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".
意料之中的空虚，内容无聊，剧本悬浮。。。只能欣赏些美图
你的名字對業界的影響⋯⋯不過我還挺吃這套。
一部关于死亡的电影
剧本不行啊……这个电影估计是先想到跑酷可以做很好的画面，然后生套个人鱼公主的故事制造泪点弄出来的。槽点太多懒得吐了……老虚不行，浪费了这阵容，画面还是很美。
阿尔兹海默综合症，老年痴呆，临终关怀。一个普通的家庭，每个年中儿女遇到的老人赡养问题。想起年迈的父亲，终日面对封闭的砖瓦房，相比护工，家人照顾胜却无数，身体的疾病却抵挡不了亲人耐心逝去。整体节奏平稳，爸爸演技不错，女主恬淡佳宜，几段魔幻场景，水形物语，朋克蒸汽，有老师看完直呼对标哈内克的《爱》。
唯一能夸的画面甚至都不是我喜欢的画风... 除了流畅真的一无是处... 好像没有世界观也没有什么大格局 海的女儿现代版 bye
这部电影的虚构幻想部分和结尾高潮剧情都值得我们思考 真的被低估了
花了三块钱买buff叠加，结果看到buff们笑嘻嘻地说：恰饭嘛，不寒碜～美人鱼故事+立体机动装置+精美画面，一定是对标了新海诚！
音乐和画面很美，这剧情太玛丽苏了，且情节推进太快。
前面有点多余。后面开始，真是，人间真实。想到了，我的母亲，还有我的外婆外公。外公摔了一跤，拉回家了，断了管子，人就走了。外婆老年痴呆，没过半年，也走了。久病床前无孝子，强求不得。伺候人的事儿，谁能一直受得了呢。活着不管，死了办个体面的葬礼，也算是自我安慰了。不如啊，痛痛快快的走了，自己不遭罪，也不用为难周围的人。活着的时候，好好活着，死了也干净利落吧。人生啊，活着一辈子，图什么呢？
为什么叫《泡泡》？因为就算导演能导出《进击的巨人》和《死亡笔记》，就算编剧是大名鼎鼎的“爱的战士”，就算声音可以豪华到超一线，这动画也不过是像泡泡一样，一碰就碎的垃圾。
光看动画场景的话值4星
标准的君名“类型片”，确实没有那么那么出彩，但是至少有一个完整的故事和框架，并且作画总归是顶级的吧？很满意了。
很好的题材，想到了国企单位独生子女家庭，阿兹海默症，临终关怀。关于死亡，关于变老，还是挺共情的。
#3rd HIFF# 展映-万象中国。前3rd平遥WIP+4th平遥观众奖。7分还是4星鼓励一下。老夫妇俩还挺不错的，导演的长镜头设计是很下了一番功夫，室内调度很有些罗马尼亚电影的味道（[雪山之家]这种小空间长对话脉络上的），高中教室那个场景估计是导演得意之作了。片尾那个费里尼+塔尔科夫斯基式的梦境其实有点蛇足。好奇的是，这个片子明明是个东愁式的工厂退休职工的指向，底却是个颓败乡村。以及，实话说女主角如果能cast到赵涛老师就完美了。
虚渊玄这是念了金刚经？一切有为法，如梦幻泡影；如露，亦如电，应作如是观。立意其实很高，但奈何放在整个作品里面就挺割裂的。
三星半，补标，海南国际电影节看的，本来以为是个大闷片，安静看下来还挺喜欢的，喜欢里面导演对超现实场景的处理
作画和视觉特效都很好，但故事没说好，可惜了
4thPYIFF。到底有多少导演喜欢化用老塔的试听？其实有些梦境空间的处理大可不必，但是毕竟是处女作，需要着墨的空间。文本不错，戏剧结构紧凑，但是观众上来就“超越侯孝贤”的论断，为免太夸张了，这么夸张不会是个教导主任吧？
有一种《天气之子》的感觉，但是请了那么多人拍一部新海诚风格的电影，为什么不直接请新海诚。单从观感来讲还是很不错的。虽然剧情不是全部，但没有剧情的动画和幻灯片有什么区别。
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