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".
“あんたが好きだった。でも私は先に大人になった。”
简单的故事，诚挚的感情，如《挪威的森林》的淡淡忧伤，不出意外，这会是我今年的院线观影最佳。
7、雖然但是，後勁非常大。悵然若失
想看：2012-01-02。 やっと終わったな。再给庵野至少半年，他应该能做得更完整……所有的角色都happy ending，至少在他们的人生中
立意没什么新奇之处，但胜在细节很动人，很好贯彻了坂元大神的编剧理念。
aromantic视角的胡说八道：要破除soulmate的迷思，只要意识到自己并没有多特别，一些自认为奇怪的想法和兴趣，其实很多人也是这么想的（所以那种遇到soulmate的欣喜本质上还是自恋 ？）；兴趣一致的人还是做朋友比较好，万一失去共同语言了自然会drift apart，不需要分手仪式……以及日本影视剧中好像真的很喜欢“眼看着别人走进你刚踩过的坑”这种桥段……
小娟: 第一次去他家的时候，他帮我吹干了头发呢，那天也下雨了呢那天的烤饭团🍙很好吃呢，在附近开面包店的那对老夫妻 如今怎样了呢？买到卫生纸🧻了吗？
还有比这更好的结局吗…大家都长大了啊，真好。我也算长大了。
20210629 1535 BC TW 不過不失 結局反而不錯
乱是真乱，神也是真神。EVA的内核，我觉得其实跟那些故弄玄虚的宗教啊救赎啊关系不大。这是一个高敏感少年的青春期精神崩溃自救指南，最终他（真嗣）戒断了恋母（绫波丽），完成了弑父(碇源堂），告别了第一次让他荷尔蒙喷涌的肉体初恋（明日香）和第一次让他心潮澎湃的精神初恋（薰），挺过了一次又一次精神崩溃（导致世界毁灭的“冲击”）……终于成长为一个每天挤电车上班的无聊大人，找了一个无聊的大胸美女为伴。唉，我还是更爱旧版Air/真心为你的那个结局。
糟糕的前期节奏，人物单薄冲突有如儿戏沦为剧情的提线木偶，父子和解十分生硬，清单式的救援使众人圆满结局缺乏说服力。就娱乐性而言机架打斗毫无张力，配乐质量只在临近结尾半小时才上线，过多出现的下体特写颇令人不适，胡言乱语般的设定也是很生无趣。整个电影系列竟只有照搬电视动画的部分能让人满意…
真是既搞了新意思，又照顾了老粉情绪，不仅所有主角都来一段总结陈词，连老TV版绫波丽叼面包片的喂屎结尾都做了成人社畜版的豪华升级，真是有心了。如果有《风花雪月》爱好者，看到最后武器的制造过程，应该心有戚戚。
4.5 心的冲击。等待我们的是无穷无尽的喃喃低语：一个从清醒到入睡,总在说话,聆听的声音；他又如何想象,被注入别种汁液的世界成为厌恶的虚空。血液被染得发白//这个最初与最后的人类：刺穿了腥臭的坟场。抵达没有未来的当下,只是成功地坠入海岸而已。如何回归在场？在这么多拙劣模仿白日的晦暗里。少年悲哀地发现：需要被迫接受成长。
月满则亏，水满则溢。说人话就是少折腾，做那么繁琐的设计特效为所谓大片“炫目”，是否圈钱已经到了你的骨头里，豆瓣9.2的分真是对整个EVA系列质量的不负责，你们是在给系列打分还是给这一部打分？
只看得出来他们是真的不想再拍下去了，而且这个借由回归老母亲怀抱最终与一切和解的结局，真是不能更加烂俗，一个标准的日式转向呢...一个时代的精神搏斗结束了，但下一代的叙事真的诞生了么？
我觉得我完全能接受这个结局，因为存在的就是好的，我已经接受了这一切。。。
5 碇源堂你都那么大岁数了…和几个十四岁少年一起解决心结(而且你还是问题最严重的那个…)你好意思吗？
2021.8.15 终于看完正片了，虽然真心话是老版yyds，新版emmm何必呢，但再也没有以后了😢
我本来一直没想关注，结果在日本的基友看完一个电话发过来给我骂了半小时的痞子，顺便全给我剧透完了……，嗨，痞子就一拍哥斯拉的，他懂个屁的EVA。
不愧是坂元，这么多俗套的桥段依然敢用，而且还用得很好，小道理讲得头头是道，太会玩细节了。相识相恋那段，文艺青年们看得拍大腿笑出眼泪吧。坂元说：“我的电影不是写给某一类人的，是写给某一个人的。”我就是他的某一个人，太吃他这套了，把我给看得哭抽了。看到押井守、遇到讨厌的上司刁难时的劝慰（后来再用一次时真扎心）。虽然感慨《短剧！》之后他们终于谈恋爱了，但是自始至终都觉得这两人不会走到结束。后来C说，因为村花的眼神和心态没有变化，从不爱到热恋之间看不到转变，所以会让人有他们不cp的感觉。但最后那场苏打哭得太有层次感了，而且两人也哭出了各自的立场和性格，两人演技都非常可以了。两人交叠的视角变化，共同述说同一段经历或者想法，交替上升的架构真是很好啊。
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