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".
21世纪了，怎么还有这么烂俗的电影，刚开始的每一秒钟都是折磨，烂俗恋爱套路合辑。雷导是被下蛊了吗拍这么个玩意。Lady Gaga还不错的，亚当司机持续扮演精虫上脑角色我已经审丑疲劳了。本来就觉得Gucci土，两个半小时就纯属折磨自己。音乐也不好，真是大完蛋电影。
剧情太表层，仿佛跟看了这起真实事件的新闻文章一样，对于第一主角也就只看到一个又傻又自傲的女主，没有更多人物弧度，故事如果就只有弑夫这个重点的话，那真的太无聊了。
全然不行啊，冗长却时而语焉不详。看的时候唯一心疼老帕，年轻时候家族斗争里从来都是杀别人，现在只能演人老被人欺的角色了☹️
2022 #17。闻名世界的意大利奢侈品牌Gucci，没想到现如今这个家族已经与这个品牌没有任何关系了。那些曾经过着奢靡生活的家族成员们没想到大多最终落得了悲惨的下场。片子最大问题是有点流水账了（即便在已经快进掉了一些情节的情况下），而且确实被Ga姐演成了喜剧。当初标记想看的时候导演还是王家卫，转眼几年预告片出来了导演也换人了，还挺好奇如果是墨镜王会怎么讲这个故事。不知道几岁能有机会拥有这辈子第一个Gucci。哦对，Last but not least，杰瑞德·莱托值得一个奥斯卡最佳男配。
剧情和拍摄像偏日系的MV
why the accent…然后仿佛还嫌这口音不够尴尬似的，那就是Gaga女士和各位“老戏骨”用力表演……而点睛之笔就是从口音到表情都漫不经心的Adam Driver（工资也太好赚了）……为尴尬的氛围增添更多的催化剂
看得出雷老爷子估计已经尽力让故事精彩了，但依然还是和雷老爷子以前的电影一样四平八稳毫无起伏
上半部二星，下半部汤姆福特转三星，出字幕雷德利斯科特转四星。
就雷迪嘎嘎走路也要抖肩膀的做派，就暴露了自己。
以为是豪门抓马大戏，但影片实际上平淡多了，平铺直叙毫无悬念，想看阿莫多瓦拍这种故事。前半段的司机比较可爱，地主家的傻儿子，带着呆瓜眼镜和一脸满足的傻笑，被lady gaga轻松玩弄；但他远不如莱托演的paolo可爱，说话措辞及其夸张，哼哼唧唧像个小耗子，把家底败尽后老父亲也只能无奈拥抱，“you are an idiot，but you are my idiot”
雷神的处理怎会如此平庸，实在令人乍舌。一众好演员始终救不了剧本的“面面俱到面面不到”。故事到底要拍什么非常含混：倘若写的就是帕特利奇亚那么不如强化她的视点和感受；倘若写家族衰败就无需从帕特利奇亚和毛里齐奥初识讲起。另外一大败笔是演员的选择，演员是好演员，单故事开始时，帕与毛都是25岁，Gaga和德赖弗却都是四十岁的脸，没有天真的欲望，有的是只是城府。甚至old school与fashion的差异也没拍出来，倒是保罗出场的家庭球赛有趣。有趣的是美国人还是单纯，拍宫斗也斗得忒小儿科，最遗憾的是毛里齐奥的复杂性被吞噬了，这大约是李治一样的人物，借了武则天的手去铲除异己，当被推到权力漩涡中时，权力就是肾上腺素让人欲罢不能。影像上也很电视电影感，所以真不如做成迷你剧，可写就的也丰富些。
两个半小时的片像看了两个半世纪一样漫长。亚当司机真的非常适合演局外人，以至于黑色党徒的奥提男配堪称量身定制，除此一角其他角色简直就是教科书级的灾难。看完甚至觉得索金的《乔布斯》拍得不赖。
A solid entertainment，就是情节架构和人物角度都不太行，全程一直在想这必须得索伦蒂诺来拍吧。以及，Driver依然是sex scene fantasy带货第一人，继沙发之后我现在开始好奇使用进行曲配乐了👀
论时尚不如黑白魔女库伊拉，论爱情还比不上我要我们在一起可信。
两个女孩毫无cp感，倒是叹息桥滤镜太厚意外看到另一个故事里小薇和李子勇doi了（误
有点像四不像，剧本太差～单纯的女同故事，更像是导演自己的自传。
说英语的摩西，说英语的法国贵族，说英语的意大利人……莱托……真是认不出来。开始有点怀疑那是不是莱托是因为他的意大利口音有一丢丢演过了，boof. 海耶克挺有意思的。老司机在安妮特、最后的决斗、婚姻故事里扮演了不一样的渣男，各有各的渣，也挺有意思。这个故事好像反打了教父的故事，女主是最意大利的，她做的这些事情，想要保住古驰家族股份这些策略最后证明都是对的，暗杀什么的不也是像教父这种电影，拍出来让大家挺崇拜的吗？但是在这里……她是个罪犯，还得蹲监狱。海耶克和lady gaga在一块太搞笑了，如果她俩是主角应该挺有意思的。
（终于在这个片子里get到了司机的帅，西装和工装都好帅啊救命）
质感和结构上很类似雷公以前那部金钱世界，但是更强大的演员阵容并没有换来更好的效果，或许老雷的心思真的都集中在最后的决斗上面了吧，心疼他老人家一秒
我以为是别后重逢再续前缘的戏码，结果不过是加了点天主教砝码的老一套“我们再也还回不去了。” 对比隔壁的花香，97年的自梳，04年的蝴蝶，这个故事似乎仍然在重复backward glances的悲剧故事。2.操场上的激吻好评。悔过书的片段也能接受，输的人总是更懦弱的那一个（Wing是更多为了自己的prefect和monitress的名誉，对比后面的Sylivia是为了家人）。 3. 影片似乎是想致敬阿黛尔，强调阶级差距造成Wing和Sylvia的分离。（有钱的人才有底气坚持到最后）。但是对这一点挖掘不够。4.两个爸爸的对话耐人寻味 5. 不断的电影自指，Wing为了Sylvia转学电影成为导演好评，看蓝宇，模仿王家卫的片段。
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