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".
而且各位演员的表演也有点不平均，Lucien的演员表现还是比其他人稚嫩了不少。明明是可以拍成Barry Lydon那种史诗气质的片，可惜了。
有这么扎实的原著打底不可能不好看的。但实在没什么电影感（女演员好可爱，身材也很可爱
与当下互文过于密切，以至于看完有一种恍惚，对历史重复性的幻觉
多兰的戏份可以再多一些吧！主演小哥演的很传神！
资本的世界，都是玩物，有权有财，才是赢家—导演李玉超
历史不过在周而复始
拍得太直白了，禁不起咂摸，残酷的生存法则适用于个人命运和整个人类社会
十分强大的剧本蓝本。
性的欢愉就够了，要什么爱情，而且是我不相信的那种！被丢在巴黎的乡下纯真男孩也可以谋生，女孩就只能卖肉，那个时代，男性还是比女性多了好多机会和自由！千金散尽，女友向贵妇求告，贵妇一笑，说因为他是艺术家。这也算是某种刻板印象了！真的很烦那个小嘬嘴男，想把他的嘴撕成正常。四星，一星给巴尔扎克。初中读了很多他的书，可能对法国的向往就是那时埋下的种子，可是现在看，只觉得太drama，赤贫，暴富，赤贫，诗人，贵妇，年轻女演员，爱情，肺病，投湖……呃🤔
种地打鸟憨农民，暗格藏架撑，高草丛潜行，猪圈夜宵加餐，传奇双枪反围剿林中对杀，悍匪易屠，冷枪难防，小子终会变老头……故事够老派，Tim Blake Nelson 够可爱
最喜欢的四场戏 出版商处互呛带出写作与评论处境 / 成名重逢戏 will she get her own poems too？/演员女爵会面/ 两次读诗对照 /Q：删掉小说对照组，只剩下想当诗人却坠落深渊的那条线。绝对不是什么良知沦丧的成长故事或者道德剧，一面像是“后法国大革命时代”的新闻职人剧，另一面则是一个关于乡下人进城追梦未果的最后纯真曲。/把阶级至上丑恶社会拍得更梦幻且更虚假，后大革命时代保皇党与自由派斗成一团，深陷其中的男主角摸不清时势，既展现自由派的贪婪嘴脸，亦勾勒保皇党权谋算计，贵族贫民农工戏子婊子记者文人全都深陷其中，无人脱身。/故事背景虽是后法国大革命时代，假新闻、暗盘交易、政治运作、偶像吹捧、评论、新闻与资产阶级合谋，以古喻今，巴所要鞭笞所要讪笑所要悲悯所要贱斥的依旧成立
最大的收获是让我现场下单《幻灭》特装书。听上去很熟悉的故事模版：一个家世存疑的年轻人离开家乡来到喧嚣华丽的巴黎，凭借着自己的英俊和才智崭露头角过了一段挥金如土的如梦生活———直到一切幻灭，尘归尘土归土，于是他踏上回家的路，stop hoping and begin living。Lucien与他的小报记者朋友们不同的是他身份的双重性，他是发自内心的相信自己拥有高贵的血统和远大的理想，是男爵夫人口中的one of us，但他卑微的父系出生注定了他永远不可能被高傲的上流社会所接受：那是一个贵族们感到自己的权威被新贵们挑战的时代，幻灭的不仅是Lucien对美的追求，也是巴黎贵族们的万代千秋。纸醉金迷的生活和不可一世的优雅已经渐近尾声，他们的成功不过是保王党最后的回光返照：醒不过来的其实是这个时代。
被海报吸引的，看的过程截了很多图。一开始只看了一下简介之后以为这个镜头是说 落魄乡村诗人在巴黎迷失方向后 深夜怀揣仅剩的对美和艺术的爱与狂热 在昏暗的小酒馆里给流浪汉们演绎他的诗作，，结果男主真的好讨人厌啊….盲目自大而且狂妄 他的人格不漂亮 原始的幻想本身不美 “幻灭”也就不够令人触动
身份，血统，阶层，三个让人穷尽一生追求的东西。这丝毫无关才华，就算皇室血统全是笨蛋，我们也会矬子里拔将军，挑出一个让他盛装出席，打造成最亮眼的那一个，而你个穷小子根本登不了大雅之堂。最要命的是，你还真从心底血液里认为皇室就是大雅之堂，当你有一天发现那就是藏污纳垢之处时，才会抛却一切四大皆空。
回到电影，男主命运和文字的命运一样载沉载浮。从古典诗歌，到香艳八卦，再到小报广告，文字和人性一起堕落。现在回看巴尔扎克的剧本，觉得和21世纪现实那么呼应。
男主角长得太一般了，演得也不好，这个角色还不如让多兰演。女主角找了一个没有任何戏剧功底的是吗
7.5吧，很多情节放在如今也毫不违和，不愧是巴尔扎克。时长原因，虽然有趣但还是看到疲倦。
今年最正统的西部片。从故事到画面，从对白到配乐，无比复古，无比传统，在这个科恩兄弟和昆汀用各种现代手法让西部片不那么西部的时代，在被政治正确绑架的好莱坞剧本陷入低能死循环的时代，《老亨利》让人重新回到约翰韦恩和伊斯特伍德纵横好莱坞时那个传奇的西部岁月。全片不仅没有黑人，甚至没有女主，剧本如主角般隐忍而克制，但该出手时绝不拖泥带水。荒凉、冷寂、写实却不沉闷、传奇而不夸张，让人重新踏上《原野奇侠》与《不可饶恕》中那块充满生死无常、人性狡诈、传说往事、宿命传承的剽悍西部大陆。
巴黎是流动的盛宴 这部电影就是盛宴的终末 揭示了浮华下的虚伪与残酷 他的品质，梦想，本性以及自我随着时间一起幻灭 整个地球就是一个牢笼 巴黎或许是枷锁最繁琐也最缥缈的一座
扎实的名著电影，布景服化道一看就很贵很还原，巴尔扎克的小说毕竟戏剧性极高，看起来毫不无聊；是文学梦的幻灭，爱情的幻灭，也是妄图实现阶级跃层的幻灭，时至今日，类似的故事仍然不断上演，至少男主功成名就过，大多人被淹没在大城市的纸醉金迷里，水花都不曾溅起；内森居然是多兰演的！看演员表才发现，卷发单薄帅哥都免不了发腮嘛难道，多兰你之前可是比本片男主帅的多啊。
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