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".
对了 我比较喜欢那个“在宾馆前 欢颂描绘自己想象中的房子时 镜头深入宾馆内部发现陈设竟与她的想象一致”情节：“初恋”往往与“错过”相关 同时 我对这种类似《麦琪的礼物》式的反高潮的be结尾也很i
车队里的人渣进了体制。两个男女主角都是好孩子，孝顺，有责任，有梦想，能吃苦，能劳动（却不光荣），没想过走邪路。男主父亲回家，他也有疏离，却尽自己作为儿子的义务。但是教育排斥了他们，职业排斥了他们。社会分层固化了他们。没有机会变得更好，除非进入灰色甚至黑色世界。如果他们身在改开初期，或者会有所作为，奇迹笨小孩就是那个时代。甚至在乱世，或许也可以有作为，尤其男主参军。但在当下，的确很难。
我看了，好像又没看。我脑子里只有那辆摩托车。
少年是风，可是风会被阻挡。少年追梦，可是梦会被惊醒。
其实是有潜质变成一部不错的电影的，如果不刻意搞那么多事故，不在旅馆装纯，不一次次含早，反复听到这个词真的太尴尬了，有些桥段真是太做作了。。。好电影真的并不需要那么折腾，想法太多有时候真的让人讨厌。#看过最清晰的枪版😂😂😂效果非常之棒#
我们已经老啦，可是青春依旧在那里伤痛。
最近看到有人说这是韩寒最直面真实的一部电影，我不觉得是。也不觉得是一部好电影。剧情也许是触碰到了一些真实，只有一点真实而已。更多的是魔幻色彩，一点魔幻现实主义色彩。游泳被船撞，修广州塔，开车跨城收钱的高利贷，跨城聊天的警察，飞跃珠江表演？仔细想想故事走向整个就一梦游模式，撒癔症。即使有沈腾，有修塔哥这种烂梗和玩笑，这也算不得是喜剧电影，更不适合春节档期。
看到B站上了四海，就知道终于可以看清晰的盗版了，至此春节档的五部真人电影都看看完了。好在没在春节看这片。
春节档是回家拥抱温暖的时节，而这部电影恰恰讲的是小镇青年被生活击垮的残酷现实。喜庆的日子里，去电影院强行输入生活的无力与沉重，多少有点不合时宜。
连着看了两部春节档电影，主角吴京和刘昊然都燃起来了，真的燃。
而且最致命的是犯了一个只会在处女作才会犯的毛病：想讲的太多了——亲情 爱情 城市化 物化 赛车 女性求职 理想与现实……单拿出一个着重讲一下片子就改观很多
正如很多评价所说，韩寒似乎一直以来都在拍同一部电影，元素包括：海滨小镇、父子关系、赛车、妹纸、漂泊等等。由于无法真正表达其中核心的部分，所以给人徒具其表、不知所云的感觉。
新诈骗电影，薅沈腾羊毛，却只有几个镜头，还我钱
没想到的是我才意识到我和韩寒的音乐品味有相似。。。。
像韩寒年轻时出歌拍的一个MV《私奔》，现在还讲这种故事，还这样讲故事，真不行
看完电影，唯一值得说的一句话是“刘昊然真好看啊”
山雀很好听，但是电影配不上。韩少这次是连佳句都没了，佳章本就没指望。
当把预期放低后，还是很不错的，故事线完整但如此不真实，车祸原来是妹妹啊！相比于前半段的老梗，中程的迷茫和无助更为现实主义。
非常不适合春节档的片子 基调很阴郁 内核也很悲剧 刘浩存这个角色一个自作聪明的小镇女生 一度单纯善良甚至无知 终究被外面世界的浪潮拍打推涌翻滚着 慢慢长大了 这应该是韩寒目前为止拍得最好的片子 镜头语言愈加成熟 各种俯拍展示了渔村和广州的不同 看着看着眼眶就湿润了 曾经我唾弃韩寒局限于小镇青年的视角格局 如今我看着愣头青的主角奋不顾身互相取暖时也无法回避我们如此相似这个事实 “傻子才会陷进去呢” “我希望以后你住的每一间酒店 都是含早的” 最后飞越珠江那场戏的调度也是可圈可点的 也致敬了花样年华和了不起的盖茨比 感觉韩寒还是受王家卫影响挺大的一些点到即止的写意狗够玩味儿 应该说充分拉低了预期后这片子有些东西
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