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".
没有Inside Out那么scientific，概念太多太混乱：dream/purpose/meaning/soul/characteristic/self/others...到后面糊成一碗鸡粥。打动我的是疫情前的城市生机，没有距离的社交：熙熙攘攘的街道，人声鼎沸的酒吧，灿烂的灯火...不知道多久后才可以回到过去...🥲🥲🥲
小鱼：我只是水里，不是大海呀。
皮克斯掌握着全球最先进的动画技术，细节精致把控到分毫，拿出放大镜来观察也能禁得住考验。在掌握先进技术的同时，每次总能扣住温情的主题，带给忙碌生活的人们以抚慰。只是这次带给我的感动并没有相似题材的《意外的幸运签》多。
所以生命最大的意义就是活着，不一定是到达哪里
我好惊讶这个电影的每一句说教每一滴鸡汤都在我雷区上疯狂蹦迪，这就好像大家在2020这种年份里安慰自己“能活着就好！”一样
从预告片放出来就开始期待，结果是，不负期待。
年末圣诞夜，在电影院哭得口罩都湿了。
因为Disney+Pixar这样的存在 才使我对现代动画充满向往 我不仅向往那每一帧的画面 更向往那群创造奇迹的地方
亲爱的，不要听什么诸子百家
皮克斯稳到可怕，继《寻梦环游记》的亡灵世界之后，又以绝妙的想象力营造出了一个奇幻的灵魂世界，概念与娱乐并驾齐驱。对人生的执着或是逃避都不是最重要的东西，体验平凡，认真去对待人生的每时每刻，这才是生命最完整的意义；是一次对追逐理想与回归平凡的双向成全，是对存在主义的探索与自证。几乎已无悬念锁定2020年度最佳，以及93届奥斯卡最佳动画长片。
那个年代 这种作品 很无敌
当树叶落入男主手心，我和主人公一起顿悟：原来生活本身就是幸福。当我们渴望大海，却忘记了我们一直身处海中央。无需台词，甚至无需配乐，几个闪回镜头足以扣人心弦。《寻梦环游记》用音乐找回亲情，而《心灵奇旅》用音乐拥抱生活，拥抱真实的人生。
有一种为了讲这么一个活在当下的主题，硬设计了这么一个故事的感觉。创意可以，但故事略硬，整体都跟寻梦的发展路线很像，后半部分却没有推上去，虎头蛇尾。人物转变生硬，有种想模仿寻梦却没仿成功的感觉。电影里这个所谓的活在当下，其实有点假大空，就好像追逐目标就一定会迷失，珍惜每一天的分分秒秒随时感受细节才是活着。但是其实生活本身没那么简单，感受分分秒秒的也可能是享乐主义？追逐目标的人也不一定就是那个不识大海的鱼？看电影的时候觉得仿佛是对的，回头一想就不是那么相信了
皮克斯献给“打工人”的年度治愈之作，这才是真正适合圣诞节和年底看的心灵大片。如果让我选一部电影跨年，我会推荐《soul》，它不但让我想要珍惜那些生命中的小美好，更是让我想要感谢那些生命中照亮过我的人和事。以及不得不说，音乐太适合灵魂这个主题了，全片的音乐太动人了。
3.5。凡尔赛动画，男主体验了得尝所愿，享受了人生巅峰，回头规劝大家平平淡淡才是真，能活着就是美好。？？？
還以為要講做藝術需要對生活的sensibility，最後原來是「活著真好」，通俗情感點打得真準啊。只不過這碗有點老生常談的雞湯注定是短效的，面對生活的雞零狗碎時一切打回原形。
道理我都懂，可是这一年，我彻底失去了享受生活中的披萨、棒棒糖、阳光、音乐……的能力，姬友在旁边边看边哭，而我在最爱之一的影院里感受到的是难以挣脱的疲乏。
第一支预告，创意，画面，配乐都很棒！预感明年横扫各项最佳动画长片奖项！
菲姐的声音与角色完美切合，就是许多设置太类似《善地》，创意上就没那么亮眼，整体是非常四平八稳的皮克斯式感动常在。以爵士乐做引，去探讨人生的立意，在普世共鸣上做得最好，所以比起孩子更像是拍给大人看的（ps一个笑点：失魂的典型人物代表毫无疑问选定对冲基金经理
坦然接受自己即将平庸的一生，尽情享受每一分钟
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