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".
一个安德森喜欢色彩斑斓的东北乱炖
当警察都去抓捕嫌疑犯，只有我去营救白色裤子的你。当观众都在聚焦摩托车，只有你来扶起摔坏吉他的我。我是倒车一流的女司机，却应付不了感情没油的窘境。你是舌绽莲花的推销员，却售卖不掉彼此试探的真心。越南战火连天，石油不断减产，政客在掩盖真相，演员在编织谎言，只有你说不会忘记我，是真的。
在这部里松散的现代结构并没有给故事带来什么不可言喻的神秘，以往围绕人物、关系、环境、时代或氛围的诡异组织能力消失了，二人关系角力的核心并没有足够强大的吸引力和能量，我们也就几乎看不到镜头语言服务到的理念对象是什么，它不够持续而只是局部上单一的技术层面的好看而已（几个奔跑的长镜），于是我们便该意识到以往pta电影里的一部分魔力是来源于演员表演对角色本身核心意志的把握和于其外表、行为中四散而出也不可捉摸部分地准确演绎的结合。
American Graffiti or younger Punch-Drunk Love.PTA一如既往著迷那種不對稱性／錯位的兩人組人物關係。親密的流動的卻又互相折磨的情感糾纏。以『監護』為核心構建的角力。把握住了年輕人的微妙情感，不僅是70's世代，也是當代的。攝影機的運動真美妙！喜歡兩個人躺在水床上的那場戲的克制，「愛是想要觸碰卻又收回的手」
片尾彩蛋演员和角色的相似经历让人有种恍然如梦的感觉。
这是一次「伟大复兴」，包括了罗伯特·奥尔特曼式的1990年代美国艺术电影，《不羁夜》时期的散乱叙事和有点过头的画面色调，《私恋失调》式的愚蠢甜烂畸零爱情故事。最牛逼的是Cooper Hoffman 对爹Philip Seymour Hoffman 的复活，他妈的笑起来太像了我直接看哭了。一部散漫小品确实不是巅峰PTA，但作为脑残粉能怎样呢？《记忆》之后第二部年度top3 预订，看他妈一百遍啊一百遍！！（乔治克鲁尼快带着soggy bottom boys 出来给水床唱个广告歌啊！！！
老粉心碎。回看《木兰花》和《性本恶》这样有好奇心和批判性的洛杉矶城市史诗，就很难接受PTA刚年过50视野就缩小到了一个糖水画片般的白人郊区，开始自我陶醉于把这座城市变成一个有明星装点的怀旧主题公园。“70年代的洛杉矶真美好啊虽然遍地种族主义性别主义但是男主角心想事成所以你们应该看个开心”。我要努力带入一下当然也能看得开心，但某个时候还是意识到我去了一个本来没邀请我的派对
3.5；宛如青春版的《私恋失调》，同样是游弋迷茫中的寻找，同样是“古怪”投射于对方心田呈现的成长史，但处理得更闲散——最后当你几乎确信一切都不会再有故事发生时，情感的激流才汇聚到彼此终于站到同一起跑线的位置；在情感的平衡中永远此消彼长，永远无法用得到或失去去精确计量，正如他们善用冷言伤害对方，心理防御的机制甚至一度让他们错失，这种曲折是必然的，拉锯是说服自己和对方的过程。
电影是不错，喜剧效果很好，虽然题材上不太新鲜。而且在各个行当里都有一大群怀揣梦想坚持奋斗但注定无果的食草动物，并不是只有龙套成不了名才悲催。我觉得此类题材应该往更豁达的层面走走，尹天仇并没有一定要当大明星，你喜欢电影，喜欢表演，热爱本身就是幸福。没必要太卖惨，成功这种事，和奋斗并不一定强关联。当然，奋斗，也是热爱的一种。所以奋斗本身是幸福。命运辜负不辜负，那是命运的事。你辜负不辜负，是你的事。所以，假若你不想辜负天赋，就稍微努努力，努力的过程是很享受的。至于结果，也未必重要，未成功，比成功更耐人寻味，值得怀想。再说，万一成功了呢。比如40几岁的魏翔，对人生和戏剧都通透了，终于一战封神。魏翔真的是出乎意料地好演员。神经质，偏执人格，表情帝，形体还特别好，尤其是表演《雨中曲》那段舞蹈，很有意思。
电影院内大家都哈哈大笑，不过看完啥也记不住。魏翔演技好，希望他能红。正好这个春节档这是唯一一部适合合家欢的喜剧片，希望能给好演员更多的机会。
（可能是，教科书级别烂俗爱情电影再添一员力将？
PTA爱上日剧跑。青春洋溢，真是太甜了。拍特定年代但没有刻意怀旧，拍年轻的回忆却没有故意煽情。不是所有导演都做得到的。
喜欢70年代的画风，纯纯的爱，放到国内情人节上映多好啊
某种意义上的“随心所欲” 在PTA的纬度里只有几个镜头能感受到他的美妙
黑帮部分特别好笑，后面强行煽情就奇怪了起来。打光和布景偏舞台剧，处理还蛮特别的。戏剧和“现实”的彼此穿插设计非常有意思，知道有原著参考之后这种惊叹感一下子少了一大半。
虽然有些地方的确挺尬的
草！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！
哈哈哈哈哈非常好笑！！！-I'm cooler than you. Don't forget it. -I don't need you to tell me whether I'm cool or not, old lady.
竟然拍出了公路片的感觉（大概是“奔跑”太多了）。嗯，觉得PTA应该试着拍一下《拍卖第四十九批》。
有趣的灵魂万里无一。这片子怎么好我说不出来，应该说这部片子可以算是所有做作的恋爱电影的终极反义词了。
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