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".
挺冷幽默的，但也很留情，也就不刺痛。一个女导演如何导演两大男演员，她除了将自己男性化，也保留一点女性化偶尔微妙糅合。当看到她叫他们把奖杯拿来，并将二人包裹在薄膜时就猜到她是要毁坏他们的奖杯，但没猜到她连自己的也一起毁掉。全片精髓最好的可能是那只唱片机旁边的猫，这不是那种撞击宇宙的音乐，是隔壁男人在钉他的墙，喵了个咪～
很压抑…搞垮一个有良知的人实在太容易了 反而像父亲这样的人才会把痛苦都转嫁给别人身上以此来逃避自己对女儿生前的刻薄冷漠
演员表演立体，然而剧情本身却荒诞不经；
【2.0】只能说宁缺毋滥，市面上相近的题材、相似的剧情走向的电影实在太多了，这部并没有为观众带来任何新的思考。另外必须得吐槽一下，这片的人物心理未免都太极端了些，动不动就走到“羞愧自杀”的地步，愧死机制简直直逼《来自新世界》。
潘潘也太迷人了我昏倒了😭（排练用的那个建筑好像巴塞罗那德国馆啊
镜头，颜色，妆容处理富有美感；
这种黑色幽默像是在吐槽很多业内的电影，千篇一律，一个人啧啧称赞，那就大家跟着啧啧称赞，没有所谓的“褒贬”，有的只有“褒”，以及Lola实在太性感了
终于等到在西班牙公映；延续了《杰出公民》的犀利，剧作精准打击，cast有力道，光看几位的表演就很过瘾了。糟糕的战争和全球媒体环境制造的灰蒙蒙的日子，就适合看这样一部讽刺又好笑的片子。（而且是第一次在大银幕看班德拉斯的片子？浮夸激吻出场可还行......）
真难受 人死后才意识到该去了解她 失去了才意识到暴戾的外表隐藏不住脆弱的内心 和摒弃不掉的人性善意 他们感受同一片云 画下同一片云 再怎么疏离也终为父女 父亲也在这一刻终于流泪 被牵扯的所有人都是无罪的犯人 每个父母都有对自己孩子避重就轻的维护与无需缘由对错的承担 父亲向前妻道歉 母亲为自杀的女儿赎罪 路人对店长说你辛苦了 后面父亲终于展现出脆弱和自责 实在让人控制不住的流眼泪 至少结局让人重拾希望 原声配乐也非常非常好听 日本人在某方面真的压抑 包括也在隐晦海洋垃圾污染和环保意识 没办法了 生活还是得加油的渡过
店长的戏很薄弱，看点全在父亲身上，看他是如何从刚愎暴躁一步步柔软下来的。
很多时候，我们往往会在自己所看重的立场上附加不着边际的价值，不接受对方的立场，不考虑相对合理性，肆意地判断，用自己的主观臆断去评判一个人孰好孰坏。每个人的正义感无论走到哪里都不会脱离自以为是的范畴，所以我们就看到了《空白》中很多毫无自觉的恶意与善意。
不知道是不是听不懂西语注意力总是在字幕上的原因，稍显寡淡了点儿，戏剧冲突不够，节奏稍慢，如果在大银幕上看的感觉应该会完全不同吧。btw，给佩佩加一星，怎么会有人顶个爆炸头不修边幅还那么美的？
看到扔奖杯那块笑了，能看出创作者们的焦虑，能决定乘一条船的主创们都差球不多，谁也别觉得比谁高级，不然容易玩不下去
很好笑，非常有意思，也有很多视听上的设计。这就是看电影的乐趣呀。
競賽片跟美麗新秩序都是衝撞體制的內涵，前者黑色喜劇有如電影圈的宮鬥劇。
其实我没找出本片一个主线或者说主旨，又或者说故事的 morale，非要说的话我觉得是 nothing is real。
即使是探讨舆论暴力、道德困境这样的话题，内在的情感依旧能保持温和克制，我觉得这是日本文化的力量。这个故事也让我们看到法律或者道德的局限性。以及，艺术对拯救人心的作用。
“Official Competition”与其说是“主竞赛”，不如说是男性的胜负竞争。对电影圈的刻板讽刺尚未达到first系电影平均水准。
靠剧本和演员托举的讽刺喜剧，导演只做了伪cinema的工作，讽刺的也不过是一个剧组里最容易想象的情况，故事里擦边现实和电影行业的地方，是一种high点，最出色的还是演员的表演，导演在视听上做不到的虚假细节暗示，反而演员靠微表情的细节给到了。这部电影本身就是讽刺吧，一个拿了金棕榈和金狮的天才女导演，拍的主竞赛电影竟然是这种水平。
这三位老戏骨，演技杠杠的，不需要台词，满脸都是戏
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