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".
非常适合人格型塑期的孩子看，让尚未直面人间苦难的他们知道人间值得。但对我这种年近四十的阿姨来说，电影回避了真正的人生问题和存在之惑，可以让人因叙事和技术处理而有所感动，却不会进入灵魂深处。
袁公被抓走时对蛋生说“你要好自为之啊”，在修复版看到片尾剧本文字描述场景:白云弥漫，天地苍苍。非常震撼，很正统的中国美。
看完这部肯定了：皮克斯的编剧绝壁是要求系统修习心理学的，他们最擅长的就是把已经老掉牙到往往令人们视而不见的常识转述成一个娓娓动听的童话。
太好哭了！此片献给悲惨的2020，也献给所有热爱过生活又对生活失望过的朋友！如果说灵魂世界概念的设定是A级，那么最后一波波关于生活中那些曾活过，曾绽放过的花火细节的情感冲击绝对是S级的！一定要去影院看，看完感觉自己又可以与残酷的人生再战500年！
也不是特別好，挺老套的，但當Joe把棒糖、披薩邊、線圈、碎麵包和黃葉在鋼琴上一字排開的時候，突然就哭得稀裡嘩啦。生活不是一個目標，生活是每一分鐘。
这是皮克斯近年来表达水准最高的电影，它在宏观与微观层面完美的表达令人惊叹。爵士是属于灵魂的音乐，皮克斯用这个点稳稳把握住了影片的节奏，将一个偌大的哲学命题用生活中最小的细节去阐述。最后那一段近乎满分的蒙太奇将情绪彻底释放，会感叹生活是多么的美好。
电影还好，豆瓣的一个高赞短评恶心到我了。说看到22投胎的地方貌似中国，它忍不住要在电影院里大喊“快跑“。那请问投胎到哪里合适呢？
就记得小时候看过，再一看，果然看过。美术很中国，故事也很中国，连那夸张的动作都很中国。再看的感受是，怎么会这么蠢呢？怎么会这样，怎么会那样，骗小孩差不多。一想，现实里难道不就是这样吗？现在不会有这种动画片了吧。
发现平时生活状态或者心态都比较平稳的朋友都没太被这部电影戳到，对我来说简直就是去年一整年的心态写照，在电影院哇哇大哭。不是皮克斯最厉害的电影，但是是最符合2020的电影。
皮克斯yyds♥️
或许收集生活里各种美好的、低成本便可获得的小事，就是在把自己当成这世界的游客，而不带目的地、不寻求意义的旅行，其实最容易在路上发现惊喜。
都去看吧，一部能治愈你2020所有的不开心
《天书奇谭》改编自明代罗贯中、冯梦龙的长篇神魔小说《平妖传》中部分章节，保留了狐狸精的片段，把担子和尚改成小孩蛋生，并重新创作了剧本，很多情节可以在中国传统民间故事里找到。
三星半。费尽千言，不如活过一回。电影尽心用画面捕捉了心灵意象世界的神采，指出平庸人生的症结，生活细微之美，铺开很多引人走向真理的隐喻之路。令人热血之余却总缺乏助人抗衡真实痛苦的力量……到底他们的心灵如何蒙尘，是什么让他们在拥有的时候变得盲目，让热爱变成荒野上的恶灵，我们该如何面对那些挥之不去的恐惧，解救蜷缩在黑暗中哭泣的孩子？这旅程只是一个开始。
有被煽到，但想想觉得前半段比后半段好。最喜欢的段落是那个基金经理突然想通！（感觉这一部的主题已经就是我这一年的人生哲学本身了，又觉得正中我心，又觉得哎是不是少点什么
【A+】传统意义上的完美电影，年度之作。彼特·道格特在此片里重现了《头脑特工队》里将概念具象化的能力，而整体效果也确实更接近《头脑特工队》与《美食总动员》，无时不刻强调地域性的表达（绝对的“纽约电影”）。「杰瑞」是全片最为亮眼的艺术设定，线条构成二维生命，随之闯入三维空间，是维度的对抗；随后我们看到二维生命在地球的漫游，画风的对立更加明显：在美国CG动画愈发接近现实世界的趋势下，这种视觉上的错位让技术发展跳脱出了单一可能性，这本是我已不再期待发生在美国动画上的奇观，却奇迹般的被皮克斯所表达出来，线条的扭曲既是视觉陷阱，又是观感盛宴。主题表达即使是在皮克斯的作品序列中也是最出类拔萃的那一个，不再强调由情节所带来的煽情体验，而是注重每一段日常的琐碎瞬间，对景的眷恋，对物的留恋，和对生的迷恋。
也是小时候看过的，那会觉得狐狸精挺漂亮的。
儿子看不太懂，我觉得略鸡汤。人到中年，自然能体会几分人生的意义。活在当下远没有台词那么轻松。
看片尾一串的lightning artist……印象很深的一幕是全职信上透明塑料隔膜上反射的光影给人的强烈真实感，而萨克斯上的流金浮动则几近炫技了。
不想死的执念与一滴水一花瓣相互映照，认真享受当下每一分钟是皮氏鸡汤，也可以是无情麻药。如若具体到电影的分秒，结尾留下做一个地球人的希望，依然是太照顾人类观众的感情。
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