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".
我们为什么会走散…说好不走散的
被摩擦成社畜的文艺男➕活在自我精神世界里的文艺女=相见不如怀念、虽然不舍得但也过不下去的恋爱。简直是为豆瓣男女量身定制的迷影爱情小品。分手应该有的样子。
明白了！最大的收获是记住了之后去明大前的bar蹲押井守！
还是说一样的话，但全是关于分手
come to live.突然知道发疯的同事是怎么回事了（x）会计查账才是黑白无常。音乐好嗲，让人感到活着真好的瞬间还是日常。
-这简直就是我家书架的翻版啊
在经历两次幸存的2021第一天，被皮克斯温柔安抚了，去他的梦想目标励志成功，认真踏实地过每一天，享受每一个喜欢的时刻才是人生的意义！最好的部分是实现目标后并无预料的欣喜，我要继续看天空树叶，享受夏日微醺的晚风，品尝提拉米苏在唇齿间融化的口感，不再理会自己是不是个loser！
苏打进步惊人，真的太会哭了，而让叔也精准地演出了世故的爹味帅哥。影片在让叔的分量把握上是令人满意的，给多了就偏离中心了。但终究还是个剧集SP的体量而不是部大荧幕电影。论述某一世代的情感和精神状态，塞满了灵光一现的台词，但坂元裕二终究只是能被营销号截图的金句生产机本身，处在掉书袋的危险边缘的文本停留于表面上的年代元素罗列让他无法成为伍迪艾伦，而东一榔头西一棒槌的台词内容之虚浮又让他离侯麦差了十万八千里。他眼里的许多个状态都可以简化成碎片式的一个个瞬间，拼凑好了就是《最完美的离婚》，拼凑得不那么像回事就是本作了。但我实在是不懂，因为有共通点而在一起倒是能理解，但选择分开的理由未免太潦草，我无法被说服。毕竟影片极力烘托二位是遗世独立的霓虹文青，那早该懂得寂寞的本质了吧，不然天天那些书读哪去了…
爱情就像耳机听歌一样，不要一左一右拿来分享，这样两个人听的是完全不一样的曲调。在爱里，应该双方分别戴好自己的耳机，只要知道此刻眼前的这个人和我在听着同一首歌，类似于这样的陪伴就够了。不要求什么，只学会接受，把每一项馈赠当作生命中的惊喜来接受，并且有能力给对方同样的馈赠和同样的惊喜，不抱任何奢望，不做丝毫强迫。总之就是“自由”而已。
唯一的疑惑是，看习惯了名著的人是看不下去成功学的，无论自己多想暴富都是看不下去的，文青即使过得落魄也是放不下身段去看这种东西的
这个主题确实非常扎心，后劲很大，但本应该可以更好，结局还是潦草了些。
四星未满。哪有从头到尾都与自己完全合拍且步调一致的人？如果只因喜好完全相同而在一起，其实只是肤浅地爱上了镜像的自己而已吧。
曾经也有一份如电影般的五年恋情，也有不少细节段落特别有代入共鸣，但我依然认为从电影角度来说极其俗套普通。
餐厅分手那场戏太好哭了，我们看过爱情最好的模样，所以才知道不爱了是什么样子。生活里或许逃避可耻却有用，我们或许可以结婚，可以变成爸爸妈妈，拥有普通的，平凡的幸福；但不爱了，却如卡在喉咙的刺，骗不了自己。年轻时的恋爱像标签，读什么书，听什么歌，玩到一起就是真爱，兴趣爱好大过天，但对成年人来说，爱情不再只是休闲玩乐了，成长，经历，思考，责任，每一项都沉甸甸，看到最后才恍然大悟：男女主合拍的其实是标签，而不是人格和价值观。
idk…感觉男女主从最开始相遇到后面分手也没有真正的交流过。像报菜名一样罗列共同的兴趣爱好和经历，就可以作为陷入爱河的条件了吗？看完觉得很虚浮，也没有办法为这种不真挚的爱感动
3.5 其实是个糖瓶主义宣传片😂 另外有始有终的恋情也挺好的。这片最触动我的其实是这个社会怎么把有趣的年轻人糟践成平庸无趣的社畜的。以及在这样的社会里我们要怎么坚持自我怎么去反抗。还有那个“如果smap不解散两人也不会分手的台词”😭 至于男女主感情的结局感觉很自然，没结婚真是太好了，结婚才是大悲剧😂
人生不一定要有远大的目标，普通而平庸也可以活出自己的意义。
爱情就像鲜花一样，也有保质期，好像世间万物都是如此。
#皮克斯大法好# #皮克斯一生推# 非常期待也毫不失望，皮克斯再次自我突破探讨灵魂与生命。灵魂世界构建与具象化更是巧妙绝伦，配乐歌曲增色不少，配音演员很适合。剧情新颖，依然温馨搞笑，结尾感人泪目。世界还是美好的，生命处处有火花。（只恨傻X迪士尼只上流媒体，在澳洲无法在大荧幕欣赏……）
褪去爱情的外衣之后，此片呈现出的是社会机制对人的异化，在日本这样的社会，工作会给男性洗脑，再坚持一下忍耐一下几年之后就好了，所以他们离本真的自己越来越远。反倒是女性，因为天生的心灵感受，即便身处被异化的社会中，也能保持自己天然的感受性，和心灵靠近。
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