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".
我看完无言以对，这基本上就是我的上一段感情了。难道说爱情真的只能在学生时代发生吗？文青必定要遭到社会的毒打吗？哎，想你，我们经历了那么多，也是因为共同的兴趣爱好在一起，我还记得是通过《霍乱时期的爱情》跟你告白，读《晚期资本主义的文化逻辑》跟你汇报我的读书成果，你是我在那时唯一遇到的能交流的人。之后又去了很多的城市，哎。。。。学生时期的爱情是多么美好呀
一开始的相似是命运还是假象是错觉？所以女孩有告诉男孩花的名字吗？相爱过，谢谢，回忆全是美好，但却走不下去了。分手的时候看到曾经的我们，一如既往，是否结局也是循环往复？是否爱情注定没有永远？如那自杀的博主所说：“开始，是结束的开始”？如果有一天我们变陌生了，那重新认识可以吗？
我在庸庸碌碌的生活中丢失了你，也丢失了自己。这部影片似乎是在说，爱情消失的时候，或许不必过分悲伤，毕竟这才是生活的常态。可我还是哭得不行，真是可恨呀……想起婚姻故事中的那句，“我依然爱你，可是我的爱已不再有意义”。
不懂日本人，在我看来这些内容都太浅显了。比起爱好一致我更喜欢思维同步的感觉，即使爱好完全不同灵魂也可以对话。而爱好即便完全一致，也不一定就有共同语言啊。但作者似乎还停留在“一定要找到一个懂我所有爱好的人”那个阶段。其实即便你俩人都喜欢数码宝贝也不一定就能思维互通诶。另外，旁白是干嘛呢？担心观众看不懂吗？其实有很多伴侣没有经历过生活与工作上分离，感情依然会消失。因为人本来就会变的，跟其他外在因素没有直接关系。这个故事太像初中生写的了。不过他俩ktv里唱的那首歌好好听，我循环爆！
前面各种发糖。心想着哪怕是坂元裕二写的本子，用了这么多新海诚式的男女煽情旁白，也不会再被这种文艺青年的小清新恋爱打动了吧。但看到最后他们笑着哭着拥抱在一起、背对着对方互相挥手，还是有些泪目的。人世间的事情莫过于此：用一个瞬间来喜欢一样东西，然后用多年的时间来慢慢拷问自己为什么会喜欢这样东西。//2022.2.22正月廿二星期二于影院二刷！坂元笔下的东京真是个令人爱恨交加的城市啊，在这里能看到赤名莉香的笑容，和押井守聊音乐，也能见证苏打和村花这一段如花盛开到凋零的恋情。被大屏幕的村花每一个小眼神精准击中。
长大之后，我不再期待剧情的反转。因为不能反转，才是大多数的结局。
不，我不想。我不爱人。
豆瓣特供……坂元裕二近期的创作好像越来越偷懒，沉溺在自己的某种趣味里面，丧失了《最完美的离婚》时期那种蓬勃的生命力……
“文艺青年，我才不会被打动。谁和我看一样的书，我马上逃跑💨”
恋爱是很容易的事，因为它建立在幻想和期望的基础上，不需要什么成本，当面临生活的考验时，幻想很快破灭，期望会成失望，自然会渐行渐远，若能经受住考验，情人成夫妻，恋爱成恩爱，终究不是同一个东西，所以不只是影片中的恋爱“如花束般”，而是所有的恋爱都是如此。不过片中还是给了年轻人些教训：应该先学着工作和生活，然后再想恋爱的事，不然即使你女朋友是有村架纯，也只能跟她提分手。
为备胎的他俩，最终为自己勇敢走到一起，甜蜜
坂元裕二！！！（又見 蘇打x村花，剛好續命《短劇開始啦》😭😭） 開場的“錯位對話”和結尾的Google實景地圖，片中各種前後呼應的設計超有巧思。五年的戀愛 通過小細節和囈語的獨白 濃縮在2小時裡面 有甜有虐，不愧是《四重奏》的編+導組合😭 (看似寫的''戀愛''，其實也在說''寂寞''… 就像是一首歌的左聲道和右聲道，同時播放看似和諧，單獨聽起來卻又有著不同… 歌有一曲終了的時刻，花有由盛轉衰的那天… 英文片名''We Made a Beautiful Bouquet''，我們合力造過一束花，它曾經很美麗…
With彬彬，电影挺流畅的，就，唉，前面的小女生哭的稀里哗啦，虽然最后也流下了一些金鱼的眼泪，内心波澜却不大。此刻我突然意识到，已经是一个终极异化的老阿姨了。
恋爱是很容易的事，因为它建立在幻想和期望的基础上，不需要什么成本，当面临生活的考验时，幻想很快破灭，期望会成失望，自然会渐行渐远，若能经受住考验，情人成夫妻，恋爱成恩爱，终究不是同一个东西，所以不只是影片中的恋爱“如花束般”，而是所有的恋爱都是如此。不过片中还是给了年轻人些教训：应该先学着工作和生活，然后再想恋爱的事，不然即使你女朋友是有村架纯，也只能跟她提分手。
两个人的书影音只是追潮流罢了，并没有养成自己真正的taste，也不能充作个人身份的一部分，所以爱情开始的基础是“暂时的共同兴趣”，而兴趣的热情是很容易转移和退却的。爱情枯萎的宿命，都始于缺乏沟通的技术和意愿。
两人都努力仍然不会走到最后
don't marry your soulmate
开头那堪比奇迹的ピッタリ同步率和命运的邂逅让我直呼ダサい！やすっ！太过理想甚至有点虚假的美好让我嗤之以鼻。尽管如此看到中间逐渐现实的走向让我狠狠地流下了泪水。最过于真实的，就是男生明明是为了「日々の現状維持を目標に」做足了牺牲和努力的觉悟，却没想到这个想让俩人永远在一起的意图却引领两人各走各的路、慢慢走分了叉——同步率下降了，以前让俩人相互靠近的共同爱好也慢慢消失了。人生好戏谑啊，留下的只有在テンション高いころ、最高潮时的快乐不会再回来的，“比起一个人寂寞更加难受的、两个人的寂寞”。两人想分手，想要开口但又迟迟开不了口的犹豫和不舍，和话到了嘴边又变成了“我不想分手”的那种难过我都好懂。「恋愛は生もの」そういうことなんだよ。
跟世界上第二个自己恋爱 幸福曾经很强烈 抵不过社畜的现实 到头来自己还是自己 短剧开始了后传
二人一开始越是“世另我”，当节奏出现偏差就越难接受。幸好在疫情lockdown前分手了，不然关系会更窒息。
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