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".
7分，贩卖劳工版斯德哥尔摩综合症的写实呈现。导演挺善于反套路，每当观众按惯性需求渴望产生戏剧冲突的点，往往戛然而止，却以构建细节来刻画心理变迁的历程。从觉醒、愤怒、谋划、失败，到求和、寻机、入套、妥协乃至同化，把棍棒+蜜糖的常见洗脑套路编排的游刃有余，顺其自然一步步走向黑化。
原来哪里都有这种“顺势而为”的人呐 比拿着枪指着你脑袋，还是洗脑忠诚度更高啊
怎么说呢，演技好是可以把鸡汤冲淡的，并且看完有种“我一个废物也可以学好数学”的冲动。
韩国的无名小子遇见了扫地僧，呵呵，抛去这点熟悉的画面，是一部不错的关于学习和成长的好片子。李博士和班主任形成了鲜明的对比和冲击，让我们思考何谓老师和工具人。
故事很治愈 一个逃亡在韩国的朝鲜数学家 一个家境贫穷试图拼搏的年轻人互相救赎的故事 政治线确实稍显干瘪 不过整体效果很不错啦！（和女学生弹钢琴那段真的很感动！感慨数学乃至科学的美妙）
意义好像很大，但是电影很难看。。。
最近被深深依赖的公司辞退了，究其原因还是自己太软弱。
社会阶层得跃迁太难了，尤其是在这严重内卷得时代，向上的阶梯注定是用同行者的肉身堆砌。抛去无用的仁慈和怜悯，即便是个工具人也要当最有用的那一个。剥削者和被剥削者的唯一区别在于内心是否燃烧着可以吞噬一切的剥离人性的不惜任何代价都要过上更加体面生活的强烈欲火。
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故事很紧凑 但相对平常 也并没有丢失人物内心的丰富性 个人观感 还是很喜欢的 从一开场开始
奴隶的囚笼，更是现实的囚笼，即使逃离了废品场，能不能逃离这个城市？能不能逃离这个国家，当生存都存在问题的时候，逃离就是逃避，又能逃到哪儿去呢，社会就如一个绞肉机，其实无论在贫穷的巴西还是在现在的中国，可能形式上会变化，本质就是这样，也许不会像犯人一样囚禁，但是现实往往比囚禁更无耐！男主一点点看清这个现实之后的选择，也是思考和努力之后的抉择。虽然电影是体现当时的体制和现象问题，在现在我看来，无形的枷锁比有形的牢笼更残酷！
这种角色对崔珉植来说小意思。电影很有温度。
应该是个好电影，演员表演也非常真实。但看得很压抑，现实让人一言难尽。
后半段有点拉胯了，前半段很有意思
意义好像很大，但是电影很难看。。。
工头养成记，其实大多数各级管理者也都是这样“成长”出来的，呵呵
应该是个好电影，演员表演也非常真实。但看得很压抑，现实让人一言难尽。
如果这个片子只有7分左右，那国产一大批电影都该给负分，尤其是最近上映的那个让人脚趾扣地板的那个破片子！
试图通过进入体制去改变体制的人 是不可能如愿的 不要骗别人 也没必要骗自己
最近被深深依赖的公司辞退了，究其原因还是自己太软弱。
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