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".
后半段的剧情就变得乏力了起来，硬将故事收缩回常规套路中来，把前面铺垫的带有深度的主题一一化解，成为中规中矩的卖萌电影。
“友情是双向的”，从“你要喜欢我”变为“我喜欢你”，从“呆在两米以内”变为“不要离开我”，让他们成为真正的好朋友，也是友谊使它得以觉醒，成为拥有完美代码的自己。好的友谊是互相成就互相治愈
“友情是双向的”，从“你要喜欢我”变为“我喜欢你”，从“呆在两米以内”变为“不要离开我”，让他们成为真正的好朋友，也是友谊使它得以觉醒，成为拥有完美代码的自己。好的友谊是互相成就互相治愈
动画里的科技公司永远有一个反人类的没有人性的阴险狡诈的大老板/永远搞到电源短路的烂电脑原来是关键道具/社交牛逼症的机器人拯救社交恐惧症的怪男孩，人机友谊万岁！
【6.0】看到足球/迷影/少年回忆的主题非常期待，但看完很失望。私人向不是问题，但如此沉闷且缺乏解读空间，索伦蒂诺实在不是我的菜。仅有的亮点是对帕夏里亚姑妈的情欲，邻家老年夫人义务式的性引导，全家痛扁刻薄的姻亲，还有全球首富同行的名媛对主角说出的那句“吃屎吧”。你以为是少年春梦，现实却是冷水浇头。就像渴望名导垂青的女演员，最后当众被导演挖苦嘲讽。故事整体只是小镇风光+家族记忆+失去双亲的人生转折。有海和帕夏里亚的镜头都很美。
视觉表达上有着不输给PIXAR和Illumination的娴熟技法，搞笑抒情、张弛有度。题材选择发人深省，进入智能机时代后，西方社会少有对当下问题的反思。
一个大家庭的嬉戏打闹最后成了少年独自一人的伤痛回忆，那年夏天的马拉多纳和《美国往事》终随风飘散，命运降临的那一刻，少年也被迫成长起来。导演回想起的家乡和青春，是如此温柔和伤感，闭上眼睛，便是黑夜中的行驶和海浪的波涛，而电影，也许是持续前行的力量吧。
电影直击网暴对于少儿价值观形成的颠覆性影响乃至侵害的恐惧真相，幽默的智慧下透露着严肃的现实质疑。我愿用卡通版的《监视资本主义》、或是全年龄向的《HER》定位本片，今年十佳。
至少学学迪士尼是如何以爱意和包容的目光打量它创造出的那些异类吧。
影片总归打磨的工业圆润又好看非常，
Cliché但是还是被感动了。交朋友的主题很棒，其他关于什么科技和儿童，数据安全之类的就不考虑了，还是挺开心的。
讽刺tech大佬已成为新zzzq；把奶奶设定成苏联来的然后有一系列刻板印象实在太让人恶心了；电影主题想说交朋友，但主角这个小孩从一开头就是连个能自我沉浸的爱好都没有，只是自卑玻璃心，totally uncool ，那没朋友不也是很正常的事吗……而反过来说那些没品的狐朋狗友需要了干嘛呢？可能是反映美国teenagers的心态吧。颇为无聊。
哥哥問弟弟：如果馬拉多納加入那不勒斯和與小姨上床之間做選擇，妳會怎麽選，弟弟說我選擇馬拉多納。“上帝之手”不僅僅是足球界的一個梗，也不僅僅是讓黃健翔被迫辭職的“意大利左後衛”，更是蔚藍海岸小鎮青年的精神啟蒙。
怪咖小男孩“巴尼”与程序错乱的小机器人“罗恩”，人类与AI的友情故事总是温暖而欢乐的。LockSmith的整体完成度很高，动画里的大数据社交焦虑有着当今的科技反思，但大书特书的是儿童向的友谊，为了友谊而拼命煽情，为了友谊而强行和解。
不是很能get這種義大利家庭劇，有幾處很好笑，後面有點無聊了（演哥哥的好帥竟然連IMDb上都一張照片也沒有？
漫长又痛苦的观影体验（两个小时的文艺片真撑不住），前半段温暖而琐碎，后半段冷峻又孤独，这也许就是一个人的成长过程吧。喜欢导演在影片中的创作论，拍电影起码是有话要说，而不是去到另外一个陌生国度为了表达而表达。另外，哥哥长得太像凤小岳了，出戏。
【A-】是个非常用心的好故事，结局真的很让人难过但却又很有分量，非常喜欢这种残缺美的结局。笑点的设计非常聪明，好几个都特别好玩。一些情节写的不严谨，但瑕不掩瑜，是个很用心也很棒的电影。
文艺片，不讲究剧情，是一种情绪。体味到少年被巨大悲痛击中之后，巨大到情绪都不知道作何反馈的懵逼状态。城市的记忆与少年的成长捆绑在一起。2022年春节期间观影记录。
7.5/10.0。对那不勒斯和球王的追忆不及前作中阿尔卑斯山和罗马城的众生相。受限于自传题材，费里尼式新现实主义梦境的想象力被大打折扣。但这部片子依然精确保留了《绝美之城》巅峰之作的些许柔软隐秘的影子：少年、地中海海岸、启蒙的姑娘。索伦蒂诺作为意大利古典风格的传承代表，与大洋彼岸的马力克似乎构成了应对虚无的两面：前者是构建新现实主义的半真半假，后者是借用摄影机而抽离的第三只眼。
4.5 当索导回归真诚。80年代的那不勒斯，像是浮于海上，静谧神秘、游离。那年马拉多纳来踢球，交了朋友，性启蒙。父母却突然离去，闹腾的亲人们用迥异的态度应对，邻居尽力安慰，自己后知后觉在操场大声哭泣。最后迷茫变成坚定，一个那不勒斯小青年像费费一样，坐上火车去罗马学电影。（但是就不能先把《美国往事》看了吗！）
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