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".
一众大咖的客串为影片增色不少，但是不知道为什么制片人勒布朗詹姆斯没出现，是因为《空中大灌篮2》太烂告别影坛了吗？
盛夏是指高考那个汗涔涔的夏天 而这就是最适合展望未来的年纪 你渴望好成绩他渴望爱情 青春嘛 向来都是不分错对。
没有堕胎、没有狗血剧情，今年看过最好的国产青春电影，没有之一。一个是无意间看到爸妈离婚协定故意考砸高考，另一个是因为避而不见的爱人而赌气没有参加高考，本来永不相交的两个人 因为女孩的一个早恋的谎言而被迫联系在了一起，像是被命运推了一把、他们突然出现在了彼此面前。郑宇星其实是一个和我很像的人。我突然想起高中的时候无意间看到了梁静茹《为我好》MV，MV的女主角和高中老师分开之后独自一个人在捷运上哭，有人问她为什么哭、要去哪里。她边哭边说，我要长大、我要去未来。“郑宇星，你说未来什么时候来啊？” “如果此时此刻，你喜欢的人也刚好喜欢你，那么现在就是未来。” 「其实我这么久放不下并不是非要她欠我一个解释，而是我接受不了他已经不喜欢我了的事实。我无法面对我们。」或许，我们都应该学会接受喜欢的人不喜欢自己。
我等吴磊弟弟长大等了这么多年，然后你让他下海！说好的BG天花板哪！😂 不过电影本身真的很好了，青春期的那点事儿可大可小。诚实勇敢，小时候学的美德其实哪有那么容易做到呢。觉得在侮辱女主的也是醉了，男主就算不是gay也一样不会喜欢上女主啊，喜欢不喜欢和取向并没有直接关系。
片子看了，很台湾的青春片，刻画深度略欠缺，后面有点画蛇添足，其实到三亚音乐节就可以了，后面诡异音乐BGM和叙事真没要。张子枫和吴磊都不错，剧情也还挺好，网上尬黑特别多不知道为什么，青春本来就充满不确定，反复横跳挺正常啊，都是过来人，不是甜蜜大圆满就不叫爱情片吗？
虽然理性上对电影的故事编排、拍摄制作有好些不太满意之处，但感性上却被某些有共鸣的情节触动而意外且久违地在影厅里大哭一场……个人的几个泪点：1.郑宇星向陈辰诉说自己失恋的“秘密”；2.郑宇星弹吉他、陈辰演唱五月天的《拥抱》；3.陈辰生日晚上与郑宇星吵架 (郑宇星打电话给 Ming，对方听出是他就挂断了)，而后两人和解互道心事；4.郑宇星与陈辰去电音节见Ming；5.郑宇星父亲生气地打了他；6.陈辰跟母亲说出了事实真相；……
延续了台湾青春片的清流气质，片名也致敬了《盛夏光年》。用真诚和勇敢构建起了内地近年最好的青春电影。没正经八百看过张子枫演戏，但是在这部里的表现实在是太自然了，让人刮目相看。和吴磊弹唱《拥抱》一段，甚至超越他们后来的一吻，有种即兴发挥的真实美好感。陈正道回归到了自己熟悉的领域，用丰盈的感情证明了徒有躯壳的《秘密访客》只是一个意外。想要传递信息没问题，前提是它得是好的作品，否则就变成了理念先行。
完全没想到近两年一直走下坡路的 Netflix 能发这么一部优秀的运动电影，比隔壁《King Richard》强到不知道哪里去了（可惜了大小威的传奇故事）。不看篮球如我都看得热血沸腾，后面 credit 看到一堆本人出演可想而知球迷会多激动。角色都超可爱，尤其是二男主 Bo 这个角色又闷又有激情虽然台词不多但非常饱满。剧情也在张弛有度跌宕起伏的同时没有恶意刁难也没有故意 drama，点到即止的相忘于江湖的克制看得非常舒服。唯一不满意的是结尾的高潮没有推到头，不够过瘾虎头蛇尾。
p.s.我发现很多人因为这片子营销bgcp“吃到假糖”而打低分……营销属实傻逼，不管是片方哪一块的决策，背后又有怎样的权衡和妥协。还好我观影前没有看到过它的官方宣传，还好我早就知道（察觉）男主是gay，不然我估计也要气死。
回头想，不谈其他维度，男主不喜欢女生的设定，给了全片一个确切的不会终成眷属的结局。一般爱情片无论主动被动，难免留下一个“还有可能”的留白，而像这样明确地杀死爱情，反而加固了电影关于“接受爱而不得”的表达，也让三年后的重逢有了更多成长的意义。
被高考阉割的青春，被现实阉割的同志，被父母阉割未来，盛夏，不仅是一个时间点，更是一个让人难以抬起头的节点，在这样的时间，如何拥有未来，就只能用一个意象的话来表达“拥有喜欢的人，就拥有未来”去电音节时，男主最喜爱的人被张贴在海报上，那与其映照的就是女主后来看向的方向，说是圆满结局自不为过，一起面对，且众望所归，说是阉割版的《蓝色大门》好像也可以，吴磊虽然演技不够到位，但整体角色的叙述感十分真实，再加上剧本细节的打磨，十分符合当下国情对于青春的定义，对于club的追求，对于网络的热衷，对于同意恋情的父母，对于辗转反侧的我们…（但大打折扣的是：nmd 那怎么男主上一秒还依依不舍，下一秒就变双了呢）+（我想问哪一个男人能拒绝吴磊啊？哪一个人啊？）
不过由于这部被爆出有隐晦BL成分，所以想要去一探究竟
没有像太多太多的国产青春片一样一定要选择那么激烈的故事、那么生猛的冲突，盛夏未来都是些小小的少年少女心事，很可贵。至于说欺骗观众感情，那就跟17岁张子枫强求初恋在一起一样，不成熟。某些粉丝为了避免电影被差评要强掰吴磊不是（），也属于莫名其妙。
陈正道算是找到了一个大陆市场可接受的方法来做个LGBT青春片，把ex作为麦格芬，完全模糊掉性别的问题再去讲青春，张子枫和吴磊放在这里都很适合这个角色。
在盛夏光年公映15周年 陈正道在内地院线审查制度大环境下再次拍了一部鼓励更诚实更勇敢的面对自己的电影 吴磊演这个角色非常适合
完全没有看不出还有那种隐喻，也许这就是代沟吧~6.5
没想到。吴磊弟弟，还有这样的一面。可1可0，真的可以。
这个项目的企划应该试图把各方人马都一网打尽，结果被剧透反噬。导演片段时而大胆有贡献，时而刻意而盲目，之前类型最精准的导演这次类型失衡，但片段对媒介的使用又有贡献，如果是陈可辛在就好了。张子枫一如既往稳，吴磊还不够
通俗但共情。接受即使乖乖学习考上985、211，未来却也平凡无趣的自己。接受理想世界爱情的纯粹，生活却很难。接受再“优秀”的我，爱的人也不爱我。
整体来说，还是挺潮的，最禁忌的体裁都碰了，一看就是奔着年轻人（可能还是未满18的那种）去的。但本人可能年纪大了，还是觉得挺尬，全程。
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