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".
live every minute of your life需要一副敏感的身心，就像22那样，从未体验过生的感觉，一切感官都是打开的。而让平凡的我们做到这一点的难处在于，当下生活的现实会使人变得麻木。片子想讨论的内容太多又太抽象，关于灵魂、意义、激情、成功以及人生本身。但其实简单来说就是感恩活着，像Jazz一样chill地活着。
可能我最近有点问题，毫无波动看完。猫和爵士和声优们三星。其实当音乐老师和晚上在酒吧演奏冲突有很大吗
看预告以为是和《头脑特工队》很像，但看下来发现并不尽然。非常简单又细致的笔触，让你从另一个角度看待人生和生活，regular old living也可以充满美和感动。中间一度让我泪崩。PS：电影有一段把尼克斯黑出翔了哈哈。PPS：片尾最后字幕写“The Production of Pixar Animation Studios”之后有一行小字是“…and in homes at least six feet away from each other."看到之后会心一笑，这一行字可真是在2020年末时节对这一年最真实的心酸写照。PPPS：全部字幕出完之后只有一个彩蛋，是吼你“The movie is over. Go home!”所以往后迪士尼的电影彩蛋都是喊你别等彩蛋赶紧回家了吗哈哈……
皮克斯拿手好戲是把生死大事萌化成後勁十足的反思而非說教，生命中哪有這麼多的高光時刻，往往期待已久的目標實現的瞬間不過是精鹽一粒融入海水般無聲無息，徒留某種儀式感取悅自我和周邊。所以，不會有什麼重來一次，Carpe diem！每個當下，每種風景，每口滋味，每位趣靈魂，都值得用力擁抱，我問心無愧。【WandaBB】
苦苦追寻生命的意义，不如真心走过每个瞬间。P.S.重点是，22最后飞向地球的时候，看卫星图它是投胎到了西藏成为了转世灵童。
推荐给有厌世情绪的朋友，以及理想仍为泯灭的你，其实有了一个擅长的爱好，就像那个受了挫折的小女孩一样，我可能谈过放弃，但还会回来的
虚无主义是无解的，要对抗虚无主义，不是设定一个又一个目标，那样只会陷入叔本华的悲观厌世。皮克斯给出的解答是，在最终的虚无到来前，去感受每一缕阳光，每一声音符，也许它们不能让你感到美好，但至少能让你找回些许存在。
我单方面宣布Pete Docter是我soul mate，每一部都看得本人哭啊哭啊
皮克斯总是在枯燥平庸乏味的生活里寻找火花，然后点亮它，光芒照耀在每一位观赏皮克斯作品的普通人身上。皮克斯让我这类平凡的人知道我们有平凡的权利或者不平凡的可能性。
只想说妈的绝了。论炖鸡汤的正确方式。一开始感觉从创意到风格都像《头脑特工队》的延伸，但到后来，又觉得完成了另一种立意上的升华。“你想要开始生活的那一刻，你就点亮了你的生命。”这不是什么新鲜东西，你甚至可以当它是在大灾之年用来麻痹群众的鸡汤，但是如果你愿意，也可以选择在短短九十分钟里，让心灵经历一场温暖的拯救。我一直说我get不到超英，因为不接地气，现代人的生存威胁不是战争饥荒外星人入侵，现代人的苦难是心灵之困，救人必要先救心。mcu是拍给生活安逸的人看的，把电影院当主题乐园，闲暇之余找刺激。而我之所以爱看电影，是因为太喜欢在电影院泪流满面的感觉。一场场酸甜苦辣，一番番春秋冬夏，都在影厅沉沉的黑暗里悄然更迭。每一次走出影院，都像二十二第一次打开大门的刹那，扑面而来的天光，恍如隔世，又再回人间。
开车20km就为了看英文版听Tina Fey的声音
是啊，为什么非要有什么明确的目标，非要找到自己最擅长的那件事呢？好好活着，即使什么都没有，也还是可以畅快地呼吸，可以且听风吟，可以面朝大海。感觉受到了强烈的被理解和被接受，感动哭。皮克斯的人都是哲学家心理学家社会学家吧~
这是一部可以让你在2020年放松下疲惫灵魂的电影。
所以，灵魂的目标不是火花，日常生活才是。但还是希望创作者不要太敷衍了事，最后用一句“我会珍惜生活的每一分钟”的鸡汤总结陈词。因为大部分时候活着就是痛着，在痛感和挫败的间隙还能偶尔买菜煲汤散步看落叶，就已经是生命里最大的火花。
即便在心灵神殿，给人打绩效颁奖的HR/管理层依然是熟悉的味道，面目和善却可憎，底层搬砖的还是要日复一日地做着最繁琐的脏累活还要亲自下场擦屎，摊手。以及欢迎肥肠豆瓣气质的22号投胎到地球学哲学
乍一看，本片要表达的主题与FSN里“坚持自己的理想然后获得胜利”的现代童话可说是相反的存在，但其实细想并不冲突，无非只是有人怀有理想有人没有罢了。而生活的权利却人人平等。既然最后的命运之战的前一晚大家认真讨论晚饭吃什么是一种生活，那么坐在阶前看落叶也如是。通晓现代生活同样也会存在着美好的事物，这才是现代童话的本质所在。
Is it good? It's cute, I mean 22 is cute. Would you watch it again? Not a chance, ya too cheesy for me
《WALL·E》（2008）后 Pixar 最佳作品。灵魂写给生活的情书。
2021年第一部5星作品。当时第一支预告就预感“不简单”，没想到能这么好。主旨完全感同身受，100%沉浸式体验。皮克斯作为我从小追到大的动画工作室之一，直到现在我依旧很好奇它究竟有什么魔力能够用独特的想象力把我的心里话说出来，平常而不平庸。如果有机会，真想体验一次杜比影院。
小时候写作文时就常写到一句话：结果并不重要，重要的是过程。人生的成就不过是他人口中的谈资，日子却是需要自己过的。道理一直都懂，难的是在被社会pua时还能坚定地相信这句话。
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