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".
既然是开放关系的互为退路的替代，何必给个类似完满爱情结尾呢。关于青春荷尔蒙还是挺令人回味的。（没有tag第一记，真操蛋
丑男丑女也就算了，年龄差距也不是啥新鲜事儿，这种故事有什么可以拿出来演绎的，都是各种无聊的破事儿，所谓的创业就像儿戏。比《吸大麻的孩子》差出十条街。也就61岁的西恩·潘那场戏值得一看，库珀出来几分钟演了个啥。奥斯卡越来越三流。4
本质上还是青春爱情小品，放在了70年代好莱坞的大背景下，让一些伤痛小清新都裹上了Valley气质。未成年的小孩明星和成年不得意的女性，进行了一场两个多小时的爱情追逐，相伴或者闹变扭都像过家家一样，前两场奔跑的戏份是恰到好处，最后一场双向奔赴就添了几分刻意。我始终不看好女孩能忍耐男孩的幼稚到何时。至于PTA拿亚裔开涮这事儿，好莱坞不就这个德性么，zzzq不过是老白男掩耳盗铃罢了。
客观3.5，感情分4.5星。虽然豆瓣和友邻评分都只有6.8分，但我却看得超级享受。虽然故事很散，有时候自己也摸不着头脑这一段到底在讲啥，但片子一会儿看出了两小无猜、一会儿看出了春天不是读书天、一会儿看出了婚姻故事的感觉，既青春无敌又中年现实淋漓，过瘾。
2022年开年第一部看得超级开心的电影！要N刷
2.5 整体感觉是撒开手意淫青春爱情乱拍一气的混乱
我感觉很难有一部电影能让我这么无感.. 既不是烂片能让我讨厌，但是从头到尾又没有一点能打动我。I gained nothing.
太欢乐了哈哈哈哈，给意大利人当翻译那段简直一绝！！！
太爱70年代了，David Bowie bgm一出来瞬间泪目。我爱pre web2.0时代的热情，真挚，和所有包裹汗水泪水愤怒蓬勃steamy的人性。上世纪末的人，更像人，以前的爱情，更接近爱情。
7.5 1.像Phantom Thread一样拍点奇怪恋情，几个段落与蓝色的光稍微有点Punch-Drunk Love的浪漫，但故事和Inherent Vice与The Master一样松散冗长，你也不知道拍了这么多人这么多东西到底在干嘛，此外全是songs和running。2.Sean Penn的角色是William Holden？而Bradley Cooper是Kris Kristofferson？Alana Haim长相确实有股Barbra Streisand的味道，所以最终又是搞The Long Goodbye是吧。3.演职员一看：Philip Seymour Hoffman的儿子，Steven Spielberg的女儿……
这散漫的毫无章法的叙事，这起伏不定的心绪，这汹涌着的能量，无法形容，高敏感人群自然心领神会，几乎重现了punch-drunk love般的美妙，神奇的是，竟然走向一个传统rom-com式结局。PTA仿佛回到自己九十年代的创作状态，一种简单纯粹的电影之力贯穿全篇，留下众多令人捧腹的经典桥段和欢腾的青春体验，哈！也许真该好好恋爱一场了
就算包装成荒诞，我都多次不能理解这对主角脑子里究竟在想什么。
就看 credits 的姓氏完全是影人亲属大荟萃 2333 不过 Cooper 真的是很多状态都能联想到 Seymour 的往日神态 电话一端的踟蹰走神 现场推销的镇定自信 录像收音的尴尬不安 …… Soggy Bottom sounds like someone shit their pants 所以还是原名有趣呀 p.s. PTA 真的是近些年重看掉分最多的导演 血色 私恋 不羁 大师那些土而不自知的做作姿态此次竟然全消失了 取而代之的捕捉完全是不可能再有的只存在一瞬的时刻 能一举杀回前三的好作品
卡魯Schauburg 電影院，70 毫米弧幕。銀幕上有洛杉磯的 El Portal 電影院，橫幅上的《007你死我活》是1973年上映的，越戰末期，也符合第一次石油危機的年份。讓我震撼的是伊安弗萊明的名字，007原著系列作者——那是個電影能靠小說作者名字賣座的年代。
WTF？！今年Best Picture提名里最离谱的，说是白男视角的青春爱情小品都抬举它了，看到3/4的时候我已经生理性不适想要呕吐。难以想象这是拍《魅影缝匠》的PTA。
PTA的爱情狂奔。我的温冯道格玛年下爱大代餐。✨
PTA的作品對我一般偏晦澀，此片倒是出乎意料的輕鬆。幾近素人的男女主駕馭得相當不錯，聖費爾南多峽谷70年代的風情畫也是華麗、輕靈，又能有奇妙的代入感。最值得稱道的是内斂著的反文化話題，讓人眼前一亮。
笑还是能笑，但是无比做作的煽情桥段败光了所有喜剧元素的好感，太烂俗的起音乐慢镜头回忆煽情然而煽不动，就全场尴尬的太难受了，导演技巧太匮乏了，做部彻底的喜剧不行吗，非要生拉硬拽个情感转折人物弧光，强行升华个锤子
父母探班和第二重结局的煽情太烂了，片名太烂了，最后我喜欢雨中曲！
从翻拍的角度来说，是极其优秀的典范——在最大程度保留了原作的设定和名场面的同时，全方位的做了本土化的调整改编。与原作的沙雕帅哥杀手形象相比有很大改变，但处理的确实不错，电影内外的人物照应很感人。
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