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".
对于小女孩的杀伤力巨大...对于成人....纯亲子活动。
结尾有点突然 除此以外完美 天才写剧本和普通导演写剧本就是不一样哈 不一样
很明显女主是PTA喜欢的类型，尤其开篇时间不是很长的长镜头，还有最开始背影走路的线条，简直太A了！ 回到故事，我是一点都不喜欢。有那么些别扭一直持续着。故事纯美式，资本主义人家15岁就会，真是不同。但只要PTA玩的开心就好，这绝对个人化的影片！
6.0 时代感还原得不错，爱情中那种试探、摩擦都比较自然
歌词：……但我知道我们只是品种不一样，没有兽角翅膀 我们一样会恐慌，所以忽略那些不同，我们来携手共赢…… 台词：现在我明白了，需要合在一起的并不是水晶，而是我们。我们能把失去的一切找回来，但是这都由我们决定。我们可以因为恐惧和不信任而分隔开，也可以选择友谊，选择爱，那才是真正的魔法。
I love it好久没看到这么流畅的故事，镜头的调度好美很有语言感，是可以看画面就能知道导演要表达的内容，特别棒。我又好讨厌这部戏的故事，它是这样的令人讨厌的真实和简单，简单的快乐，简单的生活如婊子的糟糕，我恨透了这样的内容，又好喜欢这部戏让我这么愉快的投入。
片中每个角色的面孔也太“真实”了吧，都可以看到每个痘痘和褶皱。不过我喜欢男主和女主互相奔向对方和手牵手一起奔跑的样子。
可能过了欣赏ado类型电影的年纪（叹气。 但是 I fucking love Alana Haim ! 以及返生菜单里的eric出来我人都笑趴下
在人人都追求市场、追逐数据的大环境下，还有人在用心的做电影、做动画电影，真挺感动！为你们鼓掌👏👏👏
粗鄙丑陋的一对男女磕磕绊绊的感情故事既不浪漫又不互相忠诚不明白这是爱情么。。。这是在演啥么呢
尽管久违的男女主角都不在我的审美上
很扎实，几处定格就把人物心理展露无遗，事情的转折看似什么都没讲，但呈现的结果已在情理之中，好笑又大条。
2022看的第一部电影就烂如斯。0分，什么**玩意儿。这电影到底在讲什么？故事有逻辑吗？出场人物间有什么关系吗？人物感情进展有迹可循吗？真是莫名其妙。浪费的不仅是票钱更是时间！
确实也没想到居然是带着奇怪俄狄浦斯情结的青春爱情故事
疯狂愚蠢的爱，PTA是恶补了多少日剧才拍出这么多奔跑桥段。
What a dream. Just a little bit self-indulgent as the nostalgic elements are given too much and too often，sometimes making the expression over the impression， and the instant sensation over the enduring feeling
剧本平庸得让我以为自己在看伍迪艾伦，这么讲究的摄影技法配上这么垃圾的故事，或者说专注雕虫小技必然剥离故事审美的能力，不管怎么说，导演真是糟践自己，也糟践观众。
3.5，PTA的电影总是独树一帜的，他总能用在小清新和变态之间存在的眩晕感迷惑观众，难得可贵的格局如此小的爱情故事居然在颁奖季收获这么多的提名，虽然个人不是很喜欢，但确实是去年值得一看的美国电影。
看到半夜 打车送我回家 第二天上班睡眠困乏但是一直开心
6/10。PTA的跟拍长镜头与人物状态完全同步，譬如开场加里试图约阿拉娜出来，或花俏喧闹的弹子机房场景，摄影机的游荡晃动从户外到室内，沉浸在旧时代玫瑰色滤镜中，但大量空白的剪辑和浅平的人物心理探索，使镜头技法失去了流动感的张力，历史文化的叙述（尼克松电视讲话和石油危机、无故拘捕男孩的警察）使主题的构成更加分裂。作为色情符号的水床指向了男权消费社会的肤浅势利：快速换过两任日本妻子的天皇餐馆老板，装模作样地用日语询问妻子对宣传文案的建议，炫耀摩托车的杰克将阿拉娜甩下后座，更有油腻的富翁乔恩教阿拉娜开卡车时强吻。少年加里就是这个过度成年化的色情社会的缩影，他以无神论为借口拒绝在阿拉娜父亲家的安息日餐桌上祈祷，又具有男性狡猾的一面，当他和阿拉娜躺在水床上忍耐手指去触摸的冲动，是爱情来临时已不敢相信的软弱。
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