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".
治愈系动画片，人物选择蓝色想必也是下了功夫。上个蓝色的还是那个代表各种性格的小蓝人，无感。
1.开头幻美得如同糖水片，但之后现实的渐次侵袭则让一开始便是顶峰的爱情遭致温水煮青蛙式的逐步崩解，从而呈露出无可奈何、无可逃避的人生本相：在时间之流中，唯有无常和变化是永恒的，一如面包店的倒闭、乐队的解散、连载的终结与朋友的猝逝。2.将日本近年流行文化大量编织入叙事中，而社会现实性亦体现在对社畜打工人的生存描摹中：被社会侵蚀，被生活捶打，被工作蹂躏，终至失却纯真。3.麦说自己的人生目标就是与绢维持现状，殊不知这却是人世间最难达成的意愿之一，两人最终的分道扬镳实质上也源自他们的“成长发展”步调不一致，遂渐行渐远，而拒绝妥协，自然相见不如怀念。4.菅田将晖与有村架纯表演绝佳，轮回&求婚&挥手的收尾极妙，本片唯一缺憾是视听不够电影化。5.押井守、牯岭街与阿基。6.按钮式红绿灯，天然气罐，街景地图。（8.8/10）
是啊，那个天使脸庞，纯真清冷的友邻，今年春节也给《唐人街探案3》打了五颗星，可我还是觉得他好可爱，在我心里他还留在昨天，这样，我也就没有枯老。斯人如花束，豆留余香。
在这之中更重要的是，它承认了人的自主性。片中男孩并不是简单地被现实改变，而是在与现实的互动中，主动调整了自己的人生追求。换而言之，这不是一个委曲求全的结果，而是一次自主选择。只不过调整之后的他和那个依然坚持浪漫的女孩已经不再合适了，这才有了两人的分手。
爱情都是因为相似而开始，又因为不同而分开。维持现状说起来容易，其实最难。心态会变，生活会变，太忙了无暇经营感情，太闲了又容易无事生非，维持愉快高峰永无可能。再熟悉的伴侣，在日复一日的消耗磨蚀中，也难免一个疲惫困倦一个意冷心灰而逐渐疏远。生命是用来挥霍的，浪漫是注定流失的。此情可待成追忆，只是当时已惘然。
爱情都是因为相似而开始，又因为不同而分开。维持现状说起来容易，其实最难。心态会变，生活会变，太忙了无暇经营感情，太闲了又容易无事生非，维持愉快高峰永无可能。再熟悉的伴侣，在日复一日的消耗磨蚀中，也难免一个疲惫困倦一个意冷心灰而逐渐疏远。生命是用来挥霍的，浪漫是注定流失的。此情可待成追忆，只是当时已惘然。
我喜欢两个片段，一是二人初识时，苏打被偶遇的女生叫去，村花多少有点吃醋意味地断然离开，苏打追出来；二是苏打接听村花面试结果的电话，听出她哭了。这两段是美丽的。我不知道坂本到底想讲什么样的故事，如果是文艺终将败给现实，这也未免太高看文艺。一段情感的失望与变质，与文艺/灵魂/精神领土的节节败退可能有关但不会是绝对关系，二人之间的关心与在乎是最重要的。苏打可以不再看漫画电影不再看书，但他不可以罔顾村花的喜怒哀乐，这才是致命的。而这一点并不会因为换一个人就更好，除非对方不在乎你的关心，但这在情感关系里根本不可能。所以在二人分手后两个人学习到什么呢，坂本想让我们学习到什么呢？他们换了一个伴，他们的情感关系有变得更好吗？到最后不是向生活妥协，而是向情感关系不可能抱持始终如一的关注而妥协，这才是最丧的。
从满脸姨母笑看到在办公室捂嘴不让自己哭出声，嘤嘤嘤坂元好懂，各种小细节看得太戳人了。世上哪有那么多天造地设，亲密期过了后不过是互相将就，但即便现实如此，我们难道就应该选择妥协吗？
小娟的工作赶上剧本杀的风口，获得融资，她因为是创始团队成员获得期权变现，有了很多财富。
爱情就像鲜花一样，也有保质期，好像世间万物都是如此。
精神马杀鸡，希望喜欢的人都能看看，但笑最大声的点是那句基金经理，替自己感到难过
能一起没完没了地聊书影音当然很开心，但爱情肯定不止这些，以及男主不是真文青，要不忘初心啊乛◡乛
“我的人生目标，就是和你维持现状”
虽然开头两个人的相识相处怎么看怎么像好基友搅基但偷偷互拍和表白桥段还是被甜到了，工作对人的异化这个点爱了，但是后半段就越拍越平越拍越平...以及，分手后相安无事同居三个月真的有可能吗！这不就更证明了两个人一开始就该发展纯洁的好基友关系吗...
看完只想说，不涉及原则问题，无论交友还是恋爱“求同存异”是唯一法则。总觉得绢有点过于理想化，麦有点过于现实，虽然最终是要归于平淡但我觉得偶尔是可以维持以前那种感觉的。不过和百分百灵魂契合的人恋爱就是会这样吧，一旦一方变了，另一方必然会失落，麦忙于工作无法和绢一起看电影漫画，连看的书都开始逐渐不同，说到“我完全看不进了，只能玩智龙迷城”时，绢难受是必然的，连世界上唯一和我如此契合的你都开始和我无话可说，我还能去找谁说呢？麦中间有一段很讨人嫌，还好最后没有变得讨厌。前辈去世绢无法与麦共情太真实了，就男女生在某些事情上的想法真的完全不同。两人讨论的各种比如最后一期Smap x Smap、霍比特人等等真是秒回前几年。回归朋友关系后反而可以一起做很多事了，当初你俩不能一人买一台NS一起玩塞尔达吗？
苏打进步惊人，真的太会哭了，而让叔也精准地演出了世故的爹味帅哥。影片在让叔的分量把握上是令人满意的，给多了就偏离中心了。但终究还是个剧集SP的体量而不是部大荧幕电影。论述某一世代的情感和精神状态，塞满了灵光一现的台词，但坂元裕二终究只是能被营销号截图的金句生产机本身，处在掉书袋的危险边缘的文本停留于表面上的年代元素罗列让他无法成为伍迪艾伦，而东一榔头西一棒槌的台词内容之虚浮又让他离侯麦差了十万八千里。他眼里的许多个状态都可以简化成碎片式的一个个瞬间，拼凑好了就是《最完美的离婚》，拼凑得不那么像回事就是本作了。但我实在是不懂，因为有共通点而在一起倒是能理解，但选择分开的理由未免太潦草，我无法被说服。毕竟影片极力烘托二位是遗世独立的霓虹文青，那早该懂得寂寞的本质了吧，不然天天那些书读哪去了…
我们总在追寻某些目标，以为只有找到了才能算是拥有有意义的人生，却忘记了在此之前我们就已经在“生活”的道路上了。以前我们会因为见到新奇的事物而兴奋不已，但如今的我们更多的看到的却是那些不美好的东西，经历得太多仿佛已经没有什么能打动我们，流下的眼泪也渐渐不是因为感动而是因为难过，就连给自己拍的照片都需要美颜才愿意相信这是真的“我”……
主角的困惑其实是多巴胺的边际递减效应。人活着，就要不停地开发各种形式为攻击性寻找出口，痛并快乐着。不同的人生态度，都是同样的攻击性，不管什么方法不管如何解读，归根结底就是让自己活得爽就对了
因为生活和工作的本质是解决问题，要想拥有长久稳定的良好的关系，重要的不是能够共同欣赏，而是能够共同面对。
皮克斯的厉害之处就是在十分常见的母题之上，还能用技术主义层层开天眼，包括幽微的情感、新鲜的设定、远高于大众化需求之上的元素。以商业为目标，又毫不吝啬于提升标准（甚至花功夫做的这些提升对商业而言没什么太大必要）。至于看过后能陷入一两秒的哲思，那更是电影的优等生给世界带来的额外奖赏。
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