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".
前面挺文艺的，倒叙手法来讲故事还有错过，挺有年代特色，但也很老套。到后半段，长生不老这个主题出来，捷克实验室里丁萌萌癌变开始，剧情就开始奇幻走向。而最神奇的是郭一鲁从始至终对苏的执念，就像刻在骨子里一样，真的有人可以一辈子一心一意只想着一个人吗？说到最怕的是没有关于对方的记忆，挺残酷，人越老记忆会消失得越快，到最后就是你最怕的样子。王传君的戏和旁白都很好，词很戳我，但整个故事元素太多，情节太离奇了，以致于最后有点四不像。
竟然还不错 就是太赶了 正好在读《和我们的女儿谈话 》 有很多贯穿的地方（死亡，父母，女儿…）
如果没有宏大命题+癌症+车祸+借胎生子+三角恋就好了
题材非常有趣，开头也就是分分钟抓人，那种离别永恒的伤感。但是中间拖沓拉跨，还马爷干细胞乱入，这不应该去霓虹取经，到啥布拉格啊，太乱炖了。导致最后海边见面莫名其妙的画蛇添足感。感觉导演舍不得剪辑，所以一下子剪了两个结局联播。王传君不再关谷神奇后，就慢慢安藤政信化了。
你以为的不老超能力是因为小时候的化学事故，可这能力最后的来源，却让这个故事前后有了严重的割裂感，看来是不能太期待王朔写类似的故事。
来自十一月份意料之外的惊喜。前半部分的京圈儿生活，王朔味儿太浓厚了，这果然是他的东西。后半段的留学研究又超脱现实，诗意浪漫。只有别离，才能永恒。
看了一半就看不下去了，提前离场了。整部电影就是预告片的加长版。王传君全片就一个表情，木讷。两颗星都给王珞丹吧。
一部电影最可怕的就是，关掉画面不影响你懂这个故事，打开画面，你以为这是电视剧。
片名很容易让我联想到《本杰明奇事.》，也有人说是结合了《阿甘正传》，我也发觉哦。
感觉前后两个故事，从去捷克开始就不一样故事，前面还觉得挺不错的，结果后面突然变得奇幻了……本来以为是演两个人分别成家立室各自面对生活难事，面对亲友死亡的思考，然后结果突然男主又扯上干细胞研究不老之谜。我以为是在教授之死后，让他们对生死看开了，但是突然女二就陷入了疯魔状态？干细胞研究得好好的，突然又去中东感悟生死？后面开始有点赶场式拍摄，仿佛割裂开来的故事线……不过这个电影的概念，还是蛮有意思，只是不拍得那么复杂，化繁为简更好了。
喜欢王传君王珞丹
据说是男人会看哭电影，电影里女孩子王珞丹被描述的太现实，太社会。男生的懦弱还有孤僻才是现实中最真实的，那种默默喜欢一个人的渴望还有悲伤，太真实了。干细胞让一切变了。如果可以永远年轻，专情这个词汇就消失了。王传君演技派，赞
很怪，要素很多，而且很长。视点模糊到我时常忘了上一段在讲什么，王传君怎么一脸懵逼地就过到了这一段的人生。一开始「慢速视觉」我以为要玩一个「视觉时间」慢速于「物理时间」的奇幻概念，以为是王传君所经历的时间晚于王珞丹，所以他在她的世界里看起来不老，他一直在时间的后面追着她。但是这片子居然真™是在玩科学实验而不是文学或哲学概念，片程过半了才突然想起来要「不老」，干细胞闪亮登场。但仔细想想，每一个促使王传君想要不老的原因，和王珞丹又有什么关系呢。在彼此生活里缺席那么久的人，真的会这么爱吗。我不理解！（但还是很喜欢王传君，李婷婷也很可爱。）
本来是看王珞丹的，结果戏里丁萌萌更有特色，尤其是临终前那句我爱你，憋了好几年终于有勇气说出口，再不说可能就没机会说了吧。
突然想起来，这是编剧的真实经历改编吗
如果没有宏大命题+癌症+车祸+借胎生子+三角恋就好了
立意是很高，剧本够硬，但是被玩崩了。观影体验很复杂，前面以为是爱情片，后面又开始天马行空了医学系、摇滚、电影、干细胞……什么猛料都往里加，找不到重点，看起来就像一个传记电影。借用电影里的话，文艺电影有没有人看不重要。
重要台词
当然了，我看着雨中风景也贱戳戳想起了自己的初恋…
王璐丹已经沦落到接这种烂剧本的地步了吗，你自己演的自己相信吗?
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