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".
在wb上的资源看的。第一次kiss的BGM让我想起在bkk的变装皇后也是表演的这首歌，分别也是。至少看完对这个群体有了新的认识。
自以为在网络上找到了一个相爱的美女，他俩感情怎么产生的也没怎么铺垫，就抛弃父亲 妹妹 工作和对朋友的承诺去找她，好像有点不切实际。找到本人以后就变成了比较套路化的同影，这种程度我感觉也没办法互相救赎。。 @2022-01-20 22:47:42
他们把最温柔和最真实的自己给了彼此。看起来暴力勇武的那个却泣不成声，纤细瘦弱的那个反而勇敢到令人心疼。爱是从你身上我找回了自己，是可以在紧紧相拥后笑着说分离。
其实一直很难喜欢上这种慢节奏的拍摄方式和大量的沉默。也许是还太年轻的原因，又或许是因为被压抑的太久，总觉得轰轰烈烈的、疯狂至极的才是自己最向往的生活。
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抓走了小狼妈妈，美其名曰为了繁育，真是可恶。把动物抓进马戏团同样可恶
狼与狮子的友情故事～动物最想要的应该还是不被打扰，追求天性和自由吧！
用拉满的光影效果讲了一部互相加深自我认识的故事
死神永生。全片基调悲凉，叙事手法并不新鲜。不算爱情片，少有讽刺，倒是丁老和他女儿这两个角色塑造得相当饱满，反观主角鲁和苏，他们的人生经历飘渺如烟，除了一声叹息还是一声叹息（王啸坤快认不出了💦💦
男主算熊系吗，看久了有点帅。直男爱上伪娘的故事。
剧情过于单薄，败笔就在于两人的感情基础没拍出来，直接就去找她，还喜欢得不得了，这剧情就太突兀了，后边的真相，冲突，和解，我非常的不能共情。
网恋被骗的故事，大部分时间都在描述无用的信息，也不知道主题到底要讲什么，人物转变也无迹可寻。
怎么才能遇到这种痴情男人，千里迢迢去找真爱发现是男的，但是后面也想通了，接受了他。片尾曲好凄凉的感觉
她好漂亮，真的。另外，导演真的好会调色，两人在夜晚的相遇和发廊归还裙子，场景如梦似幻。
我最喜欢晒太阳的那一段，太美了。整个电影的色调和音乐都很棒，但是剧情有事吗？
故事的逻辑有点不切实际，相遇和真相的过程则庸常琐碎，好在结尾的告别与分离把一个逃离、另一个隐瞒的两个心灵和解揉捏在一起，又让他们带着彼此的烙印继续踏上生活的旅程，音乐响起、巴士启程的瞬间有点动容。
前半部分是青春疼痛片，后半部分是医疗奇幻片。《不老奇事》套的是《本杰明·巴顿奇事》的外衣，讲的是回不去的过往：人可以延缓衰老，视觉可以比动作慢半拍，但该死的不会存活，该忘的也不会记住，该跌倒的也不会躲过去。结尾的长镜头是中年男性对过往的幻梦，可惜最终等来的不过是爱人的遗忘。文艺范儿是有的，但割裂感和匠气还是很难让人打起精神。有时候真的在想：人老了，就该去死啊，活着，怀念过往，自己不觉痛苦吗？所以，不老才是可怕的：想死死不了，想活又活得不如以往滋润。好难呀！
丹尼尔和莎拉亲热后对峙那场戏，莎拉有种惊人的心碎之美。风吹乱了她的头发，我痴痴地看着屏幕，呆了。
节奏很慢，一开始不知所云，只是在描述两个人的生活，后来的寻找到见面，误会离开又重逢再分别，有点韵味吧也算，挺有趣的组织方式
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