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".
影迷向讽刺喜剧。讽刺了奥斯卡，讽刺了电影奖项，讽刺了电影观众，讽刺了流量派影星，也讽刺了学院派影星。
还是很不错的。尽管看预告片大概能够猜到电影的情节。非常日式的电影，可以看到他们心灵的方方面面。故事果然是浓重的忧郁色彩里最后透露出那么一丝光亮的氛围。有一点心疼桃李桑，感觉好多戏里他都是在演这种苦情的角色，就算演坏人也有种苦情感（个人感觉）。人还是要懂得和解，尤其是与自己。
其实我没找出本片一个主线或者说主旨，又或者说故事的 morale，非要说的话我觉得是 nothing is real。
3.5点。最後のイルカ雲のインパクトが良くて、目が潤った。うちの親もそうかな。自分の子に対する認識は空白だけど、心は何となく通じているんだ。
如何打破母语羞涩，将极简美学，融入生活流，难道是因为，语言文化导致的观感体验的气？韩国做的挺好，欧美更是。中国式电影该如何摆脱。
这不就是我们朝思暮想，梦寐以求的荒诞喜感吗？通常我们是以阅读体验中臆想出来的幻觉来近距离接触它，现在则有这么一部电影，能让你只用眼睛就能实实在在看见它，多么妙不可言。
S’il s’accorde un ton encore plus mélodramatique, on pourrait très bien dire que ce drame se nourrissant d’un pathos visuel s’est envenimé par un virus almodóvarien. La combo des acteurs fétiches du cinéaste espagnol nous délivre ici un étrange feeling de nostalgie…
全靠三位的表演撑着，前半段看着还好，后半段开始乏力
继晨间剧后，短时间内再一次看伊东苍小姑娘扮演心事重重的女子中生。吉田写群像依然有个个生存处境各各不乏亮点的细致处，整体叙事上始终有些不得要领。
西语世界导演特有的画面语言下 肆无忌惮和全然不在乎地调侃与讽刺 辅之以意料之中却又意料之外的反转与呼应 是对后疫情时代电影行业的批判 亦是一针麻药无法缓解的痛楚 或许是 爱之弥深
佩佩是我的神，想被她的舌头胡乱拍打狂吻！至于内容cliche and fun
任何在电影节上参赛的叫做≪主竞赛≫的片子，如果不是阿特曼的≪成衣≫那类完全无序全程插科打诨挖苦讥讽的作风，而且在片子结束前15分钟才贡献出第一个反高潮，那就难免普通观众和刁钻的文青影评人两边都不大讨好有共鸣。像Felix和那个阿根廷老艺术家以及恃才傲物的lesbian女导演，三个人多多少少都有点令人讨厌。This film is taking itself too seriously for its own good, so are those bitches in the film within the film.
十分讽刺当今电影现状--倒不是像老马丁说的那种电影院被“主题公园”电影充斥着、挤出了“艺术电影”或者真正的电影。大部分的好电影，似乎都会参加某种电影节。电影入围之后，就可以在片头印上那个电影节的logo。进入“主竞赛”单元则更是种荣誉。片名不止于此。两位男主分别代表了传统和学术派以及流量和商业大制作的对立，他们之间的竞争也是现在威尼斯电影节主竞赛单元之间的竞争。除了母题之外，诸多细节也颇有趣味。比如戏中狡诈的弟弟杀死了踏实本分的哥哥的桥段在戏外得到实现。学术派“大师”的漂白牙，我们也可以在发布会女导演的口中见到。导演们为了表达电影到底有多虚伪，上述例子不一而足。最后提出的电影究竟何时终止的问题，则像是在说，作者停笔则“作者已死”，但是电影
《主竞赛》通过对一部电影排练过程的刻画，生动反映了该行业中一些不为人知的秘密，也借几个主要人物之手，展现了导演自己的某些看法。但这些所谓的概括其实都是其次，本片最关键的一点是看着幽默而诙谐，不存在太大的观影压力。这是一部关于电影的电影，大部分时间都用来讲如何筹备如何排练一部新片子，笑点基本都发生在这期间。一位名留史册的富豪，请来获奖女导演来拍一部诺贝尔奖巨作，从而将两位性格迥异且表演方法不同的演员凑到一起演对手戏。有趣的是，电影中的演员和戏中戏的角色从某种程度上都很相似，两条线的发展也如出一辙。
让人看出了阿莫多瓦在西班牙电影界的影响力有多大。
有点无聊的元电影。碎纸（？）机那段还行。掉在地上的不是残破的荣誉，它真的就只是垃圾。
最精彩的部分在开头，女导演跟富豪讲述剧本大致是什么
终于等到在西班牙公映；延续了《杰出公民》的犀利，剧作精准打击，cast有力道，光看几位的表演就很过瘾了。糟糕的战争和全球媒体环境制造的灰蒙蒙的日子，就适合看这样一部讽刺又好笑的片子。（而且是第一次在大银幕看班德拉斯的片子？浮夸激吻出场可还行......）
对电影界 艺术圈的生猛讽刺/头顶悬空的巨石是一柄虚幻的达摩克利斯之剑/粉碎机粉碎了所谓的荣誉名利/戏中戏更是一种人生无常与戏剧虚构之间的关联/佩内洛普靓得惊人
對電影工業全方位放箭。電影節奏與演員演技都很好。
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