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".
最后灵魂飘向西北，数年后成了今年互联网顶流：理塘·丁真
已经有段时间没在皮克斯片子中感受到这种自然流动感了
《心灵奇旅》或应作《AI降生记》，谈论含千年数据的22，如何借人身体学习，最后成人。Jerry和Terry形似MacOS中的Finder，在数据世界中掌管一切，甚至可以控制人的死活。人类或许终将变成猫。
这两年的皮克斯已经沦为了甜蜜治愈的情感棉花糖，有一种90年代励志的光。但完全失去了inside out里bingbong消失时带给你仰面一拳泪如雨下的震撼感。我喜欢龇牙咧嘴却自恋的球球，也会被微小的细节打动。但很遗憾这个故事非要再给Joe一次机会，所以它没有更直接的把故事的核心说完：你用尽力气，放弃梦想，对爱有心无力，过不好平凡的一生。那也没什么。”
感慨于片尾说“我们想和BBC合作，这样没有限制可以更放手去做。”
看到中间一度以为是又一部《头脑特工队》，后来发现高概念只是浅层外壳，里面包裹着一个“公路”类型片，大叔+萝莉的组合以一种意想不到的方式走了一趟“人生”之旅，困于梦想和现实夹缝中的人和困于“人间不值得”理论的人，最终都明白了人生的真谛在于感受而非目标和结果。影片的治愈性在于真实的共情而非空洞的励志，非常愉快的观影过程。心灵之旅同时也是灵魂音乐之旅，感受到美妙的律动。PS: 灵魂学院的Jerry老师们长得也太像Finder图标了吧
感觉被灌了一碗毒鸡汤，汤里隐隐还有一丝丧的气息？看评论感觉我们看的不是一个片子，什么泪点反套路醍醐灌顶一丝都没有感受到，只能算作一个还不错的爆米花电影，大概人类的悲喜本不相通吧…
太治愈了，正是此时此刻所需要看的电影。不过投胎的时候看到那个灵魂直朝着中国冲下去，不禁为她的来生捏一把冷汗。
当你有了想活下去的感觉的时候，你就有了你的火花。
感谢盗梦的提前观影。独特不媚俗的故事，献给思考者和自省者。世界观设计延续inside out和coco的惊艳，故事在传统技巧和克制走心之间寻找平衡，个人感受并不煽情，毕竟这对主角的人物关系没有家庭或情人、隐性情人的普世化支撑， 还用了荣格和美钞这种梗做笑点，可能对市场不是太讨喜
非常适合人格型塑期的孩子看，让尚未直面人间苦难的他们知道人间值得。但对我这种年近四十的阿姨来说，电影回避了真正的人生问题和存在之惑，可以让人因叙事和技术处理而有所感动，却不会进入灵魂深处。
感谢盗梦的提前观影。独特不媚俗的故事，献给思考者和自省者。世界观设计延续inside out和coco的惊艳，故事在传统技巧和克制走心之间寻找平衡，个人感受并不煽情，毕竟这对主角的人物关系没有家庭或情人、隐性情人的普世化支撑， 还用了荣格和美钞这种梗做笑点，可能对市场不是太讨喜
一碗有诚意的心灵鸡汤，并不是只有闪闪发光才叫人生。
一次意外让追梦人Joe和厌世魂22产生交集，在一路的奇幻冒险中，他们互相提供前所未见的视角，改变了对方观看世界的方式。只要愿意，本片对银幕前的你也会产生同样的功效。作为一个自幼以兴趣为导向的人，却无缘在自己喜欢且擅长的领域挥洒热情和天分，遂觉此生注定碌碌无为，终日为那些虚无缥缈的“本该”而郁郁寡欢。一切都仿佛量身打造，简直就是我的本命电影！虽然影片所传递的道理一直存在于脑海之中，但由这样一部杰作将其从沉睡中唤醒的感受无以言表，那是真正意义上“灵魂”的共振。技术层面无可挑剔，人物在一虚一实两个空间中穿梭，现实场景以假乱真，虚拟世界天马行空，结合爵士&电子的区分性配乐，视听效果堪称完美。不煽情，但后劲十足。人生本无意义，皆为后天赋予。生命的“火花”在于生命本身，具备了感知美好的能力，便不枉人间这一遭。
跟《Inside Out》真是异曲同工的巧思和感动，结尾推高潮有点后继乏力，但全片仍然是笑中带泪发人深省。结尾彩蛋 Terry 说电影结束了叫大家回家有点心酸，毕竟许多观众们今年都说在家里看的。
从美学到表达都属于特定时期、特定班底的特殊产物，对于如今所谓的国产动画，其实没太大启示性。
感谢盗梦的提前观影。独特不媚俗的故事，献给思考者和自省者。世界观设计延续inside out和coco的惊艳，故事在传统技巧和克制走心之间寻找平衡，个人感受并不煽情，毕竟这对主角的人物关系没有家庭或情人、隐性情人的普世化支撑， 还用了荣格和美钞这种梗做笑点，可能对市场不是太讨喜
睡觉好电影。不过我好像已经过了这种说教的年纪。
在LFF。好像充满玄学但其实没说什么的故事，结论就是即使你找到了梦想工作其实还是一个社畜，没办法只能好好活着咯（x但还是赚足我眼泪。槭树果实飞落的那些秋天街头瞬间，22和妈妈对话瞬间，就像是我，突然想家。btw Jerry和Terry要是毕加索活着不会搞侵权吗……？
是真正的大道至简。
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