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".
社畜的我没法细细品味每一刻时光，鸡汤齁咸。
就感觉是cliche的集大成。以前也是憧憬和自己爱好相近的人谈恋爱的，现在会觉得爱好有什么用三观最重要。
当看到一对学生恋人走进餐厅，他们哭得汹涌，应该不是败给了现实，是直面了内心，坦诚，友善，成熟，自然。
这大概就是大部分正常人的爱情吧，如花束般
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。
比起一个人的寂寞，两个人的寂寞更让人难受
好一碗陈年浓鸡汤，内核已经无法打动我了，然而美丽的画面叹为观止，大银幕看体验太好了。
文艺青年能想到的最浪漫的爱情，在初识的雨夜奔跑，文艺爱好百分百合拍，告白后在红灯前拥吻，在出租房连续做爱一周，在有大阳台的房子同居，在新年参拜捡到一只猫，然后因为长时间的消耗和平分手，在旧地缅怀过去，还会在下雨时候想起你，像极了渴望爱又不相信爱的人们的幻想。
来车站的路上，一面看着电影，一面在停歇的空余瞄一眼这劫后余生的城市，太阳照常升起
3.5。皮克斯的技术和创意依旧无敌，这个主题也是我喜欢的，但鸡汤味太重，我已经无福消受了。
生命的意义，就是承认生命本生并没有意义的勇气
这是文艺青年向往的恋爱故事，但恐怕，现实中的你们只有后半段的矛盾，而没有前半段的甜蜜，更别提终末的释怀……
过了因爱好相同就想要走在一起的年纪，也觉得很多趣味是被建构出来的，再小众的趣味也能找到同好，因此影片开头那些甚至有点像堆积出来的巧合既让我觉得失真，又因为很容易能找到相似背后的现实逻辑而感到倦怠，我惴惴不安，像看到一个无止境的循环，因为爱好相同而在一起，要做的事情、要打卡的地方全都预料得到，然后热情被一些别的什么耗尽而后分开，那么下一份恋情还会和另一个人细数生活中的微小趣味吗？当两人步入社会，我突然明白以细节见长的坂元裕二在前半部分构建的巧合其实是虚晃一枪，他真正想要指向的还是工作对人的压抑和异化，这在日本社会尤甚。想到上世纪末日本记者斋藤茂男笔下的企业男性战性战士，今天也同样，卷入的状态要靠恋爱的终结这类大事件才能终止，人才有机会会停下来思考，恋爱有花期，谷歌地图的影像是一点延后的证明。
比起一个人的寂寞，两个人的寂寞更让人难受
如果女孩告诉男孩花的名字，男孩这辈子一旦看到那种花，就会想起那个女孩。最后家庭餐馆那场戏，还是绷不住哭了。明明白白的把电影当剧拍，但电影可以打星星，对自己曾经的生活，要怎么评价呢？不问花名。也不说花名。
大多数男性是这样的，但凡有着一些责任心，都会从怀揣梦想的文艺青年变成为了生活不得不屈服于现实的忙碌上班族。而大多数女性也是那样的，希望爱情永远存在于两人之间，很多年以后都一样，如果没有爱情，也不想步入婚姻。而经历了社会的各种毒打和洗礼后，我们终将认识到，快乐其实一直都是自己给的，包括那些极致的感动和浪漫。
把大多数人的恋爱全周期完整的还原了出来，探讨“没有感觉，还要不要一起生活下去”这个几乎每一对恋人都会面临的问题。好在细致，克制。但弊端也有，为了制造“天生一对”而设计的一个又一个穿着和喜好的巧合，在“四年之痒”后，又刻意让小麦变的死板生硬，不近人情。结局前，两人餐厅分手，又碰到跟他们当年几乎完全一样的，初入爱河傻气懵懂的小情侣，这才情感彻底爆发，这一切都稍显编排，自然没那么动人了。
这两位想必是一个论坛里的网友，类似豆瓣主页1000+共同爱好的那种。
SMAP解散了，蘑菇帝国活动休止了，麦和绢也分手了。前面有多甜，后面就有多虐。熟悉的漫画电影音乐，ktv里大家一起唱世终的rpg，Awesome City Club的客串。让人哭死的后半段，结尾的餐馆看到曾经相遇初的两人留下的眼泪，再次遇到时的背后挥手。决定告白和分手的时刻都是那么同步，再也回不去的一切。
我们还在大谈梦想理想的时候，皮克斯却又超脱的告诉我们，向往大海的你们本来就在大海里，只是自己不知道，原来人生的意义和高度不是你要去完成些什么，而是enjoy your everymoment，好好满足味蕾视觉嗅觉，吃好喝好拉好，像孩子一样对这个世界带着童真和好奇，快乐其实不需要升华～皮克斯你总是教会我成长呀
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