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".
一切都回不去了，我们都要被迫成为普通人，成为普通人不要紧，变得麻木才可怕。
旁观者眼里的不值得，不理解，丑女一个；但你未娶，碰过女人无数，20年后却依旧能为她流泪，这可能就是爱情。
虽然有很多我想说的话，关于无法成为大人，关于太普通了，关于成佛的文字。但拍的不喜欢，丧的又不彻底，快乐的回忆也快乐不起来，最来电的反倒是醉后一夜情的俩人，越往后看越难受。
40岁仍一事无成？强烈建议看看这部电影，或许会改变你后半生https://v.ixigua.com/8GDqAYJ/
生活会一点一点把你的棱角磨平，普通才是每一个人生的终点。
对于我这样不“普通”的平凡人来说，无法成为大人已经习惯了
没有多好，但还是比花束般的恋爱要好。浅野堇好美。
p.s 森山未来也太像葛优了吧 伊藤是真的不诱人啊…
今年的惊喜之作，比花束更安静，但更有力量。
这片是有一定人生阅历的人才会看懂看进去 感觉默默的看完一个真实世界的人的大半生 跟若干人的相遇 生命的交织 重叠 分叉 又再重逢或结束 有满足也有遗憾 很感动又很悲伤 整个片十分细腻自然 最后不点题其实主旨都很明显了 我们都无法成为大人 但慢慢的 默默的 我们就是大人 自己在这个年龄感同身受 最后面计程车的真的太棒了 加上配乐拳拳到肉 泪流满脸 男主的演技很厉害 演高中生演社会新人到演职场老手都毫无违和感 东出昌大也有突破不过现实还是渣 导演厉害 这么多角色都交代的清清楚楚 产生的交际选择的故事也很有趣 用这种跳跃的时间线也跟一般的日式鸡汤片拉开距离 拍出一种看散文的感觉 跟着导演的思绪走看完一个有生命力的故事也是一种幸福 谢谢netflix不仅投商业片。
导演一直使用倒叙的手法会产生很有趣的一种观感——突然出现一个角色，但我并不知道这个人是谁和主角是什么关系，会在电影逐渐进行中慢慢清晰。在一个平淡的电影中这样的情绪起伏也很好地带动了我的观影体验。对于主题，看到最后森山未来奔跑起来后的那段戏很棒，墙的两侧画着箭头，写着未来，他好像一直朝着未来奔跑，最终却看到过去。虽然我们每个人的时间都在不断向前，但很可能我们终其一生都会回望过去。
观影过程一直带着问号，这电影到底想讲什么呢？然后中间睡着了……我发现我真的是脸盲症患者，男主的女友我都分不清是同一个人还是不同的人？ 倒是有句台词记住了：这世上80%的人是垃圾。那剩下的20%呢？是人渣。
“无论现在大家抱着怎样的想法过活，都希望可以肯定自己的现在”
多年以前加入了一个 终于变成自己最讨厌的样子 的小组呢
伊藤沙莉演的这种角色，看上去是普女长相，因为长久以来第一次被认可而爱上对方，最终逐渐耗尽了热情，因为对方不能引领她，选择了消失。我太懂了。
不喜欢倒叙的方式讲故事，但很明显这个主题这样表达是最好的方式，“我们都无法成为大人”是的，也许不是无法，而是不想。电影忧伤情绪很到位，黯然伤怀。
意外地不错，影片很有深意，虽然我目前还没到影片中主角的那种年龄，但也能共感那种遗憾
大岛优子戏份太少了！小动作微表情不比女主强嘛
第一次没看进去，第二次一个小时弃。不知道为啥日本这两年的新电影都感觉带着负面、阴暗的情绪，是不是经济和社会出了问题？特意搜了一下，21年日本自杀率又开始回升。
（不想这么说但）到底是有些年纪了，对于他和那个讨厌“普通”的初恋女文青已没什么情感触动。虽然笔友初见总是美好，那一身蓝色格纹也青春洋溢得好看。最喜欢的一男一女，一个是将同性之爱封缄20余年的七濑，最剖白的也不过是一句没能被会意的“真希望我没遇见你”；一个是被皮条客按住强吻，抬头麻木冷淡一瞥都惊艳的小苏，卖身之后看见他依然在楼下等待开心得只穿一条吊带裙就奔下楼抱住对方说“你真的还在这”的小苏，“我什么都没有，就算每天都是这样，好像也不讨厌”的，像只小鸟一样轻易就被弄丢的小苏。
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