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".
告别了青春时代也没什么不好对吧？说实话这种题材半圆用脚写都行，太简单了。另外意识到他简直天然植入广告，往后可以往商业片的路子一路狂奔了。
并没有太喜欢，两人很突然地就走向了不同的路径，明明最初相爱他们在红绿灯下拥吻是具备沟通和共情能力的…GAP我都懂，也理解情侣间其实很容易互相妒忌、无法同步、不去沟通任由怨气积压，但我始终觉得长不大和负责工作并没有那么难互相理解。当然，里面还是有一些不错的男女观察。
再次说明电影文学聊得来很容易，三观不仅仅是这些浮于表面的小文艺，而是面对生活中柴米油盐各种琐碎的态度。这与从小长大的环境父母教育等关系更大。
从校园到社会的恋爱，如此温柔又有始有终的，就是如此吧。最后谷歌地图留下的两个人的影像，那天是两个人第一次光顾家附近的老夫妻面包店，吃炒面面包。全世界和他们一起把这段感情记忆珍藏。
就连我这么自以为是的人也觉得男女主太过自以为是，你怎么不随身带一个人杜比7.1呢，要有这么多一样的地方（且不说不可能）才算高开的话，那跟自己谈恋爱就好啦。我的天哪，虽然也很甜，但我真的讨厌这一挂诶。on the top of everything, I don’t like his face, a lot! And his character. On the top of that, 爱情远没有人们想的这般重要，问题不是忘记恋爱的感觉，而是忘记了生活的感觉，因为内核无聊所以走向无聊
(始终无法get菅田将晖 肖申克的救赎也是同样)
可能我很不幸，正好就是坂元筆下的「文青」，學生時代堅信靠熱愛就能吃飯，所以被這部電影刺得最痛。從男女主開始談論喜好的時候，我就開始想哭，因為這種被人懂得的感覺太過美好，更因為我太明白這種美好終究會消失。而左右聲道的比喻，也是關於兩個相似又不同的個體要如何相處的悖論。一人戴一個耳機，以為分享著音樂，其實聽到的是完全不同的曲調；愛情應該是兩個人各自戴上耳機，然後同時按下播放鍵，只要知道彼此都在聽一樣的歌就好了。——然而誰能在第一次就擁有這份從容呢？也許就差一步，我們就可以像旁邊那間麵包店的夫婦一樣相伴到老了，這個世界上會有常開不敗的花嗎？但我還是選擇相信，愛情能夠與時間抗衡，相信在「大豆田」里小田切讓說的那番時間理論；沒有什麼失落之物是真正逝去的，它們會活在每個曾經擁有過的瞬間。
为备胎的他俩，最终为自己勇敢走到一起，甜蜜
这编剧这导演是多么肤浅多么缺乏创造力啊，我认识的文青朋友故事的都比这电影有意思得多。
婚姻故事前传，也是放在全球各地都成立的人类命运共同体吧。啰嗦却很细腻，就是过于把工作和情感关系的处境极端化了些。
把主题归为“败给柴米油盐”还挺不负责任的233 共同喜欢的书、电影、漫画，说到底只是对话的前定和谐，“世界上另一个我”这种判断，下太早啦！恰恰是在既非大人也非孩童的时期里，恰恰是在面临巨大无形之物，恰恰是被车轮碾过之时，看清楚“我他妈到底是谁”的修行才刚刚开始呀w
细节太多的恋爱剧
真的好爱这部电影，就和当初喜欢《LALALAND》一样。
想不到在这里都能听到吐槽《霍比特人》又臭又长。整体比我想象得要正面啊，起初知道大概剧情时还以为我看完后会很崩溃。Mugi社畜时的发言真的很伤人，很庆幸他最后没有完全变成东亚商业精英男。本情感荒漠就不说什么爱情感悟了，只想对自己说：不要理所当然屈服于精英成功学。小田切让好帅啊！
这就是算法，定制给文青的产物咯？整那么多小众同类爱好，来营造戏剧化，无法共情啊！冲突呢？文戏太普通，展现矛盾的主题，根本不是穷，是那种战战兢兢的初见保鲜期太短了，但是你俩也处4年了，这不结婚撑到第4年，本事不小。刚好看过【剧场】，来看这部，导演和编剧的水平高下立判，唯一亮点就是苏打的真诚吧，放在这样的本子里，他也尽力了。
确实非常好的片，很有现实和话题意义。但影片本身的商业化和套路化还是很刻意，比如到底两个人的问题是什么？比如最后饭局一刻男主用真诚挽留住女主，这个故事也说得通，也符合约定俗成的社会现象，未必将来就一定很悲催。那么编导坚持他们分开的用意是什么呢？或许是为了刻意制造一种反思效果，其实价值也在于审视年轻人的不成熟，双方需要沟通和尊重的本心，男主的转变，女主的坚持可能都不代表成熟，两人其实都没有想清楚生活和未来，所以最后的离开不是什么性格问题，恰恰他们很多表现是宛如一体，就连打算分手的腔调都一模一样，也显得影片的审视非常深刻了
又吉的《剧场》，坂元的《花束》，当代文艺青年恋爱必读文本
刚开始总有浇不息的热情，但恋爱和花束都有一样的难题，如何保鲜？我觉得参与感很重要，一起去完成、分享、观看、阅读、解锁未完成…
“那个想法跟我一模一样的人”
誰不想見證鮮花開得燦爛芬芳，誰不想在某一天突然遇見一個如久別重逢般契合的soulmate呢，誰不想能夠有彼此好好相處的時間去共同迎接未來呢，但是，那樣理想化的愛情太美好了，美好到我太清楚地知道我不配擁有，於是他們越是甜蜜我越是看得忍不住哭。所以，當鮮花開始枯萎凋謝，當他們因現實生活疲憊不堪時，當他們人生軌道開始逐步分岔偏離時，兩個人又變回了一個人和一個人，我反而有種說不出的釋然。可是，可是，即便是那樣，我還是羨慕，羨慕他們有共同生活，羨慕他們有擁抱分手，羨慕他們分手之後想起彼此依然懷念。我真惡心。
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