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".
作为一个你生活的地方
年轻小两口演的太拉
曾经在安福路附近住了很多年。每周末去跑步，上瑜伽课。想念那些漂亮的老洋房和梧桐树，湖南路上看起来贵气又神秘的兴国宾馆，每隔一段时间就会倒闭换招牌的精致的咖啡店，随便走走就会遇见的巴金故居。再走走还有华山医院漂亮的小花园和上海图书馆。晚上下班时延安高架两边的夜景，遍布街角的明亮温暖又干净整齐的24小时便利店的窗口，相熟的早餐铺水果摊和菜场的阿姨。想念上海话，想念总是被人称作“小姑娘”然后被碎碎念。太多了。一遍一遍地爱上上海的瞬间。
p.s.好几处拍到我熟悉的上海街角，真真是感动了。
这是我第一次在院线国产电影里看见女权相关的反思，对性别歧视的批判。但是电影本身怎么说呢，结构很散，抓不住魂，低于期待。吴越才是我心中最灵的那个，但是她的戏份一点不出彩。上海是一个足够文青和多元的地方，可艺术片不是那么好拍的。
个人一直偏爱方言电影，很舒服的文艺中年片，不油腻不抓马不喜剧。虽然很多台词跟核心的爱情神话故事本身都有很重的缝合痕迹，在这些中年演员自然表演下不会违和。精沪一本满足。#上海影城cinity
又相信爱情了（bushi）
费里尼纯属牵强附会，那个莫名其妙的片子的中文译名也属于莫名其妙，片尾也自嘲了这一点。
元素多样且不干尬 自我感觉还蛮伍迪艾伦的 所谓爱情神话 就比如说 一切气氛都恰到好处 在这一刻我感觉到很安心 所以我想在此时说爱你 于是爱情就展开了... 不过电影只说了开头没有说结尾 结尾被伍迪艾伦说了 “当爱情结束时你就会告诉自己 那一切不过是回忆....” 如果对你来说爱情是神话，那么分离也是
真好哦这个人物，虽然不帅，中年发福，没什么大钱，精打细算的，但其实很有魅力。
20220119 对我来说有三个亮点: 1. 全沪语对话 2. 多上海演员，包括演徐峥妈妈和马伊琍妈妈的，也都是我熟悉的上海演员。除了那个演儿子的小朋友一口洋泾浜上海话，但也正好说明现在上海话越来越式微的情况 3. 借三位女演员的嘴怼男人眼中的刻板女性形象，可太爽了！
这部电影是我今年看过的最开心幽默的喜剧，全片用上海方言呈现当今上海女性的爱情价值观可以说非常准确和真实，这可能和导演是一位女性有很大的关系，电影的幽默来自于人物之间的对话，沪味的絮叨对我这个上海出生的人来说不但亲切也确实真实，而片中所有的人都有精彩的对话使故事生动流畅，片中还有很多英文流行音乐的加入让这个故事很国际化，甚至有了爱乐之城的欢乐，爱情神话真的很神奇！
蛮惊喜的一部片子 配乐真的是太赞了 娓娓道来的感觉 纯上海话增加了一份上海独有的摩登腔调 而如此具有烟火气的电影 也是好久没有看到了的 细节和一些画面蛮妙的 第一次群人坐在饭桌上的唇枪舌战也是堪称经典啊 好看好看
有点离谱了，这都能吹得起来？难道我看的是另一部片吗… 这不就是一档优秀的国产电视剧吗？它投放的终端真应该是荧屏(电视)，而不是银幕(影院)…
其实你跟你姥你姨儿搁堆儿加一块都比不上你妈万分之一熊，你那点少女怀春小叛逆不过是在洪荒熊力面前洒洒水啦🥲
近来看的最棒一部国产片了，基于传统男女人设进行对调，三个女性角色如李小姐（异域离异格调神秘的野花）格洛丽亚（小野猫有钱有闲吃了抹嘴就跑）、前妻（犯了男人都会犯的错），以及两位男性角色白辛苦和浪荡子老乌，三女两男让一出私房菜成为一锅大锅饭，并且这还是个很有韵味和腔调，充满了戏谑和幽默的故事，我个人很喜欢导演给的这种视角和剧本语言。
喜欢。轻于生活，重于人情，止于神话，始于相信。
中国小资之最，处处体现着上海小资生活和浪漫，中年人有钱有才有闲，又懂生活，又有三五可以玩在一起的好友，真是我向往的十五年后的生活。
全片笑点密集，在众多爆笑修罗局里藏着偶尔一闪的刀锋。展厅里剧场式的光和站位去讨论了核心问题。性别的倒置更是用讽刺引出思考。总的来说质量中上，虽然老乌最后太工具人，但是瑕不掩瑜，看在国产电影的份上还是满分吧～
影片设计充满了巧思，很多隐喻，双关和有趣的细节。
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