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".
五星全部给王朔，王老，还得是你。我也觉得这样说不好，但是看完，就是这样的感觉，就是拍的对得起王朔的文本但又能更好，女演员的表现方式都能更柔和，王朔不会写女的，怎么导演你也不会拍，不能改吗，这点意识，这点主权都没有，你还当导演？苏凌芳来那年，实验室爆炸，带走了我爸，把我变成一个不能奔跑的人。你寄来的信我一封都没收到，那么多年过去，我不回头看，是因为我觉得我在你身边，什么都会好。你白天不让我知道的事夜晚在噩梦里泄露，宾至如归的北京，我摔在大雨里，再也闻不到被打湿的青草味道。
台词就值得及格分了，还是王朔剧本里的角色会说人话，本杰明巴顿奇事和阿甘正传本土化remix版，其实还算值得一看。
我觉得王朔在骗我高分，但又心甘情愿😂太怪了，太惊奇了😂
啊，砂糖和小林子差不多高，一本满足……哈哈哈哈哈
TIFF 好好按原著拍不行么……非要又搞成震后创伤，所有人的表演都过于努力显得极度刻意，最精彩的情节不是靠剧情推动演出来，而是对话讲出来，累了
溺而待拯的，并无音声；疲于奔命的，难免失常。
这么好的电影难道不值得一个五星吗？探讨了生死。
不错的影片，质感很好，有年代感与胶片感，果然每个人难以忘怀的都是自己的青春。片中有很多人的死亡，突然离世的父亲，最终放弃抢救的老教授，和冒险拿身体试验的丁萌萌，每个人都对于不老不死有自己的态度，对人生有自己的活法。如果没有记忆，不老的躯壳好像也没有太多意义了。中间的成名，男主角的不老以及最终的车祸，离婚，女儿的出生和长大，都好似导演给观众编制的美好梦境一般，现实往往充斥残酷，很不错的影片，演的也很好。
很不错看的电影，讲的很深入，探究社会和政府福利的问题:低保的申请以及发放，老奶奶生活困难却因为福利部的推脱以及对抛弃的女人的面子问题无法申请到低保导致死亡引发了一些列的杀人案件，最后不在于杀人凶手有多凶残，而在地震后政府的不作为未对困难的人给予应有的保障。kaya酱演的真棒！！！尤其绑架那时候眼神很到位，不愧是最佳女配角，实至名归！！！
我国文艺工作者对爱情这个东西理解真是有点肤浅，年轻的导演拍出这么老气横秋的爱情线实在是有点照猫画虎了。不过本杰明巴顿的神韵还是抓到了那么一点点，构图和剪辑还是有造诣。至于拉跨的编剧部分，这向来是国产片的最短板。就是有体验而没感悟，有想法而缺思考。
一人背锅一人犯案的剧情实在是过于老套了，一眼既穿的剧情使这个新颖的题材变得平淡无味，也让最后的呐喊和呼吁变得那么的苍白无力。
何を、護るのか；
全剧独白太多了，感情的刻画实在太少了，每一个片段能体现出来的情感真的不多，有一种《阿甘》似的影子，又又一种《返老还童》似的影子，但是总感觉哪里缺了点什么，体会不到哪里感人的点，男女主的感情羁绊只有小时候的几个片段，也都是独白构成的，男女主又像胡歌演的《猎场》似的，两人互相思念互相爱恋，但却就是无法在一起。 男主的很多事情的动机也实在搞不清楚，为何最后要去漂泊？？最后叙事的讲述了男主的一生，像是快进片！
王朔：玩摇滚的形式大于内容一个个都是为了泡妞；演艺圈几乎没什么好东西；导演和导演老婆属于各玩各的；那谁拍的电影只有农村戏能看；那谁演的电影也就农村戏好看；新概念作家等于陪酒小姐。（王朔自己：天赋异禀在自己的领域年少成名游刃有余，天南海北地跑了一圈，最后白月光生了我和红颜知己的孩子？
92年斯洛伐克才和捷克分裂，90年你去的时候得叫捷克斯洛伐克!
奔着王朔看的，结果导演拍了个狗JB
看了别人的评论才知道原来这是小说改编，ma，ano，有时候我还是不咋理解日本的思维，老人总想不给国家添麻烦，但实际上本来就造成了麻烦，而且社会福祉本来就应该是通过税收来调节财富来帮助需要被帮助的人。。。
“苏”
还不错，看上去挺感人的，就是最后一段转的有些快，没太看明白，关于不老的亲情和爱情故事，身体可以不老，容颜可以不变，但记忆会衰退，这样的话，有意义吗？
他好的时候我不必在，
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