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".
4.5。虽然中后不免一些韩式煽情刻意的地方，不过故事还是很动人的，也确实适合黑白摄影。
顶着非正路的污名钻研万物百科的先学。
真神奇啊，文学性真喜欢。黑白质感也喜欢。虽然韩国电影的几种老毛病还有，但已经是看完有余味的作品了。
徐霞客也拍过，但水花都没有，其实可以参考《明朝那些事儿》来拍。
一个精通儒学的士大夫，决定在流放地搞西式科研救国；一个天然具备西学精神的渔民，决定用儒学实现王道的回归。所以两个人一拍即合，互相帮助；但三观不合，注定了这样的帮助只能令彼此渐行渐远。“中体西用”“尊孔复古”都救不了朝鲜人，这是二人共同的时代悲剧。这个道理中国高中生在课堂上都学过，但中国没有拍出这样的电影。
没有说教的教育片儿。人生感悟也好，生活见解也罢，平淡的叙事中呈现的是一种思想，什么样的人生是成功的人生？学习有目的吗，应该有目的吗，是什么目的？说得直白些，这部电影是导演书写的大写的“人”字。黑白色彩更加突出主旨思想的深邃、专注，感谢主配等一众演员奉献的生动、真切的表演。
一部鱼谱背后是社会百态，仕途、阶级、生物等等尽在其中
4.5/5 摄影审美极好，水墨山水。故事内核也有闪光点，亦值得我们思考。几位演员挑的也都不错。唯一的问题是套路化的剧本。
我其实觉得挺一般的，看的中间想到了《邮差》，不如。视点一开始是老丁，但不由自主的就变成了弟子。而且对于主题（意识形态？）的部分，导演也很含糊，不确定他想要传递的是什么（态度？思想？精神？）。
朝鲜半岛这片土地及在它上面繁育的民族千百年积累下来的自我矛盾、认同的冲撞、无解与挣扎在这部电影里尽数体现。
《兹山鱼谱》
千百年来，人性不曾改，政治也就不曾改，一代一代只是重复不是前进。自我与时代的对抗，虽注定失败，但却无比闪亮。因此，结尾才让人如此动容。要说，这部如诗如画浪漫理想主义作品也有缺点，即对于出世入世的讨论过于追求戏剧化。幸好，两位优秀的男演员撑住了两个人物。
导演说是预算不足才拍成黑白的…电影不错，但没有获取到新的内容
再一次为薛景求倾倒，太棒了，这就是我心目中苏氏三兄弟流放的样子，真心希望我们可以拍出这样的史诗。一部非常扎实的作品，黑白影像极有质感，最喜欢的是有很多生动有趣的情节，捕鱼、拜师、流放时期的爱情，以及兄弟间的通信更是感人肺腑。探讨了很多文化和观念碰撞，虽然都没有太深入，不过阻挡不了我给五星。
读书是为了什么？恭喜韩国人拍出了展现东亚士大夫心境最好的一部电影。
影片透过一个贱民青年求学入仕的幻想破灭历程，表现儒学思想与腐朽封建体系的矛盾，没落王朝的礼崩乐坏，和先进西学的作壁上观。但我对反思历史无趣，想看的就是黑山岛风物，昌大分享的捕鱼经验与见地，这些最本身的《兹山鱼谱》。但片子的黑白水墨色对这部分没有加成。
气死我了！这个黑白+古装+儒学这么好的背景，基督教异端儒家学者流放小岛，写下前世未有之鱼类百科全书这么好的题材，思想交汇、自然风光、历史感…竟然被处理成这样一味煽情，简单粗暴的烂俗故事，真是气死我了气死我了…
本身没什么新东西，有反思是挺不错的。做一个二元对立，出仕的士大夫写鱼谱躲进小楼成一统。好学的青年内心渴望的是功名利禄带来的价值认同。青年入世后，发现程朱理学选上的官员一个个酒色犬马鱼肉百姓。故事确实对程朱理学和儒家文化反思是最棒的，封建统治阶级和儒家文化的合谋，把世世代代的读书人困在科举里，这本身就有很大的悲剧在，但还有人想参与这样的悲剧都没有资格，那就是贱民。很多人说想到苏轼，觉得我们也该拍这样的电影，可我们如果拍，除了不断的歌颂苏轼的才华和豁达，无限神话苏轼这个我们认为中国有史以来最完美的士大夫才子形象，我们会在其中反思，是什么导致了苏轼一次次被贬，我们会有批判和反思吗？而不是一味的歌颂神话苏轼去自嗨，去给自己自我精神投射。也许，苏轼本人并不那么开心，也没那么豁达，都不过是无奈之举罢了。
缺的应该不是口号，也不是钱吧？
一部有着古装电影的充分野心，但却没端住的现代片，片中除了薛景求之外几乎所有人的表演都充满了现代类型片的痕迹，善良的热心的狡猾的市井的，你可以在其他很多商业片中找到精确匹配的角色模板，同时强事件且套路的情节设计也消减了作为历史题材的沉稳，昌大难道只有到了官场才知道其黑暗吗？跟若铨呆了那么久一点都没学到？同时配乐的使用有些过，黑白影像只停留在于形式，最后的蓝鸟更是刻意到让人出戏。总体观感比较失望。
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