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".
一个大家庭的嬉戏打闹最后成了少年独自一人的伤痛回忆，那年夏天的马拉多纳和《美国往事》终随风飘散，命运降临的那一刻，少年也被迫成长起来。导演回想起的家乡和青春，是如此温柔和伤感，闭上眼睛，便是黑夜中的行驶和海浪的波涛，而电影，也许是持续前行的力量吧。
布景、光影、人物台词和细微表情的细节都难以言传的精妙，诡异和嘲讽，庄严和肃穆互相吞噬的角力让整部剧曼妙无比。
6.5/10。本质是萌宠电影，科幻程度很低。开始很娱乐闹腾但男主死命保护“故障机器人”就逐渐逻辑拧巴了，缺爱的孩子最需要的是可以倾诉的“完美”对象。全世界嘲笑的“便便女”能够坚强起来也真童话。西方创作母题之一就是反监控，害怕隐私暴露，作为反派的最大阴谋动机不足。
期待已久的索伦蒂诺，私人化的青春故事还是那么小资小调，迷人不已，马拉多纳和小姨，选择上帝之手。
感觉上的确很费里尼，一个家族的生活到一个孩子的生活，放荡疯癫的女人，迷茫无助的青春，当然，也很羡慕那种夜晚浪荡街头的闲适，夏日沙滩的闲适，火车树影的闲适，但是整体的感觉太散了，没有神散而行不散的浑然天成，大概，还要继续吧（当然我国电影……）
我们创造了前所未有的神奇玩物，
结尾处，少年戴上耳机，闭上眼睛聆听，车窗外的风景被飞快掠过，阳光散射在座位上，好多年好多事过去，似乎生活又回到这个平淡而美好的下午
托互联科技爬虫多的福气，影片唯恐细节少一点都不像次世代，玩梗却丝毫不及《无敌破坏王2》，影片无论从审美还是创意，人物或者叙事，都非常之平庸，通篇充满疲惫感，看来对迪士尼而言，《超能陆战队》和《疯狂动物城》真的只能是灵光乍现，不过看在隔壁大师班这两年的答卷，创意管理真的没问题吗？简直成了育碧年货，fine，感动常在
我看了豆瓣简介才知道这是个导演的个人传记片？？？WTF
大数据时代，主题还是很契合当下的，但是展开的方式还是比较流水线，无非还是寂寞主角逐渐打开自己顺便改变身边人的那套真善美，小男孩和机器宠物的设定也明显在借鉴“大白”，包括结尾的处理显然还是童话向了，既没有比较燃的场面，也缺乏细腻的情感处理，有几个本该催泪的地方比较草率，当然了，不是谁都能做皮克斯的
非常私人化的文本，影像呈现依然绝美。可以说是纯粹基于Pratical Light摄影的教科书。后半段每次在摄影调度上的稍作炫技，实际都是剧作重音。但是就跟剧情所在时空一样，我这生存在21世纪初大都市的现代人，现在对这样的小城生活太有距离感了……
很难决定今年最恐怖的电影是这部还是《主流》。
如果是十年前（2011）的电影它还能算好动画，但现在已经是2021了啊……
议题呈现上《智能大反攻》的问题是自相矛盾，这部则是繁杂混乱，在讽刺层面上，两者肤浅得半斤八两。不过这部由于落点至少还是人本身，所以情感和笑料都做得稍微好一点，就算整部电影从剧本到视觉全都是行活，也不至于让人尴尬。
明显是大导演的自传，荒诞（超现实）的情节削弱了代入感，又因为琐碎而没有猎奇的吸引力。
对不起作为从业者我可能真的无法观看这类影片，设定上不符合常理的地方真的太出戏了。而且明明就是很老套的故事
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