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".
哪怕是与《南山的部长》相比，也是十分精彩的一部片子，但是与南山的部长会更加紧张刺激这部片子的描写反倒更加写实。从敏感的政治身份与对实现政治抱负的迫切渴求，再到最后转投敌对阵营。角色的塑造十分成功。最精彩的是李善均与议员的对手戏。应该是三月份的第一部电影，三月份的时间都给老头环了。
稍微拖沓了点，不够紧张紧凑。其它不错。这是个好的左派电影，比好莱坞的弱智白左好太多。
看完感觉金挺装的，又当又立，个人真的很反感口口声声把民主挂嘴边的人员，仿佛一个吟诵法师。
性格三觀不同的人，無論再怎麼為了同一個目的湊在一起，遲早還是得分道揚鑣。政治即是全數權謀操縱，談公民人民都太虛無飄渺虛妄；帶風向割韭菜才是王道。真的。
由浅入深、循序渐进的拍着《孙子兵法》，不过还是有一点浅，不知道是怕观众接受理解能力问题，中规中矩。
制作精良，演员表演上乘，不过对比南山的部长，剧本的紧张感不够，节奏不是很稳的感觉，李善均和薛景求都是非常优秀的演员，看他们演戏，绝对是一种享受。
只有李书记是明白的：胜利了就是革命，立场不同罢了，你相信你的金老师，我也相信我的阁下。
三个男主都是熟脸，一起上演尔虞我诈的韩国总统选举的大历史。
这部同一类型里不算惊艳，挺中规中矩的，当然演员都是好演员。
7.5分。还是韩国的政治片给力啊。当行动派的影子军师遇到理想派的主人时，真心是无语啊。心疼军师十秒钟😂原来是映射金大中的作品，剧本是真的走心，双男主的演技也是没啥可说的。我只是奇怪韩国人怎么就这么不感恩，明明是朴正熙凭借一己之力把你们从最落后的国家之一硬是拉扯起来创造出汉江奇迹从而成为亚洲四小龙，为何还要不断的黑人家老朴呢？民主有个屁用啊？看看非洲印度和中东吧棒子们！
以及，黑色小品我好爱。
看此类型的片已经看麻了…不过真的要感谢金大中，让我们能看到很多好看的电影。
我很喜欢男主说出的一句台词——“光线越强，阴影就越暗，但我喜欢在灯光下看到你”，男主宁可自己活在阴影里，而愿意将竞选者推到光鲜亮丽的灯光之下，男主在这一过程中寻获到自己的人生价值，这是典型的幕后英雄，鞠躬尽瘁，和三国演义中的诸葛亮如出一辙。但可惜本片中的男主没能找到属于自己的伯乐。
耍小聪明的政治最后还是失败。追求结果，不择手段。人和人还是不一样
真理往往掌握在少部分人手里，所以广泛的大众永远是盲目的
在大选之年上映确实很应景，但除此之外本片似乎就没什么可说的了。无论是内容还是人物都留于表面，政客也好民众也罢皆似浮沉般，和《那些年，那些人》，《1987》等作品相比就太小儿科了。
光线越强，阴影就越暗。我喜欢在灯光下看你。
开头盘的太大，以为后面会有多精彩。结果最后竟然只是浅捞了一把。
“柏拉图也讲过，为了正当的目的，可以不择手段！柏拉图是亚里士多德的老师。”
画面感很强，故事性缺少一些冲突，明明很刺激 给人的感觉倒不是很强烈
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