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".
但是还有电影，让我永远热泪盈眶，永野芽郁真好看
松竹映画100周年献礼电影。还是山田洋次最熟悉的配方，家庭的羁绊。也有电影人的对这份事业无尽的热爱，如果真的爱，就不要放手，请一直努力继续下去！
在歌颂堕落混蛋即是男性魅力，女性以终生宽容忍让为美德的导演自传回忆电影里，电影之神最终降临并恩赐一场多重文本消弭一处无上完满的银幕之梦，人生善终，无悔恶棍的梦想赌上的是身边众人的幸福。那是巴斯特基顿，伍迪艾伦，也是山田洋次共享的梦境，有的成了泛黄废稿，有的载入影史熠熠生辉。作为新冠时代耄耋之年的导演回首青春，献礼电影的情怀之作，温情和呼吁虽真挚动人，电影本身已和真正cinema千差万别，徒有廉价感怀元素展陈。北川景子饰演的昭和映画女神从东京物语的黑白画框徐徐抬眸落向镜头正中，向着寂寥萧条的暮色影厅走来，眼泪不可能不潸然而下，落泪并不为电影剧本过时的价值倒退和美化刻板性别角色范式的企图，热爱电影之人，无论何时听到旧时语言都会勾动乡愁，正如穿越造梦的老套故事，搬到任何文化和时代背景都能打动观众。
有关肯尼思·布拉纳童年时代的一些松散回忆，共和军，宗教斗争和小家庭的彷徨和挣扎，但无论是对于历史情境的还原还是对各个人物心思的描写都不太精彩甚至有些潦草，和目前领跑的《犬之力》相比实在太平庸，不太看好这部的奥斯卡前景。
放映師說鏡頭與鏡頭之間駐有神明，看到一幕直接噴淚。
也只有山田洋次有资格给松竹拍100周年的献礼片 电影之神 了。人老话多，献礼片也不好好拍，最后那段大煽情居然看哭了。和 一秒钟 不同，电影之神 一直在围绕着电影讲故事，在结尾之前的情感其实没有那么炽烈。如果只看现实时空，实在很山田洋次。平平淡淡的突然最后煽一下，换别人，大概是为赋新词强说愁，但山田洋次煽的是电影啊，一辈子都不能辜负的电影呢。
纪念性质选大于电影本身，故事有点拉胯，无法撑起人物的情感，最终只能得到“渣男”一枚。
还与时俱进了疫情后的生活。
电影中，孙子给“银幕电影院”设计主页；电影外，影片官网主页就是电影里那个。
电影里，男主角评价他师父的电影：单看各个镜头都没什么感觉，但组接在一起后却神奇地好看，镜头之间一定住着电影之神吧！——大概这就是我对这部电影的评价，温柔，可爱，充满感情～
电影中，主演们带着口罩在影院看电影；电影外，我们戴着口罩看他们看电影。
山田洋次这回有失水准啊，挂了个这么大的片名，却根本感受不到片中角色对电影的热爱，真心热爱电影的人，怎么可能摄影老师吵两句摔了个跟头就弃影呢？这也太离谱了。另外，最后看着电影死去没什么问题，但走马灯想的不是老婆而是女明星更是让我满脸问号。
圆山乡是一个因嗜赌成性债台高筑的老渣男，其无赖恶劣的生活习性不断给家人造成麻烦。面对登门骚扰的黑金债主，他的妻子淑子、女儿圆山步终于忍无可忍，决定没收其养老金银行卡，禁止他赌博，除此以外，约束他的另一个方法就是满足他看电影的喜好，而观影也是圆山乡除赌博之外唯一的爱好
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还与时俱进了疫情后的生活。
電影最避忌感動別人前先感動自己，如此電影傳遞的情感將大打折扣，本片有迷影時刻如片末的長鏡頭和要死就死在電影院的覺悟，但連基本主線都沒搞懂，陷入欠債危機的老年人捲入家人，卻被潦草的方法解決危機，假如電影之神庇佑了主角，為何當年片場上發生意外讓他的心態扭曲？電影劇情發展與情感宣洩同樣割裂，如女主角所言：「無論如何選擇，自己都會後悔，只能選擇其中一種方式後悔，這就是人生」，但電影則沒有吸收到教訓。
总之就是完全没怎么感觉到男主有多爱电影，这方面男二的塑造都比男主好一些。比较失望，之前看海报以为是《浅草小子》那种片子，结果被骗了
致敬电影的部分缺乏新意，只能凑合看看情怀。感情部分只有煽情和琐碎细节还保留了一丝暖意，没什么整体真情可言。父女情简单粗暴，兄弟情过于理想化，爱情是妻子一厢情愿付出，用才华为一切洗白。
致为梦想不懈奋斗的你！
永远都能接受山田洋次的温情戏法，他总能拍出良善与真心，因为他懂得如何去刺痛良善与真心。把疫情与影院关闭轻描揉进一场戏里，都比那些大张旗鼓的抗疫煽情片要动人得多。
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