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".
有人会长大，有人不会，剩下的人都是孤独的。
恋爱的感觉不过是因为刚在一起所以愚蠢的头脑把我们情绪放大化的结果。
押井守
看到 2 分 50 秒，差点儿看不下去了。无论男女，感觉都有点油腻、幼稚。硬撑着，边看边呕。坚持了 40 分钟，实在不行了，关了。恋爱不重要！重要的是你们自己！！唯一感兴趣的，可能就是日本街头的各种摩托车和轰鸣声，我可以活活听俩小时。2022-3-19 看完，分手分得不错，财产交割清楚，互相感恩，值得学习。
一开始的相似是命运还是假象是错觉？所以女孩有告诉男孩花的名字吗？相爱过，谢谢，回忆全是美好，但却走不下去了。分手的时候看到曾经的我们，一如既往，是否结局也是循环往复？是否爱情注定没有永远？如那自杀的博主所说：“开始，是结束的开始”？如果有一天我们变陌生了，那重新认识可以吗？
感觉自己已经完全过了这种文青状态 回头看愈发觉得愚蠢。有人说文青这种自我意识层面的表演本质是空虚的，不如说其本质更是无知与自欺的（既是对现实的抽离又是对自己的背叛）当人对世界进行切割继而产生优越于他人之心态的圈层系统 意识便会进入无休止的自我确认与复制的循环。这种表演导致疲惫到来是其内在机制决定，把情感的败坏怪到职场社会的异化无非就是自欺欺人——我没错是社会的错！赚钱当然是文艺最大的敌人 这是亘古真理 有古今中外无数靠金主过活的文艺创作者为证，但也正如此才揭示出文艺内在的空洞与文青文艺内在的阶级性（及其匮乏的自我觉知）试问自觉为生活所迫的文青们，是否尝试过抛弃优越的圈层及其循环引述，而去发现属于自己的文艺呢？或许爱情的未来从不在现成的符号系统 而是两个人一起创造的新的世界=真正的文艺
只差一步童话就能停笔，再合拍的脚步再重叠的影子都会异梦而神离。生活溺毙浪漫，爱情如同花束，绚烂盛极也有衰败节律，怒放的欲望和年轻的幻梦不能倚赖单纯愿望让青春花香无限停驻。于是蜕变出大人外壳的男孩先一步被社会钝刀打磨，想象风蚀，灵感退化后少年轮廓在人海中模糊难辨，为了维持现状逃入婚姻，为了拒绝改变委曲求全。女孩紧紧抓握童年残影，天真的执念绕过庸常煎熬却逐渐放弃抵抗滑入平凡涟漪。跟随主角重走细节与对话堆叠的密致时间针脚，两人构建屏蔽外物的小世界随着对称无间的旁白分裂而摇摇欲坠，被将就的陌路罩住的花朵加速朽烂。在一场又一场相聚与离别中走远，仿佛历经无数次生与死的庆典和葬礼，只有封存幻想的画里小人永远年轻，花期恒久。背道而驰的我们依旧默契到招手无需回头，卫星捕捉的神迹纳进记忆缝线，走向各自的路口。
终究是逃不出兰因絮果啊……那些恋爱中的小细节，刻画的太生动了……
真的好爱这部电影，就和当初喜欢《LALALAND》一样。
共感在哪？太多流于机巧的镜像对称段落，这般生发于无菌试验场、容不下半点革命张力的恋情，剥开糖衣后注定只剩追忆潸然。如今的半圆写都会青年物语真比不上隔壁金子茂树，完全靠老本在硬撑，以往剧集中慢火烹调的生活细节和时代氛围，在影片高密度的内心os环绕下，俱都退化为只有布景功能的摆设。另外没搞懂这对怎么就从齁甜浪漫到了非分手不可的地步，不是说给的理由不够充分，而是这种命题式的写作太省事了，结局一眼望到头，画外音全靠各位痴男怨女自行脑补素材，遑论抛出真正深刻而有启发性的见解。
建议年轻人多看几遍，看完再看几遍婚姻故事，为未来的幸福生活定下完美基调。
花朵凋落的时候，先是从边缘开始残破、变色，然后慢慢地直抵花芯，被空气、水分、阳光慢慢蚕食。盛开的时候越美，枯萎的过程就越不堪。无论曾是什么颜色的花朵，最后都会蜷缩成一道黑色的斑，花与花有着相同的终点，就像随处可见的恋爱一样。当然，还有一种让花朵永存的方法，是在它尚未枯萎时，便摘下来、风干、做成干花，虽然香味全无，但胜在大致的情形还在，并得以更久的延续，就像随处可见的婚姻一样。曾经沧海难为水，如果不肯降低标准的话，便只能游弋于对沧海的幻梦之中。人总有妥协的一天，但面对一些曾深爱的人与事时，哪怕错过，哪怕失去，都不能去妥协，因为有些人，珍惜到不能将就。
三星半，仿佛在看豆瓣文艺青年谈恋爱。内心独白过多了，我觉得有点减分。
与自己合拍的异性，在爱情的路上只有相遇问题，没有追及问题，不光保持同样的步幅、速率和进度条，在同一时间相爱，也在同一时间失去对对方的依恋，最后还能和平解决猫的归属，这是什么神仙故事！我女儿三年级的数学题都比这个难好吗？
我想起了鲸鱼的朋友们，那些在地下室看寺山修司、莫里斯皮亚拉，还有考里斯马基的下午。
两小时电影看完仿佛是又谈了一场长跑5年的恋爱，就连结束时“争夺”一起养了多年猫咪的归属权都是那么相像呀。是呀，这世上的花未必都能结果，但只要灿烂盛放过，也就不负韶华不负卿了吧。回到电影本身吧，苏打和村花眼里都是戏呀，片尾那一场剖白哭戏实在太有感染力了，我眼珠子的泪水跟着止不住的掉，真的太好哭了！
平行世界我们无法一探究竟，正解谁都不知道，所以就做自己吧，永远不被驯化，永远相信爱情。
两个人会在一起是因为如此的相同
花开花谢花无悔，缘来缘去缘如水。兴趣爱好的合拍远不如人生阶段的合拍来得重要。何苦抱着枯树过一生，从而磨灭了当初花开时的美好。P.S.坂元为什么这么喜欢写分手和离婚，可不可以乐观一点。P.P.S.「別れる男に、花の名を一つは教えておきなさい。花は毎年必ず咲きます（请教给分手的他一种花的名字。每一年花都必将开放）。」这句话最初出自川端康成的小说，后来有川浩也引用过。不知道是不是博客里那句话的出处。
“燃烧了灿烂换来平淡，像烟花的花瓣，只不过我们浓厚记忆越来越变淡。”
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