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".
7.6分，值得一看的软科幻电影，可能最近悬疑片看太多了，还以为这是个局，其实就是个关于人生、死亡和爱情的故事。阿里的演技真的是封神。
不知道咋说好，浪漫而深沉的作品，探讨的克隆人伦理相关问题过于遥远，但看完又觉得很真实。人类喜欢遐想也算是天性吧。男主演技非常厉害，7/10。
抛开伦理道德，爱绵长永存。与其说是伦理道德的博弈，不如说是人性与爱的较量。男主的每一个决定，反应，包括克隆人jack的每一个反馈和思想，都是人类内心深处关于自私的人性与爱的衡量。理解卡梅隆即将孤独死去无助愤怒的情绪，也理解jack惶恐，害怕，对未来不确定性表现出的惊恐乞求可怜的眼神。如果未来真的能做到indistinguishable，那么唯爱永生。
时隔21年与《第六日》科技设定类似，但这一次将重点关注于人物的情感。细腻的将病重男主从拒绝克隆人到接受的转变描绘。当影片最后，杰克给卡梅隆留下了爱妻的口信，让他深知自己是被爱包裹，永远不会被遗忘。最后给男主打call，快去拿更多的奖项吧！
癌症将死，你会不会让一个克隆人延续你对家人的爱？一个人孤独的走向死亡，被人遗忘的确是件痛苦的事！简洁干净的画面，脸部特写，钢琴乐，缓缓的讲诉了一个温暖的故事！超爱电影里第一视角的画面！
从技术层面保持怀疑，但从哲学角度，今天的我已经不是昨天的我，明天的我也不是今天的我，那么复制一个完全一样的我，到底是不是我已经没有答案。我觉得这并不是憧憬科技，而是回归人类本身，探讨爱与死亡。影片的落点很温情，译名很贴切，高概念的主题依然饱含人文情愫，这很苹果。另外以后的 Apple Car 会不会就是他们坐的车！
看的过程中做了各种复杂设想，没想到是个伦理片。
1. 作为科幻片但没有任何新意，讲克隆技术的电影已经有很多了。旧瓶装的也是旧酒，对家人的无条件的爱早已是陈词滥调，因而所有人物形象都扁平而无活力，演员很费劲。2. 正如不知所谓的湖山风光，如此一个和社会伦理联系紧密的主题，为什么会被隔绝在社会之外讨论。3. 科幻电影的社会价值之一是对科技理性的批判，然而这部电影的黑科技完美无缺零bug零差评，完全没有任何对技术理性的警惕。4. 也许是因为启用了月光男孩的演员，电影似乎想模仿一种文艺风格，大量特写和长镜头却让人尴尬。5. 记忆也许是个可以深挖的点，但却简单粗暴地描述为数据复制。记忆怎么可能被数字化呢
即使把家人托付给另外一个“自己”，内心也会一定觉得肯定是哪里出错了的难以释怀。
最后我会在自己的心里安息
偏文艺，我与非我，什么决定了我之所以成为我，生命、感情延续与伦理冲突这些问题的探讨，没有太过深入，也没有太大触动。对于这类科幻片，我一向觉得利用科技移植或者复制意识，是非常恐怖的事情，因为能够毫无差别的复制人类意识，就能够做修改、进行操控，那样的时代场景，绝对不是人类盛世。
为什么没有生离死却那么让人心碎？
故事戛然而止，仅可以作为黑镜中的一集的程度。
5. 死去便死去，至少做好告别。余下的，也只能渡过。
苹果未来产品线大赏。核心议题是亲情和爱情，设身处地，我们会怎么选择？可能不走到那一步永远不会知道答案。
你不是你的记忆，你不是你的情绪，你也不是你所陷入的关系。当你用这些塑造了你的认知，你就已经树立了一座高墙，断然拒绝了其他的可能性，变得狭隘，因此痛苦
【8】怎么说呢，在视听上是非常享受的，充满未来世界的生活气息，画面也特漂亮，很有设计感。但这个设定...我从一开始就觉得挺站不住脚的，结果最直白的那些担忧拖到中间才出现，这片子把关于克隆的焦虑全部拉长、变细腻了。
小成本制作的精彩电影。
1. 作为科幻片但没有任何新意，讲克隆技术的电影已经有很多了。旧瓶装的也是旧酒，对家人的无条件的爱早已是陈词滥调，因而所有人物形象都扁平而无活力，演员很费劲。2. 正如不知所谓的湖山风光，如此一个和社会伦理联系紧密的主题，为什么会被隔绝在社会之外讨论。3. 科幻电影的社会价值之一是对科技理性的批判，然而这部电影的黑科技完美无缺零bug零差评，完全没有任何对技术理性的警惕。4. 也许是因为启用了月光男孩的演员，电影似乎想模仿一种文艺风格，大量特写和长镜头却让人尴尬。5. 记忆也许是个可以深挖的点，但却简单粗暴地描述为数据复制。记忆怎么可能被数字化呢
虽然通篇看上去心情很压抑，但看到男主死前交待完所有未尽事宜，死能瞑目也算是完美的人生结局。
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