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".
两个豆瓣好友的恋爱故事 // “成为普通人真的好难”
哭得好惨。爱情在生活面前是多么苍白无力。这太让人心碎了。
没勇气试探爱情的存活率了 大家爱的都是多巴胺产生的回忆罢了
消费世代真的好pathetic啊（可是再过几年连前面的剧情都不会有了吧
摆脱学生思维，方方面面
是我的人生电影了朋友们，恋爱也好，社畜人生也好。跟电影里错过的展览一样，想起去年还在交往的时候讲过的，“要不是因为疫情，你可能早早就去日本了，那样的话根本不可能见到，也不会交往了吧哈哈哈。”虽然还是分手了，但是留下的回忆是不能忘记的吧。不过也不会遗憾和后悔，我们都在故事的中途呢
最后
“你挥一挥手，正好太阳刺进我眼睛，我终于没能听清你说的是不是再见~”二十年不见，如果哪天在街头遇到，会像他们这样背对背挥一挥手么？我想大概不会，毕竟隔了太久，面对面也是可以的。看这样的文艺电影就像在时空中不停照镜子，正如他们在分手那幕的隔桌小情侣身上看到自己的过去一样，我或我们一样能在他们身上看到二十年前的自己。也曾因为喜欢同一个作家或乐队或歌手就喜欢你（我），不喜欢一人一个耳塞影响立体声就买了一分二的转接口送我，嫌电影太短就专挑牯岭街这种4小时以上的看，想唱k就去钱柜通宵pk，想待久一点就从天坛走到地坛再一起走回来再坐车回去……花束般的恋爱其实是花束般的年纪，既然没有花开不败，自然也不会有永葆的恋爱或青春。分手不是不爱，也不是帆布鞋输给皮鞋或爱情输给面包，只是什么都敌不过生活，日复一日的生活
don't marry your soulmate
押井守
这编剧这导演是多么肤浅多么缺乏创造力啊，我认识的文青朋友故事的都比这电影有意思得多。
就算最后变成生活的俘虏，至少还有全景地图记录相爱的证据（但是我真的很向往主角之间百分百合拍的爱情）
分频线了解一下？别说一对情侣（一分二），两对情侣（一分四）都能用！～
两个豆瓣好友的恋爱故事 // “成为普通人真的好难”
在很多人都在唏嘘这个电影的时候有点不想看了，拖了很长时间才看完。什么叫百分百对象 ，并不是重复率高就是完美爱人，有摆脱不了的环境和环境的不断恶化，对，不会变更好，有一起经历各种天打雷劈的共同成长，对，没有人能维持现状。相爱的人都是从第一关开始，即使是重复率这么高的两个人也没有挺过第二关，换个人从第一关开始也还是一样，结果会不会有变化取决于得到成长或者失去耐心。
坂元裕二！！！（又見 蘇打x村花，剛好續命《短劇開始啦》😭😭） 開場的“錯位對話”和結尾的Google實景地圖，片中各種前後呼應的設計超有巧思。五年的戀愛 通過小細節和囈語的獨白 濃縮在2小時裡面 有甜有虐，不愧是《四重奏》的編+導組合😭 (看似寫的''戀愛''，其實也在說''寂寞''… 就像是一首歌的左聲道和右聲道，同時播放看似和諧，單獨聽起來卻又有著不同… 歌有一曲終了的時刻，花有由盛轉衰的那天… 英文片名''We Made a Beautiful Bouquet''，我們合力造過一束花，它曾經很美麗…
爱好相同＝爱情
导演过于偷懒了，爱情不是像对暗号一样对几本书、几首歌、几部电影，不过从毕业到初入社会的矛盾的展现，还是挺典型。
有村架纯的眼泪太动人了。爱情实在不是什么重要的事情，婚姻更不值一提，只有当中每时每刻的彼此，才是值得关心和理解的。
花朵凋落的时候，先是从边缘开始残破、变色，然后慢慢地直抵花芯，被空气、水分、阳光慢慢蚕食。盛开的时候越美，枯萎的过程就越不堪。无论曾是什么颜色的花朵，最后都会蜷缩成一道黑色的斑，花与花有着相同的终点，就像随处可见的恋爱一样。当然，还有一种让花朵永存的方法，是在它尚未枯萎时，便摘下来、风干、做成干花，虽然香味全无，但胜在大致的情形还在，并得以更久的延续，就像随处可见的婚姻一样。曾经沧海难为水，如果不肯降低标准的话，便只能游弋于对沧海的幻梦之中。人总有妥协的一天，但面对一些曾深爱的人与事时，哪怕错过，哪怕失去，都不能去妥协，因为有些人，珍惜到不能将就。
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