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".
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时已不在，朔音无声。
在人生路上的感情付出和情感得到，有这默默的爱也有被爱，错过的也有得到的。
“父母是挡在我们和死神之间的一堵墙”…“如果我忘记了他们，忘记曾经的一切，那么我还是我吗”…
一部当下难得的纯情的电影，可惜关于生命关于时光的探讨比较苍白浅显。除了纯情，乏善可陈。
从去非洲沙漠开始不理解了。男主的心理有点病态。
在丁萌萌离去之前一切还比较正常，是八十年代到千禧年年轻人的通史，后半截就有点崩坏，一直崩到结束。虽然我还蛮喜欢王传君的，但是本片他只有一个表情～
看名字还以为是本杰明巴顿奇事那样的，原来是科幻。
很久没在电影中再听到王朔类的贫嘴了，尽管这部作品和影响了它的电影们比起来，显得更像是一锅乱炖不是太上得了台面，但仍然无法阻挡我对它的喜爱。这种九十年代的语言方式或许已经不适合现在的绝大多数观众了，或许有更多人不明白王珞丹从电影学院的楼上下来的时候嘴里的“圈子”是什么意思，但这就是属于那个时代的作品，王朔在嘲讽着所谓的作者电影的同时仍然没有忘了嘲讽自己，而这才是从那个时代开始看电影的观众所熟悉的。就像个人非常喜欢其中王啸坤和王珞丹的表演一样，这部电影注定不可能适合所有人，但只要经历过那个年代，就会明白他们想要做到的是什么样子，而他们起码做的还算不错，当这一代创作者消失以后，或许这种腔调就会永远消失，而《不老奇事》算得上是冷淡的电影市场中的一个惊喜，起码这部电影并没有想只拍给座儿看。
两分献给开头，开头真的蛮有意思的，后面就逐渐走入了装逼的魔咒。 抖音上有一种短视频，一开始露个腹肌，然后夸擦一声掏出砧板开始包饺子。 这电影仿佛反过来了，刚开头有滋有味的包饺子教程，然后夸擦一声变成腹肌，就这样显摆了俩小时，也没下一步，令人索然无味———还不如踏踏实实包饺子呢！
用很复杂的的方式讲了一个单薄到极点的故事。😖
或许当你身边的人都接二连三的因为疾病和自然死亡离开你的时候，探讨永生真的会变得毫无意义，而幻想将成为临终前最美好的事情。
很棒的一部片，抛开物质聊精神，就是文艺片的底子。
本是不打算看的，为了王珞丹还是看了，出乎意料的惊喜，单从故事来讲像600页的小说，像是韩松会写出来的软科幻，挺复古的故事，也有些过时，但还挺感人的，从电影角度两颗星吧，杂乱无序，乱成一锅粥，但有些不一样的特质，主要是表演基调上，不过没能维持住，越到后期越放飞自我，还有捷克的环节，感情实验室就两个中国人在搞实验似的，真不能细品。还是想推荐啊，为了爱情，这份爱情立住了，电影这里把永生与灵魂的探讨变成了永生与爱情的探讨，愿爱永生！
看《不老奇事》还是会想起三年前初读剧本的感动，整个电影就是对生死的探讨，参杂着朔爷后期温和的感触。郭小鲁这一生都在告别和追逐，告别亲人、朋友、爱人，追逐人生的意义命运的波澜和内心的渴望。有过懵懂灿烂的童年，野心勃勃的少年，愤世嫉俗的青年，经历过人事仍对未来有幻想和恐惧的中年，然而直到老年才悟道“所谓生，不过就是死之前的那段路程，而期间最美丽的风景，是世界和平安宁，是内心从容淡定……”
经典的多重解读，容易感动自己
讲的是个啥，王传君演技很好吗？王珞丹演的是个啥？我看不懂看不懂。
我觉得这部可以给三星半，是一部奇怪的片子，不算写实，也不算奇幻，但是能让我看下去
两个女主都喜欢，演技爆炸！！
王朔实在是太过文字自恋，话密到角色说不完的要让旁边来说。影片中段的剧情走向走太偏了，让观众直接失去了对男女主人公命运的关切，不过王珞丹和王传君真是演得好啊。
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