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".
{★★★} 你可以说这部电影和登月有关，也可以说它和登月无关。当有人抱怨Richard Linklater浪费太多笔墨在背景铺垫上时，我说：这部电影的内容就是航空热下的背景。事无巨细，随意跑题，一部想到哪说到哪的电影考验的是剧本的叙事功底--Linklater自然是这领域的行家。个人来说，我不喜欢他太煞有介事地杜撰一个儿童宇航员的故事。但以他个人来说，圆梦恐怕少不了诸如此类的环节。
林克莱特的少年时代，基本也是一部爱国主义教育史，无处不在的国歌和国旗飘荡，还有够吹上一百年的登月计划。没啥新鲜的，对他父母居家过日子的简朴劲儿挺共情，还有画面也相当惊艳。7
真的拍出了童年的味道。谁没幻想过自己就是那个英雄呢？通过一堆生动细节，把时代的质感营造出来了。有一种穿越时空的愉悦感。其实不算故事片，旁白一堆。但就是有迷之气质。有趣。
少年时代的美国梦，林克莱特对美国六十年代社会风情的回忆录。
好的电影总是没有推送头条，搜索榜单，活跃在影院，什么时候传递正能量竟成为了一种奢侈
除了男主有些理想化之外，感觉都还可以吧，虽然剧情脉络都在意料之中，不过观感不错。
我可太爱林克莱特了，为什么可以把无数的历史细节和私人记忆连接得那么流畅。是个体回忆，也是集体纪念，穿针引线编织成属于每个人的童年时光。历史视角归类人类印迹，唯有林克莱特把这份印迹给全息化了出来。不是客观罗列一切，而是镶嵌进一种集体的主观视角中以形成立体的生活场域。别人拍“油画”拍故事拍表演，唯有林克莱特像是3d打印机直接给你搭建一个超巨型的记忆空间，极尽现实主义把握现实的深厚内力。大师永远是大师！！
朋友圈看到这部电影的宣传，说有时间看完片子真实的来豆瓣打下分，因为这种文艺片都靠口碑，那今天有空看了，说实话我觉得很真实，很感动，所以真来豆瓣评分了，我打的五星，四星是给电影本身的，真的好真实，一星是给朋友圈的，我看到很多说好的，却给三星？你们是故意的吗？还是咋滴，你各种好，给三星？！还有一个二货说电影假？草都绿的不自然，我tm想问问你，你出过你们村吗？你是不是瞎啊！你但凡见过一米范围的草原也不至于说出这种禽兽不如的话！电影好不好看你随意评论，你给一星都行，你缺德呗！但是你说人家草假？给低分，你脑袋进水了？怎么这么见不得别人好！这种小成本的文艺片都不赚钱，但是人家还在坚持做，要不你看个屁？天天看网红？我认识拍电影的公司和人员，但是我不代表他们，我只想说，来豆瓣的网友有点良心，有点专业度！
虽说演员不是那些特别出名的名角，但是他们的演技非常棒，每个人把角色还原的非常好
主基调有点悲伤啊，虽然说奉献一生很值得尊敬，但还是觉得给主角一个好结局会更温暖。
很动人的片子，生命的意义确实就是在于选择啊，做了选择并坚定的走下去，韩松就是这样。
本身对真人转动画技术类型的电影不太感冒，对于这种导演自传回忆式的电影也只能说是看的进去，。值得说的是，当年的阿波罗登月确实给了上个世纪六十年代的休斯顿城的孩子一个华丽的梦与童年，同样的感觉也发生在二十一世纪初期的中国，至今都记得杨利伟回来的那些日子。
画风蛮可爱的 穿插的讽刺不错 但是报流水账式剧情像在给我科普60年代美国孩子的童年生活 对于没有这种经历的人来说没有情怀可言了
一开始比较排斥这种类型的电影有过多感情戏，然而看到后面，能不能多刻画一点男女主感情戏，求求了！
米国人的60年代怀旧片，真人拍摄转动画其实很讨巧，特效上能省一大波钱
7.6 以动画转制现实来进一步混淆不可靠叙事，“我”的一小步越过了“人类”的一大步，“两次”登月的平行剪辑高潮竟如此举重若轻，而是以其为核心在离散的叙述间拼贴出60s的美国风情画，林克莱特对于时代符号的迷恋可见一斑。
总觉得这里面的感情基础都好容易建立啊，只能说这种理想化也只有电影里才能出现了。
为数不多没有开启倍速看完的电影之一，其实可以出个第二部，以朗措作为男主角演绎一下他的一生
就像是导演不带有色眼镜的回看了自己丰富多彩的童年，以动画形式呈现比真人电影更有回忆感，很喜欢这种呈现方式，听着挺絮叨其实看起来一点也不枯燥。
男主随着时间岁月的变迁，呈现出的不同状态和妆容都很好，不会出戏，刚出场时的青葱大学生到最后的对比，真的泪目
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