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".
故事离我太远了，情感上没有共鸣，但有那么一瞬间让我觉得梦回《不羁夜》，只不过这种感觉稍纵即逝。
喜欢，轻吻，快跑，聊发少年狂的PTA。25岁女孩和15岁男孩之间会有纯友谊吗？答案就像旋转门般在Yes和No之间来来回回。剪辑视听依然是教科书级别的，但因为塞了很多有趣（但没什么用）的细节而显得拖长。有的青春片，你一听就知道是黑胶的调调...
很私人，也很悠长，一场“姐弟恋”到底又是怎样的感觉。后半段各路明星的出场简直是在凑时长，这场青春电影，太中规中矩。
本片的靈感來源於喬治盧卡斯的《美國風情畫》和艾米海克林的《開放的美國學府》。是一部非常規的群像電影，保羅托馬斯安德森用幽默的筆觸勾勒出他心目中的七十年代:石油危机，越戰以及競選，令人這個原本屬於私人回憶的青春故事變得斑駁不堪。此片水準和同樣是保羅托馬斯安德森導演講述七十年代的群像電影《不羈夜》和相差甚遠，更像是一部光怪陸離的卡通化小品，編導有意打造的愛情主線也被零碎搶眼的配角們搶去了風頭，削弱了原本的情感力度。除去故事的零碎沉悶外，在攝影，美術以及音樂品味上依舊維持了保羅托馬斯安德森一向的高水準，尤其對懷舊音樂的引用無疑令此片通篇皆流露出一種夢幻般的復古色彩。
2022了PTA拍了一部当哈利遇见萨莉……充分尊重导演创作自由，可这是pta啊……无油卡车那段可真酷！
很旧也很新 有些独特的观感 以至于看完后会久久萦绕脑海 散漫的叙事 胶片的质感 70年代的青春 其实每个时代都是世界末日 后来再听life on mars感觉是不一样了
那个想触碰又收回手啊！什么是年轻人的我爱你呢，这就是
看到结尾他拽着她在黏糊糊的街上狂奔 感觉回到了几年前音乐节结束的晚上 闷热耳鸣口干舌燥 啤酒撒了一地 我们必须大声说话才能听见彼此 但是我们都很快乐（但男主的颜值我真的很努力的克服了……太丑了兄弟
也许是我太浮躁，观影过程挺煎熬的，待来日重刷
拍出来学生时代痞子和小姐姐谈恋爱的味道，拍出了真实恋爱的社会气，那种勾心斗角，相互喂醋，冷嘲热讽，挤兑伤害，搭配着一个个有一出没一出的故事，最后又贱叭叭离不开。最后两人终于明白，爱便是臭味相投。
纯真什么样，怎么被消磨，又怎么被再次证明。以及，一部真正意义上描摹女性的电影。女主并不轻巧却也毫不客气地穿梭在旧世界，穿梭于随处伸出的占便宜的手；父权从真实的父亲，到生意场名利场上的逻辑，到政治游戏里的话术。片中各年龄段的男性角色们看似在引领着事情的进程或世界的局面，每一次迫近失控点时，却都要依靠女性来缓和或扭转。最爱的两个拥抱：一幕是肖恩潘骑摩托飞跃篝火复刻年轻时高光时刻，人群为了一段正在腐朽的记忆于篝火边喧腾，远处的黑暗里两个正在年轻的生命安静的拥抱；一幕是女主假扮市长候选人同性恋人的女友送他回家，两个破碎的灵魂用彼此的孤独拥抱。
怀旧色调，充满散漫的夏日朝气，男主白白胖胖憨憨的很招人喜欢
沉浸于70年代，男女主角永远在互相靠近和互相推开的似爱非爱的轨道中推进这段奇奇怪怪的好莱坞往事，明星、政客、流行和政治事件成为了他们生活中的过客，Gary过于早熟地混迹于街头，Alana却任由十五岁的少年牵引着她二十五岁的生活头绪。在总是无缘无故的“日剧跑”的青春叙事里，总有种反成长的怀旧在里面，或者说PTA从未被时代神话所说服的局外人的友善讽刺与温和调笑。
那个想触碰又收回手啊！什么是年轻人的我爱你呢，这就是
谁知道脑子里都在想些什么呢？跑向对方的身体不会说谎
和原版比起来的话，就是魏成功长得好像原版的编剧啊！
哈哈哈哈哈非常好笑！！！-I'm cooler than you. Don't forget it. -I don't need you to tell me whether I'm cool or not, old lady.
最刺激的一场戏就是倒车，随即看到预告片名场面，这场戏值得三星。然而我是真的不太支持这一对，感觉还是黑客帝国重启里的爱情看着更爽一些。
各种奔跑虽有滥用嫌疑，与文本倒契合——一种无畏的、生机勃勃的劲头，因为年轻可以允许随时放弃重来，可以全然不计外界跑向对方；原声太棒，David Bowie《Life On Mars》那段日剧跑最美。
又一部在全世界爱情片都处在消靡时刻仍然创造出爱情惊喜的片子，神奇的点在于很多时候情节行进的“无逻辑”却构成整部片子的流动与轻快。
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