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".
Detroit Rock City + Ghost World + 皮克斯一如既往的合家欢，中国的印记在创作者眼中日渐丰满了起来，吃喝家居，还有那热心肠的七大姑八大姨，只是我不喜欢 4-Town，也不喜欢 Big Bang。
真的是可爱爆炸，谢谢Pixar. 超喜欢闺蜜们！但是说实话从包宝宝开始就不太喜欢导演的三观，不停强调华裔父母望子成龙的畸形三观是不是太陈腐了…看着有点儿不舒服。好像导演本人深受荼毒一有机会就大加控诉。
有想法，完成度也不错，但总体给我感觉像是在加拿大的广东人拍出的ABC成长故事。
妈妈熊好大啊哈哈哈哈哈，阿姨熊和外婆熊怎么也那么小哈哈哈哈哈，结尾太神了
一把年纪看coming of age还是被深深打动，大概那些抉择和蜕变的瞬间有太多共鸣。比喻的精准运用重回inside out的水平。中国文化的展现还是略显尴尬但是整个电影很有亚洲味，y2k元素也让人重回童年。
然后，都是女的~
皮克斯还是那么有深度，把中国式教育下的孩子刻画的太鲜活了…成长中每个人都曾叛逆过，但大部分人都封印了真实的自我，磨平棱角随波逐流是这里绝大多数人的真实写照。人云亦云的环境中我们也有特立独行的权利，脱下面具，勇敢地做回自己吧！
站在废墟上唱歌的爱豆！！😭😭
中国元素真实不虚浮，中式家庭的氛围和各类小细节也很能引起共鸣，但故事里的一些设定带有很明显的政治正确性，就稍有点没劲。几乎和电影主人公同龄，现在也是做妈妈的年纪，开始对母女关系有了更深刻的体悟，爱着反思着。
导演用情绪失控变身小熊猫指代生理期失控设定，变身只传女不传男，控制的方法则是放轻松，从朋友到最后家人都在激励着她。
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的确，应该反思的是为什么东亚文化下的母亲掌控欲那么普遍。没看之前我也没有反思过自己好像也是个妈宝女啊。看完和朋友交流的第一句还是我没有太多共鸣，我妈管不住我，我也没有和朋友好到一起追星；但是小熊猫可爱的，但是为什么是小熊猫啊？因为加拿大所以要搞个红的吗？但反过来想想真用大熊猫也过于标签化了。另外青春期的话题让我忍不住想起别扭的哈利波特5。电影里的老道士和爸爸虽然没有存在感但是让人看着非常介意。外婆真的好像潘虹。
延续了皮克斯原东家苹果公司的思路——新产品的秘诀是换壳。既然黑白色的功夫熊猫那么火，那就再在来一个！配合加拿大的枫叶红，整只红色熊猫，不会有人不喜欢吧？一只干脆面不过瘾，那就满屏干脆面jiong jiong跑。飞檐斗拱，祖先祠堂，道士法术，川菜竹林。标准件似的中国元素一锅拿下，这些只是卖相，无关紧要。关键是要做好故事核心。以女孩不再为了追求家人眼中的完美而违背心愿，最获得独立人格为主线，讲述了13岁小姑娘的成长。就这一点就足以让本片脱离低幼动画的范畴，这也是迪士尼高明或说鸡贼的地方。不过，拿中国妈妈，姥姥三代人来做丑角，虽最后和解，但也有点含沙射影，不太舒服。
这部皮克斯动画里面的中国文化元素依旧很浅显，做自己和家庭教育的主题，红色熊猫很萌，但是剧情给人的感觉很俗套
有点乱七八糟的 和预告片展示的像是两回事 但不得不说 红熊猫可真可爱 四城男孩的歌可真洗脑
居然有比疯狂原始人2雷霆狂花还搞笑的集体亮相，笑傻了woc。
看了讨论区后决定打四星 二极管丧尸们赶紧炸了吧
有可爱也有好笑也有时代和文化。但主线故事矛盾点真是让人捉摸不透，变熊猫就没有坏处啊，那可不就留着了么。｜20220401 和一个留学生姑娘聊过之后发现了理解小熊猫设定的新角度，也被她介绍的多伦多打动了。
预告比正片好看，相较于我的期待来说正片比较失望，没看之前看到超过8的评分，在想哇看来不会差，但看完之后再想，为什么居然能有8？？以中国传统文化为背景的想法很好，但剧情和表现形式稍微有点低龄化，内容也有点浅和散。不过和pixar相对比较常见的邪不胜正啊阖家欢乐啊的主题比起来，中国传统中子女与父母的关系更加复杂，所以这种压抑和反叛我们来看应该是更加感同身受的。不过话说回来，追星这点也很真实哈哈哈。整个片子最给分的是红熊猫真的好可爱！
对于文化的深刻反思，虽然熊猫那么可爱，却觉得如此沉重到要落泪的程度，我们终其一生都无法摆脱他人对自己的期待，尤其是亲人期待的目光，那用爱铸成的枷锁，片子还结合了另一个话题，如何面对我们自身的不完美，与自我和解。最近几年看皮克斯总有种命题作文的感觉，可能是想要表达的都太高大上了吧。其实结合得还蛮好的。
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