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".
回忆总是闪着光的，当不经意间的时间流逝得超乎想象的时候，那一个按下暂停的能让我们回头喘口气并且随着记忆翻滚的瞬间，依旧还是会将我们这些“无法成为大人的”的大人泪流满面。
森山未来和柄本佑的气质很像，一种类型的人类。
试问从20岁开始到现在每个人都会经历多少变化？那些曾经的梦想和坚持如今又有多少人还记得？我们都会遇到过一个闪耀着光芒的人，以为她改变了我们未来的人生，可最终却又遗憾的发现，我们大多数人不过是活成了一个又一个身边的“普通人”
真是非常普通的人，初恋线那种波西米亚/布尔乔亚和引经据典已经让人审美疲惫了，反而是友情线和风俗女的尾崎丰歌唱意外有点动人。
1）“这世界上有80%的人都是垃圾”，“剩下20%的人是什么?”，“人渣” ... “我觉得至少有1%是好人吧”。 2）“我是温暖的人 所以才会孤身一人”。3）总有一天阳光一定会照射进来的。 ——《我们都无法成为大人》
真的，很普通呢。
3.5前面的时间线有点乱，到后面渐入佳境…同性之爱的刻画就有点刻意了
首先“没有成为立派的大人”确实是我的母命题；legacy，无论是生活还是工作还是爱人的，都很haunted；理论上应该是我很喜欢的电影但是反而还是更喜欢“花束般的恋爱”🤔；我最近（尤其是周日晚上）真的有很多存在主义焦虑
2007年的夏天，我骑着自行车，路过一个摊头，闻着炸鸡柳，流下了口水
很喜欢这种闭环倒叙的手法，就像从此刻的人生翻开了一本记忆相册，一边看着镜子里的自己，一边慢慢的让时间倒流，去回顾那些只属于我们自己人生点滴的瞬间
细节满满，独到之处是用步步退回的方式讲这个熟悉得就像鞋里的鞋垫般的故事，每句平常话语每个物件某刻就像荒谬的小铲子，把所有追忆都变成了考古和解密。森山未来的演技好到了蜘丝马迹，处男青涩令人捧腹，社畜麻木也感同身受。骤然想起早前伊藤润二的短篇漫画，山洞里的人随山洞生长变形，现在想来差不多也比喻了我们这段人生。
比较有好感有关孤独的故事，所以如果不是特别难看，就会三星起步。此为前提。
普通是唯一的终点，啊哈，我在电影里看到了堕落天使的海报了，在日本叫天使的泪～
其实 有些生活中的人就突然来了然后就突然走了…… 抓不住留不下忘不了
花束般的恋爱的主题+薄荷糖的叙事，emmm
“人生是缓慢挨捶的过程”年轻时我们认为自己所向披靡无所不能，随着时间流逝，磨了棱角，褪去青涩，我们才发现如此艰辛只是为了成为平凡的普通人，而那已经用尽了全部的力气。如果倒带重来，你还会不会成为这样的自己，遇见她和那些朋友？
人们相遇又分开，往前走是成长，停在原地也是成长。便宜旅馆里的星河和雪山顶上的星河又有什么区别呢，人和人总有不同的生活，每一份回忆都珍贵。
近年隔一阵子就出来一部用怀旧表达人生迷茫的中年危机电影，这部里的各种要素实在是太烂熟太套路化了（
成为大人就是活成最普通的模样。你真的成为那个曾经你想成为的自己了吗。7.5/10
有点丧丧的，25年的人生浓缩在2小时的电影里，外部世界经历的大事件只是坐标，普通人的人生就这样继续着。人生中遇到的那些人啊，在不同的年纪里，遭逢了不同的际遇。留下了什么，又丢掉了什么呢？如此文艺却又不让人讨厌，仿佛每个人都能找到一些自己的影子，也看到东京光鲜背后的另一面。化妆技术不错，跨度25年毫无违和感。最后东京夜晚街头的奔跑，真是寂寞啊，看到25年前的自己，留下了泪，又想说什么呢？是后悔当年没有珍惜吗？还是什么呢？都是幻象吧。记忆是会骗人的。如果爱一个人不要只是让对方一味付出和主动。还好多年后没有再见。就留在回忆里多好，就过好当下多好，无论是变成了大人还是怎样，都不要否定当下的自己，当年那么想独树一帜最后都变成了普通的人啊又怎么样呢，这就是人生啊。全程配音都很好听，真的！
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