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".
#Toho 算是冲着坂元裕二去的，果然还是旁白电影，导演的字幕地位还不如脚本，哈哈哈哈哈哈。作为曾经在调布附近居住过的学生，还真是挺有内味的，剧本上还是挺喜欢这个很实在的学生和打工人的变化，最后也讨论了恋爱的初心如何继续保持到结婚？可以么？永恒话题，两个人的相处方式…伤感了… 缺点就是，旁白太多了，巧合太多了^_^
感觉是十年前豆瓣恋爱小组认识的两个人，后来男的工作太忙，不上豆瓣了。
观影习惯导致「刻意越轴」日渐失效的情况下，分手戏的越轴还是格外惹眼，山音一番不堪的言辞之后，再推到仿佛二人曾经的场景，这种对映属于直接捅泪腺啊。
一个人哭的爱情是陌生，两个人哭的爱情是新生
在男女主角沐浴在阳光中猜拳决定小猫咪的归属时忽然大哭，如此快乐的一刻，当我们仿佛回到彼此“喜欢”的模样时，愈发确定着爱情的消逝。坂元对于那些爱情发生的时刻与那些珍贵的必须自处的时刻，都太懂了！
其实从电影的开头，我就在等他们的分手。
有人会长大，有人不会，剩下的人都是孤独的。
兴趣只是相互了解的一种方式，兴趣相投不是稳定关系的必要条件。当然，年轻时兴趣几乎是可控时间的全部，爱好相同的话一同度过共同的时间建立亲密关系会更容易一些，但也往往会产生以为心灵合二为一并能够持续到永远的错觉吧……走入社会后，兴趣不可能是生活的重心，柴米油盐、生活习惯、价值观、未来的计划等等都是更重要的事。恋爱如同花束，美丽但终究会枯萎，不过只要拥有过也是很幸运的一件事，反正对我来说他们那几年最美好的时光是我不敢奢求的。我从本质上大概还是一个现实主义者吧，我不会相信永恒、不会对热情的生命抱有期待、也不认为存在双方都不用妥协的亲密关系，生活本就是不断用回忆抵抗失望的过程，曾经拥有比完全没有要好上太多，这样想的话……或许能够装出一幅微笑并心怀祝福地告别的样子吧……
找了那么可爱的两个人儿来演，
恋爱的感觉不过是因为刚在一起所以愚蠢的头脑把我们情绪放大化的结果。
“那个想法跟我一模一样的人”
二人一开始越是“世另我”，当节奏出现偏差就越难接受。幸好在疫情lockdown前分手了，不然关系会更窒息。
日影有时还真是一把温柔杀人刀——以为受尽青春片洗礼早就铁石心肠的我，在结尾一幕还是破防了——曾经感慨过一段感情里那么多生活化的情景，要怎么才能不露痕迹不显造作的搬上银幕，能做到这一点的导演和演员真的凤毛麟角，所谓文艺片的“文艺”气质其实大都也来自于此——而这样浓烈寓于平凡、浪漫又充满实感的好电影，总以为有很多但实际真的稀有啊！两小时而已，却感谢不已，感动不已。// PS. 让叔资深打酱油专业户doge
四星半。虽然说之前受到了不良公众文标题的影响，植入了初始印象，还是从一开始就能感受到这束花、这个店的命运。坂元大神的脚本这次之于我的作用是：让我从一开始觉得毫不可惜的间离感慢慢过渡到有一点点共情，并在过程中体会到细腻的分析和清晰的成长线。
坂元裕二很会让每一代普通青年找到共鸣，《四重奏》就是，文艺事业和感情都不行，那就保持现状地混着。这部直接是豆瓣文艺青年的《前任3》，文青是跟某些自己喜欢的调调恋爱，跟自己都可以恋起来，而文艺事业半途而废，就是对才华不够的认命
结尾哭得不行了。隔壁少男少女就像是他们的曾经。分手后三个月像最好的朋友那样相处。彻底分开后还会想对方看了什么书会有怎样的想法。细节都好真实，押井守真人出演押井守，就连《宝石之国》《黄金神威》等等都对上了，太戳我了。两个O型只要没有金钱压力，就特别好，但是如果有金钱上的担忧就是不适合走入婚姻。
做文青就是理想，变社畜就叫现实？大家都是二极管吗？
毕业后男主爸爸断了生活费，男主被迫工作，回家把不顺心发泄在俩人之间。家境女主好点就觉得工作不必那么拼。被社会一锤没空聊文艺了，男主还死活要结婚，最终女主坚持分手的故事。挺常见的。
鲜花敌不过时间会枯萎，爱情败给了现实会被杀，但还是要对盛开的日子说一声“谢谢”。全片唯一的缺点就是，这俩真的是养猫的人吗，不封窗还整天大敞落地窗？
前一半拍的很美好，但是最后的分手真的有点逻辑不顺，男主因为工作压力大，暂时变的功利了，但明明经过沟通已经重新理解彼此，重新变的合拍，为什么一定执着要分手呢，爱是这么不值得被坚持吗？爱情非得一直停留在高峰体验，一点波折都不能有吗？
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