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".
至于为何香织（伊藤莎莉）会在2000年的第一天弃男主而去：要知道香织是很有想法的女孩。两人从一开始每一步都是女方主动的：见面的方式，去宾馆约会，租车出游...。虽然电影没有告诉我们是什么让香织下定决心弃男主而去，但显然香织否定了男主提出同居的建议。可能是觉得男主终不是她心目中可以结婚的对象。情侣分手多不是一个原因造成，但必有最后的一根稻草。
7分。和香织的回忆太美了，青涩的爱意在繁星点缀的夜空下蔓延。
电影以时间维度为切入点，通过倒序与正序的穿插来叙述男主的人生经历，并以第一视角，截取一段记忆中与重要人物发生关系的内容进行扩展，是一种碎片式的人生总结。既然是人生回溯，电影便充斥着回忆杀煽情，同一地点：转角遇到爱一般的旅馆，同一首歌：因佐藤健二而来的爱恋，同一句台词：“世界上80％的人…”“你没问题的，你很有趣”“果然很普通”贯穿始终，饱含日式究极恋物情结。而在人物塑造上，更是对丧系人物的趋同和模式化，男主佐藤20年来对工作的消极态度，每一任女朋友的人生喟叹，而他面对这些所表现出的仅仅是无声的情感，并且在最后万能的“日剧跑”闪回中消逝殆尽。影片叙事OK，即使在看过几部相似电影的情况下，已经很难get到惊喜，但它仍有着一种实打实的“丧而有力”，很INFP。
看着一步一步走向更糟不就是普通的我们吗，正因为如此不堪、未熟、幼稚造就了社会中的人渣，人渣是那种连垃圾处理站都无法分类残存在城市阴暗处的人，光线只是表面，因为永远接受不了起点和中途糟糕的自己，所以在原圈里拼命的奔跑找不到尽头。
過往遇到的人成為現在的你。
为什么长大之后就一定要成为那种模板化的大人呢？还是老道说得对，就zhei操行。
离别后才知道过去的美好，重逢后才知道现在的不堪。
破碎，是大人的日常。让男的接受自己的普通可太难了(´-ω-`)....只有普通的人才会嫌弃普通吧；和花束的可爱没法比，男人至死是少年～他确实谁也没爱过，活该单身，七濑说的一点儿都对。男主在年轻的时候就已经是所谓“大人”的模样了，接受一切社会既定规则，20年没变。反而前女友离开他选择真正的成长，在“普通”的环境中，做自己喜欢的事情，不去固化自己同时还能安慰他人，这才是大人该有的样子，很酷。另外，女性还在被迫用出卖身体换取生存，而这就是男主嫌弃的“普通”。
破碎，是大人的日常。让男的接受自己的普通可太难了(´-ω-`)....只有普通的人才会嫌弃普通吧；和花束的可爱没法比，男人至死是少年～他确实谁也没爱过，活该单身，七濑说的一点儿都对。男主在年轻的时候就已经是所谓“大人”的模样了，接受一切社会既定规则，20年没变。反而前女友离开他选择真正的成长，在“普通”的环境中，做自己喜欢的事情，不去固化自己同时还能安慰他人，这才是大人该有的样子，很酷。另外，女性还在被迫用出卖身体换取生存，而这就是男主嫌弃的“普通”。
日式颓废你以为我想看，本来就过上了。断断续续看完要改五星
很典型的日本爱情电影的那种别扭和自己较劲的调调，还挺好看的
回忆总是闪着光的，当不经意间的时间流逝得超乎想象的时候，那一个按下暂停的能让我们回头喘口气并且随着记忆翻滚的瞬间，依旧还是会将我们这些“无法成为大人的”的大人泪流满面。
比较有好感有关孤独的故事，所以如果不是特别难看，就会三星起步。此为前提。
日式小清新最喜欢的那种文艺片吧...人到中年开始怀念过去和初恋，电影动不动就像MV，再加上结尾的日剧跑冲向新生活和走马灯，真就是典中典了。当然俗套的东西虽多，电影还是有些新意的，导演在后半段逐渐克制了，画幅的缩小和镜头拉伸都比前半段要高级不少，全片多次出现的仰视拍法也挺有意思的，另外就是完全倒叙的叙事手法和不同时代的服装考据做的也不错。
一边看一边想：我的人生是从哪个分叉口走错的呢？
至于为何香织（伊藤莎莉）会在2000年的第一天弃男主而去：要知道香织是很有想法的女孩。两人从一开始每一步都是女方主动的：见面的方式，去宾馆约会，租车出游...。虽然电影没有告诉我们是什么让香织下定决心弃男主而去，但显然香织否定了男主提出同居的建议。可能是觉得男主终不是她心目中可以结婚的对象。情侣分手多不是一个原因造成，但必有最后的一根稻草。
涩谷神泉旁有宇宙星空夜幕5000 円的爱情旅馆 想去
男主眉宇间有些像葛优，in a good way.
高级的倒叙，开始即是结束，收尾呼应的真好。我们就是忘了在哪个时刻就放下了坚持，变得普通了起来，而那个觉得普通最棒的伴也突然消失不见，像做过一场梦，泪留在了枕头上。找到了片刻《火花》的感觉。
倒叙的片段，一幕一幕组成一个人的半生之旅。这一点也不是自己想要的人生，我们都成为了最普通的那个人。分别、遗憾、错过，以及心里无法过去的坎，在午夜空旷的城市街头里不断回荡。
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