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".
对“执念太深所以迷失了与生活的联系”变成怪物这个设定非常能共情 问题是男主这种目标特别具体的奋斗逼才更容易变成怪物 同时男主这类人其实不太容易搞好爵士乐 搞搞古典或者金属速弹倒是挺合适 其他地方很流畅 最后一句台词出来之前我已经猜到了 一个字都不差 换我写这个主题 我大概会写男主逐渐领悟了教书的快乐 另外迷幻段落尺度也太大了吧
比Coco平庸多了 對生與死的解構 小孩看不懂 成人看又膚淺 爵士樂的呈現也是一聲嘆息
感人！看完有一种活着真好的感觉！下午的电影院屏幕小声音也不行，有点影响体验，还是要看巨幕啊！
#LFF2020# 4
我会活在当下，享受生活的每一秒。人生最大的热情，是对生活的热爱。鱼儿总是在追寻大海，却从没发觉自己一直身处大海。不要因对梦想的执着、对远方的追求，而忽略了眼前生活的美好❤️
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一部净化心灵的好电影。落叶在街角被风吹起的霎那，眼泪已经浸湿了口罩。我们琐碎而漫长的一生哟，好像没有哪一刻曾真正拥有安宁，反而是常常感到被围困，兜兜转转却怎么都找不到出口。一只渴望大海的鱼并不知道，它其实已经在大海里游泳了。每一天，都当宛如新生——这么简单又朴素的道理，这部电影用最贴切的镜头语言和音乐语言准确地传达出来了。了不起。
适合成年人和抑郁症患者观看，活着可以不为了什么伟大梦想，为了生活里的琐碎小事儿一片吹落的叶子一片好吃的披萨也可以勇敢美好的活下去～七分治愈三分致郁，温暖且丧
有些东西汲汲营营地追求，得到之后不过尔尔，喜欢的人可能也是如此吧。就这样放下吧我。“这里是水，我要找的是大海”“这里就是大海呀”山的那头是什么，山的那头还是山啊。
带着很高的期望去，反而觉得……嗯，一般。怎么说，主角一开始是loser相，过程光怪陆离，然后用复杂的逻辑讲了道理，后来主角学会了在宇宙中心做自己，最后上了高级动人的价值。就很，奇葩说？
皮克斯又写了一篇“反好莱坞精神传统”甚至“整个美国精神传统”的心理学小论文，论题并不见得精深却总是捡起被成人遗落在精神角落的本质放在手心，一瞬的回响或者久久的回味。
皮克斯八股文，没有一处情节超越常规，没有一处写作突破匠气，只是主题切中并安抚了当代人的处境焦虑，然而这个东西七十多年前在弗兰克卡普拉手里就已经被讲述得登峰造极了，也正是它的普世性让它在时代和地域的可流转下变得平庸，可惜的是这种平庸并不能跟电影歌颂平庸的主题相自洽。
那个年代 这种作品 很无敌
就是一些中国民俗故事用的猫和老鼠的动作，讲了一个我也不明白故事。童年没看过的还是别看了，不带滤镜真的看不出哪儿好。。。
最后22落向了青藏高原东南角 难不成变成了丁真
非常适合人格型塑期的孩子看，让尚未直面人间苦难的他们知道人间值得。但对我这种年近四十的阿姨来说，电影回避了真正的人生问题和存在之惑，可以让人因叙事和技术处理而有所感动，却不会进入灵魂深处。
是我眼花了吗？动画片也要搞个有色皮肤，才能上映？
然后我作为一只蹲在地上的野猴子，啃着手里的苹果点头：“对啊对啊。"
2020的我比任何一年都更渴求被爱，掏空自我去兑换一个执念，最后变成那个荒漠里迷失的灵魂，变成在海里寻找大海的鱼。若不是这部电影，我差一点让自己感知生活的那根敏感神经彻底失灵了，还好有这部电影，让即将到来的2021年不再是漆黑一片，而是有了值得期待的花火。感谢皮克斯。
跟《Inside Out》真是异曲同工的巧思和感动，结尾推高潮有点后继乏力，但全片仍然是笑中带泪发人深省。结尾彩蛋 Terry 说电影结束了叫大家回家有点心酸，毕竟许多观众们今年都说在家里看的。
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