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".
普通是唯一的终点，啊哈，我在电影里看到了堕落天使的海报了，在日本叫天使的泪～
《我們都無法成為大人》雖然用小沢健二貫穿了整個故事，本來以為從小沢第一張專輯，到男主坐在車上聽到《彗星》已經算非常大的淚點了。沒想到整個收尾壓軸選的是堀込泰行個人項目“馬の骨”的《燃え殻》，實在是神來之筆！太惆悵了！
就是跌跌撞撞迷迷惘惘成了普通的大孩子。身体内，那些尚未成佛的词语也将成为，普通的我们的一部分，终生。
如果我也度过了很棒的一天，会很想被困在那一天。
“无论现在大家抱着怎样的想法过活，都希望可以肯定自己的现在”
或许长大就是在一次次告诉自己普通最好，又不愿意甘于普通，又忘不了自己人生相遇的人吧。
落幕黑屏后还是沉浸在震惊中，故事的其中终点的最后，这就是你我
“如果我过了非常棒的一天，我也想一直被困在那一天。”光辉璀璨的青春时光，因为太年轻，人生的困顿与艰难还没有将希望磨灭，心中还有光，眼睛还能够清澈的看向世界，也正因为太过于耀眼，以至于此后的时光黯淡成灰。嘲笑别人太过于普通的青春，与时光过尽后终于变成普通的现在，中间包含着记忆中永不变老的年少恋人和并不想要长大的自己。
为啥要给伊藤纱莉胸部这么久的特写..而且这个电影是如何做到2个小时只向观众传输了大概1个小时电影的信息量的。要不是拍摄还比较精良，大概只值3分了。
从导演角度来说，景别极其尴尬。摄影一股廉价的棚味儿，下雨那场内景简直了，很难让人信服。
前面平到三星的观感，但色调好看，女主可爱，末段也骤然升华了。
这个年纪+看过小说，让我看片的时候心情更复杂。
影片叙事节奏缓慢，采用倒叙插叙结合叙事，通过男主视角通过他的回忆，通过与三任女友的回忆故事，主要还是初恋以及后来第二个酒吧认识的女生，让我们了解到他。
社畜落泪，太多场景能共情了。
一个普通的大叔，活到中年，一切都没有什么起色，就这么日复一日地过下去。曾经年少的他，也有过爱情，有过梦想，有过期待。最终，梦想消散开去，生活变得庸常平淡乃至有点乏味。我们不都是这么生活在这个城市里面的吗？听起来很丧，但生活就是如此。我们以为自己抓住过机会，以为自己有伟大美好的未来，希冀时代可以带给自己跃迁的可能。夜晚的东京塔很美，但也会有熄灭的那一刻，遗憾，一直在发生。如果追上20年前的自己，一切是否就会变得更加好起来……
很喜欢，即使是讲述“回忆”这样老旧的话题，那种细腻温柔的味道很对，和初恋第一次见面的羞涩，第一次被表白的惊喜，还有各种模样的东京街道……或许我也还没成为大人吧
我个人非常喜欢这类电影，怀念里面东京的每一个街景，
这片是有一定人生阅历的人才会看懂看进去 感觉默默的看完一个真实世界的人的大半生 跟若干人的相遇 生命的交织 重叠 分叉 又再重逢或结束 有满足也有遗憾 很感动又很悲伤 整个片十分细腻自然 最后不点题其实主旨都很明显了 我们都无法成为大人 但慢慢的 默默的 我们就是大人 自己在这个年龄感同身受 最后面计程车的真的太棒了 加上配乐拳拳到肉 泪流满脸 男主的演技很厉害 演高中生演社会新人到演职场老手都毫无违和感 东出昌大也有突破不过现实还是渣 导演厉害 这么多角色都交代的清清楚楚 产生的交际选择的故事也很有趣 用这种跳跃的时间线也跟一般的日式鸡汤片拉开距离 拍出一种看散文的感觉 跟着导演的思绪走看完一个有生命力的故事也是一种幸福 谢谢netflix不仅投商业片。
能够感到森导演作为一个年轻的新生代导演，非常的谦虚。
喜欢的叙事风格，宛如抽丝剥茧。也喜欢这种颓废致郁的感觉，生活便是如此，我们终究还是会成为大人。「君の身体にも成仏してない言葉が詰まってるよ」
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