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".
可能我最近有点问题，毫无波动看完。猫和爵士和声优们三星。其实当音乐老师和晚上在酒吧演奏冲突有很大吗
星期一，午场就卖出我这张票！于我而言完全超级享受！这是一部伟大的电影！与部分佛教思想相通，比如执念带来的痛苦无明，比如活在当下的生命意义等等。
工整的命题作文 口碑电影果然契合大众 still美国梦still现实主义still这套机制 规范 等级；我青春期or再小点会偏向写的 看的东西；22铁intp过于相似。不过此时我只想问，如果你也像22 完整经历过类似的一套模式内核，看到这种内容会感到尴尬无措/无奈/本能抗拒/缄默吗。对于所谓的存在危机 人难道只有0次或重复回溯自溺吗，可以超越那个1 创造新的+let it go吗 ？我选move forward，并且不想不会不必多言（另 爵士乐大法好
设定很有趣，沉浸在心流里就会进入另一个zone（甚至忽视生活中其他可贵的东西？），而执念太深就会迷失。生活本生就是生活的意义，重拾对生活的触觉是消解抑郁的方法之一。Been there, done that. 其中Ocean VS Water的说法不是第一次听到，但更有感触了，大概是老了。和昨天看的电影比起来，这才是it’s a wonderful life啊…Jazz加一星！
Spark不是purpose，是感受生命赐予你的每一分钟
反思自己。一无是处，但是努力活着。
生命最原初的事件是享受 享受天空享受阳光享受食物欣赏落叶享受交流 这种享受未必是列维纳斯式的 而是《柏林苍穹下》式的 在简单的热烈与欣喜面前 目的论链条有多可笑 卸下意义又有多宽慰；前段音乐使用好特别 在耳边不停敲打 仿佛要把人逼入那单一的目的论链条一样 因此音乐突然停止的瞬间其实很多情绪已经化开了 反倒后来两种生活态度的对照并没有带来那般触动；皮克斯的魔力在于柔软
在这部电影里面，以对话的形式向观众表达了“生活的意义”，还有“人生的目的”，太直白了，而且没有新意（或者直接点说“老套”？）╮（╯＿╰）╭
一个想探讨生命是否值得过的故事，只描绘了那些美的瞬间，而对生命的苦难却不置一词。
看过并没有太惊喜，这种找寻生命意义的片子还是最喜欢《电锯惊魂》，直接、有效、不矫情 :DDD 喜欢的部分：毕加索立体主义风格的量子集合大神、对达利的致敬、通过线条获得信息和转移自己的认真会计、无论怎样的世界都存在的灰色地带、在医院里用猫唤回垂死之人。（杜比音效。3D）
已经有两年没有落泪了，听到”我害怕我如果就这样死去，我这一生将一事无成”，看到棒棒糖，面包圈和针线盒组成的琴谱，与宇宙静默地共鸣那场景，哭得稀里哗啦，颤抖不止，Pixar是心灵与艺术的导师，堪称伟大，爵士精神说到底或许是接近激浪的理想，有一种艺术的面向是创造火花，无关目标，无关意义，指向的是照亮，所以没有完备性的批评，而肯定不同价值进行创造的可能（《新千年》便是一个例子），生活的每一瞬间都值得虔诚赞美并用心感鸣，为一片旋转下落玉兰花瓣而完整。像是河里的鱼儿，平时确凿太想赶往海了，目标与方向使人迷失，殊不知自己一直就在海里。小时候尝试了钢琴，绘画与写作，我的火花应该是文学，我也想去启发灵魂，用那一瞬的光静穆地照亮自己和他人。
very spiritual very new age and im not surprised ：）good to be alive.
回国以后很长一段时间无法对曾经生活在纽约的经历释怀 诚实地说我也以为达到某个目标 找到好的工作 完成什么壮举我的纽约经历才完整 我才能好好放手 但不是这样的 22在阳光下拿起那片秋叶的时候 我好像又穿越回跑着去metrograph的那个下午 阳光那么温暖 我突然意识到曾经的自己也还在血液里 奔跑去面试的我 赶地铁的我 对电影热情的我都在 那就是我最好的自己 活在海洋里的自己 i have being living after all and I will continue to do so. (抱着大花寻找soul
泰戈尔有诗：世界于你而言，毫无意义和目的，却又充满随心所欲的幻想，但又有谁知，也许就在这闷热令人疲倦的正午，那个陌生人，提着满篮奇妙的货物，路过你的门前，他响亮地叫卖着，你就会从朦胧中惊醒，走出房门，迎接命运的安排。说的就是这部电影吧，那么问题就在于，我觉得微微奇怪的是，平凡的火花应该是是一种“存在”的状态，剧作如果像是头脑特工队那样去寻找去探索去发现，则更加能说服我，但现在的剧作虽然成熟完美，实际用的是一种去求索去得到的论证方式，我觉得过于刻意。
通过死亡审视存在与生活的意义，不算太新颖的命题，而角色之间双向救赎，也是常见路数。但我依然叹服皮克斯的妙想，电影搭建了完整的前世来生体系，把常见的主题与架构讲出了新意。立体主义与CG动画结合，也很是清奇。
我单方面宣布Pete Docter是我soul mate，每一部都看得本人哭啊哭啊
立意并不新颖却非常符合我的美学。不要把整个人生押在一个目标上，因为你实现了它也就失去了它——除非你能像主角那样，重新发现被你错过的风和日煦、鸟语虫鸣。
为什么哭的这么惨，因为我就像22那么古怪，也没擅长的东西和人生目标，最大的爱好是看天看树看路人。局外人感觉这种生活没意义，身在其中时发现也挺不错。
头脑特工队和soul这两部异曲同工，是我为数不多皮克斯看不进去的动画，几乎都用了5遍以上试图让自己看进去。可能觉得大家活的太辛苦了吧，需要一口告诉你生活的意义就是没有意义的毒鸡汤。可这口鸡汤，我咽不下去。
没想到又是一部灵魂跟音乐相结合题材的动画，这回说实话硬伤相对之前一部要少点，但情感调动和音乐水准却要差一点。不过好歹比今年之前那一部要好。如今看来皮克斯的创作或许真遇到瓶颈了……
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