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".
我好希望它能在“数学”上再多花点胶片，去充分展示数学的魅力，因为作为基础学科，它往往被文科省视作险峰，如果电影可以跳出“考试成绩”的范围，更加生动的来阐述数学的魅力，激发学习的兴趣，那该多好啊！
-埃普西隆是什么？
崔叔五官特别是眼睛像小鹿一样，温和慈祥。
如果不考虑政治因素，这片子前1个小时可以看，后面基本上属于狗尾续貂，愣是要升华主题，但实际矛盾和高潮已经错过，1个小时候就会显得很尴尬。但如果加上政治因素……你就看这个名字，就知道棒子们想干啥了
完成度很高 崔大爷单挑的好戏 数学题材竟然也能拍的这么舒适自然 数学公式的演绎如此美丽 再加上南北关系背景 应该算是冷门佳片了
平淡的就像无味的白水，无毒无害无意义，我可是要喝牛奶的
贫穷才是罪恶的根源。本片可以分作两个部分来看，前半是主人公少年的正气，为了大家安全得救而努力；后半则是他的转变，他从受奴役的一边过渡到奴役人的一边，身份的转变，除了因为 Boss的离间，还因为“无奈”。是要“自由”而贫穷地活下去，还是要靠着“剥削”别人而富有地活下去？人都是自私的，有自己在乎的人，凭什么要每个人都大公无私。环境对于个人的影响巨大，推动“大山”不能寄望于少数人，只有大家一起动手才有可能
关于一些数学和音乐的台词看的我这个文盲一愣一愣的
向上管理很重要，相比之下同僚的利益算个屁……
糟糕的翻译应该拉低了点分数。整体很像少年菀德。高潮戏略弱了点，不太成立。用钢琴演奏π的那段还挺浪漫的。
-努力的人是第二个放弃的
作为社会底层的人，你是顺从还是反叛？是舔狗还是抗争？命运一直都在自己的脚下，就看自己怎么走？
开头节奏太慢，差点儿没耐心放弃了。中段开始好看起来，几个人物表现得都很立体，但结尾就太弱了，让本片回归3星的水平。
1.南美电影有独属于他的色彩、音调和每一帧都想留存的场景；
6.5+，动辄大文豪大数学家，动不动就解读各大猜想。如果不较真人设的话，故事是个好故事。
简单小片子 能引发一些关于人类社会 关于人性的思考。
这情况，现实无处不在啊。
“数学家盼望的不是万两黄金，也不是千年霸业，毕竟这些都会成为灰烬。我们追求的是永恒的真理，我们热爱的是理论和方程，它比黄金还要珍贵，它比权力还要真实，因为它是大自然表达自己的唯一方法。它比诗章还要华美动人，因为当真理赤裸裸地呈现时，所有颂词华章都变得渺小。”
粉红狗狗养成记，教育从娃娃抓起，他会和主人一样会拿起枪，按照主人说的那样去理解自由，糖衣炮弹轰炸你的价值观，以为改变了自己的阶级身份，那口哨只是狗属性舔的臭味本能，狗仗人势，在这样的环境下一样可以展现慈悲，威胁家人永远是他们的手段，铁栅栏划分了是耿直和顺从，这样的世界属于会屈服的这类人，没有结尾，它只会延续下去。
内容有点深刻，类似盲山？穷人有真正的自由吗？
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