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".
几乎把动画的优点都展现了出来，但画面有多好，剧情就有多差，流水线作品，毫无逻辑
女主的表演真的是“表演”，每一个反应动作都经过精心的计算和安排，毫无可信度，相反几位中年演员的表演反而更吸睛。台词处理上也有很大的问题。虽然可能是有导演的经历在？但是还是有很多地方非常地“假”。 看到现在忍不住再加一句....Amour不是那么好拍的
有些刻意以及科学上其实有些说不过去...内容不及片名。
品鉴一部作品，要看感觉，无论剧情制作配乐还是人物塑造，都是为了服务“感觉”这一点。这部作品带给我的感觉是很微妙的浪漫和感动，我觉得这就够了。
有些刻意以及科学上其实有些说不过去...内容不及片名。
顶级的制作，拉垮的剧本，还要我3块钱付费观看。国家队败北
#3rd HIFF# 展映-万象中国。前3rd平遥WIP+4th平遥观众奖。7分还是4星鼓励一下。老夫妇俩还挺不错的，导演的长镜头设计是很下了一番功夫，室内调度很有些罗马尼亚电影的味道（[雪山之家]这种小空间长对话脉络上的），高中教室那个场景估计是导演得意之作了。片尾那个费里尼+塔尔科夫斯基式的梦境其实有点蛇足。好奇的是，这个片子明明是个东愁式的工厂退休职工的指向，底却是个颓败乡村。以及，实话说女主角如果能cast到赵涛老师就完美了。
优缺点都太明显了。挺喜欢临近结尾的那个“阴间”长镜头。如果下一部剧作上能摆脱老气，终归可期。©第二届附近映像季。
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55/100 #ParisIFF# 视角太多变，演员不自然，后半段又过于苦情，一些长镜头不知是为何，虚幻梦境的段落多半不太凑效，对比一下《慕伶一鸣伟明》真是又克制又聪明，哈内克？哈内克 my ass
一个浪漫却很老套无聊的故事。
某导演的mv动画电影是垃圾，模仿垃圾的作品也只能是垃圾，白白浪费了人生宝贵的100分钟，还不如多看几集小新。
作画，分镜，演出都没什么太大问题，霸权社正常水平，因为设定是跑酷，看的时候最大感想是“哇没有立体机动装置居然也那么能跑”。虚渊玄是问题最大的那个，感觉像在摆烂，剧情无聊就算了，好歹是个boy meets girl的故事，咋男女主感情戏都那么尴尬。。小畑健的人设这次不知道为什么有点土，尤其是男女主两个人。。说到男主，找志尊淳来配音绝对是一大败笔，听得我昏昏欲睡。。
画面好看，但有些特写镜头也仿佛看到了很古早的国内少男少女读物的封面插画风格，非常违和，同时故事空洞到的让人哈欠连天。
看到编剧是老虚，强烈怀疑他是欠了钱不情愿接了个活儿。恰完饭，一边剔牙一边扔给制作方一本《安徒生童话》，然后找富奸打麻将去了。躺平症状出现了人传人现象？身怀大爱的人鱼姬故事，女主的天降设定老套的牙都掉了，男主撑不起剧情的情绪。三颗星给丝滑的作画和分镜，看着爽就完了。适合做成MV。不过泡泡上身这种画面对密集恐惧症颇为不友好。气愤……
一个半小时的内容，竟然没有一个画面或者一句台词能打动到我，好土的剧情，好俗套的展开，没头没尾，连天气之子都比这个好看，大失所望。结尾足球小子笑喷。
画面五颗星，音乐四星半，剧情负八星，加在一起四舍五入一颗星
后半部分比前半部分处理的好，也舒服很多，虽有不足，但依旧是大陆华语电影需要的新力量，是可以被更多人看到的影像内容。
生命的旅程永远孤独，爱人也只是暂陪孤岛一小段路的泡泡。
和父母有关的段落非常真实动人
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