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".
为什么要刚好在今天一个人看，哭的可能比自己分手还吓人。巴丢说的爱情果然很难实现，即使如此相近的两个1也难以保持2。吵架的戏其实比恋爱的戏更好，因为浪漫好写，就像恋爱最初的甜蜜一样简单，但几句话完成那样真实精准的日常争吵就难多了。
想及《四重奏》中卷和丈夫的那段交错独白，有人恋爱是为了成了家人，有人想一直沉溺在恋爱中，他们相爱但不喜欢彼此，因为他们始终是两个星球的人。
理想主义与现实主义的决裂。总之，无论如何，我还是坚定地站理想主义！
主流高级小清新，日常情绪处理不错，但还是太甜了，有些齁人，一直在想如果滨口龙介来拍这样的故事，会怎么拍。可以叫同居物语，Or输给现实生活的文青纯爱。推荐给那些即将结束同居，走向分手或走向婚姻殿堂的年轻人。苏打和村花这一对，从客厅一个打游戏一个做PPT，为互不打扰、互相牵就那里开始就心塞了。也许爱不是互相牵就、妥协，爱是在爱的前提下组一个默契型Team，并肩作战，一路升级打怪，直到筋疲力尽还能互相拍拍肩膀，痛饮一杯，相视而笑。
一株植物如何孕育出花蕾，一朵花如何绽放盛极转衰。可能你并不关心，如何说的是花束般的恋爱呢？
为备胎的他俩，最终为自己勇敢走到一起，甜蜜
想跟之前吃饭的朋友说，我终于懂时停错觉这首歌好听在哪里了
男神坂元裕二的细腻赞美一万遍也嫌少。绢注意到了麦喜欢把“乘着电车之时”形容成“在电车上摇的时候”，就是那种在沙滩上发现贝壳的感觉。双视角叙述的节奏感太活泼了。押井守、《牯岭街少年杀人事件》都是太漂亮的彩蛋。电影说：开始是结束的起点，相遇伴随着离别。但他说：体验好每一刻，晚安。
这就是爱情啊！这就是爱情的真相啊！这就是大多数人一生里总会经历过的某段爱情啊！！在这部作品里，一定会有某个对话、某个瞬间、某个片段突然击中你，让你突然难过了起来。
只能说世界摧毁了文学吧，架纯妹子的阅读谱系真高级文青，普通文青够不来（5.24影院重温，人生啊，还是要按照自己喜好去过，死活才都不悔恨
心机的半圆和平实的半圆在这部电影里打架，看之前很喜欢热评那句“和完美合拍的人说再见”，看完后却觉得这又是心机半圆的矫情，以前写“爱情与生活总是矛盾，是我无法治愈的顽疾”，这样真实得无可奈何的半圆应该是再也回不来了。唉，和过去的爱人挥挥手吧。
感觉是十年前豆瓣恋爱小组认识的两个人，后来男的工作太忙，不上豆瓣了。
看这电影的起因是我不相信菅田将晖演了个正常人，看完后现阶段的我很感谢误打误撞看到这样一部电影！初次见面的十足惊喜与万分期待，进入社会后的渐行渐远与间距成长，最后是要么进一步就这样变成亲人过下去要么退一步你依旧是我的美好回忆…可是我还是不懂啊，如果和这样的人都没法走下去，还能怎么办呢？
俺很吃这一套。除了爱情之外，这部电影顺带探讨的话题还不少呢。又有谁能保证自己不会步入被异化的深渊？热恋很美好，但爱情大多会像花束般逐渐凋零，长久的百分之几永远是少数。真希望自己永远像小绢一样坚定、自由，无论是面对爱情还是人生。苏打和有村的演技都好棒！
说的就是我和我前任的故事：70%的兴趣爱好重合。但是我和她刚好和电影里面的男女主相反。我是属于想要每天开心，下班后做自己喜欢的事情，理想型。她则是天天想着未来发展，怎么去挣更多钱，规划未来的现实型。经历了这段感情后，我意识到了以后找另一半不要看共同兴趣爱好是否符合自己，因为这是站不住脚的，只是一个标签，能否长久在一起还得看生活方式、性格、三观是否合适。
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。
只能说世界摧毁了文学吧，架纯妹子的阅读谱系真高级文青，普通文青够不来（5.24影院重温，人生啊，还是要按照自己喜好去过，死活才都不悔恨
恋爱是动态的，双方可以不同，也可以相互分享发掘爱好，交流深刻的思想，讨论解决面临的问题。不一起成长，没有思想互动，只一味地想维持之前的感觉，注定会因为步调不一致而走散。
傻逼影院字幕只能显示半截…全程跟练日语听力一样半猜半看字幕。电影结束后都不知道那只小猫叫什么名字…边看边纠结男主叫小麦还是小青，女主叫小绳还是小缇…不过是属于为数不多的能让人释怀的be结局，看完后想回家再把最开始的一小时看一遍…
感觉冲着片名带女票来看电影的小男生，脚底都要尴尬地抠出栋别墅来了。
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