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".
大多数男性是这样的，但凡有着一些责任心，都会从怀揣梦想的文艺青年变成为了生活不得不屈服于现实的忙碌上班族。而大多数女性也是那样的，希望爱情永远存在于两人之间，很多年以后都一样，如果没有爱情，也不想步入婚姻。而经历了社会的各种毒打和洗礼后，我们终将认识到，快乐其实一直都是自己给的，包括那些极致的感动和浪漫。
其实不是不可以跟一个没有爱的人结婚，生孩子，听他们喊“爸爸妈妈”制造恩爱假象，给自己幸福圆满的错觉
这两位，只有文化商品里的互相迷醉和药效消退 而没有相爱的身体。换句话说，只有轻巧的 书 影 音，没有对彼此真切残酷的 读 看 听。
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？
虽然被大家戏称为“豆瓣友邻的婚恋历程”的前半段也有过于浅白的嫌疑，毕竟电影里对“世另我”的描刻主要以“你也喜欢ta哦”“ta竟然也这样想”为表现形式，甚至没有更深的心灵共振。但是可以理解作为悸动的初始来说似乎已经足够，他和她的恋爱像花束的原因并不是心动的原因出了问题，而是两个人对爱都没有足够的勇气。当然，社会结构性问题对人的异化一定是基础。可更重要的是，对抗这种异化的方式并非共同的爱好（电影、书籍、音乐），而是对“恋爱的存活率虽然低，但我可以保守它”的信仰。麦的怯懦是觉得爱情的浓度注定要“降低标准”，而絹的怯懦是对麦这个人，或者说对永恒爱情的自保和疑虑。所以最不可思议的是，两个人竟然都没有认真去探讨过对方的想法来自哪里，有没有转化的可能，所以大家只不过是都任其枯萎了，没有那股延长花期的勇气。
这两位想必是一个论坛里的网友，类似豆瓣主页1000+共同爱好的那种。
当时觉得太契合了，后面才发现两个人完全不是一个世界的。很快就分手了。
本来准备七夕当天看的，资源出问题，今天另找资源看完才发现这并不是一部适合七夕看的电影。恋爱五年的好处就是对片中他俩这四年的每一步都觉得能感同身受，到结尾他俩哭我也哭了，然后看他俩分手后又同居了三个月我笑出鸡叫。
这种合拍其实还挺肤浅的，人们可能总是高估了共同爱好的重要性。
伪文艺青年在电影的后半段，在小麦把绢送给他的书摔在车后备箱开始哭，一直哭到电影结束。我喜欢两个人一起吵架以后绢在粉饰太平的时候把茶水放在小麦的面前，说好像苦了点，小麦说还好。从头到尾绢一直都是清醒的明白自己的需求，所以她无法忍受爱情的死亡，也无法用婚姻做过往的最后一段装饰。我在屏幕外窥视他们，如同一个从来没有糖果的小孩，看到两个喜欢吃甜点的人把最精美的糖果摔得粉碎融化在泥沼里。世界上最合拍的两个人演绎出爱情如花朵般馥郁又这般容易凋零，除了心痛只剩下唏嘘。
小麦的工作由于疫情行业不景气，开始裁员，小麦虽没被裁但也觉得公司已经没什么前途。
就像千万次的擦肩而过，等来了一个回眸，可能他只是在看别的风景，但这样的误会也很美。如果有一个契合到心动的人，哪怕结尾无疾而终，能够遇见，也是此生无憾。
虽然也没有好看到满分爆灯的程度，但是已经足以拯救无聊的2021世界电影市场了。你没办法定义这是一部约会电影还是一部分手电影，该和谁去看。
三星都给得勉强。16年在DC看爱乐之城，最后十分钟哭到泪崩，回家激情创作观后感；现在年近而立看这部，中间几度快睡着，十分不耐烦，最后看他俩分开我都如释重负，伤感那是半点都没有。开头俩人仿佛豆友面基的场景是可爱的，但也仅止于可爱，本中年人看到会露出慈爱笑容的那种，要说这是爱情的样子，那顶多也就是个puppy love，不仅爱上的是相信的对方，还是一种自恋的延伸，从对方和自己的相似性中对自身价值的一种再确认，恰恰呈现的是一种originality的匮乏。想到前不久和好友的对话，“现在很烦遥远的相似性这句话，老娘就是独一无二。” 是的，真的有原创性的人当有底气这样对自己说。而且，相比较稍有挫折就开始找各种借口逃避的茫茫人生来说，一段感情还是小事，更重要的是趁着摒弃这种充满了借口与软弱的生活方式吧。
看的时候很有代入感，与女友同样因为电影、文学、音乐这些而相识，从学生时代讨论大卫芬奇和巴赫到如今一起吐槽领导，和电影里这对很像，不同的是我们早早的向生活屈服，甘心去做那一颗螺丝钉，避免去思考生活的意义。其实每段恋爱都像是花束，有含苞待放的时候，有最灿烂的时候，有要凋零枯萎的时候，但枯萎就意味着爱的结束吗？没了那些鲜艳和芬芳后见到的不正是爱最本质的一面吗？不就是最后这些枝干在苦苦支撑着爱吗？坂元大神的剧本满分，最后相见背对那一挥手是如此轻易而意味深长。
这么高的分？表达上没什么新鲜的，转折也都蛮生硬，也没有那种必然的悲剧感。结尾就是经过这样一段恋爱的过程之后，又各自换一个人重蹈覆辙。thats it?
主题馊鸡汤，无非是“享受平凡人生”什么什么的。故事很梗人：追求梦想的男主莫名其妙就挂了，凭什么？形象不讨喜：非得弄个黑人才显得你们悲悯博爱？逻辑很突兀：从未体验过地球人生的灵魂，怎么可能控制那副身体？无聊。
1，值得那些只会拿绝症和死亡来妄图打动人的编剧学习。2，恋爱和生活是两回事——again 说无数次了。3，想起了好几个小组贴和广播，大意是想起一年or两年前每天写文描述爱得热火朝天的，再去看，99%的已经分了。
我们总以为看同样的书 展览电影 就是契合 其实只是聊得来罢了 我们在彼此身上进行情感投射 互相提供价值 真正到互相理解 是对三观 人生态度以及持续改变的一致性 是彼此并无经历 但能互相感受 到最后 他们丧失了彼此感受的能力
菅田将暉和有村架纯的演技都好好噢。不谈恋爱的我都有点被打动了。感觉像看了一出柔和的《猜火车》，菅田不再爱好的文艺，其实是“选择工作、选择保险、选择健康饮料、选择大电视”，但是有村只想继续“选择不选择生活”。有些人的关系是X，邂逅相遇，同行一段时间后就会分开各走各的；有些人的关系是O，不管怎么样都会再次相遇相恋。我希望你的恋爱是O型——不断地重新爱上对方，一起快乐地生活下去吧。
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