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".
朋友是什么？总之不是依靠科技的虚假繁荣以及空虚感。
尽管这是一部温情动画，但其背后反映的问题其实细思极恐，贪婪无序的资本开发出无孔不入的社交媒体，随时随地就可以入侵一个人的隐私毁灭一个人的存在，更恐怖的是现阶段普通人几乎没有还手之力，所以互联网并没有让世界变得更好，反而更加异化了这个千疮百孔的世界。
好无聊的电影，但我真的很想去那不勒斯看看。
看不懂想表达什么，很多时候他们开的玩笑，他们的反应让我觉得很...不能接受🤷♀️
34分钟弃，为了留住自己的有暴力倾向潜在杀人犯的机器人不惜把无辜的机器人粉碎的男主，我忍不了。还有简介上说巴尼是一个有着社交障碍的中学生，我看他挺勇的啊，主动和好多人说话。要是他算社交障碍，那我就是植物人了。
结局还以为B宝会回来，没有大团圆的欧美动画片。
第一次把ai做成了具有独立思考能力的，探讨什么是朋友，但是有点忽略了现实间真人交往的重要性。
哥哥后来也继续坚持了演戏，选择到台湾发展他的表演事业，艺名凤小岳
我们社交娱乐的方式变得目不暇接，
顽固又易碎，落寞又繁华，聒噪又虚无。
属于索伦蒂诺的“痛苦与荣耀”，一个夏天发生了太多的事情，足球是留在这里，家人是伤痛，性是重新与未来建立连接的桥梁，电影就是梦想之神；导演把那不勒斯拍的太美了，和天才女友里的那不勒斯完全不是一回事，而且电影中的幻想和现实好几次的连接拿捏的恰到好处，不过这也是导演一贯的水准吧
虽然剧情套路，有些地方甚至细思极恐，但真的好喜欢这样可爱又温馨的电影。
立意挺好的～社交的尽头是in person。
可以引进一下的，不知道在犹豫什么。机器人版的手机风靡未来，可是世界上最后的贫困户却买不起。好不容易弄来一个摔坏的残次品，结果这个手机机器人不仅代码不全，而且不能上网，于是男孩通过自己的方式教这个机器人学习。这个机器人居然渐渐成为了男孩真正的朋友，而不是一个跟屁虫手机，这也是开发者的初衷。看起来大结局皆大欢喜，可是，人真正的朋友应该是其他人，而不是机器人。也许我这样的观点未来将会变得落后。
感觉是这几年讲科技元素最好的动画。很多作品都只看到现代人沉迷手机等等陈词滥调，但是中学/人际的恐怖之处，大概与我们手上拿着的电子产品/卡牌/武侠小说/弹珠球无关吧，要怎么才能fit in怎么成为cool kids，小朋友永恒的考验。
对费里尼的正确消化带来了耳目一新的、不再做作的索伦蒂诺
父母遭遇意外双亡的痛苦，美丽性感的帕特里夏小姨，球星马拉多纳，大导演和走私犯朋友，第一次给了邻居老男爵夫人，种种青春往事汇集成的酸甜苦辣，如那不勒斯这座城市一样五彩斑斓，但都无法阻止男主角最后离开的勇气，这部带有自传体性质的电影即便不是传世的大作，却也是一首优美的散文诗。
毫无节制毫无尺度毫无自知之明。只顾制造混乱。
4.5 一开始以为电影是在拍墨西哥的故事。确实会想起阿方索卡隆。最喜欢的两场戏：父亲出轨，母亲气炸拋橘子嘶吼，最后却以“马拉纳多转会那不勒斯队”结束。男主的第一次，始终未被点燃的那根香烟。下葬那场戏，对声音尤为敏感。看到最后小修士出现在车窗外时，仿佛做了一场梦，而在驶向罗马的车上，法比安也沉沉睡去。拍电影不仅是关于孤独与痛苦，多想想快乐的事情。你绝望了吗？不，其实你还有希望。通过这一场梦，与自我达成某种和解与念想。
1、只有离开，才能长大，家乡是这样，过去也是；
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