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".
如今我们还在新冠的阴霾下继续摇摆
还蛮奇妙的，今天一天先后看了洪的第一部电影《猪堕井的那天》，和最新的这部《小说家的电影》。前者在叙事手法和某几个镜头上让我想起杨德昌的《恐怖分子》，故事充满戏剧张力，但却充斥着男性视角下对女性的幻想与意淫，甚至残暴，实在喜欢不起来。而后者则充满了反思，没有强叙事，而是风轻云淡地拉扯出了爱、温柔与惺惺相惜。前者是洪早期电影的典型代表，而后者则是一脉相承于洪后期（遇见金敏喜后）的作品。两者之间的视角与风格形成极大的反差，不由得感叹金敏喜的魅力，爱情的魅力。
《引见》的延续，人物关系是几何的变化，最稳定以及最拿手的还是三角形。虽然金敏喜仍是主要角色，但是只是客观的承载容器，“去金敏喜”可能真是一种洪电影的未来趋势。
疫情下的生活不易，很虐心很治愈的观影体验。“小变态”朱迪科默演技不得了，基本上是素颜出镜吧，几次情绪上的爆发太让人心疼。影片以小见大，细节做得非常真实可信，与《中国医生》完全相反的路子，更突出个人，小环境
援助，还是无助
确实有点虐。Jodie Comer演技真好，Stephen Graham正常发挥。看完想起Ken Loach。作为TV movie，我突然想起来如今国内电视、电影好像再也不拍底层人民了，尤其电视，都是光鲜亮丽的都市中产呵呵呵。
….啊这..我虽然理解洪尚秀日常赞美今敏喜好美..但这部甚至就已经没有其他话可以说了..从头到尾就是非常的喜欢她她很美很可爱很纯洁很有魅力渣像素都无法阻挡她的美..就是要让全世界知道此一生只爱今敏喜…….这恋爱谈的挺绝的。
还不错的疫情题材影片，朱迪·科默是个好演员！
老房子着火可太草了，洪导媳妇看了得气晕过去
不知道咋打分，完全不明白想表达什么，感觉是一部我也能拍的电影，低成本、不需要调色、没剧情只需要安排好人物台词、全片几乎全是架机定位，不知道，是我水平太低，还是说有一种可能，本片只是导演完全私人的表达，小说家=导演，借小说家之口表达一些自己的想法，可这样想会不会太简单，但我真的没法看出这平淡如水的电影中包含着什么内涵，虽然说电影不一定要有什么内涵，可总要有个主题吧，不明白
为了啾迪啃生肉，利物浦口音真是有点funny。Care home这个新冠的切入点不错，镜头灯光的运用很有压迫感。
从什么时候起我们的生命不再平等。（看一半时到豆瓣翻了下短评，看有些短评说什么爱情、亡命情侣差点弃剧，看完了😯我觉得和爱情一点关系都没有啊？帮病人出逃，我个人觉得只是女主抗争、呐喊的一种方式罢了，病人只是个工具人。咋的难道当年帮犹太人出逃的也都是因为爱情吗🥰
就是这么现实！在哪都一样！过了多少年也一样！疫情、饥荒、战争三大杀手竟然可能同期到来！美好的2022 年！
这是个啥？送到戛纳是为了个啥？……不是粉丝我为啥要看！？
外国疫情电影，和国内的同题材电影形成鲜明对比。灾难之下，医疗体制的崩溃，情感的崩溃，往往都在一瞬间。而灾难里人与人的连系也变得愈加容易亲密。
在自我指涉中，“真实”被呼唤了出来，身体先于思维有了反应，谁也无法解释为什么看到最后我一个爆哭。
第一部关于c-19+AD的电影，Sarah的表演惊叹！那段长镜头，黑暗中亮起的那束光，只有你一个人。你听够了TA们的敷衍，受够了TA们的虚伪，根本没有人会来，只能等死，没有急救车，FK，而这些人连成为一个数字的资格都没有，就这么死去了。无助绝望无能为力。
看似随意稀松平常的影像，洪老头其实拍的很精巧。巧妙的遇见，拍摄的留白让故事充满了洪式的美感。另外要说的是，看洪的电影一直有种很强的参与感这部尤为强烈，感觉你就在对话现场（或许我们都像拉面店外的小妹孩）下一秒就可以打断人物的交流，但是你不忍。/题外话：“确定了人选，然后我才动笔去写”，或许这也是洪老头对金敏喜的告白吧；都说是洪常秀成就了金敏喜，但后者又何尝不是洪的灵感缪斯呢，洪这么高产和他遇见金是脱不了干系的。
最后五分钟的欧尼和一分钟的彩色把我有如被欺骗的迷茫感拉回来了一点
中间大段的长镜头沉浸式体验无比震撼。
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