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".
故事太稀烂了。一个男人毫无背景也没啥特殊能力，两个soulmate爱他到死，两个学科大拿到死捧他，这才是人间奇事。
这是一个神经外科 神经干细胞研究方向 医学生打的四星 oct4 sox2 看的出来科研部分拍的很认真 就是严重违背医学伦理🙃
感觉前后两个故事，从去捷克开始就不一样故事，前面还觉得挺不错的，结果后面突然变得奇幻了……本来以为是演两个人分别成家立室各自面对生活难事，面对亲友死亡的思考，然后结果突然男主又扯上干细胞研究不老之谜。我以为是在教授之死后，让他们对生死看开了，但是突然女二就陷入了疯魔状态？干细胞研究得好好的，突然又去中东感悟生死？后面开始有点赶场式拍摄，仿佛割裂开来的故事线……不过这个电影的概念，还是蛮有意思，只是不拍得那么复杂，化繁为简更好了。
有想法，虽然口碑两极分化很严重，但是看完之后再思考一下好像也是通的，并不是单纯说爱情和男男女女那些事，也并不是延时症，干细胞等等的学术问题，只是借了这些东西在讨论人生和活着这样的大问题，这样想似乎就不是那么难以接受了
今天约会对象把我约到他家，我俩就全程看完这部电影诶🦦🦦🦦
文不对题的电影，故事很吸引我，虽然有些部分过于drama。王珞丹好适合这类角色，加一星给她！
非常王朔了，老派、可爱，90年代的浪漫。王传君的演技并没有惊艳到我，就是普通水准吧。另外就是旁白和长镜头太多了，没啥必要的。
主题之混乱
没有去影院看这部片子，真的是遗珠之憾。充满文艺片气息的娓娓道来，让你在不知不觉中度过了一次人生。关于爱情、人生、失去、错过、死亡，每个字眼都会让你思考良久。所有演员都表现出特别高的水准，女二李婷婷更是一句台词让人破防，王13多年不见竟然能演出原汁京味，太多惊喜让我评本片为2021年最佳国产影片，没有之一。
竟然还不错 就是太赶了 正好在读《和我们的女儿谈话 》 有很多贯穿的地方（死亡，父母，女儿…）
我大青岛简直美呆了！当家乡的宣传片看满分哦！导演抖音快手刷多了吧？拍个电影这么赶时间吗？天呐噜，从童年到青年到中年到老年，我管你是不是幻想意淫出来的桥段，你把科研工作者想象成阿甘我能理解，想象成岩井俊二我也忍了，最不能理解的是还想象成妄想家，这不是尊重科学，这是在白日做梦！不过该怎么说，青岛和干细胞宣传片做得还不错！值得鼓励！
前半段还是正常爱情片，后半段逐渐又飘又乱了起来，两段故事有点割裂，到后面角色动机也有点突兀，男主说惨也惨，但有一个青梅竹马最后回头，还有一个曾经爱过自己的“女儿”，又何尝不美呢？总体来讲拍的有点长了，有点啰嗦，大段关于生物学伦理以及“我生我自己”以及“记忆”的探讨很超前但可以再减。最后，离别才是真正的永远，有点小emo了。
每当看完这种探讨生命价值的电影，我都感觉特别孤独，那种感受用再华丽的词藻都无法准确分享和描述。就像和女人上床并不能真正解救孤独，因为无法找到精神共鸣的人而总是被强烈孤独感包围的我，因为对生活中诗意和艺术性的敏锐感知力并不能与他人共通的我，身处城市繁华，便如同置身荒漠，独自仰望文明的力量。
情绪到了，但是后半部分简直没收住，完全不知所云。
立意是很高，剧本够硬，但是被玩崩了。观影体验很复杂，前面以为是爱情片，后面又开始天马行空了医学系、摇滚、电影、干细胞……什么猛料都往里加，找不到重点，看起来就像一个传记电影。借用电影里的话，文艺电影有没有人看不重要。
原以为是本杰明巴顿奇事的本土化，意外得还可以。一段横贯60年的爱情故事，叙事效率很高，野心很大，走故事情节，人物情绪比较薄，台词京味儿浓很鲜活，但前后割裂感确实强，王传君就是艾德里安 布洛迪北京分迪，摄影机观察视点，最后奔战场行使使命那段配着连绵不断的旁边确实困，最后的煽情有点楞
短短两个小时，仿佛漫长的一生。
原以为是本杰明巴顿奇事的本土化，意外得还可以。一段横贯60年的爱情故事，叙事效率很高，野心很大，走故事情节，人物情绪比较薄，台词京味儿浓很鲜活，但前后割裂感确实强，王传君就是艾德里安 布洛迪北京分迪，摄影机观察视点，最后奔战场行使使命那段配着连绵不断的旁边确实困，最后的煽情有点楞
情节之俗套
矫情又俗套 就一青梅竹马分散再相遇走向不同命运的故事 这一过程男主不断面对身边人的死亡 父母到恩师到恩师女儿 所以也就顺理成章地套上了研究长生不老生物医学的外壳 慢速视觉导致男主和周围人的步伐节奏不一致 有点蛋炒饭的意思 苏换制服的选择从下雨天的草腥变成白酒 其实从这边开始男女主就没必要再纠缠了丁老他女儿在捷克接男主的那身打扮…求求国产电影别再致敬杀手不太冷了我真的会谢 另外我真的不懂后半段为什么要花那么多篇幅讲干细胞 爱情没说出个名堂又想探讨生死 绕了一圈最后得出结论 我无法留住我生命中的每个人 所以王朔这么久没动静就磨出这么个玩意儿？借电影里的一句话 您这商业电影可比作者电影烂多了
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