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".
其实演员都没问题啊，不知道为啥有点食之无味的感觉，等哪天再看一遍如果感觉改变再来改分
电影的落幕时刻或许正是导演交付给观众的一份调查问卷。她假借主角们评价费里尼电影好不好看这个由头，其实是试探性地在询问自己的观众，那你们说说，我拍的这部《爱情神话》到底好不好看呢？对此，我只想说，真心好看！
不知道是我的要求变高了，还是大家的要求变低了，真的觉得很多情节是在充时长，设计感很明显，有点拙劣，Justin还是请不要拍影视剧了吧。
啊张芝华！每次去上海好像都是住类似的地方……想起最后一次去上海也还是和某老师一起去的。。。电影很不错了，看得很开心，觉得每个女生的白眼都翻得超好的！
不谈主义与价值观，则前半部是好戏，后半部在凑合。但一部现实主义基调的作品，从人设到剧情却都不现实，何不架空现实呢，就跟现在吹捧上海防疫如何精准一样，片中的上海不知道加了多少层滤镜甚至意淫，确实是“神话”。再者，女导演创作、女演员主演、迎合女性观众的电影不等于女性主义电影，相反，本片男权意识根深蒂固，不提示的话我还以为是男导演拍的。
太喜欢了，私心一百分。不尴尬不做作，不亵不使人欢笑，可是又足够严肃认真。
老破小里的奢侈高跟，通情又缠绵的野猫，吵吵闹闹又说着悄悄话的前妻，在罗马浪漫邂逅的老友，厌学但懂事的小女孩，化妆能混成达人的儿子还有了不离不弃的外地女友。继承的市中心独栋，深藏仍有伯乐的艺术，闲暇满满以至有空钻研厨艺，连路边的修鞋匠也在和你谈哲学。故事好听吧，编的。其实编的才好听。
（老乌此前为我所知的角色只有林冲）。
还有端起酒杯时 或真或假的风流往事。
在2021的寒风里，看这么嗲的小电影感觉真不错，不管它是罗兰故事还是巧借赫本传说，做到了不让人讨厌。假作真时真亦假，费里尼想象的饮食罗马，和电影里悬浮着的上海生活，大约都是太虚幻境里的一场梦，是站在废墟之城上对全球化的怀念，是不真实的（但结局俗套了让故事没我说的这么高级，费里尼原名也不叫这个）。
徐峥拎着马伊琍的jimmy choo，走过下着雨的小街，这很上海。
2.影片里有段倪虹洁和马伊琍吐槽男性导演/编剧的台词，我突然就想到了金庸，果然这些年被金庸笔下的女性角色带跑偏了。
片中马伊琍、吴越、倪虹洁饰演的三位女性，性情不同，各有代表性，但都有程度不同的现代底色。从女性角度来看，这片有值得探讨的地方。对于影迷，专属梗不少。片名、片子的确和费里尼那部《爱情神话》有千丝万缕的关系。承担女神符号和欲望投射对象的，是意大利国宝女星。
最出彩是睡了索菲亚罗兰的林教头
年轻时多交几个文青做朋友，饭桌上打打机锋，不但预防老年痴呆，而且有人收尸，灵！
喜欢的，四星主要是都是方言削弱了我一部分理解。片子的小东西太多了，比如红拂夜奔，比如男孩美妆博主，比如三个女人第一次偶遇吃饭，比如充满哲学的修鞋匠，比如白辛苦不辛苦，比如三个人在画展厅的那场戏。嬉笑怒骂间好像没说什么又好像什么都说了。说爱情又不完全是爱情，我理解的是爱和情。白辛苦一场，但只要是自己想的，那就不辛苦。老乌故事中的女主角是谁早已不重要了，重要的是一定有那么一个人在你的内心深处。本片的女性群像刻画的相当丰满，对于男女性的探讨有深度又不冒犯。影片最后投影的灯光打在荧幕上，像在看电影，像在看你。
感觉导演在努力营造出一种“格调”出来，不是那种假模假式的装腔作势，而是一群人融入自己的生活后展现出的一种舒适状态，但问题是整个圈层立在了精致有闲的小资阶级之上，导致整体显得有些失真。
李小姐的那一夜不过是断了高跟的名牌鞋，格洛瑞亚的那一夜只能是需要收款的画作，蓓蓓的那一夜或许是鲫鱼汤多加的调料。她们围坐在一起，听老乌讲起他的那一夜，原来爱情可以是男人一生的海啸，倾覆一座城的波涛。已经活到了不会为一张素描而心动的年纪，爱情终究属于神话，不如护手霜和点心值得回味。
又嗲又灵，餐桌戏台词太高能了，什么“剩饭”什么“野猫”什么“私房菜变大锅饭”，刀光剑影的同时滴水不漏。
在《爱情神话》当中，我终于看到了期待已久的成熟爱情。近些年来，国内大银幕上的爱情片大多刻画的是青春故事，少有对成熟男女爱情的呈现。地域上，更多的影片则选择北方作为背景，但这部片子用吴侬软语的上海打底，弄堂巷尾，也确实展现出令人惊叹的生活质感。除此之外，影片中对于男女角色的新定位以及男女关系的再思考，也是格外有趣的。当男性角色和女性角色都脱离传统的刻板印象，他们之间又会碰撞出怎样的火花？大家可以走进电影院，坐到《爱情神话》的观众席，一探究竟，这的确是今年年末的一出好戏。
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