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".
无尽的深渊，我们生来是幸运的，幸运的生活在中国这个全世界最安定的国家，幸运的出生在没有那么底层的家庭，希望社会能够越来越安定，希望无论在做什么决定的时候一定要多一些心眼，任何事情有担心才是正常的，希望这样的深渊越来越少
优映团队的作品值得更高分 他们比那些抖机灵恶心人的资本产物不强十万八千里吗？
巴西美男，罗德里格·桑托罗，看到一半时，才发现是他，虽然脸上有岁月痕迹了，但还是很帅
我不理解我自己是怎么说了不听，说了再也不看参赛片再也不看结果！ 真的是不适合我，就感觉剧情冗长看得我频频走神。
还行吧，就是感觉剧情有点拖拉就是，一直想让人快进的感觉，后面有被燃到，前面铺垫的时间有点长了，导演如果再精简点，更突然数学上的造诣，会更好 。
只想说看破不说破 看不懂这个片子真不怨你 键盘侠勿扰
上学一直认为数学是“男”的、其实她是柔和包容的“女”性。寒国影视工业真是成熟了
这是一部很有意思的小品电影，底层人民互害，想活下去，想过上好日子，那就得拍上面的人的马屁，给人卖命，这条链上的赢家只有坐在最上面的富人。在这种盘剥下，真正敢站出来打碎阶级压迫的人才是英雄，只是这部电影里没有，有的是摇摆不定的普通人。
#78th Venice# 纪实风格 从反抗到妥协再到共犯
还是最喜欢韩影拍这种温情题材的 治愈又感动
画面很舒适，奇怪的有故事的数学家也很吸引人看下去，总被要求转学的男孩也很有共鸣，最后很感动！
很熟悉的配方，不过巴西比我朝更牛，有枪！
只有好电影才会让你越来越爱看电影。什么是好电影？那一定是讲人性的。这部电影展现的恶让你有共鸣，时时抓住你的感官，看这样的电影才会不觉得一两个小时很漫长。
数学的亲近感。数学不能带来什么利益，除了升学。学好数学最重要的是勇气！不放弃，再来一次的勇气。
很有冲击力的电影，会逼你去思考，但没有说教。
演技都还不错 剧情虽然俗套但还蛮温暖的 被师徒俩的互相治愈的情感给感动到了
-聪明的人是第一个放弃的
影片质量还可以，不过金东辉看不出哪帅，标准的韩国脸，青春痘太多了，我觉得还挺丑的。根据自己学习数学时的亲身体会+看着两个儿子学习数学时的经历，我相信所有牛X的理科男，首先都是建立在有天份的基础上+再有后天的努力才成功的，这门科学决不是光靠后天努力和所谓的勇气就能成功的。我给4星7.2分！
这片子后劲有点大的，开始觉得是寓言，想想又觉得就是纪实文学。身处没有希望的阶层和社会环境，个体利益来说，男主做的也不过是大部分人都会做的所谓最好的选择，想为自己开脱理由太多了。“不差我一个”“我不这么做别人也会”，熟悉吗？
看手机，是近年背景的，巴西仍存在奴隶式强制劳动？美国能编出新j的事还成堆欧美人信也许因为它们那真司空见惯了，类似埃及几千年来的奴隶制，他们的传统艺能了
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