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".
那个痣都跟我相同位置的人。
花朵凋落的时候，先是从边缘开始残破、变色，然后慢慢地直抵花芯，被空气、水分、阳光慢慢蚕食。盛开的时候越美，枯萎的过程就越不堪。无论曾是什么颜色的花朵，最后都会蜷缩成一道黑色的斑，花与花有着相同的终点，就像随处可见的恋爱一样。当然，还有一种让花朵永存的方法，是在它尚未枯萎时，便摘下来、风干、做成干花，虽然香味全无，但胜在大致的情形还在，并得以更久的延续，就像随处可见的婚姻一样。曾经沧海难为水，如果不肯降低标准的话，便只能游弋于对沧海的幻梦之中。人总有妥协的一天，但面对一些曾深爱的人与事时，哪怕错过，哪怕失去，都不能去妥协，因为有些人，珍惜到不能将就。
有一个成功的开头，那这部电影也就成功了一半。
从山顶开始的话，无论哪条路的都会是下坡，但也许，还可以爬上另外一座山峰
豆瓣文青的爱情凋亡录
早就过了这个年纪且早就知道这就是人生，看到短评里最好的总结：爱好不等于三观
兴趣只是相互了解的一种方式，兴趣相投不是稳定关系的必要条件。当然，年轻时兴趣几乎是可控时间的全部，爱好相同的话一同度过共同的时间建立亲密关系会更容易一些，但也往往会产生以为心灵合二为一并能够持续到永远的错觉吧……走入社会后，兴趣不可能是生活的重心，柴米油盐、生活习惯、价值观、未来的计划等等都是更重要的事。恋爱如同花束，美丽但终究会枯萎，不过只要拥有过也是很幸运的一件事，反正对我来说他们那几年最美好的时光是我不敢奢求的。我从本质上大概还是一个现实主义者吧，我不会相信永恒、不会对热情的生命抱有期待、也不认为存在双方都不用妥协的亲密关系，生活本就是不断用回忆抵抗失望的过程，曾经拥有比完全没有要好上太多，这样想的话……或许能够装出一幅微笑并心怀祝福地告别的样子吧……
共感在哪？太多流于机巧的镜像对称段落，这般生发于无菌试验场、容不下半点革命张力的恋情，剥开糖衣后注定只剩追忆潸然。如今的半圆写都会青年物语真比不上隔壁金子茂树，完全靠老本在硬撑，以往剧集中慢火烹调的生活细节和时代氛围，在影片高密度的内心os环绕下，俱都退化为只有布景功能的摆设。另外没搞懂这对怎么就从齁甜浪漫到了非分手不可的地步，不是说给的理由不够充分，而是这种命题式的写作太省事了，结局一眼望到头，画外音全靠各位痴男怨女自行脑补素材，遑论抛出真正深刻而有启发性的见解。
世另我的双向奔赴终究也没干过柴米油盐，好在凋落的花束没有被盲目地埋进婚姻的坟墓里，也许“合拍”的两人真的不一定“合适”吧。
我的心被坂元裕二拿小针儿扎穿了。本来打算三星的看到结尾最后一分钟又改成四星。苏打拿有村架纯送他的那副降噪耳机压住对方的声音这里太巧妙了，我用你送我的礼物隔开了我们之间的距离。咋办呢，明知道五年后会是这样，也还要开始吗？我们的相遇和相爱一定是特别的，是命中注定，要自顾自地给巧合赋予这么多的意义吗？
我们的人生，爱情，际遇冲撞在一起，最后能冲撞到哪里谁也没有答案。或许接受爱情最终会退化成亲情，是人生接受自己的最重要一步。
我不喜欢肖申克，但我也不迷押井守。
文艺-小资-社畜特供片。已经被奉为大神的坂元裕二，这次奉献的剧本不过是二元对立+填充新鲜细节的产物，说僵化套路刻板并不为过。但针对特定观众群，这种剧作模式+选对演员已经足够让人买单。2.5
恐怖的是我也变成男主那样读不进书、靠消消乐消解压力苟活的家伙了。
“恋爱总有一天会变成生活。”
缘分天注定，豆瓣友邻浪漫邂逅，迷影元素不少。照着大部分情侣写照来拍，开始这么甜就猜到不会有好结果。★★★☆/7.3
豆瓣特供……坂元裕二近期的创作好像越来越偷懒，沉溺在自己的某种趣味里面，丧失了《最完美的离婚》时期那种蓬勃的生命力……
心机的半圆和平实的半圆在这部电影里打架，看之前很喜欢热评那句“和完美合拍的人说再见”，看完后却觉得这又是心机半圆的矫情，以前写“爱情与生活总是矛盾，是我无法治愈的顽疾”，这样真实得无可奈何的半圆应该是再也回不来了。唉，和过去的爱人挥挥手吧。
坂元裕二很会让每一代普通青年找到共鸣，《四重奏》就是，文艺事业和感情都不行，那就保持现状地混着。这部直接是豆瓣文艺青年的《前任3》，文青是跟某些自己喜欢的调调恋爱，跟自己都可以恋起来，而文艺事业半途而废，就是对才华不够的认命
幽默、文化符号运用纯熟。坂元裕二不愧是豆瓣用户，书影音狂轰滥炸，当代流行文化一锅乱炖。前半段用细节去堆两个平行个体的“怪异”他者性，错过终电的一夜漫游很爱在黎明破晓前，爱好和怪怪想法的电波一点一点对上，成为“俩恐龙过马路”情侣。面包会在涂黄油后掉落，校园恋爱会在毕业就职被毒打，后半段偏菲茨杰拉德，电波一点一点对不上，彼此失去感情，变回豆瓣友邻。天竺鼠押井守开口笑耳机蘑菇帝国电影票根做书签黄金神威自助信号灯宝石之国任天堂考里斯马基羊文学，符号都年轻流行，结构上展开变化有始有终，每一个都很戳中年轻文艺人的点，但一直被戳会审美疲劳。太工巧太讨喜，叙事弧太明显，台词太典型，符号塞太满，观感太刻意。我最喜欢的是最后在餐厅目睹和自己相似的年轻情侣，如在镜中，发现自己并不特别，文艺青年的傲慢荡然无存。
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