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".
谢谢不散观影。这是理想主义和友谊万岁的胜利！小朋友们明显都最喜欢活泼乐天的小艺！
people all fucked up
挺有意思的儿童游戏，儿童成人化，第一场戏就能看见大结局，没想到要经历这么多的波折啊。
奇奇怪怪的片名，故事倒是清新流畅，舒服的复古调调，但不管是忠犬也好，备胎也好，这不太像是爱情。几个客串很惊喜。
1970年出生的人，为什么总会在自己刚刚懵懂自己之前那个崇尚并实践Love&Peace的时代才是最美好的时候，就可能早已经和那份美好差了10岁以上的光景，在那之前，确实很少见到这么左撇子的人和时代，这样一个一心想着搞事业的和另一个总盼望过生活的双向奔赴，相爱的时刻无疑是停在了历史上的某个瞬间，那个时代就会反过来说爱你，所以不要怪罪PTA的语言如此外显的所谓“浅薄”，因为每天批判一切，告诉你生活、社会、世界为什么总会这么坏那么坏的“智慧”与“处世之道”实在是太多了，还是要有人来谈谈怎么才可以好和更好，不是吗？
3.5，前面屡屡看不下去，看到后面反到被男女主角吸引住了，长相无论多么不搭，chemistry还是有的。看了花絮才知道原来有这么多熟人这么多梗，感觉像是导演拍给自己开心的怀旧作业。女主角这是照着《纽约一个下雨天》里面艾丽范宁打造的人见人爱大美女人设啊……
虽然不是一部John Hughes式的青春片，但结局浪漫得让我想起『十六支蜡烛』。
很明显女主是PTA喜欢的类型，尤其开篇时间不是很长的长镜头，还有最开始背影走路的线条，简直太A了！ 回到故事，我是一点都不喜欢。有那么些别扭一直持续着。故事纯美式，资本主义人家15岁就会，真是不同。但只要PTA玩的开心就好，这绝对个人化的影片！
那场打电话的戏我可以看一百遍。俩人都拿着话筒，一言不发，只是辨认彼此的呼吸。
小情侣间的暧昧游戏我不懂。。。。。花了大半个月时间终于看完了
开头走廊上的拉扯，不切，用个完整的长镜头会更好。
一种爱谁谁的态度跃然而生
最忘情的奔跑一定是为了追寻那些你以为再也追不到的东西，在这样的奔跑中可能并没有所谓的方向，命运的重力、生活的引力、内心中的真挚、迷惑和渴望，终会让你在起步折转、直进逆行中跑出自己的真心、跑出自己的方向，并以此永远地记录下每一个奔跑着的时代。
第一次看PTA，颁奖季中居然还有这股子“清流”。安德森是怎样把一个狗血剧情拍的那么“文艺”～相差十岁的“姐弟”恋人分分合合的关系，就像片中那辆没油的卡车沿着曲曲折折的公路倒退一样，好在最后成功的“加上油”。十五岁还未成年的格雷在片中所做的超出他年龄范围的事情真的让我大吃一惊，美国孩子都已经这么胆大创业了吗？而处在人生岔路口二十五岁的阿拉娜则对未来产生迷茫彷徨的状态之中，两人相遇所发生的事情这个事件本身就很有吸引，安德森惯有的加入类似调戏情色的元素，散漫琐碎的的叙事设置，格雷突然被捕、莫名的监视等等一切都不需要理由，这便是年轻人在生活中所做出的态度——自由。多处的互相奔赴的两人在镜头上很美，最后的镜头也美，介绍演员跟昨天的《公民凯恩》一样的方式，我喜欢，因为这样我可以认出谁谁谁。
竟然挺喜欢的，就像是全世界都知道你爱他，你却不知道
怎么说呢，有库珀，有西恩潘，有Haim一家，还有小李子亲爹，以及斯皮尔伯格的女儿。但男女主丑得一塌糊涂，说复古它在搞笑，说搞笑它在怀旧，说怀旧它把一众配角都搞得满脸赘肉，毫无美感，可能玛格特罗比来了都能给拍成二丫。剧情转折没逻辑，每个桥段都像一拍脑门子想出来的。Gary这种人是在生活中我见到都会嫌弃的，干啥啥不行，牛B第一名，试镜那段就顾着换衣服，镜头前你倒是亮个活儿啊？每个人都像嗑嗨了一样不好好过日子，真把生活当儿戏，即兴发挥可还行？倒是市议员的姘头活〇活现，再就pinball的商业嗅觉很灵敏了。非得说这是个啥东西，可能是个玩笑吧。
愉悦从头至尾，共鸣高频发生，完全剥离回忆神话色彩和成人俯视视角的最朴实也最彻底的青春狂潮中又通过客串明星带出的奇遇片段让梦幻照进现实、照出时代，看似完全的轻巧自由下是四两拨千金的意念和手段，无油倒车、三人晚餐等段落依然给出了PTA式的精彩调度，但其后女主的目光、“情敌”的拥抱等设计更是神来一笔，使情绪表意一并涌出。小霍夫曼在童星设定下呈现出的那种平凡感让人相信虎父确无犬子，哈伊姆则塑造出一个迷之闪耀的成年未长大形象。一言蔽之，本片带给了我颁奖季最大的惊喜
除了喜欢片中的音乐，共情到那句“They (men) are all shits!”，我真的不能get到性欲和叶子齐飞的70年代，小白男跟坚强熟女扑朔迷离的暧昧故事，水床那些恶趣味梗我感受也不是那么强烈。嘲讽了一系列自我感觉良好的男人：浮夸的好莱坞，虚伪的政客，虚张声势的逐利者，就算是打纯真牌的男主，也要说句“要不是我你还在照相馆”。就都很shit。女主家庭环境窒息，职场被不同男上司性骚扰动手动脚，男人来“教”如何开卡车趁机揩油，下一秒便是女主长距离山路一把倒车。印象最深的是，女主坐在黎明的街头，前面是傻逼，身边是发情疯狗，看到橱窗的竞选海报，以为是一线逃离机会，原来就真的没有选择呀！
虽然叙事流畅，但对于PTA来说太平庸且乏味了。
结尾有点突然 除此以外完美 天才写剧本和普通导演写剧本就是不一样哈 不一样
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