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".
作为商业娱乐电影整体来说整体都挺好，有笑有泪。代孕，很好的一个社会课题，故事前半段很写实，后半段层层反转尽管也合情合理，但有点过于魔幻了，如果能一贯保持写实主义的节奏而不是为了迎合观众去走喜剧向，本片内容应该更有深度。
21三体综合征这种基因缺陷是怎么误报的，为什么都快生了才误报，多次检查看看结果一致性？为了推动剧情，专业又可靠的产科医师形同虚设，智商掉线。
对代孕这个时髦话题的影视作品还是第一次见，国内影片有类似的么？
看的过程还是很享受，魔法世界，一些小彩蛋，像多年的朋友。剧情弱到不需要说了，完全无意义。只有结尾像是熟悉的味道。所有人欢聚，而邓布利多独自一人走向街头。所有人敬你，崇拜你，甚至恐惧你，但有谁还在爱你。
一个带着些苦涩和争议的故事，风格却轻松幽默，好几次让人忍俊不禁，结局也很暖心，印度电影越来越让人惊喜了
我觉还行。又不丹又麒麟的。这系列让人越来越明白原来jkr的魔法世界ip的magic不在魔法而在霍格沃茨。原来我憧憬的不是法力无边而是永远做个有座神秘无边但温暖安全的城堡可供探险可供庇护的小孩。成人世界的枯燥和失望，不管巫师界还是麻瓜界都一样，那些别无新事的破事儿。不管哪界，动物的可爱都差不多，人的不可爱和可爱也都差不多，纯洁的心都总是差不多。（麒麟的眼睛大概我也有。你也有吧。）
宝莱坞在世界电影工业中是有安身立命绝活的，拿四星不难比如摔跤吧爸爸之类，靠的是流畅的叙事能力和接地气生动的表演，这种套路有单一局限性，没有欧洲电影或者东亚电影那么多的艺术样式，但是印度套路做到极致也可以达到五星，比如本片。几度反转都在意料之外情理之中，人情味与故事主题的探讨深入都让片子变得出色。
邓布利多之谜：格林德沃
20220122 。 如果结果可以猜到，也还算行，但是一个小反转，立意立刻上来不少。 印度电影题材还真是牛逼，什么都敢拍。
4.也许可以称为神奇动物之碟中碟吧…
车站、礼堂、禁林、对角巷、古灵阁、公共休息室、魁地奇球场——是那些熟悉的场景率先提供了情境的养分，如今均被替换作陌生的景点，用巨物发出震慑，萌物展示幽默。顶着不同名字、身份、面孔、过往的巫师说着同一套话，做着同一件事，毫无个性可言。是千手观音吗？更准确地说，它们如海德薇般充当着信使，有任何会面的必要吗？不如开个视频会议，在霍格沃茨读了那么多年书，魔法不是让你们拿来当任意门的。
我看不懂但我也没受到震撼……这电影对路人观众都不是不友好了，是完全放弃了……
点子不错 执行的不好 主要问题在剧本上 人物转折人物困境都用台词表现 真正重要的情节却糊弄了 很一般
像参加了一场葬礼。最糟糕的是，四年前我就已经参加过一次同一个人的葬礼了，明年或者后年我还要再参加一次。
这个系列最神奇的不就是一部比一部烂吗？罗琳想要通过「神奇动物」讲述一个与「哈利·波特」系列完全不同的魔法故事，一个与友谊、童话、成长完全相反的充满黑暗、悲情、复杂的成人故事，然后失败了，她处处想要逃脱「哈利·波特」的影响却又不得不迎合其受众，这让本就薄弱的剧本无比分裂。而大卫·叶茨，这个原本「哈利·波特」里最没有才华的导演，终究是扶不起的阿斗，让这个故事在分裂的基础上更加冗长、无趣和平庸（以上是我对第二部的短评，没想到第三部依旧适用，可见这个系列有多难看了）。而本片里没有计划的计划，约等于说咱们电影用的是没有剧本的剧本，从未见过如此厚颜无耻之人，那前半部影片在忙活啥呢？完全删去也毫无关系，事实上《神奇动物》系列从魔法世界删去才是更好的选择，这仅有的一星给麦斯·米尔科森。
代孕是个道德伦理冲突点颇多的题材，笑泪混杂，非常适合徐峥来拍。他自己演片中的那个出租车司机也是毫无违和感。背景设在东北的某个三四线小城市，两个矮小黝黑的东南亚有钱夫妇看上某个身材高挑、肤色白皙的漂亮北方女人。。。文化地域差异也很有看点
知道了，还是领养代替代孕吧，依旧的印度风，让你笑中带泪
代孕是敏感话题吧，印度代孕合法？一如既往有印度歌舞。
从Doha飞往Manchester航班上看的，还不错。
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