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".
生活的意义就是生活本身。不一定非要实现梦想/找到人生的意义之类之类，活在当下感受每个小确幸也是美好的人生。审美拯救平庸的日常。（想起一句话：怎么过一天，怎么过一生）
哪里是短剧，这种扁平的伪soulmate写得实在讽刺，别拿共好数量来对标爱情浓度，完美无瑕的镜像人格当时有无感觉到刻意呢。消费堆砌起来的同甘是回甘，现实里不能共苦是捱苦。互相隔绝声音的那一幕酸涩至极，是体会到了对方替自己着想的心情了吗？还是体会到了以后依然不开心呢？对的爱情里快乐是不需要努力的，而这份对可能也有期限吧。
一、现在电影灌人生理想的鸡汤是否就只能想到搞音乐？搞音乐就只能想到爵士乐？是的说的就是你们，寻梦环游记、爱乐之城，三个我都一毛钱没被感动到。我已经厌倦了「音乐理想=浪漫情怀」（反之初等教育/金融=庸碌无为/丢失灵魂）的东方主义式想象，事实是搞音乐首先必须有高天赋，其次是极其、极其艰苦的练习，是PRACTICE，不是说漂亮话。
看点依旧是坂元充满孤僻、神经质和可爱的生活细节。但故事显然已经失去了对爱情的热情与憧憬，直接用死亡和绝望作为感情的底色，但这又与那种哀伤的隽永大相径庭。恋人设定是魔幻般的——一个不用任何努力，就完全和自己相通的另外一个灵魂伴侣，仿佛是对生活无情的嘲弄。走完用清新爱意装点的过场，再用残酷的现实将爱消磨。"爱情"就像娇弱的花朵，被"沮丧"消了音，只能毫无反抗的静静盛开和凋零。这种人造美，失去了生命本真的热力，绽放的绚烂，那些本该有的华彩魅力与深刻意义。
买了上午场的票，结果整个放映厅只有我和另一个女生，她穿着很日系的大衣，坐在我的正前方，我们就这样一起看完了这部电影。散场的时候她突然回头问我：“你会给这部电影打几颗星？”于是我决定，如果在今天的影评发现她，我就关注她。
书影音没法支撑恋爱，建议豆瓣把该片挂在开屏。
主题馊鸡汤，无非是“享受平凡人生”什么什么的。故事很梗人：追求梦想的男主莫名其妙就挂了，凭什么？形象不讨喜：非得弄个黑人才显得你们悲悯博爱？逻辑很突兀：从未体验过地球人生的灵魂，怎么可能控制那副身体？无聊。
c.这部片子好就好在，告诉了没谈过恋爱的人，谈恋爱的所有步骤。如何相识→如何相恋→如何同居→如何吵架→如何厌倦→如何分手。不好也不好在，这是电影，不是《恋爱过程展示模板》。
想談論現實中的戀愛或戀愛的現實，卻生硬地將同步率推高到造假，又或者說明了你不過是非主流中的主流，要找個與你志趣相投的人其實不難，只是在一個人年輕的時候生活圈子不夠廣，又太渴望理解和肯定。個人從不看好建基於共同點的戀愛。想有人把自己的想法覆唸一遍給自己聽，你渴望的不是透過相異和衝突去理解他者、從而成長，你要的只是自我的迴音。而你和他人的所謂我，一直在變。沒法適應轉變的東西全部都會消亡（即使能拖延），戀愛如是，天下間大部分的東西也一樣。作為三十多歲而不相信婚姻的人了，其實覺得菅田將暉是個值得走下去的對象。另一個不滿是男女主角直白的畫外音把拍不好拍不到的東西懶惰地直接言表出來。最大的不滿是，感受到這個劇組對貓咪是沒有愛的～
这个社会正在把喜欢的男孩子变成赚钱的工具人，喜欢的女孩子变成生育机器和家庭保姆。
#电影晶选 「花束般的恋爱」苏打和村花完美示范了恋爱最好的开始和结束的方式，很喜欢两个人从不同角度表达的内心独白，自然舒服又很有代入感，凭实力碾压一众声嘶力竭的国产青春片。坂元裕二是最会讲爱情故事的日本编剧，用两个人的鞋暗示爱情的开始和结束，以及分手时的两个人看到“那时的我们”唏嘘痛哭的部分都太妙了。
开头有多甜，中间就有多苦，结尾就有多酸涩～人不是因为喜欢相同的东西才喜欢上彼此的，而是因为注定就会喜欢上对方的两个人，会通过各自喜爱之物发现彼此而已～本片另一个重要启示在于结婚率的降低，很大程度源于女性自主意识的觉醒，比起结婚，她们现在更想要的是幸福。
连续刷了两遍，是2020的最后一部与2021的第一部
-我准备和它聊聊，但已经晚了
忙起来还是会吵架啊
看这部的时候反而没有关注爱情，我看见的是吞噬感。这部蛮适合刚上班一两年的人来看。苏打那个角色，又让我想到非常痛苦的工作的第一年。幻灭，工作挤占了全部的精力，好不容易有了休息时间，手机却时不时地响动，而就算无人打扰也再不能集中精力去看一部电影一本书，太累了，累得只能玩玩消消乐。这就是吞噬，麦被吞噬了，顺应了，妥协了。而绢不想被吞噬，不想妥协。绢是天真的，绢的人生是理想的，因为大多数人最终依然是被吞噬。但我想要成为绢，而不是麦。所以我开始努力找回我失去的东西。
文艺的人都是感情丰沛的人，而感情丰沛的人注定永远孤独。
一开场俩人就说着坂元标志性打比方台词，我心中警铃大作心想不是吧不是吧一个角色这样说话就够了这回一下来俩？还好后面台词正常了好多。分手戏很重要但拖太长了，街景地图梗很可爱。没想到，村花演技蛮好的哎！但是，这个同步率谈什么恋爱啊？组织已经决定了下次第七使徒来你俩开EVA保护世界去吧。
有共鸣当然也会有疏离。当彼此关注点都在共鸣时，疏离就悄悄靠近了。太极是也，阴中有阳，阳中有阴。
讲人生的难以同步，用了一个谷歌地图的梗。恋爱就像两个人牵手前行，同样的方向同样的步频那属于万里挑一。有的人像公务员一样同契约耗完一生，有的人则勇敢说不。
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