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".
电影后半段我几乎是情绪失控的，哭得不能自已。忘我空间里那些吞没小人的黑色粉末很像抑郁情绪的具象化，不是每个人都能像22那么幸运有男主去把她拉出泥潭，但电影还是很有启示意义的，能平凡的活着，享受当下的每个看似不起眼的瞬间，就已经很厉害啦
从美学到表达都属于特定时期、特定班底的特殊产物，对于如今所谓的国产动画，其实没太大启示性。
故事偏套路制式，想象力创造力的亮点不够（可能只有出神的世界），点燃不了我熄灭已久的火花。
和人生的死磕与和人生的和解 难得的统一了 这是每个中年人的必修课。在今年在当下，尤其可贵。
四星打给生死界设定、灵魂离体的嬉皮士们、泛柔光的纽约和爵士。如果是疫情之前看到这部片的话我应该会大受感动，但现在的我好像已经无法被本片描绘的那种有些轻飘飘的“being alive”状态打动。落叶，披萨，风，都很美也很好，但它们或许只能成为像22那样还未出生、所有感官都还新鲜蓬勃的灵魂向往生活的理由。由Joe这样一个既拥有天赋又得到机遇、最终还能破格死而复生的主角来表达“没有目标也很好”也挺拧巴，我不想让皮克斯这一群创意行业顶尖天才们来安慰我享受平凡，我更关心想当兽医的理发师。
挺失望的，无非是用黑人爵士乐手来普及白人佛教哲学。说直白点，这种片的目标受众主要是选择太多的第一世界的人。因为要是灵魂“投胎”到连水都喝不起的地方（顺便一提，缺水人口也有好几亿），再讲这种大道理就显得很不知趣了。
这两年的皮克斯已经沦为了甜蜜治愈的情感棉花糖，有一种90年代励志的光。但完全失去了inside out里bingbong消失时带给你仰面一拳泪如雨下的震撼感。我喜欢龇牙咧嘴却自恋的球球，也会被微小的细节打动。但很遗憾这个故事非要再给Joe一次机会，所以它没有更直接的把故事的核心说完：你用尽力气，放弃梦想，对爱有心无力，过不好平凡的一生。那也没什么。”
院线经理们快醒醒，郭敬明们给你们下了什么迷魂药，为什么这么好的片子没有排片，却全排给了烂片。即使出了资源又怎样，这部电影是属于大银幕的。年度最佳动画长片！
年度动画片，皮克斯又一部纯熟与创意兼具的佳作。将爵士乐与心灵成长相结合，对心理意识的呈现似[头脑特工队]变奏，对生前死后之过渡边界的着力上承[寻梦环游记]，而本片的冒险历练主要在现实社会中展开，尤其强调琐碎生活中的【当下感知】，一如面包、秋叶与抚触脚边的海水，一如俩主角通过猫的中介达成身体互换，如孩童般初次体验并专注于全新的感知方式（人生成猫；几千年看遍世人的厌世之魂“下凡”初尝鲜活感知之流则同质于[柏林苍穹下]），出体与错位既使两人重新观照自我，交互成长，又予人足够笑料。皮克斯对抽象风格的融贯与将概念具象化、空间化的能力无与伦比：量子世界与洪荒宇宙叠交的生之来处与生之彼岸，毕加索风自如流变的异界管理者和拟态成冷抽象画的计算追猎者，忘我之境里的出神之灵与因过分执着而迷失的怪兽化灵体。（8.8/10）
提醒了我，寻梦环游记是皮克斯最糟糕的电影，没有之一
补评，在我记忆里是上美，甚至是国产动画片最后的经典之作，之后没有了！别提那些狗尾续貂的作品！剧情上，我是哭着离开剧场的（小时候），成年人了，看此片还有其他的深度，就不谈了。
一部净化心灵的好电影。落叶在街角被风吹起的霎那，眼泪已经浸湿了口罩。我们琐碎而漫长的一生哟，好像没有哪一刻曾真正拥有安宁，反而是常常感到被围困，兜兜转转却怎么都找不到出口。一只渴望大海的鱼并不知道，它其实已经在大海里游泳了。每一天，都当宛如新生——这么简单又朴素的道理，这部电影用最贴切的镜头语言和音乐语言准确地传达出来了。了不起。
未必有所成才算活着，梦想也不是什么了不起的东西，只喜欢看天、走路、吃披萨的人生也很好。（皮克斯送给社畜社恐的一记摸头
我觉得这部电影在2020年底出现简直就像一颗充满力量的恒星，它闪耀着一种也许微弱的光，但却时刻告诉我们要充满希望的珍惜当下。人生的完满不在乎它高光时刻有多耀眼，而在于它每一分每一秒所散发的微弱的光；那些我们和家人的每一次欢笑，在街边吃到的美食每一次惊喜，哪怕在树下每一次被落叶敲中的平凡无奇...这些所有微光汇聚而成的人生，才是真正的人生，一个充满灵魂的人生。
和灵魂乐的关系算是点到为止。有点失望。
太好哭了！此片献给悲惨的2020，也献给所有热爱过生活又对生活失望过的朋友！如果说灵魂世界概念的设定是A级，那么最后一波波关于生活中那些曾活过，曾绽放过的花火细节的情感冲击绝对是S级的！一定要去影院看，看完感觉自己又可以与残酷的人生再战500年！
略微无聊，感觉很突然，也能够看出点意义，但是也是自己从只字片语中理解出来的，整个剧情就让人感觉有点莫名其妙……
我小时候不吃饺子，唯一让我吃的办法就是把饺子用两张皮捏成太阳的样子并且看这个动画片的录像带。
好好看啊！超级喜欢！！2021年看的第一部影院电影是心灵奇旅实在是太幸福了！！皮克斯yyds！！这部电影改编成游戏肯定很好玩，场景和角色设定很可爱很有想象力，泰瑞和杰瑞们就很适合做npc，配乐也好听！一人血书求迪士尼出游戏！
久久闷着的心忽然舒展开来，化而为止不住的泪水。这是一部让人跟自己和解的电影，毕竟感动是人类的本能。
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