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".
平淡又赶场的鸡汤之旅。看完也没有印象深刻的场景，还以为爵士乐会是个重要的线，结果失望了……有一点比较赞同，男主前期对音乐的“功利”性追求在愿望达成后，反而会觉得空虚，因为他并不是个真正热爱生活的人。
Monica:life is suck.you are gonna love it.
皮克斯这部电影显得有点阳春白雪，一般观众不是很好接受，对于人生终极意义的追求和理解，总不是那么容易，但这部电影确实是为每一个平凡人而作。看到片子男主实现人生梦想后怅然若失，看到22因为一根棒棒糖、一片落叶、一首演唱而开心，不由想到，我的梦想是什么？我没有梦想（电影中的“火花”）是不是就该被唾弃？我做一个坐在路边为别人鼓掌的人是不是就是没出息？认真对待每一份美食、每一处美景、每一个细节、每一个朋友和家人，你收获的，可能比实现刹那的“梦想”更长久的快乐与满足！共勉！平凡的人们！
所以生命最大的意义就是活着，不一定是到达哪里
巨难看，看了一个小时叽叽喳喳不知所云，年龄越大越讨厌迪士尼和皮克斯动画里的笑点，泪点和煽情也尬得要死。
△大家都是第一次做人，不要怂。头剃坏了没关系，去理发店就好；裤子裂了没关系，去找当裁缝的妈妈；不要怕妈妈的说教，不要封闭自己的内心，说开最好，说不开关系也不会比现在更差了，不管怎样你的心结都会好很多。
主题就是今年我大彻大悟的“珍惜当下”，很浅显的道理都放在电影表面，不需要多思考，也算是一种排遣。做人好难的，希望二十二能在地球过的开心（飞奔向地球那点还是让人很感动的～
开头五分钟很常规，然后…然后…再然后…再然后…不断把人置于惊喜当中，在两种截然不同的美术风格之间不停跃动，创造出一种音乐性，也显示出皮克斯不竭的创造力和想象力。一个是需要目标的灵魂，一个是需要肉体的目标，二者相互扶助成全，某些瞬间还是蛮让人动容。黑人和女性地位凸显，但又没有太被强调出来，各方面平衡性做得很好。令人遗憾的是中段有点太碎，结尾又太圆满，既然成人路线都走成这样儿了，那就不如再干脆利落一点吧？（这个团队为啥对中阴那么感兴趣）
和人生的死磕与和人生的和解 难得的统一了 这是每个中年人的必修课。在今年在当下，尤其可贵。
纽约秋天飘到掌心里的一片翅果，可以包含整个世界。
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一条小鱼游到老鱼身边
神作。真的是我们这个时代的作品。不过从最后地球仪来看，竟然去投了hard模式……
小鱼：我只是水里，不是大海呀。
《天书奇谭》作为动画电影的绘画功底即便在今日看来依旧充满着中国特有的美学魅力，独具匠心的画风呼之欲出的是那中国文化深厚的底蕴，而于此中那天马星空的奇想，行云流水般简单却有赋有深厚寓意的神话架构，使电影由内而外皆堪为完美。
原来黑人父母一样希望孩子找稳定出路，当个老师，别瞎折腾，这一刻，山东即世界，世界即山东，天下大同。
感人！看完有一种活着真好的感觉！下午的电影院屏幕小声音也不行，有点影响体验，还是要看巨幕啊！
皮克斯技术上无可挑剔，现实的纽约和幻想的天国的中转站都极具辨识度和想象力，但最终主题在一如既往地感人的同时，道理却有些经不得细想，乔伊最后能发现通向生命的最后一块拼图的基础还是他在事业和理想上取得了成功，虽然电影在故意淡化这个事实，但如果是普通人的话，没有寄托的生命中，失败是否也是我们感受生活的力量呢？会想到《醉乡民谣》中那个同样在纽约流浪着的孤独的音乐人，但那只猫只是他孤独时的陪伴，并没有帮他找到成功之路，乔伊是幸运的，他的天赋在巧合的时间点被发现，而失败者却不得不接受自己被时代抛弃的宿命，我更喜欢后者关于失败者的故事，因为生命有些时候不能只是享受，而是需要用痛苦与绝望去体验、去超越的，所以电影中那些迷失在放逐地中被黑灰裹挟的奇怪灵魂才是我们最正常的存在形态吧
80/100，尽管仍是Pixar那单一的倚靠概念的直陈式观念输出，但却消弭了以往人物间明晰的对抗关系。仅凭借对世界维度的延展与物质经验的引申，还是唤起了感官深处的微妙心弦。形而上的存在主义思考被有条不紊的安置于充满音乐性的礼赞的语义，这是生活的奇迹，或奇迹的生活。
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