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".
没有比人类更恶的生物了，但也没有比人更能认知到自己恶的了。令人不适的幻泡温情和暴烈的毁灭，没有结论的问题，这次选后者吧。7.0
小偷家族认为说“又不是我想把她生下来的”很残忍，Broker是这种观点的延续，所以有了“谢谢你的出生”。Broker素英是险些被迫和无意伤害孩子的好妈妈并遇到好人贩子小组、好警察和好的意图收养的家庭，是童话里的童话。我在和妈妈争吵的时候双方互相投掷过“没有生你就好了，我一开始就不想生你，是你外婆非要我生你害了我”，和“我一点不想出生，我没有求你生我，你把我直接打掉啊”，当时的感想是比起受伤，熊熊燃烧的怒火更多。成年以后，在我放弃对理想中的父母的爱的渴求并认清他们是再平庸不过的凡人之后，我确实没那么痛苦了。婴儿箱这种社会承担起父母无力抚养孩子的责任的救济手段能带来幸福的概率有多少，我认为很小。但是是枝裕和对所有生命送出了祝福，我愿意被安慰一下。
2.“一家人”与“买家”接头，通过相关专业知识分辨出“买家”并不诚实和“一家人”洗车的场景，给平淡的故事增加了一丝温馨和幽默的气息，有些动人
他们至少若有光，现实大抵比这艰难得多。
怎么可以这么无聊且寡淡，看完什么记忆点都没有
是枝裕和的风格放在韩国发生的故事里还蛮适合的，宋康昊太能顶了，偶像没有爆发算了人家只是个偶像。摩天轮和关灯告白两场非常喜欢。直到后半段都还挺好的，总觉得会有更好的收尾。
在《小偷家族》里哭断气的我，再看这部全程冷漠脸。
名为掮客，实为童话。这种利益与犯罪纠葛下的“无血缘式的大家庭”的构建实在有些太过顺畅而至牵强。剧情太过平淡，导致感觉每个人演技都麻麻，没有张力。宋康昊凭借此片获得戛纳影帝，但其表现完全低于我本人观影前预期。IU算是全片中心人物，但表现也只能算是合格。其他角色甚至都没有什么亮点……何以为家？何以为妈？谢谢你来到我的世界。也算是反映了一些社会现实吧。
各有各的难处，以自己的方式表达着对家人的爱，把孩子生下来而不是。。。
看的時候很疑惑（工作忙起来，没关注影人咨询），都是韩影韩剧老熟人了，怎么拍的一股日本片的味道，节奏慢悠悠的。。。。。。一上豆瓣，OK，好吧，是枝裕和的片。
公费旅游吧…还不如自己把小偷家族再翻拍一遍
挑出宋康昊给个影帝，明褒暗贬啊你，小坏坏戛纳
的确如此，是枝裕和有一种娓娓道来的叙事感觉，缓缓地道出他想说的故事。这也导致整部片节奏缓慢，没什么波澜起伏，不似呛人猛烈醍醐灌顶的烧酒，这更像沁人心脾香远益清的淡茶，品一品还是有味道的。
文化上的水土不服+对女性题材的陌生，让枝裕和拍出了一部愈加保守和中庸的作品，甚至可能由于语言不通在对宋康昊等演员的调教上也趋近于零，几位完全是轻松的行活表演，可以说是枝裕和自真相之后再次暴露了对异种文化题材驾驭力的孱弱，在他自己的作品体系里无疑是倒数，而且如果换个韩国抓马系的导演反而大概率会拍的比这好看
宋康昊和姜栋元表演不错，人设完整。裴斗娜表演不错，人设有缺失。李知恩人设不错，但表演怎么都感觉在戏外不走心。李珠英可爱，但人设不完整显得不搭调。影片烂尾，结尾的温情让人虚空。这个故事最后应该是悲剧，才更符合主题表达。结尾让宋康昊哪怕死于意外都会加分，为救抓捕他的李珠英而死，这样李珠英也不致于是工具人了。影片后面三分之二以1.25倍速飘过，更爱《小偷家族》。6.8/1.94万 短评8719条 %38/49/13 【IMDb7.3/1500 全球票房1354.29万美元】
三星半 有体系 但大部分时候不是我的菜 纯为IU和裴斗娜观影动力 但裴斗娜大部分时候工具性太强 人物设定太偷懒
半路家庭再次出现，但被猛烈批判的过于温情滤镜掩盖社会议题的故事却不是大问题（但是枝裕和本质上一点都不温情），电影可以做梦，导演也不是手术刀般的社会学家与批判家，真正的问题在于不如《小偷家族》一般，让人无处可感动。本质上剧本与视听语言呈现的问题，真正的电影问题，人物无法引起共情与理解，出了宋康昊精妙而细微演出泄气人生的演绎外，其他演员像是木偶，影像本身没有吸引力所以注意力就放在其他地方了。不过火车过洞以及关灯两场戏，在光与黑暗之下的剖白与安慰，依然大师级。
给《掮客》的五星，不如说是对宋康昊的告白。他真的太棒了，不仅仅是自然真实的演技，从艺那么多年，合作过那么多优秀的导演、演员，斩获大小奖那么多，还是忠武路三驾马车之一！可是他一丝油腻和匠气也无！我忽然很庆幸一直没有看《小偷家族》，才能把比较和期待降到最低来看这部电影。（裴斗娜的演技也好棒！另外希望中国的帅哥演员们看看姜东元，帅气有时候放一放，路才更宽）最后，其实不太明白为什么说是枝裕和离开日本就容易水土不服，《真相》也好《掮客》也罢，我恰恰觉得，他的风格，为他国电影带去了一种奇妙的化学反应。
没有比人类更恶的生物了，但也没有比人更能认知到自己恶的了。令人不适的幻泡温情和暴烈的毁灭，没有结论的问题，这次选后者吧。7.0
喜欢不起来，角色和角色之间都没啥火花，有看到说IU被台词膈应到而去找导演讨论的新闻，我想大概就是和裴斗娜争辩那场，说实在的那个台词也有膈应到我，还有最后酒店关灯那场戏是要干嘛……饼叔绝对值得拿戛纳影帝，但绝对不是凭这个片拿。
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