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".
导演一直使用倒叙的手法会产生很有趣的一种观感——突然出现一个角色，但我并不知道这个人是谁和主角是什么关系，会在电影逐渐进行中慢慢清晰。在一个平淡的电影中这样的情绪起伏也很好地带动了我的观影体验。对于主题，看到最后森山未来奔跑起来后的那段戏很棒，墙的两侧画着箭头，写着未来，他好像一直朝着未来奔跑，最终却看到过去。虽然我们每个人的时间都在不断向前，但很可能我们终其一生都会回望过去。
曾经，我也想变成特别的那个人，但是在时光流转中，我变成了那个芸芸众生中，忘记了自己到底想要什么的，迷茫的普通人。
我所有的漫不经心，孤独时刻都随着时间回溯，无法逃避的来到那个我最爱的你的身边，我深深的沉沦在那些谈论你，遇见你的时光里，事到如今好像只有我还在这些情绪的漩涡里循环往复，就算无法长大，但我好像也不普通了。
后面回顾短暂的片段的时候还是哭了，成为一个正常的人多幸运又悲哀
仿佛花束般的恋爱+桃花期混杂。
日系《薄荷糖》，临近片尾镜头中出现了东京奥运会的旗子和涂鸦在柱子上的汉字“未来”
倒叙确实让这部电影不那么普通了起来 过往人生啊过往人生 无数的碎片构成了现在的我们 "我在高兴时 会觉得很难过"
无目的地的公路旅行谁不想拥有呢，只是那个人在哪里？一事无成的中年人碎碎念，是不是终究会成为一个普通人，还是能让那些“文字”成佛，成为“大人”。趁着不普通的时候好好的不普通下去。
挺好，没有生离死别，只有聚聚散散，平淡中有冲动。看着看着，莫名其妙，想起李安的《冰风暴》。
有的人光活著就已經耗盡全身氣力了,出社會後原本寄望有著閃閃發光的人生但到頭來卻是活的一團糟
心理学家有个名词叫玫瑰色追忆 指的是人们对过去的评价会比现在积极、正面得多。而且人们会把一些细小的、令人愉快的细节，回想得比实际经历更加美好。其实当下也许是最好的时刻，试着感恩现在的一切小事就不会再拘泥于过去。
新年第一部五星。。。我们都成了普通的大人。。。
过普通的生活，承担普通的生活日常，日复一日中长成大人的模样。就是生命本来的样子吧
你们这些骗人的短评，舌灿莲花，个个都比正片好看
当人到中年，回首过往，每段经历都令人唏嘘。不管拥有多丧或者多愤怒的青春，最终都只能不可避免地成为无聊的大人。伊藤莎莉虽然外形不够出色，但灵气十足，引入注目。
近年隔一阵子就出来一部用怀旧表达人生迷茫的中年危机电影，这部里的各种要素实在是太烂熟太套路化了（
日本此类的“丧文学”真是太多了，但并不是部部都能够像《火花》那样可以直击灵魂，大多都是这种隔靴搔痒，讲了一些东西，又像是什么都没讲。
他骑摩托车摔倒在马路边的时候，陌生人开车路过，用自己的手帕暂时给他处理了伤口。那一段对于那天晚上的他来说，应该是很重要的“被关怀”的瞬间了。
还一直在感谢摄影和制片。
我们都无法成为大人
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