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".
但是 依旧无法好好活着
「僕は自分の子供には僕みたいな人間になって欲しくない。勉強なんてできなくてもいいかな。学校に行って、友達がいて、恋をして、働いて、家族をもって、たっだの生活をしていくそういう普通のことが幸せだと思えるような人間になって欲しい。」
看到男主颤抖着手疯狂往嘴里倒抗抑郁药时我脑袋直接一轰，彼时才刚离开自己怀孕的温柔老婆，却在楼下独自一人寻死，不是不自爱啊是太自爱了，自爱到一种自私，抑郁主体客体丧失满腔都只剩自我感受，于是开始自我攻击，眼中的世界已然颠倒到毫无意义，抑郁患者狠狠共情了，东出昌大演得好对味，奈绪老婆也很kawa。海边、小镇、少年、烟花、跑步、滑板、死亡，片子的这种调调太喜欢了，眼泪要夺眶而出。比起名和利，世俗的欲望，快乐和幸福才是生活的永动机啊。
你在饭桌上问我幸福吗，我笑着摇了摇头。好像在这座北部的小城，只有不停地奔跑，才是活着的全部价值。清冷疏离的函馆，还藏着多少孤独的灵魂，亦或者受伤的心，才会让它拥有属于这座城市的表情。他们散落在各处，像没有明天那样的活着，劲吹不止的寒风也没能阻挡他纵身跃下深海的决意，腾空绽开的花火也没停下他跑入暗夜的脚步。
昨晚喝多了酒，早上起床头疼，看完这个电影真的太美好了，生活总是有很多意想不到，你可能会从悬崖跳进海里死掉，会从东京搬家到北海道开始新生活，会在路边偶遇喜欢狗的女孩子，会送你最好的朋友去医院，会自杀未遂，会怀孕，会每天遇到跑步的人然后和他一起跑，会收到医院陌生人给你递的一支烟，也会遇到最爱的赤狐。BTW，奈绪好美
老生常态的父子关系和成长疼痛，加上个明星舅舅做伴，从故事选择到格局突破，乔治克鲁尼继续证明着自己不是一个好导演
女孩想要养猫、狗、还有孩子
以堆砌情节来推进，从未深入过角色的心，日本到底有没有讨论抑郁症好点的电影啊
生活中有太多的压力，所以我们都在有病和没病之间徘徊。
说恐怖游轮的是谁你站出来我保证不打你 这塌马你确定不是恐吓一轮吗 最后看到有娃的女主我还小小澎湃了一下 终于要开始循环了吗 一看距离结束时间 快结束了 一定就是了！其实自始至终只有女主一个人 至少那提及的三个人是 女主要猎杀时刻了 但是为啥她后来提着手枪干她哥和老公去了呢？死的又是谁呢？就在一瞬间 我脑海中仿佛划过了一整篇从人类起源到三味书屋 为了迎接这神圣的时刻我还特意去撒了泡尿 结果呢？看完我想报警“欺诈罪怎么算啊阿sir”
大本还是适合稍微壮一点的状态和样子，在这里过于瘦，甚至脱相了…出演这样的一部片子估计也是给乔治克鲁尼的人情吧。整体来说，隔靴搔痒，想有表达，可惜效果不佳。
看的自己都要变精神分裂症了，要不是冲着雷神我才不会看
可以看出编剧还是想讲一个烧脑的故事，但是奈何实力确实有限。虽然电影诚意满满，但只能说是《彗星来的那一夜》的东施效颦。
（题外话：奈绪真美）
克鲁尼没什么才华，就像这本自传一样无聊，别提人物弧光了，就是一个小屁孩还没遭受社会的毒打，就已经显得像生父一样平庸废柴，就连你这个宝藏Uncle Charlie都没写好。歌曲大串烧留下印象的也就片尾。浪费时间，浪费我本。（男主还是太丑了；旁白式真的又土又拉垮
In a Variety interview, Ben Affleck said "I think the world is a tough and ugly place, particularly now, so I feel good injecting this movie onto the world.”
不难看，东出昌大演得不错，喜欢跟少年一块跑步那段：我最近都没有练篮球；我最近也没有工作。跑步好像还蛮治愈的？
令和时代的日本男人，不再执着于昭和年间的热血粗犷。东出昌大为男主赋予一种不问世事、恬淡慵懒甚而有些出尘的气质。对人生理想的理解是日常细节的温情。男性可以在同性友人面前哭泣、示弱。可以直面内心的脆弱、抑郁。男性情谊的表达重在心灵的默契，不多言，但会默默陪在身旁；唯一的女性角色也能理解和包容男性的柔弱与逃避。少年角色对世界的拒斥是男主内心的另一个自己。烟花映照出北海道诗意的冷清与静谧。
有一种分裂感，情感围绕了母亲对儿子的思念和愧疚，和片子整体风格怎么看怎么想国外的片子，是为了营造科幻质感吗？
彗星来的那一夜+时空罪恶的国产化，中规中矩，没有意外的突破。在平行空间中与自己斗，做最有利于自己的选择。故事很好，可惜演员演技完全带不动剧情，像一个不成熟的作品
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