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".
俩豆瓣友邻谈恋爱确实很甜，但一个后来不上豆瓣这感情就完了...最后十分钟太狗血，弱智一般，这段稍微巧妙些或许还好点～村花演技提升不少...所以，坂元同学，您应该问问古泽同学，约会～恋爱到底是什么？
-我今天认识了一个和我有一样想法的人
皮克斯总能在最生活最平凡的地方，讲出最动人的故事。人生虽然会不如意的事十之八九，但是感受生活的每一天本身就可以是生活的目标。
人生的意义是否既定？人生又是否真的要有意义？生命价值又如何判断？电影里一并给出了答案。
“我知道我们相爱时的模样，所以才无法忍受现在的难堪。”
人们总是迷信那个「真实」的自我，并与「社会的毒打」对立起来。所以才有对所谓「真爱」的痴迷追求。但其实每个人都是在变的，追求的只是和这个世界尽可能和平相处的方式。不管是换个方式继续相处下去也好，分手也好，也都没有什么值得惋惜的。（另：日本人的情感表达实在太微妙了，每看一部日系电影都会发此感慨，这部也一样）
三星都给得勉强。16年在DC看爱乐之城，最后十分钟哭到泪崩，回家激情创作观后感；现在年近而立看这部，中间几度快睡着，十分不耐烦，最后看他俩分开我都如释重负，伤感那是半点都没有。开头俩人仿佛豆友面基的场景是可爱的，但也仅止于可爱，本中年人看到会露出慈爱笑容的那种，要说这是爱情的样子，那顶多也就是个puppy love，不仅爱上的是相信的对方，还是一种自恋的延伸，从对方和自己的相似性中对自身价值的一种再确认，恰恰呈现的是一种originality的匮乏。想到前不久和好友的对话，“现在很烦遥远的相似性这句话，老娘就是独一无二。” 是的，真的有原创性的人当有底气这样对自己说。而且，相比较稍有挫折就开始找各种借口逃避的茫茫人生来说，一段感情还是小事，更重要的是趁着摒弃这种充满了借口与软弱的生活方式吧。
很应景，很治愈，2020也好哪一年也好，要珍惜音乐，体验活着的每一分钟
多年以后回想起来，其实他并不喜欢木乃伊，她也不喜欢煤气罐。
阪元裕二大荧幕，稳👍
很多细节很戳人，“我的人生目标，就是和你维持现状”，听起来非常简单，但花束的保鲜期短暂。豆友们一朝成为社畜，再多的书影音共同爱好也抵挡不了996和琐碎的柴米油盐。可是，遇到了这么合拍的人，怎么可能舍得分开呢？
热爱书影音的少年误以为那些就是精神世界最重要的部分，其实正相反，那些对文化消费品的好恶，是最浅表的东西。人不是书柜，不是存电影的硬盘。不能一起追番一起打游戏看小说，爱就消失了？如此不堪一击，不配叫做爱情。他们只能算曾一起沉浸在“貌合”的爱情泡沫里吧。人生是两个人携手滚钉板，他俩才到哪儿？手上扎了个刺就开始哭喊。男票拿起一本成功学就面如死灰。“爱在”三部曲了不起的是第三部，婚姻家庭孩子的苦都吃过一遍，难听话都吵过一遍，还是要爱，要并肩坐着看夕阳。【十年前我可能会哭的。现在心里只剩《爱情神话》李小姐那句：哦哟，十年前我老吃这一套了……
很真实又轻松的现代都市恋爱BE文学。忍不住感叹，年轻的朋友们啊，多多多多地去恋爱吧。这样才能一眼认出“世另我”，才能在消耗战中及时拉闸，才能有能力回到原点，才能在一次次的琐碎的失落后依然决议咬死不放手，也许这才能最后迎来友情x爱情双倍的快乐吧
大多数男性是这样的，但凡有着一些责任心，都会从怀揣梦想的文艺青年变成为了生活不得不屈服于现实的忙碌上班族。而大多数女性也是那样的，希望爱情永远存在于两人之间，很多年以后都一样，如果没有爱情，也不想步入婚姻。而经历了社会的各种毒打和洗礼后，我们终将认识到，快乐其实一直都是自己给的，包括那些极致的感动和浪漫。
把Moonwind小仙翻译成“风月”的字幕组同学，灵魂切入了。
当爱情成为了责任，生活被工作占据，追求产生了分歧，三观不再一致的时候，就是分手的时候。
被摩擦成社畜的文艺男➕活在自我精神世界里的文艺女=相见不如怀念、虽然不舍得但也过不下去的恋爱。简直是为豆瓣男女量身定制的迷影爱情小品。分手应该有的样子。
勉强两分。“这世界有这么多真人版，就是因为你们这些人”。日本出租车确实贵，赶不上电车就只能找地方过夜。俩年轻人聊挺好就当情侣，几年后索然无味了就分开。首先人物设定是俩老百姓——倒也不算老百姓，大多数老百姓对生活的理解还是挺清晰的，这俩只能算小傻瓜，特别可怕的一点是，男女主角身上除了“偏文艺的消费习惯”之外就没有任何性格特征了，他们的接触基本就是蜻蜓点水聊聊音乐、电影啥的，还给塞尔达强势做广告，另外非常明显的一点是，为了让俩人的趣味统一，男主喜欢的基本全是女性向作品，这很不可思议。剧情也给的糊涂，你说他俩分开的原因到底是啥？剧情涉及了男主的经济压力，但没说透，而且俩人这几年的心态变化在电影里看不出来，其实露点床戏最能说明问题，但土井裕泰为了票房肯定是牺牲掉电影的质量了。
在工作日疲惫的通勤路上看到最后来到店里的年轻男女那两双匡威开口笑后直接泪崩，我上中学时也和喜欢的人都买了一模一样的，在课桌底下排成一排。所以是不是能聊文学和电影、是不是文艺青年这些从来都不那么重要，学生时代那种独有的恋爱的感觉才是最最最珍贵的，彼时我们浑然不知，以为这羞涩触电的感觉是天经地义，那么现在呢？
曾经也有一份如电影般的五年恋情，也有不少细节段落特别有代入共鸣，但我依然认为从电影角度来说极其俗套普通。
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