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".
嬉しいときm、気持ちが悲しくなっちゃうの。在宇宙星空的那个情人酒店。忘记了时光流逝。
最终我们还是会变成大人，变成我们自己都不喜欢的样子，有些东西曾经有过就可以的了……
比花束有意思，适合作为元旦开年作观赏（追忆97出现的早期UC T恤，电影院上映的堕落天使和燕尾蝶大海报，两人在宇宙炮房的消磨时光片段情怀满满），当然针对这矫情的片名，看完只想说无法成为大人又如何？成为大人又能如何？普通又或不普通的好好活着的标准，无需他人定义评判。
你都怎么定义「普通」，当你想和特殊的人过普通生活的时候，普通的事会变得特殊；换做他人，你们所做的任何事都只是普通。你又如何定义「大人」，当你努力成为你所喜欢的那个特殊之人模样的时候，你认为你是在成为大人；当你发现你和那个人都变得普通的时候，你认为大家都无法成为大人。不幸的是，变得特殊不一定是成为大人，为人逐渐变得普通，人生开始囤积遗憾，这大概率是成为了大人。 * 三星半。筱原笃（《恋人们》2015）真是位好演员。
为结局和故事结构加一星，本身只是一个中年普通男子丧气记忆，但是这种回溯感做得很到位，新的一天来临，终究还是普通的他，终究还是无法成为大人。
可惜即使旧地重游，也无法时光倒流。少年狂，中年丧，为赋新词强说愁，人间正道是沧桑。
《薄荷糖》杀向《恋人们》。成也败也片名直接延用原作。去你的幸福像花儿一样，都犯二谁比谁更高。
像是在翻QQ相册或博客，一个情绪向短片的内容水了一部电影的长度。
这部电影人间真实…真实到不想推荐给任何人…
青春伤感电影，归结到一个女性对男孩成长的影响，氛围感十足倒叙的手法显得多余，追溯到故事源头并没有一个关键节点是影响整个男主发展的，女孩的影响力也仅停留在爱情层面，单一化，不足以形成影响人生发展的原始动力。
3.5 日系薄荷糖。要是少一点做作的镜头和剪辑会更好。
回顾人生的那种淡淡的忧伤与无奈，大多数人终将活成我们年轻时并不喜欢的模样吧。
长大后，你是否长成了自己小时候讨厌的那个样子？ “这世界百分之八十的人都是垃圾” “那剩下的人是什么？” “人渣” 长大后，我们变得无趣，变得乏味与无聊，变得失望，变得失去梦想，但喜欢过你的人，还有你喜欢过的人，一幕幕，过往历历在目，你好似失去了什么，又没有什么值得失去的。 我就是片中的男主角（我们长的相似），奔赴在未来与回忆中，“你的身体也充满了尚未成佛的词语”，别让你的人生变得无趣，往回看，你看到的都是普通，真的很普通，我们都无法成为大人，不是因为别的，而是因为你的现在，总是走走停停，时间就算存在，但时间不存在之时，你会如何表演你自己？
节奏略慢，片尾还有个彩蛋。大人只是一种定义，别人给与的的定义，无论你主观上愿不愿意接受，你都将会被社会同化
“在结束的时候，才会想到开始”，好好做个有执念的普通人吧。
这种倒叙讲述对我来说还是太碎了（不过以后应该会重看）最动人的地方是拍东京塔突然熄灭的那一幕 初恋演过不可以报销和夜以继日 我说怎么这么眼熟 以及渣男东出昌大真的演得很不错
太长了，2.5吧。跟刚才看的《树大招风》其实是一个内核。
岁月缓缓流逝，回忆慢慢追溯.....抓住人心的镜头调度，既隽永又惆怅。森山未来对各个年龄层次的心理拿捏都是比较到位的。
我记得曾经在哪里看过一句话：世界上最没用的人才去打工。这很击中刚刚在社会上打拼的年轻人，以前我们所设想的生活和未来，我们希望与其生活在一起，共同分享喜怒哀乐的人，却因为不同的追求分道扬镳。那些曾经出现过的人，就像房间里的星空，成为我们无法忘却的回忆，但它也只是回忆罢了
无感。我们都会成长为无趣和普通的大人，也没什么不好啊，活着就很好
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