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".
皮克斯稳到可怕，继《寻梦环游记》的亡灵世界之后，又以绝妙的想象力营造出了一个奇幻的灵魂世界，概念与娱乐并驾齐驱。对人生的执着或是逃避都不是最重要的东西，体验平凡，认真去对待人生的每时每刻，这才是生命最完整的意义；是一次对追逐理想与回归平凡的双向成全，是对存在主义的探索与自证。几乎已无悬念锁定2020年度最佳，以及93届奥斯卡最佳动画长片。
看完感觉被包裹在柔软的毛毯里，灵魂得到安抚。在皮克斯的世界里，造物是宽容的。每一个得到地球通行证的人，他的到来都是因为曾找到那朵触发生之喜悦的火花啊。一旦这样想，就觉得平凡地活着，即便只是感受风带来的气息、伸手接住金黄落叶这样微小的瞬间，也足以称为生命的意义的。
祖上阔过系列之天朝动画史巅峰之作！年轻狐狸精真像范冰冰~~
【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。
“每天工作都不快乐，要是能干自己喜欢的事，就此生无憾了。”在这场追逐与悔恨中，很多人迷失了自我。 理发店、转招牌大叔，从事的不是初衷，但乐在其中，心灵一样不会被湮没。 不是实现终极目标，人生才能得到救赎，一片树叶、一块披萨卷边、一根棒棒糖、一卷缝衣线带来的感动，一样能够开启新的人生。
虚高：过于说教，皮克斯老想靠“哲理”取胜，小朋友不买账
今天太奇怪了，看了期待中毫无新意的《神奇女侠1984》，却发现编剧找到了一个如此符合当今问题的视角。然后看了如此期待的《soul》，完全就是个空洞到令人发指的心灵鸡汤，而且编剧精巧的塑造和迎合了当今虚无主义者的自恋，和他们自己问题的美学化，问题解法的浪漫主义，当然，所有这一切不会对他们有任何的帮助。他们也不会从生活中的一个细节发现spark，这就是个神话。
眼看着在电影院重映了，偏偏遇到疫情反弹，电影院又关了……没办法，只有在家里看看六公主的重播了。希望能够撑到疫情过去，坐在影院里再看一遍。这张电影票，我真的很想贡献！
真厉害，清晰直白，且快捷通俗的，交代了不知道多少文艺片闷死观众都阐不明的精神内核。通过情节的选择，台词的打磨，在好莱坞故事模板下，做到了难得的、明显的，编剧技术上的杰出，令人尊敬。
感觉自己就和joe一样，在追寻画画的这个目标一路舍弃了太多，回望自己过去的人生才发现竟是如此贫瘠又乏善可陈，日复一日把自己封闭在房间中创作跟朝九晚五的上班族没什么区别，接下来的路该怎么走或许要从认真感受平日里忽略了的那些生活细节开始
这个导演值得期待！
未必有所成才算活着，梦想也不是什么了不起的东西，只喜欢看天、走路、吃披萨的人生也很好。（皮克斯送给社畜社恐的一记摸头
老鱼说：“海洋？可是你现在就在海洋里啊”
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。
那时的中国动画真是艺术的凝结，毫不千篇一律，故事也是禁得起一看再看，可以当作传世寓言的。
我时常思考为什么我走路的时候会喜欢触碰事物，会对路上遇见的很多微不足道的事情好奇，以前我会觉得自己是多动症罢了，现在想起来，也许那刻我jazzy了吧！
皮克斯的想象力一绝，真的是极度治愈的一部电影，缓解了最近的执念和焦虑。“Spark”可以是秋日里落下的叶子、是冬日照进地板的阳光、是在城市里散步吹风、是可以去做自己喜欢的事。谁说人生只有追寻意义和达成目标才有价值呢？来地球一次，最重要是好好感受过程，感受爱、感受生活、感受快乐。
年末圣诞夜，在电影院哭得口罩都湿了。
生命的火花并来自于梦想、爱好、自我实现这些必须要追寻的东西，而只是对于生活单纯地热爱。
近几年看过的迪士尼最佳，之前从未有过一部动漫作品教你“放下梦想，热爱生活”，梦想不是一切，每一个灵魂迷失的人也许都执迷于所谓目标而忘记了眼前的生活。也许正因为当下流行的各种正能量激励追梦少男少女的故事看多了，当银幕上突然出现这样一部冷静克制反套路的作品时，不由得拍案叫绝。2020奥斯卡动画长片是稳拿了，不过话说回来，执迷不悟的人实在太多了，似乎只有当一个人从死亡世界回来才能有所顿悟的话，是不是有些太迟了呢？活在当下，享受生活中的每一秒吧。共勉。
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