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".
后劲太大了，看的时候还好，走路回去一路爆哭。
皮克斯这部电影显得有点阳春白雪，一般观众不是很好接受，对于人生终极意义的追求和理解，总不是那么容易，但这部电影确实是为每一个平凡人而作。看到片子男主实现人生梦想后怅然若失，看到22因为一根棒棒糖、一片落叶、一首演唱而开心，不由想到，我的梦想是什么？我没有梦想（电影中的“火花”）是不是就该被唾弃？我做一个坐在路边为别人鼓掌的人是不是就是没出息？认真对待每一份美食、每一处美景、每一个细节、每一个朋友和家人，你收获的，可能比实现刹那的“梦想”更长久的快乐与满足！共勉！平凡的人们！
因为Disney+Pixar这样的存在 才使我对现代动画充满向往 我不仅向往那每一帧的画面 更向往那群创造奇迹的地方
❹不识海洋真面目，只缘身在此水中——“火花”不是人生目标，想生活的那一刻就是生命的火花。迷失与忘我，执念之差。皮克斯解构“丧文化”，摘除当代社畜的金箍。反追梦、反宏大、反焦虑。
惟江上之清风，与山间之明月，耳得之而为声，目遇之而成色。取之无禁，用之不竭。是造物者之无尽藏也，而吾与子之所共适。
皮克斯却告诉我们，并不是一定要有多么伟大的成就才算活着，就算没有成功又怎样呢？恰恰相反，一味追求成功而忘记了享受生活，这才是最遗憾的。
皮克斯八股文，没有一处情节超越常规，没有一处写作突破匠气，只是主题切中并安抚了当代人的处境焦虑，然而这个东西七十多年前在弗兰克卡普拉手里就已经被讲述得登峰造极了，也正是它的普世性让它在时代和地域的可流转下变得平庸，可惜的是这种平庸并不能跟电影歌颂平庸的主题相自洽。
比Inside Out又上了一个台阶。不仅有卖萌有搞笑，也有温情感动。它有音乐，但并不是在讲音乐梦想，而是在讲一种人生哲学: It’s ok to be nobody.生活的意义不是成为人上人，只要过好每一天，再平常的事也很美好。这种充满人性关怀的信息对当今焦虑疲惫的社会人来说是极大的安慰，这也是皮克斯除了技术以外能傲世动画行业的一个重要因素。
高纳终于实现了梦想，但他突然发现，他追求了一辈子的东西并不是他想象中那么高大上。
先不说把灵魂窄化成“知道自己人生的意义”有多低龄，就说灵魂这种又虚又大的概念，是靠何等的鬼扯才能搭建出一套完整又基本合乎逻辑的小宇宙。。。这和《头脑特工队》不一样，性格形成论这种东西，很容易理解并产生共情，可是说到灵魂，说白了，纯靠编了。
人这一生，每一分钟都很精彩。
小时候看过太多遍，现在剧情还能清晰地回忆出来
皮克斯yyds♥️
太治愈了，正是此时此刻所需要看的电影。不过投胎的时候看到那个灵魂直朝着中国冲下去，不禁为她的来生捏一把冷汗。
当我们习惯于沉浸在资本市场里而不自知的时候，皮克斯提醒我们活着不要太功利——突然想起前段时间的看到的那句话：每个小男孩童年的梦想，绝对不是买一套房子。可是，现实会答应么。
很好看啊。简直像是我编剧的。人不是只能为了宏大的理想或意义而活，能发现一片叶子的美，同样难得。不要被“意义”困住，不要因为找不到意义而不开心，很多人终其一生都触不到那个高高在上的意义，触碰到了或许也会发现不过如此。而如果能在繁琐的生活里发现细微的快乐，自己开心，也让身边人开心，这就是意义。快乐就是最大的意义，因为只有这种意义可以传递。
你们怎么可以辣么对待认真计数的人呢哈哈哈哈哈
小鱼：我只是水里，不是大海呀。
开头五分钟很常规，然后…然后…再然后…再然后…不断把人置于惊喜当中，在两种截然不同的美术风格之间不停跃动，创造出一种音乐性，也显示出皮克斯不竭的创造力和想象力。一个是需要目标的灵魂，一个是需要肉体的目标，二者相互扶助成全，某些瞬间还是蛮让人动容。黑人和女性地位凸显，但又没有太被强调出来，各方面平衡性做得很好。令人遗憾的是中段有点太碎，结尾又太圆满，既然成人路线都走成这样儿了，那就不如再干脆利落一点吧？（这个团队为啥对中阴那么感兴趣）
很多时候你幸福，不是有多大的成就，只是因为一块烤得刚好的面包，一天阳光正好的正午，一片飘落到你手心的叶子。幸福仅仅是因为活着，因为几十亿人、整片天空、全部宇宙，都在沉默地陪你活着。
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