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".
我寻找的永远原来在电影里。
"他好的时候不用我陪"，哦这句话这种感情怕不是来自One Day吧？
靠着几位主演的颜值看完的，宽叔这次好颓废，和男主一样阴郁，男主好像反町隆史年轻时啊，这好像是个小偷家族里嵌套了白夜行，然后又抛出了震后重建和低收入家庭保障的社会问题，想讲的东西有些过多，导致剧情有点发散，没讲透的亚子。
前半段挺好看，交叉展开，老人小孩，情绪情感悬疑都有。后半段要为“悲剧”注解，人物、主题甚至故事都圆得难看，颇为尴尬。
其实这部电影选择聚焦的社会问题还是可圈可点的，一方面是提不出低保要求的贫困者，一方面是对低保的滥用者，一方面是夹在中间只能明哲保身的执行者，这样的冲突造成了政治上的圆满而实际中的残缺。但是夹杂一个刑事案件反而让这部电影留于俗套，不如就像《老后破产》或《看护杀人》那样呈现现实，可能更体现深度。
应该算是烂片，想起现在抢菜的上海市民，给个及格吧。
缓缓看下去，慢慢的泪流满面啊。疫情之下，感触好深刻，现在大家都难，请多些宽容和理解，一起改变和行动，希望我们的世界越来越好。
女二直接当女主得了
8/10.
为了宽叔给四星。单看宽叔五星。
很无语，用力过猛自以为是的文艺片。旁白太多了。前半段是俗套的五角青春爱情戏穿插些低劣的笑料，大约后四十分钟终于想起来要拿腔拿调了，开始有较多的长镜头并聚焦于表演，但部分人物动机和情节发展实在莫名其妙……不老的概念完全是为了灌鸡汤而存在？真五毛特效，尤其是两段飞机转场。最大优点可能是展示不同年代和地域的美术、和对八十年代摇滚圈&京味儿和千禧年娱乐圈的现状展示？当然必须承认主创团队是有一定的想法和野心的，可是零散的灵光完全被离谱的整体方向和目标毁掉了
全片最精彩的地方就是最后砂糖和宽叔的对话，因为没能挽救小男孩而让失去母亲的小干得到了保护。现在和过去的交叉剪辑用得好像很一般，对于设置悬念或剧情的推动都没起到什么作用。探讨了社保制度的一些弊端问题和不合理之处，统一标准和个案实际充满了矛盾。希望所有的职员都能对申请人负起责任，让每个应该得到保护的人获得很好的照顾。“地域和社会上的互帮互助是解决贫穷最好的办法，跟这些相比，低保能起到的作用微不足道”，瑛太饰演的三云说出这话确实蛮欠揍的。部分现实是低保确实起不了什么作用，所以引导社会力量向农村和贫穷地区延伸是很有必要的。/砂糖念台词怎么还是有点含在喉咙里的感觉…
好家伙 直接成干细胞移植广告了 哪家公司赞助的呢？
确实是“讲”了一个挺长的故事，“讲”的挺长。感觉讲了四五个小时才讲完。
一个不老之人一生的故事。
震后创伤和社会问题写得又硬又泛，推理是不存在的，结局非常索然无味
前50分钟还不错，后面一开始干细胞，就迷幻了…真的…迷幻了…但最后一段还是哭了…你好的时候我不必在，你不好的时候我一定在
几年前看过剧本，没想到拍出来了。确实是王朔的味道，不论台词还是整体的叙事，都有他很深的风格烙印。王朔赋予了剧本很多自己的情怀和对青春的追忆。与其说是一部电影，不如说这是王朔唱给自己和同属他那个时代的人的挽歌。不知成片如何，甚是期待！
不对濑濑敬久有期待果然对的。佐藤健凭这部颁奖季男主全提名，拿下含金量仅次于旬报的每日映画最佳男主，满意，加一星。
故事是个好故事，就是拍的一般，王珞丹挺强的，那么多个造型全部拿捏住了。
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