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".
没看懂想说什么，但是看完了想打干细胞，吃高粱饴
苏凌芳是怎么知道丁萌萌和郭小鲁计划过要生个女儿起名郭萌的呢？
实质是一部探讨死亡跟人生意义的片子 丁萌萌跟王老这两个角色真出彩啊
真的，这故事越到后面越飞，飞得有点离谱了。你如果说它本来就是奇幻，但它飞得太突然了吧，而且不像传记。
第三：女主的设定是一个没有底线的女明星？？ ？ ？？？是只有这种女人老去才值得惋惜？
没懂…节奏线乱了。阿甘和本杰明的合体，但是合坏了，有点故作神秘，可以科幻，但不能拍到让人看不懂啊。即便是作者电影，也得让观众品个味儿出来。
没有去影院看这部片子，真的是遗珠之憾。充满文艺片气息的娓娓道来，让你在不知不觉中度过了一次人生。关于爱情、人生、失去、错过、死亡，每个字眼都会让你思考良久。所有演员都表现出特别高的水准，女二李婷婷更是一句台词让人破防，王13多年不见竟然能演出原汁京味，太多惊喜让我评本片为2021年最佳国产影片，没有之一。
父母是挡在我们生命面对死亡的一堵墙
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。
王传君的老脸，演青春不老毫无说服力，而王珞丹最后剪短发那段，也没演出老来。有点儿糊弄了，说实在的。
前半段是接地气的爱情故事，后半部分变成干细胞，外加眼睁睁看着王小莫他妹逐渐癫狂，越来越像神棍片了。能看出来想探讨很多深奥的东西，但是咱这完全没铺垫就转换的破本子就别来这么多花里胡哨的了吧？失望，太他妈失望，离谱，离他妈大谱……
摄影及美术真的是牛逼，塑造的时空展现了太多那个年代特有的细节，唯独客观讲述故事有点跳戏，观感不是特别好。
本来以为是环形时空叙事，结果就只是讲完了这一生而已，全程用诚意讲述遇到的那些人那些事，因为是mv式的快剪加解说，得以让叙事时间可以尽量拉长，虽然到最后的感动，不过是时空堆积后累加生离死别的伤感，但终究还是有一瞬间被打动了。
一个宏大的故事，内容过于丰富，拍成电视剧更好，很多闪回和转场，表达记忆以及幻觉，很用心，但是真的太多东西了，情绪统一不起来，虽然但是，愿意四星为敬
前半段还行…到了第二个女主的故事的时候，感觉像看到了第二个故事，前后转折僵硬，后来想想，应该是把电视剧揉成了一个电影…太奇怪了。
3.5，表达曾经时代“坎坷不平”的深刻立意与剧作割裂感并存的电影，说特别尴尬也不至于吧，就是要素过多会给人一种混乱不堪的感觉，不过要结合起来故事中每个人的经历来看，但这样看的话不如叫“你一生遗忘的故事”还差不多，其实每个人大大小小的事都会经历，都会有印象深刻的往事，但终究会遗忘，遗忘了，自己便不再是自己。
风格杂糅，怀旧、奇幻、科幻几个元素都在这部电影里，变成男主角诉说自己的一腔心意。电影中的女性形象不仅同质化严重，而且是那群人很喜欢表现的一类女性，演员没有演出什么新的花样，王珞丹仍然在执迷于外在的反差不同，没有从内在去刻画一个人物形象，王传君的台词时常太过表现，是我很不喜欢的一类风格。电影从后半部分猛然转到生命主题后，完全变成了演讲，如果前面看不到导演对于年代真心的怀旧，只是填充一些视觉来说，后来就更暴露了对于生命缺乏层次的认识，然后这个不老，令所有人都消失了。
2.如果把旁白去掉，这电影算个什么？反之，一部电影要靠旁白推进情节，说明它没有镜头语言，这正是失败。
本借片名，简介和题材对内容加以揣测，期待能有看本杰明一半的感动就算赚到
懵逼，电影没看懂，故事让我懵，所以，男主角是死了还是没死，都叫海洋大学了，电影的结尾是又过了几十年么？。老，可以有死的意思，说人老了，在某种语境里是人死了。不老奇事，说的是不死么？有句台词，父母是我们和生死之间的一堵墙，整部电影都是不老，可是每个人都在老。未知生，焉知死，不谈死后的世界，只谈祭奠和怀念，是传统的追思。
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