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".
在男女主角沐浴在阳光中猜拳决定小猫咪的归属时忽然大哭，如此快乐的一刻，当我们仿佛回到彼此“喜欢”的模样时，愈发确定着爱情的消逝。坂元对于那些爱情发生的时刻与那些珍贵的必须自处的时刻，都太懂了！
相似的人在一起久了，会把路越走越窄，你的人生啊它不长，要跟和自己不一样的人一起，让它更加丰满。（跟三井，藤真，流川都交往过，和仙道结婚，几十年后发现身边的人全是樱木/初心）
22岁的时候遇到你，我们不同的大学毕业到同一家公司上班，讲相似的方言，搭车去公司的偶遇，公司游船上惊讶的你也在这里，从不联系的你深夜短信给我的歌词，以及在公交车聊诗词不想结束，下车就近在站台旁的快餐厅坐下用餐巾纸写诗词。满眼闪着钻石星星的人。如果我们没有在一起过，会不会比现在好太多太多？至少你读过书还会和我分享，而我也可以把耳塞给你，即使在路上走着，也能聊音乐到忘记出行的目的。我们都长大了。也分手十年了。连自己都感受到自己老了。
百分百合拍的恋人，世界上的另一个我。喜欢同样的书籍，喜欢同样的电影；用一样的书签，穿一样的鞋子；合拍到准备在同一天表白，也合拍到准备在同一天分手。开始也是结束的开始，相遇总是伴随着别离，终于变成了自己曾经最讨厌的人，也终于明白了结婚无法解决任何问题。感谢那辆末班车，感谢那个红绿灯，背对着互相挥别，就让彼此的爱情永远留在谷歌地图里面。日本电影总能把无比日常的情节细腻到尘埃里，最后电影结束时，我左右的情侣都走了，只剩我一个人留在座位上偷偷抹眼泪，我想如果某一天我也不再为了某部曾经撼动过自己的文艺片而动容了，或许就说明我也像男主那样彻底死了吧。P.S.特别多迷影元素，押井守、新海诚、《指环王》、《霍比特人》、《宝石之国》、《牯岭街少年杀人事件》、租住的房子外面有一条河特别像《夜以继日》。
女主是一个很有趣可爱的人，她真的完全不需要靠某一段关系来确认自己的存在感或者是把谁谁谁当成自己的氧气，所以我喜欢这个结局kkkk
我觉得片方放2022.2.22上这部电影真的太合适了，一个有趣的二货如何变成无聊的二货，其实就是工作嘛。在性格、兴趣爱好上重合度如此之高的两人在很多时候我更愿意看做是一个人的两个平行宇宙，他们的爱情本身对我而言停留在甜，而前半段磕完糖之后电影变成了一个少年如何维持爱好与工作，理想与现实的故事：女主选择爱好，男主选择工作，但无论选择什么，他们最终都离开了象征梦想生活的屋子。最大的无力感来源于男主在电影院几欲睡着，加完班玩起了消消乐，你知道他以前是多么喜爱看电影，又是多么讨厌甚至唾弃奶头乐游戏，但在社会的重压之下，如同被摄魂怪亲吻了一般，他的热爱也无法抵抗坠入无趣的沼泽。
在男女主角沐浴在阳光中猜拳决定小猫咪的归属时忽然大哭，如此快乐的一刻，当我们仿佛回到彼此“喜欢”的模样时，愈发确定着爱情的消逝。坂元对于那些爱情发生的时刻与那些珍贵的必须自处的时刻，都太懂了！
人畢竟是感情的動物，日積月累堆疊的愛戀終會刻骨銘心，不要妄想以平靜開明的態度面對分手就不會傷痛。
太喜欢影片的生活细节和心理独白，独白不会影响片子的高级感，反而拉近了和观众的距离。
男主不接受画画的压榨接受公司的压榨
日本的片子经常会抓到一些在真实世界里存在却过于平常以至于遗忘了的细节…包括男女生的思维差异。男生从有压力开始，感情的不愉快一直想分手，却因为最后一天的快乐便想用结婚来挽回，女生从鼓励理解到笑着隐忍，最后还是看透了两人回不去的步伐选择做那个先开口的恶人，放了手。从缘分邂逅到相识相知再到白头偕老，哪一步走错了，走快了，走慢了，就再也无法回到从前了…
什么豆瓣用户的爱情啊，音乐图书电影番剧游戏，丰富的精神世界，想当羡慕呢！但即便一个国家有再丰富的文化氛围，也逃不过金钱至上的社会准则。步入职场的社畜危机是很多宅男逃不过的无力感，看不进书玩不进一款单机，只能靠一些快节奏的小游戏来麻痹自己，不过潜在核心还是所谓大男子主义在作祟吧。坂元太懂都市青年的爱情，或者说有点太刻意针对某一类群体了，相互成长，因为现实最终分离并收获适合自己的新生活这很好，但模块化的情节设置加零碎的片段叙述并没有把男主的状态转变给表现出来，除了刺激文艺青年的狂cue流行文化之外其余内容食之无味了。
花开花谢花无悔，缘来缘去缘如水。兴趣爱好的合拍远不如人生阶段的合拍来得重要。何苦抱着枯树过一生，从而磨灭了当初花开时的美好。P.S.坂元为什么这么喜欢写分手和离婚，可不可以乐观一点。P.P.S.「別れる男に、花の名を一つは教えておきなさい。花は毎年必ず咲きます（请教给分手的他一种花的名字。每一年花都必将开放）。」这句话最初出自川端康成的小说，后来有川浩也引用过。不知道是不是博客里那句话的出处。
8分。有人说爱情导致的多巴胺分泌只能维持三年，所以三年内不能把爱情转变成亲情，那两人之间就只剩分手一条路了。也不是有什么特别的分水岭，在一起久了，忽然就觉得不爱了，时间和生活对爱的磨损往往超过了大部分人的想象，就算不能一起走完全程，但能够微笑着坦然和过去告别，这本身就是一种成长了吧。
乏善可陈和如流水般平淡的剧情，我知道片子很戳豆瓣的文艺腔，然而不好看就是不好看，如果国籍一换，低分齐来
“恋爱总有一天会变成生活。”
兜兜转转5年，我们已经不是坐在原来座位上分享彼此最近在读的青涩少年，但这五年也曾是彼此最开心的一段时间，分手后也没有遗憾，再次相遇能想到的也是关于彼此最美好的时刻。五年时光犹如那朵小花，告诉对方名字后这辈子再看见就会想起彼此。（幸好男女主没结婚，结婚后直接《婚姻故事》！哈哈哈哈）
一开始的相似是命运还是假象是错觉？所以女孩有告诉男孩花的名字吗？相爱过，谢谢，回忆全是美好，但却走不下去了。分手的时候看到曾经的我们，一如既往，是否结局也是循环往复？是否爱情注定没有永远？如那自杀的博主所说：“开始，是结束的开始”？如果有一天我们变陌生了，那重新认识可以吗？
从来没有遇到跟我如此契合的人的我，羡慕嫉妒地打出了五星。要是遇到了那样的人，就算在一起一年、几个月都很幸福了。真想为电影（前半段）营造出的那份像梦一般的美好献上花束💐 这部电影有很多名字：像现实低头？豆瓣友邻的爱恋？如此合拍的我们也会grow apart？社会人还是文艺青年要看家底？分手么，不然结婚吧？清新美好的文艺气息和污浊沉重的社会历练在两人五年的关系里揉杂着，许多点滴让人好像亲历了他们的成长历程，无数年轻人熟知的元素让人带入感强烈。两位演员自带光环，加之他们成熟的演技，就连开头他们共同喜好的堆砌也让人可以忍受了… 最后真心想说，女生如果没有村花的颜（筹码），苏打演的这种男人如果年轻时放手，年长了一定会后悔。就算不再像当初那样契合，这么了解你又有责任担当的人必须是组建家庭的最好选择了
世另我的双向奔赴终究也没干过柴米油盐，好在凋落的花束没有被盲目地埋进婚姻的坟墓里，也许“合拍”的两人真的不一定“合适”吧。
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