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".
我真的适合看这种能让人静下心的就算有人会觉得很无聊的电影或者书籍…… 我也在反省为什么我越来越不喜欢看商业片了？但是，事实是，我改变不了自己的爱好，我有我的想法和思路；
毫無設計感，小孩子從頭討厭到尾，黑白畫面只是狡猾的算計。
果然是豆瓣文青喜欢的类型。除了很高兴看到华金胖了，其他就没啥了。剧情基本为零。
有一些文德斯的公路片内核，联想至《爱丽丝城市漫游记》，城市的影像，大-小角色的情感触动，但与此同时，倾向于更多温暖的力量。他们的交流与互动，情感内核由家庭仔至个人，大-小镜像投射。一路收录，让成人的世界加入更多的孩童视角。华金，真的爱了。
最后教"I'm not fine and that's a totally reasonable response!" 我接受本片的意义
是成人的兒童片，也是兒童的成人片。小演員的表演太好了，他的表演、語調、身體都有著巨大的複雜性，和那麼厲害的演員對戲也絲毫不遜色。紀錄片的視角和小朋友的回答著實讓我感到十分驚訝，自由世界的小孩他們的所思所想、表達都已經到達那麼厲害的高度了。
最重要的是，滑板依然可以飞天遁地
源头很明显是《爱丽丝城市漫游记》，但说实话，就算不用黑白，观众也不至于想不到的。
焦虑症就真别去影院看这种不以情节取胜的电影了 自毁观影体验 但是两位主角演技真的太自然了 Joaquin Phoenix塑造角色的维度和能力真绝！坐等奥斯卡提名
透子好帅，松田好帅，彩蛋有啵啵
电影里讨论了很多平常又值得思考的问题以及答案，以至于不清楚那部分是剧本还是孩子们真实的想法（ps.这个小孩子跟我一样喜欢听安魂曲）
非常不喜欢的一类极为端着的影片，看似在讲某些生活和人生的哲理问题，其实空洞的就如同不上班在家唠叨的资本主义闲散人员，看多了就觉得无病呻吟的极度乏味。
奇怪的是看到这样一部电被人诟病没有剧情做作矫情可看性低下？人确实有发表自己对电影看法的权利 可我也还是很想说有这些看法的人对电影的理解实在是有一点偏颇片面了 8.5/10 浪漫在于用孩子的视角去理解这个已经被成年人定义的世界吧
也许吧。
最爱 Joaquin 陪着 Woody 去街头收音的几组镜头，小鬼举着收音 mic 聆听周遭世界的同时，Joaquin 和我们聆听的是自己的内心吧…
感觉像看了100分钟的油管小朋友采访（我很爱看），人类有时候需要靠吸取小朋友们的童言稚语来回归本心。另外，并没有体会到黑白画面的必要性。
细细碎碎的对话——纪录片孩子们的采访与Jonny和Jesse的日常对话交织在一起。
相对地 乔治克鲁尼和本阿弗莱克的同为男人带孩子题材的新片《温柔酒吧》则完全走了本片的反向
这两都很帅，小崽子眼睛好大，男主是真的有魅力。
Robbie 的摄影在黑白里失去了特色 当然手法本身也没有了以往的痕迹 Joaquin 与 Woody 的互动层面 隐去的部分和表现的部分 互相消去了一些
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