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".
恋爱过的人都能在里面找到自己的影子吧。故事虽然俗套，看到最后还是忍不住流了一些眼泪，写评论的此刻眼眶依然湿润。爱情的开始是因为你我是活在同一个频率的人，爱情的结束是因为我再也无法融入你的生活。从“我的人生目标，就是和你维持现状”到“相比一个人的寂寞，两个人的寂寞更难忍受”，生活中有多少刺，扎破我们的各种念头，嘭嘭嘭，一地碎片。 如同李先生歌词里唱的，爱到最后我们都无路可去，似是而非或是世事可畏，有情有义又是有米无炊。但别怕美好的一切消失，咱们先来让它存在。
总结：白头到老的灵魂伴侣？不存在的。
典型豆瓣crush组的恋爱啊。开始总是分分钟都妙不可言，谁都以为热情它永不会减。
豆瓣用户恋爱避雷指南，无怪乎分值虚高。但，三观契合的意思，不是你们在豆瓣上有多少「共同爱好」，也不是你们都喜欢穿一样的鞋子或是拎一样的挎包——那只是你们在共同的时代背景、文化土壤和视觉行销的滋养下，消费品味会有很大概率的一致而已。三观契合的意思是，你起码得看看对方的打分和短评，再作结婚与否的打算：）毕竟自我价值的体认，需要通过输出什么而不是摄入什么来实现。至于双方的神奇相似，因为实在太过刻意，以及类似连两人钱包、戏票都一样的那种极其外部化的处理，反而使得原本该给到观众的冲击力大大弱化了，相信有许多人都会像我一样，早早就开始怀疑他们的结局，并且果然不出所料。所以尽管眼见社畜逐渐失去感知力非常扎人，最后的哭戏也很锤心，我还是只能，三分奉上。
最后他们还是分手了
爱情的真相，到底是什么呢？
“我知道我们相爱时的模样，所以才无法忍受现在的难堪。”
谈恋爱这件事，不管是和谁谈，谈多久，怎么谈，能做的无非也就是那么些事情，和有共同爱好的人谈，会感觉找到“灵魂伴侣”了，和兴趣迥异的人谈，又会觉得还是欲求不满，可这一切难道不都是自己的主观感受吗？所以人心都是自私的，只有找到自洽的方法才是第一实用的，无聊和寂寞才是人生最大的敌人，谁能消除这两样东西，谁就是幸福的。建议电影里的两人多看叔本华。
角色或许会变，但“我们”不会变。
挺不错，非常真实。感不动也哭不起来的朋友们，没别的，大家就是单纯老了……
买了上午场的票，结果整个放映厅只有我和另一个女生，她穿着很日系的大衣，坐在我的正前方，我们就这样一起看完了这部电影。散场的时候她突然回头问我：“你会给这部电影打几颗星？”于是我决定，如果在今天的影评发现她，我就关注她。
-我想笑着对他说再见
花束般的恋爱语录&独白
这是文艺青年向往的恋爱故事，但恐怕，现实中的你们只有后半段的矛盾，而没有前半段的甜蜜，更别提终末的释怀……
还好，我不是正常人
文青一进入职场就不再是文青了
坎坷的2020结束之际，皮克斯用一部走心的作品宣告它的归来，暖心而又治愈。
所以说上班这件事基本可以杀死全世界99%的故事
连续刷了两遍，是2020的最后一部与2021的第一部
把大多数人的恋爱全周期完整的还原了出来，探讨“没有感觉，还要不要一起生活下去”这个几乎每一对恋人都会面临的问题。好在细致，克制。但弊端也有，为了制造“天生一对”而设计的一个又一个穿着和喜好的巧合，在“四年之痒”后，又刻意让小麦变的死板生硬，不近人情。结局前，两人餐厅分手，又碰到跟他们当年几乎完全一样的，初入爱河傻气懵懂的小情侣，这才情感彻底爆发，这一切都稍显编排，自然没那么动人了。
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