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".
半传记拍的不明不白，但是妮可基德曼贡献了伟大的表演，多种情绪杂糅在一起，都被她一一消化，导演想说的太多导致整部片子太碎，一会新时代女性，一会男性事件的好莱坞，一会婚姻家庭不忠，让人有点不知道抓住哪个。
“小杜小杜，说一下此片迷影到了哪些影史经典？”“后窗，姐妹情仇，窃听大阴谋，等到天黑。”……其实拍的并不好。各种传统惊悚元素组装得既显白又生硬。比如足不出户的心理问题，并没有表现在被迫外出后的精神萎顿或行动障碍，相反跑得比谁都欢！最后的翻天逆转在暴力层面上也是毫无铺垫莫名其妙……两星半。
这片子不行啊，女主再酷也不行。人物不够丰满，故事节奏不好。而且作为一个从业者看这个电影，我很难想象一个AI平台深度学习系统的数据标注员能住这么好的房子，工作这么随意扯淡一样。
一个超级女杀手的模样，实际只是一个普通人，但也幸运地反杀成功，情节没看点，智能语音的聪明程度比车载语音还笨，女主是个黑人混血儿。
最后竟然不是和胖子在一起吗？what？故事节奏稍微慢了点，前面社恐的描画多了些，毕竟谁不社恐？不用再体会一遍了吧……
#豆瓣电影
当年，曾陪家人看了很多集‘ I Love Lucy’。两位主演都很努力，表现得不错。但这部传记片营造的凝重气氛，感觉与’I Love Lucy’的轻松欢快，不大合拍，
结尾真棒 Lucy和Desi超有魅力 但其他人物很单薄
尼可基德曼，演的真好。Lucy is really a “tough,smart,funny woman”.she is deserve people’s respect,whatever as a actor,or as a woman.
一般般，比较少见的反映智能电子产品正面的设定。虽然只有不到90分钟，主线简单支线却很散，部分运镜还可以。床戏裸露真的可有可无，只当福利。互相偷窥神TM换来个莫名其妙的见义勇为。还以为结局要和肥宅在一起呢，结果就是一个挡刀的路人甲。记住两个知识点：钉枪绷住当枪使，杀人能治社恐症。
索德伯格再次发挥其快狠准的创作特色。从疫情封锁期间的人际关系与过于自我防护的心理入手，结合时下最流行的家居人工智能设备，编写出一个相当贴地气的犯罪悬疑剧本。观众看到的全是热门话题：后MeToo时代的女性意识、疫情下工作环境的转变、黑人维权运动等，而内在却是老派的类型架构推动叙事。传统与现代两者却融合得无比流畅，更不时浮现出致敬经典的情节：德帕尔马的《凶线》、希区柯克的《后窗》，令阅片无数的影迷大感惊喜。
竟然关注到了社交网络监听好的一面···故事也兼顾了疫情期间人们的焦虑，那些反套路设计得也有意思，值得一提的是斜仰视拍法，非常有效表达紧张感
比预期的好啊，索金写剧本还是可以的，好莱坞的守旧、性别歧视和各种潜规则还有lucille强大的内心和婚姻的风波都很索金式犀利，喜欢。就是索金确实导得不太行hhh，各方面都很平，没太展现出电影的特点，感觉更适合舞台剧？超爱最后lucy听到i‘m home的走神，以及看电视剧幕后制作过程好有趣啊，编剧们关于女性视角和lucy角色塑造的纠结也很棒（那时好莱坞这么离谱的吗怀孕都不能拍？？
工整剧本下是高饱和度的台词和海量的信息。但影片要表达的关键词又在几个重要场景中呼之欲出。妮可·基德曼贡献了又一个鲜明且与众不同的银幕形象，结尾的那场戏四两拨千斤，喜剧表象下的暮色与沉重就仿如最后化身黑白的镜头，令人慨叹唏嘘。
HBO MAX流媒体线上，独立大导史蒂芬索德伯格执导，人工智能大战坏蛋，美式幽默+英式冷笑话。说到底这还是一个人和人斗的故事，人工智能的作用在于扩大和戏剧化影片中的矛盾。然而现实中就是人工智障。
看得很过瘾。而且这种90分钟的电影已经很少了，所以很珍惜。
评分这么低？我觉得很好看啊 虽然影后肉毒杆菌真的打太多 但交织的时间线 台上台下夫妻的情感戏对峙真的过瘾
5.情怀剧本，落在婚姻问题上真得太没意思了，只能看到妮可一个人的表演，连巴登都没有发挥空间
耳目无限放大的数位时代后窗+凶线，索德伯格能玩
台词太满啦!剥去这一层接一层不间断的冲突和对话，剧本其实相当薄，是经不起时间考验的!删去一些为了额外加分而添的音乐片段会加分不少。有点可惜Nicole这么卖力的演出……
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