当于盖棺定论，阴谋论一下也是极好的。
什么定义了你这个人？记忆，长相身体？当你最亲密的人都分辨不出来，是该感叹技术高超还是为自己感到悲哀，人反倒不如一只狗更加能看到本质
今年最打动我的电影之一。未来和克隆只是设定，其实讲的是人类和自己一生的和解和告别，是需要静下心来好好看的电影，是把大权郑重交托在演员手里的电影。阿里演得很棒，奥卡菲纳也演的很棒。
我并不认为人类可以被代替，如果我能在对方心里留下重量，死亡可怕吗？
看了SF的special提前映 男主来做了Q&A 如果电影最后落在做决定本身上也许会更深刻 临终前赋予“另一个个体”延续你生命的机会 你是否会给予 但故事还是放大了家庭和亲情上 最后的告别也有一些刻意 其实故事的立足点很好 一个没有希望的人 有掌控的权力 和一个充满希望的人 但希望却不在自己的掌控之中 这个矛盾点如果可以再深入发掘一下 就更好了
沉浸而克制，整部剧作还是欠些许火候，只是，最后一秒还是没绷住。
看到了熟悉的北温码头，还有e cordova街头那熟悉的家居店，crab park的入口，还有很多应该是在北温取的景。构图啊颜色啊是真的好看啊，像在看设计目录，不忍心转过眼
没有猎奇式的阴谋和反转，就是讲述科技如何以人为本的温暖故事。
今年最打动我的电影之一。未来和克隆只是设定，其实讲的是人类和自己一生的和解和告别，是需要静下心来好好看的电影，是把大权郑重交托在演员手里的电影。阿里演得很棒，奥卡菲纳也演的很棒。
第3485-电影以外，对于克隆人这种事还是不支持，因为人的欲望是消除不了的，克隆技术绝对会让人用来谋私利，很有可能会引起混乱和战争。
1. Apple TV 终于开始发力，做出一些有质量的作品了。
上乘科幻片，對人性的思考絲絲入扣，無套路，有真義。
让一个克隆人代替你活下去为了抚慰家人，你愿意吗
我觉得这个设想其实很沉重，大概就是善意的谎言和残忍的真相的博弈，主人公最后选择了善意的谎言，因为对妻子和孩子的爱。但我想我应该会选择残酷的真相，因为我觉得谎言永远都是谎言，人总是需要面对的，everything。
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