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".
DV与胶片相机，胸口上的伤痕，沙滩与雪场，吓一跳的樱花，不善言辞的“我喜欢你”与无助的“我想活下去”
一件一件美好被记录下来，一条一条回忆被悄然删去。在流逝的有限的生命里，点亮了一个绝望透顶的男人，谈了一场没有结果的恋爱。很美很遗憾，很老套很平淡，但看得津津有味。
其实是3.5。因为画面太美了 故事本身没什么意思，但是从茉莉准备离开开始我就一直在哭 最后删dv里的画面的时候我真的哭得喘不过气。也不是想推荐大家看吧。就是一部在预期之内 毫无升华的普通生活电影。生活远比电影要残酷。风起缘起 花落缘落 活着的人还要继续好好生活。
好吧 nana很美就对了 本身不太喜欢悲情基调下的所有快乐....
看到题材就能猜到故事情节的程度，但还是期待了很久，今天在微博上看到字幕组出了翻译立马去网盘看了。//nana和坂口的演技不错，背景音乐很好很好（不愧是RADWIMPS ！！！）//让我泣不成声的是和人看茉莉写的书，镜头一转在医院里的茉莉进入了抢救室。//好好活下去吧
他俩这恋爱也没咋谈啊…与其说男主为了女主活下去的爱情，还是女主贪恋生命边哭边暴饮暴食的绝望更鲜活。
看完观后感：两个自私鬼自我感动的爱恨情仇……
太虐了太虐了太揪心了 “我也想和妈妈一起活下去” 太难受了
影调很好，宣传的那些胶片照片太好看了。小松菜奈和坂口真的视觉上很好看。希望甜甜的剧情不仅仅是montage段落。风吹樱花那一刻真的太美了，不论余命多少年，都应该把每一天当作最后一天来活。
原作者已经去世了让我好难过好难过。奈奈真的好好看啊，我好吃她的颜
好吧 之前因为剧照吸引的我 观看的中途直接打了会瞌睡 说实话 很失望 全靠坂口和nana的颜撑完这部影片 倒是很满足颜狗^ ^ 唯一亮点就是片尾♫ 野田洋次郎的声音一出放佛倒退回16年
是要用尽全力那种
nana和坂口的超长mv，各给一🌟还有一颗🌟给黑木华，镜头不多但很有感染力。
看完立刻开酒了！
导演拍的很美，滤镜很温暖。
2022年了，还是日式绝症+纯爱片，且120min，果然预告+歌曲+剧照就够赚票房了。落樱飞舞、DV视角、跨年、旅游、逛街、滑雪、看日出、买菜做饭、放烟火、过生日、求婚、开房...基本该有的都有了，蒙太奇堆叠，构图摄影很炫技，以及加上洋次郎的配乐，氛围是真烘托出来了，我甚至有点感觉在看真人悲剧版《你的名字》...本子真的改编的很弱，情感线很失焦难自洽，仅有突然的片段，成PPT质感了，主要还是看颜吧。
看完观后感：两个自私鬼自我感动的爱恨情仇……
温子仁是中了《速激》的邪，也开始搞family这套了……
片名最撩人，其余的吧，绝症片使人麻木。。对于小日本的距离感无力吐槽了都。。看颜值就不错，还有Radw.最带感！
前期铺垫太多，给了太多期待，真正看到比较平淡。十年好像很长好像很短，长到我们会分离，短到无法实现梦中的场景。
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