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".
走得太远，已经太久没有因为饥肠辘辘时的一口pizza而满足，秋天枝头飘下的一片落叶而感动。看似日复一日的生活其实充满了触动人心的惊喜和柔软，只是不知道从什么时候开始，我们将越来越多的精力注意力放在了复杂的人情世故和浮躁的生活节奏上，却忽略了最细枝末节的感动。The WORLD is our spark, and we are already in the ocean. 最简单的道理，只有最小的时候才懂。
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。"
△你毕生追求的事情，实现的那天，其实也就只是普普通通的一天，并不会因为你实现了你的目标而变得非常的不普通。所以，不要为了你的事业对你的生活麻木、忽视你的朋友、你的家人。要不是22号，可能来敲门的小女孩就放弃自己的梦想了。
在地球的通行证不是才能火花，而是你想认真生活的每一个瞬间
感谢盗梦的提前观影。独特不媚俗的故事，献给思考者和自省者。世界观设计延续inside out和coco的惊艳，故事在传统技巧和克制走心之间寻找平衡，个人感受并不煽情，毕竟这对主角的人物关系没有家庭或情人、隐性情人的普世化支撑， 还用了荣格和美钞这种梗做笑点，可能对市场不是太讨喜
从这个角度说，它是慈悲。
一碗有诚意的心灵鸡汤，并不是只有闪闪发光才叫人生。
在赋予玩具和机器以情绪、甚至赋予情绪以情绪（《头脑特工队》）之后，彼得·道格特终于也跟随《寻梦环游记》的步伐，把主题探向了更深层次的灵魂。叙事一如既往地流畅，概念的展开也环环相扣，对“另一个世界”的想象是更加未来化的，但也因太准确无误地嵌入剧作模式中，没能在我心底真正激起什么回响。与黑泽明的《生之欲》相比，对“人生价值”这一议题给出的答案，未免太过云淡风轻，以至于沦为自我降维的合家欢流水线产品。
主题大胆，视觉大胆，讲故事的方式也大胆。灵魂拷问不稀奇，稀奇的是全面创新。
前半段一如皮克斯既往的巧思，对灵魂、个性、自我陶醉、迷失（对冲基金经理哈哈哈）、前世往生的趣解，还有三维动画中融入现代艺术的线条元素，都是值得称道的。
皮克斯真的太伟大了，总是能看到时代的焦虑。在这个虚无主义盛行的时代，它通过一部制作精良的动画电影告诉我们，活着的意义就是感受当下的每一个瞬间。这凝聚了多少心理学哲学宗教知识。伟大。
先不说把灵魂窄化成“知道自己人生的意义”有多低龄，就说灵魂这种又虚又大的概念，是靠何等的鬼扯才能搭建出一套完整又基本合乎逻辑的小宇宙。。。这和《头脑特工队》不一样，性格形成论这种东西，很容易理解并产生共情，可是说到灵魂，说白了，纯靠编了。
Being alive means a lot.
七分半。有套路，还很深。可有一点，这套路不可轻视，否则你在这个行当会没有立锥之地~~
感谢盗梦的提前观影。独特不媚俗的故事，献给思考者和自省者。世界观设计延续inside out和coco的惊艳，故事在传统技巧和克制走心之间寻找平衡，个人感受并不煽情，毕竟这对主角的人物关系没有家庭或情人、隐性情人的普世化支撑， 还用了荣格和美钞这种梗做笑点，可能对市场不是太讨喜
设定优秀、内容丰富、情感至深，细想之下可讲的东西太多了，而且画面和音乐也很优秀，视听体验非常好……
电影还好，豆瓣的一个高赞短评恶心到我了。说看到22投胎的地方貌似中国，它忍不住要在电影院里大喊“快跑“。那请问投胎到哪里合适呢？
我们向往星辰大海，又困在无边无际黑黢黢的海水中，太多人窥见了生活的真相，却忘了火花点亮的瞬间有多迷人。Joe和22未能再相遇，所有人都希望他们再相遇，但遇到一次还不够吗，足够了。一定要去电影院看这部片子啊，尤其是在经历了如此糟糕的2020之后。音乐好听，视觉也赞，想象力惊叹，疗愈力更是爆棚，关键还很好笑，简直是收到了一份意外的圣诞礼物！
2021.12.22看了4K版本，如今真的很难看到这么具有中国特色的动画了，这部动画确实不记得小时候看过，也许看过几个画面，但并不是我儿时喜欢的画风。小时候对中式动画并不觉得稀奇反而觉得土，到如今才发觉这些老动画的美。
先不说把灵魂窄化成“知道自己人生的意义”有多低龄，就说灵魂这种又虚又大的概念，是靠何等的鬼扯才能搭建出一套完整又基本合乎逻辑的小宇宙。。。这和《头脑特工队》不一样，性格形成论这种东西，很容易理解并产生共情，可是说到灵魂，说白了，纯靠编了。
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