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".
浩瀚无边的海洋，或许并不在远方
举重若轻，也可以说聊得不够深入。比这几年最好的头脑特工队和疯狂动物城还差一点。里面转世的概念挺佛教的，而寻找内心spark又是典型西方价值观。
岁月静好里透露着一丝孤独，温情治愈里也透露着一抹孤寂。
“我从未遇到我想要的生活。你的生活是可悲的，你却努力想要恢复它。我想明白为什么。”
就像有人摸着头对你说：平凡也很珍贵呀，生活里细碎的人间烟火已经是人生的意义了
从生之彼岸的出现开始就已经再也抑制不住内心的惊喜，小声呼吸唯恐下次便成了啜泣。我也不明白为什么自己能哭的和经历过什么大风大浪的社畜打工人一样。是因为太优秀了我想找茬：22一点都不讨人厌好嘛！
动画电影看中配版有个好处就是同场观众里小朋友的比例会很高，而孩子的笑声会给电影本身加成很多。（不是罐头的罐头笑声）二维导师说自己是【宇宙一切能量场的集合】的时候我脑子就飞了：所以这是一个管辖地球扇区的分部，其他生命形式也要去往生命终点么以及动物灵魂如何引导启发注入（打住）比起inside out的心灵震撼还是稍低一点。喜欢迷失灵魂游荡的荒漠，和inside out那个洞一样。
在合适的时候看到了合适的皮克斯。叛逆和抑郁、坚定和执念，诸如这样的很多状态其实都只有一念之差。真正的乐观大概是接受一切动态发展的可能、随时都准备好冒险吧[思索]
非常刻意的把这部电影安排在2021.1.1去看，真的太正确了。非常喜欢这次的中文译名，无论是对电影本身，还是对观影者自身角度，都是一场名副其实的“心灵之旅”，感谢迪士尼，感谢皮克斯，我们的2021都会很美好的！
特别后悔没有在电影院看《飞屋环游记》和《机器人总动员》，这次《心灵奇旅》总算没错过。电影结束，本来就为数不多的观众都没走，意犹未尽。 明明不煽情，却哭成了狗。从在裁缝店和妈妈的对话开始，眼泪就没止住过。有这样的好电影不看，为什么要被郭敬明喂💩呢？中国市场可真是劣币淘汰良币。
我想没有电影看到一半突然接到亲人去世的消息更能凸显这片子“生”的美好了，可即使如此，我更愿意把“Soul”看作是对“追求梦想”敲的警钟，就这个手法来看，的确是皮克斯最“成人”的主题了。
（说起来，找 与 我 两个字写起来好像，也许人活一生都是在努力找到自我吧）就算碌碌无为也不是什么可怕的事情。真的治愈到了。
自从工作以后，我一直保持着有钱就用，从不会对自己吝啬，不放过任何一个可以享受生活的机会，这也是我一直非常坚信的人生价值观。看完这部电影后，更加坚信这观点没毛病，所以很爱这部电影。就应该趁年轻，去享受生活，去享受活在当下的每一分钟，追求梦想什么的根本就是浮云，看电影才是正事。
在电影院里看哭了。飘落的树叶，洒落的阳光，孩子的欢笑，海边的浪花，亲人的拥抱……每一个镜头都能触动我。生活本身是没有意义的，但是认真地过好每一天就是意义。Live at the moment.
所以大片的乌托邦幻念，所谓中二的邪不压正太二元对立了，缺少了活着的实体浪漫感。我们不能成为改变世界的人，但我们只要努力一定能活成在这个世界中发现美，在悲剧中独自美丽的存在。
可能预期太高，设定又太像coco+inside out，就没有很惊喜，但故事还是很打动我，应该是最适合治愈2020年的电影了吧
看着电影顺便就做了一个CBT session, Pete Docter这得喝了多少死藤水才能把执念与忘情visualize出来！一个愉快的中年场，也是第一次看完电影没有一个人走，所有人都一脸懵逼地思考如何活在当下。纽约尼克斯那个梗夺笋啊
皮克斯拿手好戲是把生死大事萌化成後勁十足的反思而非說教，生命中哪有這麼多的高光時刻，往往期待已久的目標實現的瞬間不過是精鹽一粒融入海水般無聲無息，徒留某種儀式感取悅自我和周邊。所以，不會有什麼重來一次，Carpe diem！每個當下，每種風景，每口滋味，每位趣靈魂，都值得用力擁抱，我問心無愧。【WandaBB】
这句话我记挂了很多年，还曾把它小心翼翼贴在本子上。这是当时我认为于我来说最为贴切的评语。那些年，我做什么事总是“只差一点点”，“前方迷雾”的感觉贯穿我的生活。
how did they make it depressing and wholesome at the same time.
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