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".
话说“看电影”大多时候仍是一件私人审美的事啊——看过这么多电影到现在，已经少有哪部新片从开头第一个画面或者第一个音符，就把情绪瞬间拉进去了——可能有的电影其实也没那么好，却贵在真诚——编剧怀着对文字的敬畏用心写下故事，导演怀着对艺术的敬畏尽善尽美调度，而演员怀着对观众的敬畏力求与角色灵魂互换般诠释——被这样精心呵护而长成的电影，既有生动的血肉又有挺拔的内涵，它不惧时光流逝，即使经年之后，依然足以慰藉所有与之邂逅并共情的人。
家里客厅上挂的黑泽明的《电车狂》的海报，对着餐厅，可能是罗品文思觉失调的主要原因（不是）
喜欢蓝色口罩这个高概念 但故事真的没必要来来回回说这么长…… 病院复健甚至还有魏如萱来唱歌真是戏太多了
期待比较高，而且断断续续看完，整体不及期待，但风格还是依旧对胃口的那种，个人评分7.5吧，虽不及阳光普照，但绝非最初看到开分的6点几。家里的墙上贴着黑泽明的电影，电视机背后藏着无处躲藏的长蛇，医院墙上画里消失的骑师……很多很多点觉得还是很有意味。“每个人都有难堪的过去，只是大小不同而已。而且未来会怎样，没有人知道。”就像房屋以为就这样卖了，谁知道还是遇上了那个恶狠狠的温暖经理。就像泄洪的激流裹挟，还是绝处逢生，所以don't sweat it，那些让人烦躁的瀑布，也终会成为潺潺溪流。
比起《阳光普照》更喜欢这部，片尾的《抉择》，“也许雨一停我就能再见到你”。
单亲家庭、中年危机、衰败中产，这些元素以贾静雯的思觉失调贯穿构建起来，整体偏向于电视电影的质感。而疫情这个时代外壳，没有发挥出很好的作用。贾静雯的确非常适合饰演成熟职场女性这类角色，例如《我们与恶的距离》里宋乔安。
没有什么绝对的天灾与人祸，无预警泄洪、瀑布声、卫兵、蛇。一切都是历史的扭曲变形，我们既是债权人，也是债务者。好在生命中还有那么一点点温暖能够支撑我们幸存下去。
贾静雯生病初期让我想到自己的妈妈。我也曾度过片中女儿那样的日子。
“主动一点，不会吃亏的。” // 金马奖最佳剧情片、最佳女主角、最佳原著剧本
王净长的很像我一个表姐
单亲母亲与她青春期女儿既矛盾重重又充满温馨的亲情生活以及她们在疫情大环境下应对经济的困境。摄影美术剪辑等都还算精良，但作为传统故事片，大量剧情发展与转折都极其主题/概念先行，这导致各种角色形象缺乏连贯与统一更像是极其混乱的拼贴（因为故事并不是由角色推动而是强行转折，所以为了配合转折角色形象只能被强行改变）。
最好看的一部分就是女儿在听了医生的话之后，回家对妈妈态度的转变开始，试着去理解她，不是否定。不负责任的爸爸，被压力冲塌的妈妈，18岁的女儿。蓝色真的是会让人blue的颜色。女儿演技好好，喜欢看她们两个的母女戏。前面一个小时都很尴尬，突兀。真的很喜欢看陈以文演戏，自然又有意思。
毕竟现实中四处暗涌，实在算不上什么瀑布，最多也就算块破布了
最好看的一部分就是女儿在听了医生的话之后，回家对妈妈态度的转变开始，试着去理解她，不是否定。不负责任的爸爸，被压力冲塌的妈妈，18岁的女儿。蓝色真的是会让人blue的颜色。女儿演技好好，喜欢看她们两个的母女戏。前面一个小时都很尴尬，突兀。真的很喜欢看陈以文演戏，自然又有意思。
不署中岛长雄的钟孟宏，摄影没有以前那么好看了。而即便设置了那么多的对位回应，故事本身还是缺乏戏剧性，可看性较弱。疫情所造成的焦虑和奔溃固然居有时代特性，但这个元素若是用不好，还是不要用了吧。
2.和疫情并没有特别大的联系。
要经历异常才能完成退阶，制作层面没毛病，不喜欢也不共情这种讲故事的方法。王静长了一张认知度不高版本的文淇脸。
单亲母亲与她青春期女儿既矛盾重重又充满温馨的亲情生活以及她们在疫情大环境下应对经济的困境。摄影美术剪辑等都还算精良，但作为传统故事片，大量剧情发展与转折都极其主题/概念先行，这导致各种角色形象缺乏连贯与统一更像是极其混乱的拼贴（因为故事并不是由角色推动而是强行转折，所以为了配合转折角色形象只能被强行改变）。
蓝色光照在脸上有点惊悚，对贾静雯的印象还是她演的赵敏，没想到一晃这么多年过去了，演技似乎很了很多。（魏如萱还是好好做歌手吧）
口罩、大楼的帷帐、瀑布，刚好构成了一组由“蓝色”串联的，并覆盖身体、环境和精神的困境，最终，这组蓝色符号的逐一去除，则连接起女主角疗愈的全过程。
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