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".
皮克斯总能在最生活最平凡的地方，讲出最动人的故事。人生虽然会不如意的事十之八九，但是感受生活的每一天本身就可以是生活的目标。
没看成的演出成了相遇的门票，从诗词歌赋聊到人生哲学，在久久不灭的红灯前接吻...人生遇一知己难得，但更难得的是和来到你生命里的有缘人始终保持步调一致，同时不敷衍不妥协地过下去。有过和初识的“the one”相谈甚欢，并用心经营随之而来的长久关系经验的人，一定能深深体会到崮中真意。有了充满仪式感的开始和结束，能坦然感谢过往的美好岁月也挺不错，至少是真的美好过。
但看完电影以后第一反应会觉得他俩最大的问题还是没钱。但凡他们有钱也不至于走到这一步🚬沦为了一个爱情被现实打败的俗套故事🚬
2020.12.25｜南京德基广场｜太爱了！广褒宇宙的质感，几何线条构成的“人物”（也许该叫“灵魂”），写实的纽约街景特别是Garner在布鲁克林的家的阳台画面，脑洞大开的故事线，充满哲理的对话，构成了一部给成年人看的童话。对冲基金经理梗超好笑！哈哈哈哈哈哈～里面极具思辨意义的一段说到，当人进入心流状态时，是enjoyable的，but when that joy becomes an obsession, it gets disconnected from life..在一路探讨完人生的火花是什么，人生的意义何在之后，电影最后回归质朴，只是说：活在当下吧！浓浓一碗鸡汤，不腻，真香！
你说普通的爱情不过是结婚生子，周末开车去迪士尼高岛屋。我说平凡的爱情是喜欢同样的作家漫画，一起吃刚出炉的面包，地铁回家走路三十分钟有说不完的话。
每个人都有自己的选择，也不要抱怨是生活（或者对方）把自己变成这样，其实这一切都是我们主动选择的结果。
不由得想到穆旦这句诗，“相同和相同溶为怠倦,在差别间又凝固着陌生。”
爱情就是长长久久的遗憾，两个人背对着挥手再见的时候，我哭得很难过，爱情啊，是分开后的他们，没有做多少违背心意的事，过了自己想过的日子，爱人的能力不断修复，在这个只是没有遇见ta的过程而已，且之前的种种，他们有机会去了解和反思，什么是爱，什么是恋情与婚姻，什么是想要的与不要的，但是他们挥手再见了。我很喜欢这部电影，故事的男女主角融入不了社会和集体，知道自己和别人不一样，他们在茫茫人海里互相认出了对方，然后恋爱的花期结束，他们交往的对象正是之前他们无法融入和沟通的那一类人。是谢谢时间吗？是谢谢彼此的恋爱又分手让对方有充裕的时间学习做一个健康快乐的人吗？人生的过程不是一定要什么的过程。真的，有机会想明白这一点比不明白这一点要好。
非常惊喜，看到了很多艺术家的痕迹：Bruce Nauman, James Turrel，Anthony McCall，还有更早期立体派的Picasso。主创们可能是灵修派的粉丝吧，不过live for the minute还是太鸡汤了，也可能就是这么简单。
就感觉是cliche的集大成。以前也是憧憬和自己爱好相近的人谈恋爱的，现在会觉得爱好有什么用三观最重要。
idk…感觉男女主从最开始相遇到后面分手也没有真正的交流过。像报菜名一样罗列共同的兴趣爱好和经历，就可以作为陷入爱河的条件了吗？看完觉得很虚浮，也没有办法为这种不真挚的爱感动
东亚系的爱在系列……这好聚好散秉承了虎鱼传统啊，理查德·林克莱特肯定拉不下脸来拍三部曲拍到散伙。但分手也是恋爱的美丽回忆啊。（220224 影院国语版 这个押井守居然说普通话！然后到字幕滚完，散场的时候，有位观众发表评论：好可惜哦，这么两个人，最后都没结婚，也就没什么人能结婚了。
来车站的路上，一面看着电影，一面在停歇的空余瞄一眼这劫后余生的城市，太阳照常升起
这部电影将成为我最喜欢的爱情片，他拍出了我想要的，也拍出了我失去的，还拍出了我恐惧的，更拍出了我坚持的。
前有“最完美的离婚”，这部里有“最差劲的求婚”。以前一直觉得坂元裕二是位写得好片段但写不好状态的创作者，他写得好邂逅、发现自己喜欢某个人的顿悟时刻、同类之间相互确认的有来有回、充满细节情绪饱满的分手场景，但处理不好这些片段之间的日常。这部《花束》绝对算不上坂元最好的作品，但神奇的是，这个“soulmate”爱情故事反而与他的这种特点适配度极高。在这段重点放在了相遇和分开的爱情里，他可以尽情地去浪漫化那些应该被浪漫化的片段，然后很自然地把这些浪漫之间的温水煮青蛙的现实生活写得无聊平庸，因为它们本该如此。恋爱变成生活，但生活里并没有太多喜悦。
-我想笑着对她说再见
小麦对小娟说：感谢你对精神世界的坚守，让我不至于在追名逐利中丢失自己。
你的逻辑在他那里无障碍通行，他的想法在你这里找到了翻版。可惜，和“世界上另一个我”谈恋爱，存活率依然为零。一切开始，都是为了结束的开始。SMAP 会解散，恋爱会分手，你爱的那个人会变成曾经你们都最讨厌的人，真空里的花束，一旦被所谓“责任”“生计”“社会性”之类的东西刺破了气泡，只会迅速枯萎。大概因为，恋爱本就是诞生和存活在滤镜之下的东西。人们总以为不幸的婚姻是和一个不爱的人在一起将就。实际上，好多婚姻是彼此相爱的人在一起将就，是恋爱的垂死挣扎，是共同凭吊一座遗址。苏打村花十分可爱，故事有几个笑点但并无看头。
两个文艺青年恋爱会分手，因为他们高估了共同爱好的重要性，低估了独立生活的艰难。以及，资本主义对人的异化，是爱情的天敌。
他们如此相似，相似到喜欢的作家，相似到用电影票当书签，相似到耳机打结，相似到同一款白鞋，相似到架上书的雷同……相似到……
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