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".
生活会一点一点把你的棱角磨平，普通才是每一个人生的终点。
普通就好了。
整體而言，我們都無法成為大人是一部需要感受才能夠有所體悟的電影，人們在年輕的時候總會對未來有各種憧憬和想像，但隨著年紀增長，我們真的有成為自己當初想要變成的大人嗎？我們是從什麼時候開始失去了感受生活的能力，成為了看似擁有很多，但卻只是個很普通的大人。
标准日影 意识流小清新 只是这样的故事已经不太能有共鸣了
我是很无聊的人，从小如此，没有兴趣爱好，没有特别喜欢做的事。“现在社会就是这么一回事，我只好接受了”，以前在意的事情，在某一天会像屎一样一文不值，与其长大，不如让自己活的简单轻松点，来的更实际
最后镜头回到最初的那一刻的时候 真的很美好啊
像是在翻QQ相册或博客，一个情绪向短片的内容水了一部电影的长度。
（以及本片适合28-35岁人士观看）
我觉得唯一的问题就是太长了，本来就是倒叙，开头看的时候真的不知所云的地方很多。这对于展现电影的主旨挺好的，可你的大脑真的很难记住很多细节。我感觉导演已经很尽力去暗示你这里是知识点这里你记一下，但是两个小时还是太长了。
采用的是李沧东《薄荷糖》的倒叙手法，时间是如何无声无息贯穿这些年。喜欢夜色中爱情旅馆房间里贴满银河壁纸的那段，“我在高兴时，也会感到难过”。和花束有相似点，那么相爱的两个人却又那么普通，普通才是真谛，普通的我们，你若会哭我不会问。
如果我也度过了很棒的一天，会很想被困在那一天。
当一个皮肤松弛、胡子拉碴的中年大叔突然感慨“我们无法成为大人”的时候你会什么感觉
最后flashback和剧照几张胶片很有青春感，森山的表演一如既往的神乎其技，构建了一条坚韧的情感动力。但初恋的选角却有点差强人意，整部影片像顽固的车胎追了几万里，却发现一早泄光气
46岁，我成为了无聊的大人。从垃圾堆里的46岁，一直倒叙到20岁。星空灯小旅馆真的很漂亮啊
采用倒叙的方式，仍然是丧的文化，无可避免的成为普通的人，但是对比不是很强烈，比如痛苦，梦想，感觉主角没有什么理想，只是不知不觉成为了一个普通的大人，
p.s 森山未来也太像葛优了吧 伊藤是真的不诱人啊…
我记得曾经在哪里看过一句话：世界上最没用的人才去打工。这很击中刚刚在社会上打拼的年轻人，以前我们所设想的生活和未来，我们希望与其生活在一起，共同分享喜怒哀乐的人，却因为不同的追求分道扬镳。那些曾经出现过的人，就像房间里的星空，成为我们无法忘却的回忆，但它也只是回忆罢了
2022 #48 | 想在Airbnb上找个房子，躺在沙发上，打开投影，抱着女朋友再看一遍。
最终我们还是会变成大人，变成我们自己都不喜欢的样子，有些东西曾经有过就可以的了……
p.s 森山未来也太像葛优了吧 伊藤是真的不诱人啊…
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