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".
Always have ,and always will
披着后现代的幌子，讲了一个其实很老套的一体两面自我和解的故事，精致的摄影勾不起人任何的欲望
电影是偏文艺的科幻，类似《降临》，用一种文艺电影的方式去展现一个科幻的故事，整体是比较完整的，值得赞美的是影片的美学，不管是布景还是调色，质感都是科幻电影里非常让人舒服的。可能是因为是苹果出的原创片吧，秉持了苹果摄像头影像还原和色调处理的卓越功力。
再见你一次
故事的设定在未来的某个时间段，随手可见的高科技产品，最令人惊叹的是克隆医疗技术，不过克隆人这一设定并不新鲜。影片中最为感触的一幕是克隆人与卡梅隆发生争执，二人又在顶峰相遇共同面向夕阳，除了衣着不同，如同照镜子般，两人的和解也说明了彼此内心的和解。喜欢影片中卡梅隆和杰克的最后一次交谈，导演将镜头偏向卡梅隆，没有继续采用对称镜头，从而暗示了卡梅隆的离世，杰克将正式代替他活下去，导演将无声的告别诠释的十分生动有力。
想不通，这才是真正意义上判死刑吧。我接受不了被人遗忘地离开。syz 说他也会选择这样的方式离开，真是没想到..
一个凄美的爱情科幻故事，但却有种细思极恐的感觉。不过仅凭那些唯美的画面也可以打五星啦。
这面镜子不黑，这首歌曲又凄又暖。
科幻+自省，故事讲得很好，没有多余的东西，赞！
8.5
关于克隆科技带来的伦理悖论，题材很老，剧情很简单，时长也很短，但是完成度很高。该课题伴随的爱情方面是自私还是无私的话题对剧情进行了填充。阿里的演技真是稳，奥卡菲娜的客串比《尚气》里自然太多了。苹果设计感的UI和家装风格就赋予了未来科技感真是厉害，与之匹配的还有和《机械姬》如出一辙的美妙景色。
特别"苹果"的一部电影，无论是摄影、画面、场景、道具，甚至是角色，都很有苹果的风格，不过故事本身其实很简单也并无新意。
即使身体组成物质相同，思想相同，但那也不是我自己
十分钟就能讲完的小故事抻两个小时，中间还穿插了二十年前知音读者烂鸡汤，真无聊。
It’s hard to be left behind
Apple在这部电影里要兜售的内容太多了：生活方式、生命观念、对待记忆的态度…一切与科技息息相关，也早已超过了之前出品内容里的Apple产品覆盖。无论做产品，还是做内容，Apple最终还是在做上层建筑。
非常细腻的情感表达，这在美国片里算是罕事了
今年最打动我的电影之一。未来和克隆只是设定，其实讲的是人类和自己一生的和解和告别，是需要静下心来好好看的电影，是把大权郑重交托在演员手里的电影。阿里演得很棒，奥卡菲纳也演的很棒。
联想到某种中产消费形式的产品：精致、包装深刻前卫、形态姣好、名人背书，提出一种可能性但泛泛带过，缺乏真正的思想和想象力，甚至是客观真实的理性，能够动人的而不是陈词滥调的情感（开头那个hook up桥段我小学就在鸡汤书看过了
三星半吧!看的过程一直觉得会有反转,怪自己思想太过复杂😂
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