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".
这是关于我们这个时代的，又一位大师笔下的纽约，远比《曼哈顿》《弗朗西斯哈》更瑰丽奇绝
带着很高的期望去，反而觉得……嗯，一般。怎么说，主角一开始是loser相，过程光怪陆离，然后用复杂的逻辑讲了道理，后来主角学会了在宇宙中心做自己，最后上了高级动人的价值。就很，奇葩说？
#纯正的中国风美术片风格#
△其实生活就是这样，要认真的过好每一分钟，好好感受生活本身。哪怕你没有各种才能，没有各种社会层面的成功，但只要你认真生活、热爱生活，你自己的人生就是有意义的。
老鱼：你就在大海里。
完全没有触动到我，刻意拔高的鸡汤真的很难喝下去，我不喜欢。
画面和想象力真的超绝，开头也很吸引人，平凡人生追梦的设定以及各个接地气的细节都很戳，但是到了中间剧情突然开始套路，结局更是拉胯，没有我期待的反转（本来以为按皮克斯的尿性会不会让男主直接死掉，没想到还是很随便就HE了）。可惜了创意。三星都给想象力，剧情属于低配版inside out吧。
高纳终于实现了梦想，但他突然发现，他追求了一辈子的东西并不是他想象中那么高大上。
2020的我比任何一年都更渴求被爱，掏空自我去兑换一个执念，最后变成那个荒漠里迷失的灵魂，变成在海里寻找大海的鱼。若不是这部电影，我差一点让自己感知生活的那根敏感神经彻底失灵了，还好有这部电影，让即将到来的2021年不再是漆黑一片，而是有了值得期待的花火。感谢皮克斯。
没有什么是必须，存在先于本质，生活先于意义。
优点很多，但我不喜欢这个结局，宇宙意识过于人类情感了…………应该有更巧妙的解决办法。
迪士尼法务——性转换黑鬼，逐梦演艺圈，还有一只猫，提名傲死卡，谁敢不投票！
❺拜登胜选，徒留“海宝”（黛瑞）在奥巴马心爱的《心灵奇旅》里操着一口“川普”自卖自夸；二十二降生在中国？迪士尼驻华有希望。
应该是《头脑特工队》之后看过最好的动画片，差点因为这个无语的译名错过。对于人生本质的思考和呈现别说动画片了，即便真人电影也没几个比这个展现得透彻。
更巧的是电影主角也叫Joey，也贼喜欢音乐，前期和后期对生活的态度和感悟也都跟我一毛一样，要不要这么巧，完全像是在拍我本人好吗！！！
从我成长的经历而言，我跟男主和22的共鸣都很强烈。尤其是男主的一生追逐演出梦，首次演出结束之后那种索然无味和怅然若失的感受，我在我的人生几个节点都有过强烈的这种体验。也是后续慢慢真的发自内心地觉得逐梦之所以让人这么痴迷是因为这是一个自己完全理想化的状态，说白了就是因为想要逃离庸常的生活所以自己内心无限美化了“理想”且放大了这种渴望。真的当梦想实现那一刻，确实会发现远不如自己预期的开心。那既然逐梦其实没那么美好，确实回归到生活本身是一种宽慰。享受过程而不执着于结果。第二个强烈共鸣是“忘我之境”和“执念幽魂”只有一线之隔，被执念操控真的就很像鬼魂。自己要学会及时分辨。第三个强烈共鸣是男主跟我一样，大多数时候比较自我，几乎对外部世界无法感知，其实很多时候是脑子太满了，没有空隙来承载一些外部偶然性。
除夕临近，看了这部“心灵鸡汤”式的皮克斯动画片，观感还算愉快，只是老套过多，欠缺新意。So so!
火花才不是生活目标，而是你想要生活的每一刻。 除了感叹迪士尼和皮克斯的精妙之外，确确实实很有些代入感。可能像我这样平庸的人才能感觉到吧，那种好像达到人生目标时的志得意满，过后又觉得依然无味，自己还是那个不成器的自己。但总是能在生活中体会到幸福感，在平凡的某一刻找到属于自己的意义。
由《头脑特工队》作为灵感、并拓展补充的性格重塑与生活启示，延续《寻梦环游记》对死亡等更多深刻话题的普及教育，再来点《善地》的即视感，本以为最多就是部“集大成之作”，工业用最娴熟的功夫来拼贴。但看完之后却没有犹豫地想要给出今年第一个电影五星，它塑造了更为迷人的故事世界，抛出了更为深刻的“哲学”问题，还有佐以菲姐的绝佳配音，几乎占齐了所有击中了我的点。2020年彼此之间最平凡却又最难能可贵的寄语是“好好活着、珍惜生命”，去重新拾起那些或许在“正常生活”被遗忘的美好，并选择将危机后作为一场重新开始...属于今年的启示都在Joe和22的故事找到了。真正的Movie of the year.
满分之作，精彩绝伦，创意与技术的绝对领先！技术是手段，内核才添神韵。琴键之上，探讨何谓灵魂与存在，探讨何谓生之意义。一部适合所有年龄段观众的佳作～
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