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".
西虹市的改编解决了三谷作品常见的“呈示部”过长的问题，把主要人物关系捏在一起迅速抛出，第一幕凝练高效。设定正是麻花最擅长的架空时空（一个充满美式类型片特质却全员东北话的哪里都不存在的世界）。但这一部价值却恰恰不在它极致的高概念设定，而是在概念搭建出舞台后，给你看血肉健全的小人物的挣扎。东北喜剧之王跳着雨中曲该是什么样子？就是反复较真儿死法够不够富于表现力的魏翔，在《冷静》中的样子。 “黄金配角”这四个字里，不止有“配角”，还有“黄金”。魏成功的眼泪，好像每一滴都属于魏翔自己。努力演下去却好像很难被人看到，这样的眼泪有几个普通人能不感同身受呢。
对这段青春期的故事几乎无感，放纵和追随自由是青春期的特点之一，但一味如此有些像长不大的孩子。分久必合，合久必分，他们最终还是走到了一起。
各种奔跑虽有滥用嫌疑，与文本倒契合——一种无畏的、生机勃勃的劲头，因为年轻可以允许随时放弃重来，可以全然不计外界跑向对方；原声太棒，David Bowie《Life On Mars》那段日剧跑最美。
有点像当年的 Punch-Drunk Love，属于那种怪咖爱情小品，但又不太像，70年代的西海岸背景类似《性本恶》《不羁夜》，胶片感超级重，有些地方真的笑出声，男人都又渣又幼稚，最后不如选个清纯的。。Cooper Hoffman太乖了，想抱着他猛亲两口，女主稍微不太好看了一点
不羁夜的怀旧感加上私恋失调的怪咖恋爱就构成了PTA这部可爱作品，其实从剧情上看是随性的，甚至有些失控，但镜头的流畅度和一些场景调度设计上就很走心，比如女主和议员以及议员男朋友三人的餐桌戏，议员开始不出镜代表了其想躲避人群，同时也是深柜指代。当然最好的还是男女主的气质，有些路人，但又有自己的魅力，霍夫曼的儿子也长大了，延续老爸志愿和导演合作，这个角色也适合他。
It’s 2021 and I really don’t need to see a badly told story with boring characters, filled with racism/sexism jokes. I don’t give a fuck about anything that happens in this film. The romance is so cheap. The not-coming-anywhere-coming-of-age story is so cheap. Seriously???
我甚至不知道这个片到底的算不算爱情，毕竟25岁的女孩和15岁的男孩真的相差太大，心境也不太一样，很多争吵点都让我觉得男方的想法十分单纯天真，但是同样也让我觉得他是比较尊重女主的。但除此之外，好像也没有什么特别的，感觉是男方的幻想故事罢了……
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三星半。致敬《雨中曲》部分拍得很美，但个人觉得大部分的笑点都有些弱智，看多了略尴尬和无语。。其次，剧本做得粗糙，有好几次转折都太生硬了，人物关系基本没建立起来。不否认服化道做得很有风格，但这似乎只是对原版的继承？
7.5 1.像Phantom Thread一样拍点奇怪恋情，几个段落与蓝色的光稍微有点Punch-Drunk Love的浪漫，但故事和Inherent Vice与The Master一样松散冗长，你也不知道拍了这么多人这么多东西到底在干嘛，此外全是songs和running。2.Sean Penn的角色是William Holden？而Bradley Cooper是Kris Kristofferson？Alana Haim长相确实有股Barbra Streisand的味道，所以最终又是搞The Long Goodbye是吧。3.演职员一看：Philip Seymour Hoffman的儿子，Steven Spielberg的女儿……
3.5+；男女主成长的时差，也即接收和消化外部环境的失衡感，拧成了影片松散叙事下无可名状的逻辑驱动力。同样是奔跑的动作，一个将躁动且无处倾泻的荷尔蒙用于游猎目标，一个渴望对抗和逃离，假借入世来隔绝内心的钝重。看似圆满的结尾因而渗出些余味，是70年代美国深处历史夹缝、在自知和不自知间摇摆的伏笔，也是专属于PTA的雅谑。当然，诸如对越战、石油危机、过气影星、《出租车司机》等副线的玩弄尚可进一步盘活，让弹珠反射出更夺目的光晕。Alana这种水准的银幕处女秀不给个奥提，也算是妥妥的冤案了。
2022了PTA拍了一部当哈利遇见萨莉……充分尊重导演创作自由，可这是pta啊……无油卡车那段可真酷！
为了公平打分 我专门补看了原版 哎 怎么说呢 原版就是浪费胶片。。。
靠近的膝盖，"床戏"中未曾触碰的手，政客和情人的争吵,镜头中只有愤怒失意的情人和信息量爆炸一脸懵逼的女主。
这是一次「伟大复兴」，包括了罗伯特·奥尔特曼式的1990年代美国艺术电影，《不羁夜》时期的散乱叙事和有点过头的画面色调，《私恋失调》式的愚蠢甜烂畸零爱情故事。最牛逼的是Cooper Hoffman 对爹Philip Seymour Hoffman 的复活，他妈的笑起来太像了我直接看哭了。一部散漫小品确实不是巅峰PTA，但作为脑残粉能怎样呢？《记忆》之后第二部年度top3 预订，看他妈一百遍啊一百遍！！（乔治克鲁尼快带着soggy bottom boys 出来给水床唱个广告歌啊！！！
他们争吵不休，永远满怀嫉妒，在复古的、灯火通明的加州夏夜里不断地奔跑，在受命运安排前不断否认他们注定要在一起。 可惜有佳句无佳章，远不是最好的PTA。如此糟糕的亚裔玩笑，在2021年出自好莱坞最重要的作者导演的新作中，在以包容著称的纽约，还能引得观众大笑。道阻且长。（讲自己的故事当然没问题啊，but PTA is such a small man 在座各位有想到吗？我是没眼看的。
绝对轻快的、愉悦的、曼妙的好看，会让人暂时将烦恼抛之脑后的好看，以至于观看过程中会不自觉地扬起嘴角。这不仅是属于PTA的70s玩乐时空，也满足了人们对复古爱情片的一切想象，就连腐朽批判的部分也变得如此诙谐有趣。鲜活的Alana Haim给这部影片注入了太多直接的能量，心神不定的思念在孤寂的夜晚发酵，沉默呼吸的节奏在电话中传递，时代灿烂的韵律在矛盾的角色身上复现，Alana和Gary向着彼此相视奔跑的那一刻就像是刺破了阴暗世俗的甜蜜曙光，一种穿透了上世纪虚假梦幻的身体势能在当代迸发复活，和二十年前那句“我现在拥有爱了”同样充满着力量，这是属于蒙太奇之外的部分，一个多么老套却又不失诚挚的“技巧”，甚至比「私恋失调」里溢于言表的氛围形式更能深入作者本真。你们究竟还想要在这般纯真的电影中找寻到什么？
都不知道该说，幸好还是虽然，一直都喜欢不起来PTA，这么无趣的青春片，怎么能出自PTA。。
想到的是《不羁夜》，这样的拍法对PTA来说太容易也太安全了。完全无法把它和《私恋失调》做对比，后者的运镜和男主角的躁郁症是完美融为一体的，而这一部里缺少让人眼前一亮的镜头。另外，青春片配大卫·鲍伊的歌曲日剧跑，三十年前卡拉克斯就用德尼·拉旺做到了极致，PTA搁这cosplay呢？
看侯孝贤看不下去改看了这个，真是没啥意思，麻花自嗨的作品，改得陈辞滥调又一团和气。
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