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".
我在高兴时，会觉得很难过。
松的音乐中你会度过一段美好的时光
21_197。说实在不是不接受倒序和乱序，但拍得太散了很难投入。我前面莫名还以为是同样的男主角出演着不同人的故事
虽然相比第一部在叙事技巧和人物塑造上都简单直白了许多，好在整个故事还算流畅最后的华彩演出也足够动听足够绚丽甚至还有点小感动。技术力方面无可挑剔，人声居然能听出远近和朝向让我小惊艳了一下。虽然超多耳熟能详的金曲一次听了个饱，但即使以音乐剧的标准配乐还是略显满了一点，经过第一部的小人物成长编剧想在第二部弄个大的，但明显已经有点HOLD不住了，我真想给这部打五星可那对第一部不公平。
森山未来每个阶段的表演都恰如其分，演20出头也丝毫不见老态。看完发现是拍恋之运的导演，难怪这次也都在我的点上。甚至在想我是不是太过精日，为什么我的生活都在日影里，而大陆的影视到底呈现了谁的人生呢？包包回我：大陆影视才是造梦机器，我说确实。
还是要有爱和梦想啊，不要逃避，但是要逃离这个世界。
我们只是不断的前进，不断的遇见，却不是不断的长大
虽然场景更加大了,
『君の身体にも成仏してない言葉が詰まってるよ、きっと』
身穿红色夹克毛发柔顺的硬汉摇滚狮子有谁不爱呢？
一夕失去normality让幸运儿们了解普通有多幸运。是一部关于场所营造的电影。。
1.初恋留下了不愿普通的执念，他却还懵懂她离开的原因。内心对抗着成为大人这件事，活成茫茫人海中绝望而普通的又一个人。2.相比《薄荷糖》的韩国编年史式倒叙，日本的社会变迁其实在主人公体内了无痕迹，而只作为归纳回忆的标签存在。真正构成无法长大、想要回去动力的，始终是私人史的伤痕。3.会记住两个段落：中年时与偶遇的女子一夜情，在能俯瞰东京夜景的酒店。她想拍东京塔的灯光，那灯却在按下快门的瞬间熄灭；少年时跟初恋在廉价旅馆，做人生的第一次爱，黯淡的氛围灯如明灭星河，他们珍重而腼腆地相拥、相融，“我在高兴时，会觉得很难过。”
日本人拍东西音乐是道具，不是增加感情的垃圾。
高潮戏的歌舞并没有很惊艳，有种历尽艰难结果整出了平庸之作的遗憾。
剧情太简单粗暴了，即使有好听歌曲加持，也没办法喜欢上了。就是遇到挫折的坚持找到自我的故事。我都怀疑是为了出歌曲，才拍的电影。像极了为了把低俗小电影情节穿起来而拍的办公室美女下班公交车遭遇片。。。
整部片有種太讓人感覺到攝影機的意圖，覺得是netflix日片的通病，好像錢多了又不懂應用之感，但後段蒙太奇還是有被打中。
故事有点牵强，但是听了两个小时的歌曲串烧还是非常解压的！这种阵仗的秀估计也只有在动画里看到了哈哈哈。
本片采用类似于李沧东的《薄荷糖》那样的剧情结构，顺着时间线一一返回，从不满现实愤世嫉俗的大人一直到最初的纯真青年。
适合用毫无节制的运动镜头去记录。东京塔熄灭的时候莫名哽住了一阵：太当代了,哪怕一些无关要紧的 走在深夜里的样子。痛哭过/一个人的故事.
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