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".
这句话是你如何去理解这部电影
5.缺点：插曲有点多，虽然好听，用的不是特别自然，尤其后半部分有点密集，为了用歌而用歌
看上去老白是最软弱、好说话的那一个，但是他是选择最坚定的，从头到尾都知道自己想要什么。
又相信爱情了（bushi）
上海的地区文化和光鲜亮丽的生活都离我好远哦，直到影片结束我都想不明白这样的关系也算得上是爱情吗，是因为它已经演化消弭了无关真假了所以才称得起神话么。我不觉得影片把上海拍的活灵活现，它看起来更像是某些刻板印象的集合体。是只属于一小撮儿人的“烟火味”，当一群人围坐在投影仪前准备欣赏爱情神话时，那束晃眼的灯光让我成为了被观测的对象。美貌有能力的40代女性的标准答案是不能看懂你喜欢的话剧但会专门为你找来原作的大腹便便老实人也是蛮写实的。搭伙过日子式的标准答案虽然温馨但一点也不浪漫，如此看来，爱情确实成为了神话。遥不可及口口相传的神话。
看完了才发现，原来是我的观影习惯不好，中途离场了那么多次，对不起
剧本真的不错 个人觉得配乐很烦 多一点上海城市的声音不好吗 其实没必要去扯什么伍迪艾伦 完全两码事
已經記不得多長時間沒去上海了。我一說起我對這座城市的感情。多數人的反應還是不解。上海予我有著不易啓齒並非同凡響的意義。其它的城市。好一點的是像一個城市。不好的是在模擬一個城市的樣子。而上海。它就是一座城市。有下不完的雨。走不盡的路。看不夠的人。。
还有什么好讲的？都给我狠狠得吹一波！都这年头这市场了还能把家长里短鸡毛蒜皮拍出了费里尼+伍迪艾伦的味道来还想咋滴？节奏牛得一批 没有浪费一个镜头 几首插曲也出现得恰到好处 最重要的似 阿拉就住在太原路 每天遛狗必经过片中的弄堂街道 亲切得不得了好不辣～
甚至完全可以算第一
下半夜回家，在昏暗的楼梯被突然一阵水声吓得半死，转过头看到熟悉的大红色水桶，原来三楼又把那只乌龟放到家门口站岗……属于上海的烟火气啊，这也算其中一件吧～
格洛丽亚看完《爱情神话》后发的朋友圈完全就是我的心声了。
灵额灵额老灵额！倪虹洁杀我！特别要讲的是，在过度媚青的国产电影里，能看到一群中年人坦然的情情爱爱，又跳探戈般你进我退，何其可贵。我反正是第一次看到中年人的故事和情爱渴求被看见了，艺辉了不起！前途无量！（ps:看到她在电影里夹带的红拂杂货铺和夜奔咖啡馆种种，都会忍不住笑起来……
一部很有格调的喜剧，既接地气儿，又有品位，街头的老鞋匠都说出哲理满满的话语。几个女人一台戏好看。特别是画廊那一段，简直惊艳。说到与大明星的相遇，突然想起以前一个朋友说过他在巴黎的咖啡馆打工遇到过女神苏菲玛索去喝咖啡，有合影，真的很浪漫。平淡的生活有滋有味儿有腔调。氛围，摄影，包括感觉都太喜欢了，一句话蛮灵光的。特别是上海话，好听！
求中年男演员放过熟女题材，拿三个女主饭桌那段当宣传噱头，结果把观众骗进电影看中年男人的幻想？演员不错，剧本不错，镜头也不错，但是视角不对。这两年我们已经透过太多救世主（性别男）的眼睛去看中年女性的狼狈和得过且过了。导演以为女性观众看到的是第二春是新曙光吗？不，我们只能更加看清罩住女人的那层玻璃罩子。
正常情况下来说，我是极其憎恶在电影放映时交谈的，但在一个几乎满座的场次里，绝大部分都是上了年纪的本地阿姨爷叔，并且用上海话低声讨论剧情和笑评，倒反而有了点趣味。三个女演员太灵了，各有各的风华。虽然每个角色都各有各的拧巴，但是演员们表演得自然流畅收放自如。小真实和小浮夸水乳交融。这群人的每场聚餐戏都可爱极了，倪虹洁和马伊琍在画廊的剪影scene也是好看。前一个小时的节奏、结构和台本都很满意，但是后一个小时（尤其是最后40分钟）没兜住，节奏和剧情都松散，尤其是最后的强行升华反而扫了兴。总的来说，瑕不掩瑜咯~
前半部分笑点很多，徐峥杵那里弄个表情就想笑。大家称赞的两场戏，餐桌上与画廊墙壁投影上的女性主义宣言都有种话剧感乱入之尬（因为是将更年轻点的小资亚逼故事移植到中年中产身上？中年人会这么讲话么？）；对于觉得老乌那故事最尬的观众，我们是否可以理解成是有意经营的荒诞，尤其是他死亡的缘由。开头话剧名字的自嘲就很好笑，所有人除了吃穿讲究睡来睡去并无展现多少“艺术涵养”，一张dvd进去，野鸡字幕组免责声明飘出来，看到困觉不如涂护手霜；国际学校校车反复停，“我在推特上看到”，“八九年出国留学”，“你外公留下的房子”。而最“悬浮”的正是这个，在一团和气的片子里唯一差点显出地域歧视的老乌，写着满是病句的策展语，念叨着早已过时的风流韵事，爱惯浪头，但精神与物理居所都脆弱地仰赖他者，一副老灵的肌肉下喝点酒就能一脚去
应该是2021年我看过最好的国产电影。剧本水平很高，写实又细腻，轻描淡写地调侃性别、爱情、人生这些宏大的话题，简单的对白直接暗流涌动，导演的镜头和演员自然的状态精准表现出中年人面对爱情的心动和踌躇。即便不是上海人不是中年人，也能enjoy的一部片。
全程咧嘴观毕，国产生活流也终于出了一部可媲美伍迪艾伦的话痨片。沪语太嗲了，倪虹洁太灵了，中年人的爱情太真实可爱了，徐峥永远都适合这种善良又怂包的角色。北方电影学院毕业卖过电子烟，众人看费里尼抹手霜吃小吃，导演对费神和自己开涮毫不客气，但俏皮又高级。
没有爱情也没有神话，只有一群有钱有闲的上海中年男/女人的浪漫生活。音乐强加分也强减分，在生活与艺术之间来回横跳。
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