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".
我觉得片方放2022.2.22上这部电影真的太合适了，一个有趣的二货如何变成无聊的二货，其实就是工作嘛。在性格、兴趣爱好上重合度如此之高的两人在很多时候我更愿意看做是一个人的两个平行宇宙，他们的爱情本身对我而言停留在甜，而前半段磕完糖之后电影变成了一个少年如何维持爱好与工作，理想与现实的故事：女主选择爱好，男主选择工作，但无论选择什么，他们最终都离开了象征梦想生活的屋子。最大的无力感来源于男主在电影院几欲睡着，加完班玩起了消消乐，你知道他以前是多么喜爱看电影，又是多么讨厌甚至唾弃奶头乐游戏，但在社会的重压之下，如同被摄魂怪亲吻了一般，他的热爱也无法抵抗坠入无趣的沼泽。
年轻的时候就是会把书影音共同爱好一千，啊，不，五百，啊，不，两百以上的人当成灵魂伴侣
好一般啊，剧情一般，演技一般，音乐也一般，没有任何出彩的地方……不理解为什么这么高分……
过于写实，不喜欢男主，剧情一点也不好看，但我却哭得很凶。
过于写实，不喜欢男主，剧情一点也不好看，但我却哭得很凶。
昨天看《尼罗河上的惨案》，结论：有钱不要谈恋爱。
悬浮在半空不能降落的感情。以为是爱其实只是合拍罢了，而这种肤浅的合拍是经不起任何考验的。所有的细节都像报菜名一样刻意堆砌，在豆瓣评分如此之高可能是因为这里有很多想要去寻找镜子的人。即使导演想表达这种不成熟的爱无法走到尽头这也是一种非常偷懒的方式。今年看过的电影最烂top1。
看了黄油面包掉地上 我才发现这原来是个概率故事。和对方鞋子相同概率多大 和对方有同款书架概率多大 和对方有相差无几爱好的概率有多大 自己喜欢的人也喜欢自己 又有多大？后来啊被糟蹋了情趣全被挥霍尽了 想一起好好聊聊的概率剩多少？一起去买个炒面包的概率剩多少？能一起看个漫画舞台剧舞台剧剩多少？你还喜欢我我还喜欢你的概率 又剩多少？不知道他俩是被柴米油盐还是现实压垮了 我只知道我们努力活成自己喜欢的样子 永远不会错。
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
用一场分手治愈我的失恋。
开头耳机那段还是颇有趣味，但其实没看完，也无法看完，承受不了演员念旁白做为主要推动力的片子了，我是在看漫画吗？？？现在真的是一点受不了这种电影，去写小说不好吗？或者改漫画吧！真的那么压抑吗？都不肯好好演出来又或者这是传说中给本国人看的电影。欧美文化下的人看不下去……
恋爱是很容易的事，因为它建立在幻想和期望的基础上，不需要什么成本，当面临生活的考验时，幻想很快破灭，期望会成失望，自然会渐行渐远，若能经受住考验，情人成夫妻，恋爱成恩爱，终究不是同一个东西，所以不只是影片中的恋爱“如花束般”，而是所有的恋爱都是如此。不过片中还是给了年轻人些教训：应该先学着工作和生活，然后再想恋爱的事，不然即使你女朋友是有村架纯，也只能跟她提分手。
想及《四重奏》中卷和丈夫的那段交错独白，有人恋爱是为了成了家人，有人想一直沉溺在恋爱中，他们相爱但不喜欢彼此，因为他们始终是两个星球的人。
完全没有get到男女主之间的chemistry，“我喜欢XX”“哦我也喜欢XX”这种肤浅的对话并不会带来心动的感觉啊……
非常坂元裕二个人风格的作品，用漫不经心的对话和琐碎的行为来表现存在于日常中人的性格，人和人的关系。要说缺点的话过于工整了，不断呼应的台词，微笑带着甜蜜的分手，甚至菅田将晖转变。比起真实的恋爱更像一则寓言，但电影这个形式存在的意义也许正在于此。每个经历过相遇、相识、相知甚至相许的人看完可能都会长叹一声。没有什么是不会改变的，就好像小猫总会长大，时间更是治愈一切的良药。相识的那个深夜觉得彼此是如此合适，漫长的相处更会发现我们是如此不同。笑着抱抱说再见太奢侈了，但回忆里那些温暖的东西，总是可以支持今后的人生吧。嗯啊，开始是结束的开始又如何呢，相遇本身就是最美好的。
成为社畜要是连塞尔达和怪奇物语都要放弃的话，生活还有什么意思！[doge]
地铁里两人相遇只是挥一挥手，太让人心痛了。脑海被但已经晚了，已经不重要了的想法充斥着的时候真的是爱情已走到尽头。开心是真的，难过也是真的，我会记住一起美好的瞬间。餐厅的设计好绝。
我愿称之为“批判豆瓣学”的经典影像呈现：文艺青年要明白，共同的书影音再多，没有发自内心的珍爱、理解和沟通，爱情不过是彩云琉璃，光鲜却脆弱。
20岁看完：大哭，30岁看完：叹息，40岁看完：真矫情
别傻了，百分百契合的伴侣是不存在的。
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