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".
喜欢他们的故事，喜欢年轻的脸庞留在影像里，老去的他们再观看时那种复杂的感情，就像放映员先生说的一样“已经很久没流泪了”。
1“电影拯救人生”的主题稍有些生硬了（回避了家庭中长久存在的问题），电影之神的降临也并不赐福于女性。“虽然我赌博酗酒借高利贷但拿了编剧奖（感觉一半还是孙子功劳）我仍是个好男人”，爱情就是这样，痞子有吸引力点。老好人，温吞水，没有亮点，不受女孩青睐。跟着阿乡不会幸福，会吃苦，但女孩子认定了。
两个时空仿佛两部电影，断裂感如此严重，怎么年轻时挺可爱的小导演会变成那么讨人厌的老头子啊？但还是被山田导演的赤子之心感动了。如果真的有电影之神，请保佑山田导演长命百岁继续工作。
又臭又长。泽田和淑子或者泽田和电影，二者有其一能刻画出一点感情，都太容易打动人了。可惜啥都没有，几句感谢词突兀又不可信。最后甚至还在电影院大声聊天，哪个电影爱好者能看得了这个？
其他都不错，就是有个疑问，也许是菅田将晖气质太过靠谱了，眼神耶过于真诚了，总觉得他不是会赌博和喝酒的人，以至于老年时那个不靠谱的被家人嫌弃的老头，不像是他会成为的样子～哈哈哈～永野芽郁有点苍井优的味道，特别邻家，没有攻击性。北川景子在这里果真大美人～
开头跟普通日本当代片一样烂 后面用来把剧情画面转到过去的那个桥接创想方法超赞 接着导演对演员演技不屑的话也深得我心
某种程度上，对于此时此刻的我，是一碗恰到好处的"鸡汤"。相比对于摆烂爷爷回头是岸的共情，更多还是对于“电影本身”的感动。老年寺新拉着老年男主冲进影院宣告好友拿了大奖的时候，突然泪目，那一刻觉得，电影之神，是属于所有人的。
致为梦想不懈奋斗的你！
（但永远热爱昭和女優不变😂）
謝謝山田洋次，篤中心裡的痛處，同時痛並快樂著。有一點不太喜歡的是某些對白很直白，到最後鄉在醫院對寺新說的一段淑子應該選擇寺新，辜負了淑子的愛，一世渣男得一愛侶，淑子離不開是愛、女兒的惡也是愛，孫子欣賞外祖父亦是愛，寺新對鄉的關心也是愛。鄉得到了全世界人類的愛，又不太懂珍惜。這部片看到山田有多愛電影，多愛舊時代，在新時代下與時共進。無論人生還是觀影生命都是要學習的榜樣，不驕傲，不自大，謙卑做好自己本分。感謝山田的電影溫暖人心，記得初心。
有真的被戳中情怀的部分，也有实在乏味的老设定。但最后一部分还是让人心软了……
@地质礼堂·北影节 昭和气息满满 写给旧时光和电影的情书 但是总拍着拍着就整一些爷奶爱情也不知道为啥 感觉有点两边都没处理好了 过去真好 能完成年轻时候的梦也真好。
（电影里边都在揶揄哪些导演呢... 对日影史不太熟辽
片子里到处活跃的小joke一看就是山田洋次的作品 结局一般 当年制片厂年代的日本电影 真实又可爱
松竹100周年纪念电影，向电影致敬，但选取的故事其实跟电影关系并没有那么大，本质上还是山田洋次擅长的家庭题材，电影作为故事的一个纽带串联了过去和现在的两条故事线，电影更多还是一个符号，一个承载了美好的青春的符号，电影可以让一个埋头逐梦的人实现理想，也可以让一个窘困潦倒的家庭走向新生。电影里也有很多迷影的小彩蛋和一些小幽默，整体有些失望，但应该还可以吧
一篇在及格边缘徘徊的命题作文。作为松竹元老，那个时代的亲历者，导演应该能提供足够的细节，来还原这家片场在整个电影工业的百年沉浮任何一个片段都好，但最后还是拍成了一部精神致敬家庭剧。这软绵绵的抒情戏码甚至把剧中吐槽清水宏和小津的幽默感都减弱了。
謝謝山田洋次，篤中心裡的痛處，同時痛並快樂著。有一點不太喜歡的是某些對白很直白，到最後鄉在醫院對寺新說的一段淑子應該選擇寺新，辜負了淑子的愛，一世渣男得一愛侶，淑子離不開是愛、女兒的惡也是愛，孫子欣賞外祖父亦是愛，寺新對鄉的關心也是愛。鄉得到了全世界人類的愛，又不太懂珍惜。這部片看到山田有多愛電影，多愛舊時代，在新時代下與時共進。無論人生還是觀影生命都是要學習的榜樣，不驕傲，不自大，謙卑做好自己本分。感謝山田的電影溫暖人心，記得初心。
韶华不再不胜唏嘘，世界不断下坠至如今。结局有点刻意，昭和都实现不了的梦想，凭什么到了令和就突然怀才被遇见了，最后打的不还是情怀牌吗。
其实就是基顿的《福尔摩斯二世》的创意，其实也已经有实现这个想法的电影，伍迪艾伦的《开罗紫玫瑰》就是，所以当我看到在2020年代这样的剧本获奖的处理时，其实是太理想化的。展现了一些疫情下影院的困境。但没有太多新的元素。
2021北影节第一场。关于疫情入侵生活的书写，都显得如此真实自然。人生的况味啊，果然还是山田洋次的细密温情啊
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