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".
拍的太拖沓了，每个人都苦大仇深的，看着太累了
很喜欢这部电影，拍得非常有小说的叙述感，沉浸感很高。标签的“爱情”其实我觉得不是很准确，这其实是一部关于“如何面对别离与死亡”的电影；甚至可以说是把临死之人（郭小鲁）在弥留之际眼前闪现的画面展现给了观众们。片中很有多一些细节，比如画幅的变化、飞机落地天地颠倒的镜头（去捷克留学正着变倒、院长病危回国倒着变正）、开车从青岛去北京的自述（影片开头和出车祸变植物人之前）等都是值得玩味的。
每次看到他都想哭，想到他也会
不是一句我们都累了就可以成为理所当然的出口去搪塞那些本应该被原有的态度对待的人和事 人活着本来就是累的 累可以不做但不可以不作为
靠着几位主演的颜值看完的，宽叔这次好颓废，和男主一样阴郁，男主好像反町隆史年轻时啊，这好像是个小偷家族里嵌套了白夜行，然后又抛出了震后重建和低收入家庭保障的社会问题，想讲的东西有些过多，导致剧情有点发散，没讲透的亚子。
“不管再来几次，都请鼓起勇气，发出你们的声音吧。你们要发出比那些卑劣者更响亮、更理直气壮的声音。”
原来活着是一件如此艰难的事情。“法律和扭曲的信条保护不了值得保护的人，却对非保护不可的人视而不见。”
堆叠的社会议题都太多了太大了 导演都将法令原文照搬进台词里了 看来是有心关注日本社会的
虽然有些瑕疵 但不得不说是一部我喜欢的好片子 有独特的感情 有让人回味和思考的问题
电影探讨的问题很现实，很发人深省，演员也演得很好，只是节奏上显得拖沓。
它的魅力就在
开始觉得两个小时的剧情太长，看完后，两个小时哪够。整一个魔幻现实主义的题材，永生的最高境界是记忆永存，相较之下，生死似乎不是多么可怕的事情了
三个人没有发生过性关系的人，拥有一个共同的孩子。生物学电影？有点东西…可惜我没看太懂。
好压抑
王珞丹演啥都是一个性格，就是北京妞儿的样子，王传君倒不错，把一个木纳的专一的学医男生演的很好。导演不行哦，整个电影跟一40集电视剧解说似的，跟本杰明巴顿奇事差着修炼十年也达不到的距离。爱情、科幻、灾难、战争、家庭成长大杂货，不伦不类。只有最后老戏骨的镜头真的动人 ，其他真是，什么玩意儿啊。还一堆傻逼尬吹，如果是赚这五毛，我为你感到悲哀，如果是真心吹，那我更为你感到悲哀。人生没啥劲了。
嗯。。演员表演都好精湛！剧本也好漂亮！日本的电影工业真是感觉强到离谱啊！电影一个毛病是感觉前半部分时间组织太乱了。。看了好一段时间才分辨出来是现在和过去的双线，有点太不明显了。。。那么复杂的名字谁一开始就能记得住啊= 。= 除了这个之外还有个小槽点是结尾感觉有点硬圆了吧。。这也太巧合得有点过了吧。。虽然能够勉强解释利根为啥要救黄衣小女孩的动机，但感觉有点勉强了。。除了这两个点以外，这电影几乎可以说挺完美的，虽然有不少问题，但还算瑕不掩瑜，给个五星没什么问题吧
好后悔那时候，没和他一起去北京
除了清原果耶和阿部宽以外再无亮点的电影。林遣都为什么要接这种脸谱化角色没想通，佐藤健这表现也能提日奥我只能说日本艺能界男俳优的水平下滑的有些严重。片子立意是往深刻去的，可是把主题解构以后用来展现的手法可以说是拙劣。与其这样还不如拍成警匪悬疑电影，商业上卖座，题材上讨好，结构也能多样化。而不是抱着所谓“冲奥”的傲慢拍的不伦不类。
谈不上好，说不上坏，剧情想表达的太多，时间跨度很长，但服化道都没跟上！看完无惊无喜，没有思考，没有悲伤！
好后悔那时候，没和他一起去北京
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