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".
挺失望，首先灵魂小人儿的设计幼稚太潦草，无法忍受。其次皮克斯现在越来越说教，而且强行反转完成偷懒的升华，鱼和海洋的比喻最后没讲清楚，海洋里的水是海洋，但你得告诉观众什么是海洋的水呢？片子想说艺术需要回归生活真实感受，但最终讲成了追求梦想好像没有意义。
就……我真的不喜欢这种圣母感公知感爆棚的片子，说教太多，姿态太高。
用这么花里胡哨的方式讲了个这么陈腔滥调的道理……问题是第一次注意到阳光穿过树梢树叶掉落当然会感动，如果天天只能面对这些看了成千上万次生活一直重复，还能心动如初继续支撑自己吗？
感觉心灵之旅的编剧团队集体练习过正念，“觉察当下”、“扩大感官范围”、“不因焦虑和压力失去对真实生活的感知”。硅谷的流行文化里果然有meditation 一席之地。
一部迪士尼皮克斯近乎满分的作品；
最后22飞向地球，看着好像在飞往某亚洲地区？
建议豆瓣可以增加一个打分功能：最高可以给影片打六分，每年有且只有一次可以给影片打六分。这是今年我看的第一部电影，但我想打六分。
怎么说呢，就好像电影在对着孙悟空说：“不是非要做齐天大圣斗战胜佛才是人生啦，要享受花果山一草一木的美好呀！”
抑郁的一个原因可能就是觉得普通日常不能算火花，然后就成了那些一身黑的失落灵魂。可怎么才能让自己真的觉得抬头看看天就很快乐呢？
国产动画No.1，最喜爱的动画片，没有之一。
我们向往星辰大海，又困在无边无际黑黢黢的海水中，太多人窥见了生活的真相，却忘了火花点亮的瞬间有多迷人。Joe和22未能再相遇，所有人都希望他们再相遇，但遇到一次还不够吗，足够了。一定要去电影院看这部片子啊，尤其是在经历了如此糟糕的2020之后。音乐好听，视觉也赞，想象力惊叹，疗愈力更是爆棚，关键还很好笑，简直是收到了一份意外的圣诞礼物！
看完就像被电影抱了抱。叶子掉落的那个画面，就好像是第一次从抑郁走出来的时候，我看到的世界。
片子不错，道理讲得比较清楚。对观众来说，感悟力和行动力是两回事。有行动力的人不需要太多的感悟，就能过得不错。
不是个好东西 跟大数据自动计算出来的东西一样愚蠢无聊 皮克斯现在就跟鼠来宝差不多
哲学上来看是非常硬核的片子，只是用普通人最容易接受、最容易记住的方式去讲述，“人生之意义”选择了这种大众方式去讲难免流露些说教之意，但这肯定不可能是创作者所在的层次，毕竟“人生的意义”在语言学层面上甚至是个病句呀。好莱坞编剧的基础人文底子是让人敬佩的。
——🍅97%🍿️91%——可以有目标，但是没必要。
在琐碎生活之中寻找生的快乐，正是解救一切虚无主义的良药。
我觉得这部电影在2020年底出现简直就像一颗充满力量的恒星，它闪耀着一种也许微弱的光，但却时刻告诉我们要充满希望的珍惜当下。人生的完满不在乎它高光时刻有多耀眼，而在于它每一分每一秒所散发的微弱的光；那些我们和家人的每一次欢笑，在街边吃到的美食每一次惊喜，哪怕在树下每一次被落叶敲中的平凡无奇...这些所有微光汇聚而成的人生，才是真正的人生，一个充满灵魂的人生。
追求梦想是最不重要的，看天空、走路、吃披萨才是正事！
小时候觉得这部动画片怎么就那么“特别”呢？现在回想起来，可能是“诡异”吧
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