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".
猫很孤独，还兼具胆小和勇敢，就和我们一样。作为传记片，肯定有些地方是简繁不得当的，但是这些叙事上不足全被渗透在每一个角落的孤独和灵气所掩盖，构成这和画一样美的作品。那些和她在一起的镜头，是真的美的像画一般，艾米莉能够带给他的，是让他学会画生命中美好的事，之后再也没人懂他，猫也是，但想起它们，应该就感觉没那么糟了。
拍卷福吸猫，建议直接入选豆瓣250。一个猫奴祖师爷的故事，主演的独角戏。一些慢镜头还是很唯美的。
剧情云里雾里。
七分。想看本尼多演人物传记片，他好适合这种类型啊！被他刚陷入爱河的时候那个游泳段落笑死了，那简直就是在游泳池里“制造海啸”
一个鬼姐姐激励弟弟学习科学的奇异故事，以青春片开场，转传记片，转励志片，转救赎片，最后以奇怪的初吻主题曲再转回青春片，绝！
就是演员的年龄…嗯…… 但是整体来说还是很不错的 情感各方面都演绎到位
真是沧桑孤独的一生，Louis最终也在一片虚妄的幻影中衰老死亡。Emily是最理解Louis的人，她给了Louis毫无保留的爱，生命的最后她鼓励Louis要继续画画，要保持观察。她害怕他孤单。看到Louis笔下那些憨态可掬的猫咪我只觉得悲伤，他一生中最好的画作都在苦难中诞生，生活越苛待他，他却画得越好。BC演得真好，孤独的气质让人着迷。（中途哭了好多次，cry for the death of Emily and the loneliness of Louis）/不要做一个天才。
爱情线比较虚，姐弟线姐姐早已死去是全局最大反转，父子线隐藏了妈妈和姐姐去世的秘密和父亲无法直视的过去。
剧情是不错，演员也不错，就是有点拖拉，感觉很多没有必要的情节
哎，看看韩国电影，能从一句话的故事里演绎出那么多，能有那么多感人的情感，让人觉得那么美好。中国电影就一个加了很多元素的李焕英……
虽然不成熟的地方不少，但我依然认为导演是个超级妙的人。他的《那些花儿》是我最喜欢的剧之一。世界上的人分为猫系人和犬系人，猫系人看这片多少会有点心有戚戚焉吧。
卷福出演怪异天才的履历又添一笔，想不到路易斯·韦恩这么多可爱有趣的画作背后竟然是如此悲惨的人生经历。中规中矩、平铺直叙的传记片，核心线索不太明朗让叙事有点偏流水账，好在一些超现实的运用给片子带来了一点别致与怪诞，另外4:3画幅+光影下的英伦田园风光如油画美不胜收，恍惚间想起《月升王国》。
Willy还是有想法的；Benny怎么那么适合传记人物呢？
很有意思的一个片子，充满了英国人的幽默感，wain是我喜欢的一个画家，没想到原来是他改变了全世界猫的生命质量。这是一部引领你去体验Wain内心多彩世界电影....自Wain渐入老境，他变得越来越疯魔，他的猫咪也变得魔幻，电影也跟Wain的思想一样，充满着魔幻色彩，非常美丽！电影很细腻，节奏稍微可以加快一些，总体不错的。卷福真的好适合孤独敏感的天才角色！
励志？爱情？玄幻？亲情？哪哪都有，哪哪都差一点。
7/10
拍得有点空，后半段更是直接放飞了，所以剧本真的很重要，再好的人物故事和演员演技也经不起这么霍霍。
五星，8.5分。韩国电影在煽情这方面做得吧，功力越来越深厚了。以前看韩影，煽情就是硬煽，你不哭就演员先哭。现在自然一些了，最擅长的反转+煽情，火候掌握的十分好。唯一的缺点就是结尾拉的太长了，每当你以为要结束，它就继续演。
小心翼翼的守护着爱，善良的人儿们，愿安！
又是泪点拉满的剧情，只是火车也是你想停，想停就能停的吗？开始就疑惑姐姐怎么没有变，弟弟长大，姐姐还是那样，后来剧情揭晓的时候不能接受的也就看到这里了吧。
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