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".
真希望能出一个二，这样我就能看到男女主后来在藏区的生活了，希望他俩能永远在一起～
催泪故事片，人物情感细腻 演员表演真挚，期待上院线！
一代人的航天梦，以回忆的形式来讲充分发挥了记忆不可靠在电影叙事中的作用，本来自己睡着了，却因为经历过，硬给自己加戏的做法给电影加了一层可爱。不过归根结底还是对60年代美国生活的怀念，都是代表性的细节点
特别的画风，虚幻中透露着真实感，就像男孩记忆中的这段经历一样，谁又能说这一切并非真实呢？
嬉皮士，动画片，音乐，电影，爸爸妈妈奶奶，兄弟姐妹们，老师同学。。。
挺温情的一部片子～看片名的时候其实隐约感觉到这部片的基调会是比较偏文艺片的，整体看完真的内心有种莫名的舒服，人间的真情还是有的，人性的温暖与美好支撑我们继续前进，也鼓舞我们去变得更好～感谢这部片，我知道接下来自己该怎么做了～⭐️
网飞所赋予的自由，给了大导演们用最纯粹方式纪念自己童年的机会。从阿方索的《罗马》到索伦蒂诺的《上帝之手》，再到林克莱特的这部，让人一眼就能看出电影的作者性，也能轻易理解他们的独特之处到底从何而来。对于了解一个作者来说，这样的电影好过任何一部纪录片。
很喜欢！用自传体似的叙事风格来展现了上世纪60年代美国盛行的太空浪潮 游刃有余的编排节奏加上真人动画结合的现代化画风（个人很喜欢）我感觉几乎是完美的动画片了。一开始我就在想 自己被选中了当世界上第一个宇航员上月球 是可以吹几辈子的资本 怎么能忍得住不告诉别人呢？怎么能忍得住自己内心的狂喜呢？民族自豪感爆棚！但是当自己躺在沙发看阿波罗11号宇航员和自己曾经的任务平行剪辑时 总统打电话跟他们说为他们感到自豪时我才领悟到 自己那么辉煌的事只字不能提 其实是一种切肤之痛——可能是我理解过度 我感觉NASA根本就没有尊重过这个孩子 只是把他当做和苏联抗衡的一个用完即弃的工具 对这孩子的友善只是场面话 大抵美国政府也是这种办事方式吧。很喜欢他们一家小孩子亲密无间的相处方式 但实在没有共鸣 只能扣一星。
为了悲而悲就没啥必要了吧，不过韩老师这个角色塑造的还是挺成功的
催泪故事片，人物情感细腻 演员表演真挚，期待上院线！
休斯顿的航空、摇滚、影视…大众文化，《甘草披萨》的加州梦，《贝尔法斯特》的北爱宗教冲突，《罗马》的墨西哥记忆，林克莱特和这三个导演都是同龄人诶，六七十年代的平行世界，一起约好拍《童年往事》吗。再有《上帝之手》八十年代的足球狂欢。
我看这片的心情就和主角看登月时的心情一样：似睡非睡
哪怕是动画电影，主题内容依旧是典型的Richard Linklater，但这样的剧情却会缺少情感共鸣，对于类型电影来说是重要的一点。三星。
嬉皮士，动画片，音乐，电影，爸爸妈妈奶奶，兄弟姐妹们，老师同学。。。
一遍遍追述自己的少年时代，只能昭告世人自己真的老了。
有《半梦半醒的人生》珠玉在前，真实表演与动画转制相结合的影片，于林克莱特来说并不新鲜，但这种融合写实与想象之间，基于回忆的童年经历，又带有怀旧的情怀，将成人之后，追忆往昔少年时曾对未来充满了畅想的憧憬以动画的形式展现，简直就是勾起童年记忆的泪目神器。在本质上和肯尼斯·布拉纳的《贝尔法斯特》同是异曲同工的自（私）传（货）作品，但是形式带来的美感和美国文化的强势给观众带来的共情，都要比前者强很多。
现在的藏区也这么危险吗？我以为被狼追，屋子漏雨这些情况都不会出现了呢，如果还是这样的话，希望可以发起募捐，我可以尽我所能帮助一些...
题材不错，但剧情有点老套，基本上三分钟就能预测到结尾。
他真的不姓库布里克吗？哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈
亦真亦假的动画效果，借着登月，把70年代到80年代的美国社会景象勾勒到位，有很多地方也勾起了我这个80后的童年回忆，现在我们这群人已经是中年或者中老年了，虽然下一辈并不在乎这群人经历过的，但对这群人来说，互联网之前的社会有它不可复刻的丰富和人情味。
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