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".
4.5，个人觉得这是这几年最好的皮克斯，几度热泪盈眶，概念和故事都特别好，它有生活，有城市，这不是一个孩子能够理解的动画电影，也拔高了迪士尼的深度，它的观众需要有过压力的生活，需要压力的工作，突然看完感觉生活多么的美好，一切被解构的很透彻，好好的爱生活的每一刻吧。美中不足的是跟爵士乐没能结合太深。十佳
非常刻意的把这部电影安排在2021.1.1去看，真的太正确了。非常喜欢这次的中文译名，无论是对电影本身，还是对观影者自身角度，都是一场名副其实的“心灵之旅”，感谢迪士尼，感谢皮克斯，我们的2021都会很美好的！
本片讲述了一个小女孩儿在接受了美式价值观的洗礼后投胎去青海的故事
从生之彼岸的出现开始就已经再也抑制不住内心的惊喜，小声呼吸唯恐下次便成了啜泣。我也不明白为什么自己能哭的和经历过什么大风大浪的社畜打工人一样。是因为太优秀了我想找茬：22一点都不讨人厌好嘛！
It's not earth, it's New York City in the fall, 或者《海街日记》中的镰仓。
制作水平特别高，动态太流畅了，真正实现了人物做一个动作时全身的微动态，尤其是爵士演出时，发丝细微处随节奏的颤抖超级到位，精致逼真到令人震惊。行业标杆，全世界赶去吧。算盘守门人的线条创意大赞！蓝紫荧光配色很年轻向了，C冷冷说：《怪物电力公司》，一查果真是同一导演。人物塑造也年轻，22真的很像我认识的很多年轻人：似乎对一切都难以保持兴趣，自身智商情商双高，有时也愿意配合你但无法真正投入到任何东西中去，精神缺乏主要支柱，轻微厌世，幽默可爱。这样一个人物其实具有很强当代性，是这个时代的典型形象——这样的人，能找到自己的“火花”都是幸运的。可惜故事总体太简单，就几场简单的追逐，层出不穷的小问题迎刃而解，即便如此还是哭了。喜欢那个全情投入的忘我精神世界的设定，原来突然没了灵感是被22恶作了啊！
喝下这碗鸡汤，哭着承认那些我钟爱的不是我的人生目标，而只是灵魂想活着那一瞬间的火花，还是那句老话seize the day吧。还是被看似梦想实现那一刻虚无地感到人生毫无变化的瞬间戳中，如果我们看待生活的方式没有变化，梦想和目标根本拯救不了我们。别执念，偶尔忘我，jazz一点活吧。生命的意义就是feel every moment。里面的曲子很美。用钢琴说话很美。小灵魂很可爱。
和Inside Out同一水平的作品，但个人失去了第一次看前者时的惊喜和感动。
没有预期般那么击中我，但是，必须承认这片拍的真厉害，过去了这么多年，皮克斯居然还在超越自己，用简单的故事去拓宽动画电影的深度和广度
要目送秋叶翩然归土，要为日落的绝美而泪目，也要因绿芽冒出土地而欣喜，对初升的朝阳跳跃欢呼。这些微末，也会令人觉得不虚此行、不枉一生。
好一部佛教大片，一个死后在中阴里等着转世投胎的灵魂，夺舍还阳后在一叶中觉悟菩提的故事，在皮克斯手里讲得共了全人类的情。人生真正的“火花”并非成功，而是生活本身，它在落叶在音乐在呼吸在棒棒糖中，一切都是恩赐，这便是“爵士”精神。比起《飞屋》和《头脑》更爱《soul》，在真实和想象力的交错中，充满了透达人心的智慧。最妙的是，最后22去了中国西藏。
可以排皮克斯动画里倒数前三名，命题作文即视感。没错，回忆那段我还是眼泪流了一下巴，但是在疫情肆虐的一年之后讨论平淡生活中的珍贵细节，谁不难过？
講了一個非常淺顯易懂甚至於過於簡單的道理。不能否認這個故事本身特別好，但如果能再慢一點，再展開一點就更完美了。
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE 从意境上说，无疑有皮克斯最美的一段montage，看哭了
我們所經歷的每個平常的日常，就是連續發生的奇跡
很多时候觉得自己碌碌无为的活着真的太没有意义了…谢谢皮克斯告诉我即使什么都不做 只要你还在感受着生命就是有意义的
还不错，很轻松，很典型的好莱坞剧本。但是idea还是棒的，新世界的规则我看第一遍没太看明白，对于新名词的阐释太过简单啦。遗憾是，jazz有点少了哈哈哈
就近期第一次着实地感受到电影中那种“可以影响人的一生”的力量，在通过电影中的阳光想起现实中的阳光时，生命的火花突然就又复现在眼前，以致看着看着不觉就流下了眼泪。果然还是想要幸福地活下去(唐突中二)！
我大概就是22本2了。但即便我能够看到很多生活的火花，依然觉得活着没什么意思。披萨的香味，落下的种子，我体验过了，又怎样呢？没有要追求的目标和意义，一切最终还是那么乏味。所以，完全无法被打动。
又名村上村树的平行人生，诺贝尔文学奖不是人生目标，享受爱爵士乐的人生就是找到了火花……（开玩笑……）
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