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".
看好多人说《本杰明巴顿奇事》都算是文艺犯病，那此片就可以算是文艺癌症晚期无药可救的那种
看到一个小时的时候我真的有考虑离场，前面真的是太流水账了，但是我忍住了（很大原因是因为李婷婷吧😂），从出国后开始全篇的基调就开始变了，开始讨论“生命”和“人生”之间的关系，即使生命得到了永生，但人生依旧只有一次，有的事情做了决定就不再改变，有的人一旦错过了就再也不会回头
前半段是苦逼单相思，后半段突然就科幻了，变成了不老处男。
一部分裂的电影，一边是如《阿甘正传》一般的爱情故事，另一边是似科教片一般的生命探寻，如果单独独立，是两部不错的题材，一个拍的细腻温润，一个拍的前卫大胆，但两者结合一起真的觉得怪异😂PS.虽然小时候的故事发生地在青岛，但你们说的是我大潍坊话！可太亲切了。
男女主都爱的太克制，女主克制是因为觉得自己不那么干净，配不上男主吧。她一直在等男主主动，甚至给了很多机会：约会，给他房间钥匙，给他酒店号码…男主一直没有说出那句：这些年我一直爱着你…他爱女主吗？是的，但爱的是那个记忆里的她，那个清纯美好善良的少女。他是因为怯懦不敢表白，还是他内心压根没法接受不再清纯的爱人，所以选择了不说？谁也不知道。最美好的爱情是在记忆力，永远封存。这才是不老奇事。
要是真的话多少帝王有钱人追求的长生不老怎么可能这么容易放过男主？然后男女主的感情互动太飘忽了点 有个萌萌出来基本就是多余的。
果然全程靠主角的旁白串起整部故事的片子都是烂片，这部也不例外。故事前半段还算可以，虽说和「不老奇事」没啥联系，至少故事是流畅真实的。但自打画幅恢复正常，也就是男主出国之后，整个故事就崩了，感觉像是看了两部完全不同的电影，不说这个使人不老的实验有多么不靠谱和无厘头，男主和女二的感情也是很迷，剧情由此变得混乱不堪，最后男主拥有不老之身时又遇车祸，剧情已经是没眼看了。整体而言，故事又臭又长，胡编乱造，虽说两位主演表现都还可以，但还是挽救不了这不知所云的剧情。
关于死亡，和两个女人的爱。
你的记忆是你的一切 逃避记忆就没有继续的意义
一开始感觉一般，看着看着感觉还蛮喜欢这个片子的。
“来自青岛的郭先生的干细胞注射广告”王朔把自己对生命、疾病和衰老的理解写在了曲折的情节里，真是活的很通透了，很有意思。 百丽宫国贸
看了一半，发现两人的关系这不是阿甘正传吗？不戴眼镜的王传君看着挺奇怪的；为了王珞丹+1星，各种风情，尽显魅力；可惜剧情又臭又长。
年度最烂华语片，136分钟全程肠子都悔青了，“为何要浪费时间来看这部电影”；对王朔再一次彻底失望；片头旁白一出来，就有种不好的预感，结果听了两个小时的有声书，重点是很多旁白故弄玄虚，细细捋一下逻辑，发现语法都不对，浅尝辄止的鸡汤真是要了命！作为现实题材，全片“分裂”为上下两部，从人物语言身份逻辑行为，均充满离地八尺的悬浮感，人物台词和走向完全不符合身份设定，梦境的穿插，令全片尽显低质感存在；王传君演到后半段，表演痕迹全线崩溃，王珞丹的角色成长前史部分完全缺失，令人物尽是些标签化的贴附；全片人物和人物关系的建构失败，无论寄托了导演多大的野心，多么大锅炖的主题表达，都无法令人信服；而不老秘密的设定，完全是嫁接在干细胞科研之上伪民科，荒谬得只剩一个“扯”字。导演照本宣科拍完如此鸡肋剧本，令人诧异！
在丁萌萌离去之前一切还比较正常，是八十年代到千禧年年轻人的通史，后半截就有点崩坏，一直崩到结束。虽然我还蛮喜欢王传君的，但是本片他只有一个表情～
或许王朔的加持让本片增加了逼格，而选择王传君做男主还是很合适的，他就适合这种类型的演绎。
我们的剧本可以天马行空，但不能是胡编乱造的，而且编剧千万不要陷入自恋。
朔爷味儿在前段儿很浓，很怀念：摇滚青年的油嘴滑舌和仗义；北京姑娘的嘴上满不在乎，内心敏感脆弱；
1.5倍速看完了，无法用言语去评论这部电影，反正就是很莫名其妙就对了。
6/10。王朔和冯小刚一样去追溯青春的爱与痛了，折射出苦难与救赎的女性立场和生命母题。凌芳一开始就失去父母，村里亲戚领养她后每天就是洗衣、被责骂和撵出家门，甚至安排与畸形儿相亲，因此比任何人有更有成功的野心，不断陪酒和攀关系进入演艺圈。萌萌这个无拘无束、充满朝气的女孩形象是从小鲁的视角展示，体现在割阑尾炎、留学合租、小提琴路演和吃年夜饭时投怀送抱等一系列事件，至于后半段她对干细胞研究近乎宗教般的牺牲，采取的也是一种与苦难为伴的救赎意识，疾病缠身的每一刻都是与时间赛跑，临终前醒悟只有爱能治愈死的疼痛，不向爱自己的人表达情感，只怕以后连表达的机会都没有。最后成为植物人的小鲁视角由慢视力变成眨眼的‘‘倍速’’感知，照顾余生的凌芳和打招呼又跑出去的女儿穿梭于各个生命节点，包含着记忆和将来的生命最高形式。
喜欢电影的节奏，喜欢演员的表达，喜欢孤独的旁白，喜欢王朔的语言。
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