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".
想起「最好的时光」里的一段话：什么是最好的时光。 一种深情，一种意气风发，一种生活。人在其中想必浑然不察，犹对未来有所盼望，向前望的目光，即是往后所欠缺的。曾经有过，后来没有了。那曾经有过的就是最好的。 看到最后一刻的告别，当年的他们多年轻好看啊，现在老了脸上多了好多皱纹，但也还是年轻时候的心态，演员就是角色自己啊，你看Joey爱捉弄人的样子，歇斯底里却让人不讨厌的菲比，戏里戏外分不清感情的瑞秋和罗斯，对未来抱有美好期待的钱德勒和莫妮卡，太让人羡慕了。 原来有朋友陪在身边，欢喜与共，就是最好的时光，我们怀念的不过是年少轻狂的自己。
真好啊，各种名场面。The best way I can describe it is when the show is over,at a party or any kind of social gatherings,if one of us bump into each other,that was it,that was the end of the night,you just sat with the person,all night long, you apologized to the people you with,but they must understand you have met somebody special to you, you are gonna
对老设定的大幅修改让人一头雾水，华丽画面的反面是疲软的叙事，不过很明显庵野秀明这些年也逐渐放下了“故弄玄虚”的故事内核，TV原作中脆弱而别扭的红蓝黑三人组在相互的羁绊和各自的旅途中得到了成长，作为本系列的终结，这个结局也反映了一代老中二人梦醒时分回归社会的现实。
正在看Joey数楼找hot girl那集，三少甩了个链接过来。当年几乎每个大学宿舍都有一张压缩光盘，当时有个男生说：他们说看了几G，现在都是按码量走的吗？哪知现在真是按“流量”。虽然没有特别迷，二十年来这第二次看，但是梗基本都接得住。Joey年轻时候可真帅啊。以前觉得Phoebe长得奇怪，现在越看越漂亮。Matthew看起来没其他人那么开心。David说起讨厌猴子，还挺戳破幻象，立刻就是个叽歪的老外的感觉，不过他和Jen重读剧本那段真棒。看简介写“经过坚难的谈判和协商”才聚齐六人，看来真是我们入戏太深
20210530 温情与感动之外，片中最令人意外的或许是那一段讲述老友记在全球影响力的视频，配合NYT关于这部剧对于英语在全世界推广和影响的报道，完全可以将其看作是后冷战的第一个电视现代神话，它不仅提供了一套关于理想的城市生活的格式和语码，英语的标准口音，同时也将sitcom这种形式推广到世界各地——不仅规训着笑/幽默的发生，也将美国生活想象和显示为一个无阶级、无政治的永恒循环空间。
第一季时角色们的设定是24-26岁，现在过了那个年纪，才发觉那是人生最灿烂的最合适留下美好记忆的日子
每次碇真嗣两个小时里要颓废一个半小时的时候 我的内心都是 毁灭吧 世界。ps 我看不懂啊…
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Monica结尾时说，这是六个人最后一次在荧幕前重聚，以后不会再有这样的机会了。就有点感慨，这次重聚肯定也是花了好大力气做了很多工作，看得出节目组也是很用心在做特辑，花了很多心思在复刻场景、邀请嘉宾、表演节目上。Rachael还是一如既往的活泼咋呼，钱钱还是爱说冷笑话，Joey还是很诚恳坦率的大男孩性格……love u guys
希望《威尔和格蕾丝》《老爸老妈浪漫史》《摩登家庭》等剧组也学一下
告别eva,告别青春
太古典了，每一帧画面都那么古典，太好看了，无比丰富充实的细节，每一秒都是沉浸式的体验；父权与老人政治；“并不是只有你受伤了”，如果孤独的不只是你，那么孤独的你在理性上便不再孤独；这回是真的长大了，最后一镜转场竟一时分不清次元；绫波和另一个版本的“我”在一起了，明日香还是还是没有被选择，仿佛活在了另一个世界。归宿之人也同时出现在我的生活里，如同别人出现在绫波和明日香的生活中成为他们的归处一样；最后一幕的安排非常合理，意料之外情理之中，“不完美”的完美谢幕，拍出了我们大多数，谢谢
想起第一次和室友去上海的Central Perk咖啡馆 用店里的吉他弹唱Smelly Cat 还认识了老板Gunther和一群同样喜爱老友记的朋友们；
看得我好难过，还不如不看。演员是演员，那个世界是那个世界，不如就分开来独立地开。
内容啊，都是算计，评分啊，都是情怀。那我来当坏人😂
观旧版时和同样披着宗教外衣的《魔法少女小圆》比较，觉得各方面都远逊于后者。如今看完新版觉得主题最相似的其实是庵野秀明前老板同时期的《千与千寻》。和当年贫穷的制作相比新版的阵容无比奢华，每一幅画面都十分精良，而剧情却没太大的进步，粉丝向属性十分明显，仍未成为我认可的佳作
到头来还是在讲这个嘛……果然期待值不能拉太高
前半段强于后半段，终究没有前几部剧场版优秀。从二维到CG再到实景拍摄，次元壁的触角侵入现实，叩响共鸣之门。所有人都是自己的囚徒，障碍从来不是别人设置的，而是自己在不断竖立，放过自己，也是成全自己，不想后悔，就不要松手，执念是对的，同时也是原罪。虽然不是满意的结局，但还是再见了所有的EVA。
明日香和希波/葛城美里成了剧终集的主角，结局很喜欢，谁没有过少年时喜欢的绫波丽/明日香，但最后你可能会和希波在一起，这就是人生...
虽没有追完老友记，看到他们重聚坐一起，也是憋不住老泪纵横。
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