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".
这个结尾看得人心想：别活了，我也别活了，你也别活了，大家都别活了。
@新宿toho 2021年的冬天我在电影院爆哭。京王线恋爱物语，剧本无限贴近真实，每一个即将踏入或踏入社会没两年的大学生都会感同身受。男女主相遇的明大前就在我家右拐十分钟，熟悉的高井户高架桥。热衷过小众文化的年轻人们最后都会变成对肖申克的救赎高谈阔论的社会人们。。
最后他们还是分手了
花束般的恋爱语录&独白
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。
但即便故事没有走向另一种结局，
其实很重要的一点是：建立在消费主义上的审美是没办法和日常生活的物质性相抗衡的。人从恋爱进入婚姻的阶跃，必须是依靠现实生活而存在的。很庆幸的是我很早就理解到了这一点，没有把“文艺”作为沟通的标准，也一直坚持自己对于书影音的个人喜好，标准和追求永远是面向自己的，就算是最亲密的人也不能如此要求。虽然剧情一般，但是配色和细节处理，包括一些前后对照的镜头语言都做的很好，就还行。
非常非常普通的爱情故事，依靠「自以为」百分百重合的兴趣爱好为标准而交往是挺没劲的，说明要么认识的人还不够多，要么缺少一个豆瓣账号。以及看到了两个演员之间挺大的演技差距。
【18/HKIFF45】ありがちな恋愛、一般來說看了也沒什麼用，但這一部麥和絹ありがちな恋愛，看看又何妨。兩個人的相遇的確浪漫，比起他們意氣相投的對話，我更愛他們的pair look。作為一個還沒放棄希望來任由社會無情榨取的人，覺得麥那些無意間說出口的話的確是有點「沒有心」，因為自己的夢想被剝削就說服絹甘願步他的後塵。雖然開始是結束的開始，但結束也是結束的結束或者說新的開始，花期會再來。聽到「クロノスタシス」的時候連我都有點激動了。在文化中心看到了蘇打氏的河田大貴臉我也算是有點開心的。配角陣容也像花束一樣很驚喜，細田佳央太x清原果耶我太可以了！
在工作日疲惫的通勤路上看到最后来到店里的年轻男女那两双匡威开口笑后直接泪崩，我上中学时也和喜欢的人都买了一模一样的，在课桌底下排成一排。所以是不是能聊文学和电影、是不是文艺青年这些从来都不那么重要，学生时代那种独有的恋爱的感觉才是最最最珍贵的，彼时我们浑然不知，以为这羞涩触电的感觉是天经地义，那么现在呢？
依然是我最爱的Pixar风格！排片很少但绝对绝对绝对值得一看！一味寻找生命的意义反而会成为禁锢自我的执念，享受活在当下的每一分钟也许就能找到属于自己的spark~视觉音效方面不用我多吹，Pixar就是最牛逼的！！爵士乐的钢琴声一流动起来，整个世界都亮了~另外本片编导一定对尼克斯队又爱又恨，常年看NBA的盆友们看到一定会笑出来。（除非你是尼克斯粉。）
要是十年前的我看这片可能会哭成狗然后emo一个礼拜，现在以30多岁阿姨的心看就全程哈哈…日系MV一样断裂的剧情，逛展看书看戏看电影听音乐买面包喝咖啡养猫打塞尔达追动漫，文青要素过于齐全，连对喜欢肖申克救赎的鄙视都一模一样。结局就是二选一：结婚还是分手？分手也还能继续快乐同居三个月，简直完美切中文艺青年美好又伤感的想象。豆瓣18万人打出8.7分，我倒是能理解因为这片太契合豆瓣er的口味了，几乎就是每个文青必然经历的成长写照。电影讲了一个文青被柴米油盐打败的俗套故事，有些小点还是能打动到我，说明我还没老彻底吧。结尾揭示出仅靠文青之间的喜好共鸣是无法维持长久情感关系的，哪怕书影音口味100%合拍都不行，这点非常真实，不要问我为什么知道...我觉得他俩三观的根本分歧源自是否是东京土著吧，在中国也同理
这部和头脑特工队都不喜欢。。还是更喜欢coco和wall e 那样的。。
舞台挨拶中継。二刷。还是很喜欢分手时两个人的哭戏和最后的结尾。第二遍看更明显地感到，从新潟上京、一开始就渴望着婚姻、渴望着永远在一起的男孩，和东京土生土长、对永恒爱情始终抱以悲观态度的女孩，根本上就是完全不同的两类人。热恋时的无比相似，不过是对方的伪装和自己的幻觉而已。然而这些坂元给出的细节，却淹没于导演矫情造作的演出之中。所以真的好想换一位导演把原本的三个半小时的废话重新再讲一遍。3+
坂元想说的大概不是豆瓣友邻的恋爱不行，而是所有的恋爱就是花束般总会凋谢，就算你俩是豆瓣友邻也不行(以及即便如此，恋爱还是像花儿一样
好一碗陈年浓鸡汤，内核已经无法打动我了，然而美丽的画面叹为观止，大银幕看体验太好了。
这是文艺青年向往的恋爱故事，但恐怕，现实中的你们只有后半段的矛盾，而没有前半段的甜蜜，更别提终末的释怀……
皮克斯永远的神！！故事其实比较平，对观众的误导其实只要注意到火花徽章显现时并不是具体事物就能意识到。但是这个主题表现真的是太温柔了！！再加上用一维+二维表现高维生物简直碉堡了！！！还有灵魂那种透明、蓬松、内发光而又模糊的仿佛固态的光一般的质感！！！
坂元和李炳宪已经算是最会写日常系爱情故事的东亚男编剧了，但都是因为太喜欢写机敏的对话，回回都感觉像在看一个人和分裂出的自己恋爱，这部片尤其如此。不过别的（男）编剧往往会写“女孩的成长步调总是快于男孩”，坂元就还是会写男孩先选择了成为大人，坂元式女主身上最突出的就是那点天真气啊。
常见的“因陌生而相爱、因熟知而分手”的故事，但因充满坂元裕二式的细节而充满灵动，尤其是初识段落，微妙的试探与触碰真像是重演了一遍无数人都曾拥有过的时光——即使后来都变成一根根扎在心里的刺，然而当时笑得那么甜，真的以为可以天荒地老或抵挡一切外在干扰；所谓“开始是结束的开始，相遇伴随着离别”永远不会缺席，在生活漩涡的摆弄下，我们仍会滑向无法自控的背道而驰；最痛的大概就是删去手机里记载着每个时间节点的照片。
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