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".
彷佛第一次看before三部曲的感觉，不愧是坂元，开始是结束的开始。
少有的白噪音是作弊的首要要素，中期的焦躁是写实特有的参照物，成长的猜拳是甜蜜的骤变，L/F的声道是假面的告白，车站的期盼是一抹跃动的红，荞麦面包店是恋爱轨迹的贯穿， 同居的借口是前进的禁果，默契的告别是异口同声的追念，社会成了澡堂，工作成了大染缸，内定是错觉的开端，更是骤变的骤变，试想，收到前辈鼓舞后的山音麦倘若没有妥协，而是拿起茄子的光辉… 穷是原罪，恋爱的纪念物从来就不是那些你送给我的珍贵礼物，甚至也不是那些甜蜜的短信和合照。而是你留在我身上的、如同河川留给地形的，你对我造成的改变。 有个女孩儿，我可以和她喝着半价怡宝彻夜长谈，通宵达旦也不经以为然，午夜穿梭在“包容万象”的城市里，我说着完美的世界，她说着宁静的夏天，我操着昆汀的梗，她演示着王家卫式的抽帧，谁都没有发现 开始是结束的开始
归根结底是因为男生工作过多被工作异化了 还是应该少加班多打塞尔达
巧合太多反而显得设计太刻意了--但或许这样的事情真的存在吧？但即便如此，这种爱好的相似真的意味着两个人真的般配吗？抑或说爱情真的是要找这样高度相似的人才好吗？或许我会觉得很一个书架与自己不同的人在一起更好吧。这样的爱情展现得或许更多的是20出头的人--尤其在毕业前后--生活方式和观念产生剧变的无奈的缩影。
文青式的爱情要被么生活打败，要么对理想幻灭，灵魂上的伴侣只可能发生在想象中传奇中。大多数恋爱一般只拍前半段，大多数家庭伦理片一般只拍后半段，这两者的割裂构成了大多数人对于爱情的想象。其实，爱情只是某个共享的时刻，无所谓长短，记忆会定格，此刻便永恒。
非常激动！非常喜欢！短评肯定写不下了，简单记一点，争取明天写长评。昨天看了滨口龙介的《夜以继日》，刚看个开头就知道稳了，没想到今天奇迹再临！男女主角在影院里看的芬兰电影是考里斯马基的《希望的另一面》，去年12月我在SFC看的。
早就过了这个年纪且早就知道这就是人生，看到短评里最好的总结：爱好不等于三观
想不到在这里都能听到吐槽《霍比特人》又臭又长。整体比我想象得要正面啊，起初知道大概剧情时还以为我看完后会很崩溃。Mugi社畜时的发言真的很伤人，很庆幸他最后没有完全变成东亚商业精英男。本情感荒漠就不说什么爱情感悟了，只想对自己说：不要理所当然屈服于精英成功学。小田切让好帅啊！
一个细节特别戳人：男主吐槽日本职场为何采用现行的工作制度（类似的说法）但最终还是加入社畜浪潮中和大家一起内卷。普通人总会在某个瞬间意识到系统和机制的存在，但相较于严肃枯燥的宏大叙事，他们更关心下个月能否交得起房租。爱情与面包可以兼得，只是很多时候，面包太干，会吸收爱情里的水分，直至干枯。
这部电影告诉我们：兴趣爱好一样，如看小众书籍、穿一样的匡威开口笑等，是成为无话不谈的朋友的前提，但成为长久的恋人还需相似的三观，价值观、人生观、世界观。
菅田将晖的那滴泪重重地落在了本打工人的心上，重回到爱情神话时生活半径千米之内无人可说索菲亚罗兰的孤独
缘分天注定，豆瓣友邻浪漫邂逅，迷影元素不少。照着大部分情侣写照来拍，开始这么甜就猜到不会有好结果。★★★☆/7.3
坂元第一次写文青恋爱也是第一次写电影，轻而易举做到了如此TV如此cliché又如此戳人三者并存。大概有无数个觉得真灵的细节与情绪，但太过predictable的剧情导致观影几天后只记得差点反转的结尾了。“所有的恋爱都会消散，但我的不会。”但其实敢于分手和单恋的人才是相信爱情的人啊。
没勇气试探爱情的存活率了 大家爱的都是多巴胺产生的回忆罢了
……纠结了很久是三星还是四星……毕竟软弱好骗如我依然会被那些庸常中刻意放大的美好细节流下廉价的眼泪。这个故事换在几年前我一定会很喜欢。但在经历几个因为有过些共同话题就被纠缠不休的乌龙后，我对故事的开头就已经无甚好感，而这个故事除去这些美好的“共同语言”滤镜，不过是乏善可陈千篇一律甚至有轻描淡写之嫌的情感博主日记，一眼看到底。坂元裕二的剧本的确很讨巧，电影文学音乐戏剧，毁灭一切理想才能活下去的恶俗现实，甚至在Google map上看全景照片的小癖好都能对上我自己，可类似悲剧经典模式的爱情宿命论依然并非简单用罗曼蒂克于被资本左右的人生中消磨殆尽就可以说完说尽的。这是个值得怀念的故事值得所有水仙花情结的文艺青年隔着陈年滤镜对耿耿于怀的年少过往泪水涟涟，也正因如此约等于什么都没说。
爱好相同＝爱情
原来所有的豆瓣er都在想，这就是在拍我自己啊。
导演编剧挺迷影，押井守也被拉来了，演了自己
没有赶上末班车等来了花束般的恋爱，错误的订单正确的时间送来的巧克力芭菲，同样的路线同样餐馆同样默契，只是这次大家都坐在了不同的位置。从在一起吧说到分开吧，从帆布鞋到皮鞋，世界上没有两个永远爱好一模一样步伐一致的恋人，也没有两束花期一模一样的花。爱情，压八里是技术问题，不是对象问题🚬不过像烟花一样爱过也不可惜。有村架纯在沙发上吃苹果看怪奇物语，苏打在书桌前喝乌龙茶看成功经营学，996职场对文青社畜的异化改造可太残忍了。被那句“日版普通人”的评论吸引到点开，看到两个人找工作的时候异口同声说的那句“成为普通人好难”的时候就很微妙。拍的真的很好，是豆瓣友邻们会喜欢的东京爱情故事。（只不过如果要遇到一个和自己书架一样的人恋爱，那我看来注定要是啦啦了。）
东亚真得焦虑透顶，世界从来不存在一个均一的“现实主义”，这首先就是一种虚构。人可以不恋爱。别让他们艹完你了还要把这个再卖给你，我只能说这个艹不了我，人可以一边看纯文学一边看成功学到老，都是西西弗斯，受规训更深首先就并不高贵
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