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".
一开始以为花束之97组看到结局真是沉默晒干了眼泪😅 （这个导演最好是拉黑～（至于演技 若以宽松世代和对不起青春为对比 那是完全没有进步的～
剧情从中间就开始扯了 但是还是很喜欢拍出的这种若者（弱者）感
女儿好好啊，也好漂亮，其实他们父女之间的关系已经够好了吧。
我从来没有感觉如此窒息过。
。。 不必看。韩国也能有中国式贺岁喜剧啊。。。。
流浪的心配孤独的人……
想讲的东西太多了。某块政治正确大可不必，家庭伦理剧不香吗
配乐很不错。
没想到真的就是如此现实平淡的结局了。或许过往某段日子的确就是奇妙一刻（高光时刻）。
好平淡啊，熬到中间看到高潮来了，以为有大招，居然就这么结束了。。。
《论：有一双会讲故事的👀的疯批“美人”是如何学会从middle life crisis中与自己和解》
#有些人是不能沾酒的，但他还是去碰了，因为生活有了一道豁口，便浑浑噩噩地找来一切意图填补。性，酒精，药物，乃至最后连亲情也要拿来尝试。在过往中留恋，不甘于放弃，还有那因谎言蔓延开的麻木与窃喜，然而这一切却又是那么的痛。太痛了，要像孩子一般嘶吼着、咆哮着、控诉着，但背影是落寞的、孤独的、害怕的。幻想与执着终是要画上一个句号，就如烟花易冷。当所有的依靠最后都离他远去，立于高台之上，道着最后的深情，是否会俯视，是否会有想要放弃的冲动？
爱情和性别无关。这个爱情故事一开始注定就不会有结局，但是成年人喜欢了还是要说出来，当不成恋人但也可以是朋友。站在单身的视角来看，主动做的所有事情都很快乐，如果不强求，被爱的那个人也会觉得幸福。不过，但是这个两个男人之间不要说产生火花了，互相对视连火星子都没有。中年作家虽然落魄潦倒，但是这个角色演出来只剩下苍老，一点点柔情全用在了儿子身上，跟少年作家只是前后辈的关系。喜欢一个人的眼神是藏不住的，面对面对视的时候才要戴上泳镜或者墨镜。直男大叔虽然不喜欢但是也很懂，他能成为作家总有细致入微的观察力，不过年纪大了拼的都是耐力，不是用脑子写而是坐下来写。在意我的话就会在意我的话，有些话就算不是当面说但也知道对方会听到。作家的私生活真的过于狗血和不堪，家人见面永远都在吵架和撕扯，那还不如不见面的好。
即便是迷醉之中的彻夜狂欢亦或者贪图享乐的肉体放纵，都很难赎回那颗已然走失的流浪的心。影片中没有改变、没有救赎，只有在兜兜转转中始终过不好的人生。可人生中总会有这样的阶段不是么？没有人可以救任何人。我们都只能自己去找回那个出走的、离去的、迷失的、流浪的心。
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2.5。選角的勝利：如此瘋批人設若不是Leonardo演簡直會成為迷惑行為大賞⋯⋯
前面还在想女主这么美为什么非要选这个角落里的男生，一直揣着这个疑问还算有兴致，但答案揭晓的时候，已经让人失去了兴趣，特别是床戏，一点诚意也没有，如果不想拍大可不必有这么一段丝毫没有情欲感受不到任何爱意的，穿着厚厚浴袍做爱的画面，实在是感到不适。
电影叙事和男主的生活一样混乱，不知道影片究竟想要表达什么，唯一亮点也就是男主大叔的颜肉了吧，太可以了，从年轻时的《烈焰焚币》到中年《流浪的心》，一直都是那么帅。
It’s an Argentine guy who feels lost with sex love family and life, with his ex boyfriend, who left him not for before, his daughter, who is leaving for university, his mom, who died later in the movie and his ex wife, who has another man now.
中年同志的痛苦与挣扎…他算好的了有事业还有女儿…还在一个对LGBT相对包容的国家…除开这些…那些对爱的渴望和爱而不得的痛苦全天下其实都差不多…
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