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".
觉得难以承受的原因是这不是历史，而是正发生。
这应该是我看的第一部讲新冠疫情的外国电影，朱迪·科默演技不错，在一个阿尔兹海默症理疗机构已经很不容易了，还要在疫情之下救助每一个人，简直就是英雄啊！
一场疫情可窥见一个体制，也可反映到政府的响应程度和应急能力，敢于直面这种问题的电影的确是有震撼力的，而这种大环境下也凸显了人性的种种。
整体还是不错的，但后面这段太生硬了点，显得很无脑（并非无法理解女主的行为而是导演拍得不够细腻）
终究没逃过疫情片……每个人都经历了太多……
泪流的片子，Jodie Comer演技爆棚。
新冠下的护理机构，疫情初期的风口浪尖。为了感情线的发展，结尾稍微有点戏剧化了。
描述疫情的好片，人性的光芒只从个体细微处闪现
“It's not my department” 每个人都在说这句话。
曾经看似秩序井然的社会，在疫情的袭击下不堪一击，暴露出本就有的问题。逼仄狭小的护理院，扑面而来的压迫感和窒息感，面对生命的一个个离去，国家对其的置之不理，表面上说着“不会丢下他们，所有的生命都值得被尊重”，却在用实际行动表示着生命就是明码标价不平等的。在偌大的国家面前，个体的痛苦，对弱势群体的怜悯，对体制的质问……都显得微不足道，毫无意义，影片中时不时出现的HELP显得那样苍白无力。
基本是小变态的独角戏 但足够撑起这个时代命题 从一个极侧面的角度 细节的描述这些新闻上的故事 尤其早阿兹海默的设计极为合理且真实 不仅是无助的救助对象 同时也是逼上战场的生力军 男女主在最后情感的最深处结合无助的时代背景情绪的崩溃是对整个故事的总结描写政府办事效率的触目惊心 在这次疫情中显得格外扎眼 数字背后的真相到现在不是反思而是避而不谈
目前为止，这片是有关新冠背景的最好的片子了。印象深刻的女主无助的长镜头。《中国医生》是个啥?
仅凭口音，Josie Comer 就可以演什么像什么。
本来以为主题是英国初期疫情，结果后面是对社会和政府的控诉，如果结合得好 那还是挺棒的，但显然结局太赶鸭子上架了反而显得很仓促。整个看下来略显凌乱。。。
变老和医疗物资紧缺都好可怕。
啾迪和Stephen Graham都演得很好 利物浦口音也是挺绝的 夜班那段拍得好 不要忘记 不要放弃 伸出援手 做个好人
比起宏大叙事的英雄主义，这样一部聚焦护工和她的病人们的小人物挣扎更让我动容。中间那段接近20分钟救助肯尼的长镜头，看得让人焦心又难过，那一盏盏忽明忽灭的感应灯像极了当下的心情。这个世上从来都没有什么英雄主义，我们不过就是在这样困厄的环境下奋力生存罢了。疫情真的是改变了一切，那个2019年无忧的夏天再也回不去了，也可能永远不会再有了吧
没有家国大义，没有感动中国式的煽情，只有孤立无援下的绝望和直接单纯的善良，演员们演技都太好了。有时候都忘了疫情最开始的无助，不知不觉已经戴着口罩过了两个夏天了。
3.5，挺棒的，你我都知道现实比电影更残酷，根本不需要歌颂
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