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".
我以为只是个男主坚持建火车站顺便谈个恋爱的励志而简单的故事，没想到姐弟线、父子埋得这么深，有被惊喜到。
前半段是学生时代甜甜的初恋，富家女一往情深的爱上了聪明的穷小子。后半段是人穷志不穷的小伙子，为了内心的愧疚、为了邻里出行的方便与安全，以一己之力建造一座火车站的励志温情故事。有的人，因为爱，被困在了时间之中，也只有爱，才能让他重新走出去。
后半段都在感叹，这不该是日本拍的吗？前面对姐弟关系处理得近乎暧昧，中段笔锋一转真相，简直妙啊。以及允儿真可爱，怎么那么会挑角色。
2021-2022跨年夜的观影选择。题材蛮新鲜，姐姐和爸爸的几次反转设计也还不错，但结尾陷入了无止境的煽情，有点拖沓了。
让姐姐“活着”的这样半奇幻手法并不讨喜，还是觉得纯粹采用过去现在两条时间线并行叙事更加发挥余地大。演员方面，三十多岁的人演高中生无法让人不出戏。另外，87年的时候首尔应该还是叫“汉城”吧
本来只是想看看林允儿的美颜，演高中生真是，又想起了柯南。但是看着看着就陷进去剧情。看到一半才看懂原来姐姐早就不在了。凡天才思维能力异于常人，还好没人格分裂。后面父亲也总算强硬了一把。再说，林允儿演技真是，十几年始终如一。。。
和李星民父子感好强；明明俩人都三十多了氛围也好初恋；太喜欢朴正民了太喜欢了
常年看悬疑犯罪的人突然来这么一部洗涤心灵 允儿则用来净化眼球
女神允儿的新片，走的韩国温情故事线，整部片基本可以分前半段和后半段，前半段的青涩恋爱很轻松，笑点也不少，后半段则是父子释怀，催泪，影片的最后可以说是把男主，男主父亲心里的那块隔阂都解开了，结局非常完美。但是片子在后半段允儿的戏份太少，也没有把这条线再做延伸，只是最后机场那里的结尾太过仓促
姐弟交心…
俗俗的命题作文，以及确实不大理解后半段怎么变成了爸爸再爱我一次，早干吗去了。喜剧效果都靠朴正民自带，但真是一滴眼泪都挤不出来。
允儿公主部分情节有些多余，但架不住美啊，而且演得不差。后半部剧情一层层递进，逐渐理解了男主的坚持。父子俩都在承担着沉重的心理负担，好在最后把话说开，所有人包括姐姐终于都开始了新的路程。
配色挺好看。但我不李姐林允儿这个论戏份还不如配角、论份量毫无意义、论表演无闪光影后moment的角色为什么青龙会有影提？？？（演到一半我都把她忘了。。明明姐姐那个角色是男主的精神支柱，剧情的起承转都是围绕姐姐的。虽然他韩影帝竞争年年都不小，影后竞争年年都挺水，但我不李姐，还是不李姐，如果这都能影提，那朴正民也可以才是
小故事小人物小地方拿大眼泪，官二代林允儿强撩谁受得了……
去世的亲人还能照旧陪伴在侧，在嘻嘻哈哈的日常里打闹玩乐，男主其实是非常blessed的，真心羡慕。韩式小清新就是恰到好处，看起来拍着容易实际上细节都是由多少心血打磨而成，有“程式化”“套路化”的嫌疑又每一部都各有特色，看起来津津有味。
活着的人还要继续活下去。小朴，闹木kiyo... 这个土味理工天才男子高中生，各种情商掉线和冷幽默的老实人场合真的好可爱哦，跟姐姐互动好幼稚完全就是个生活常识0的好脾气好欺负乖弟弟。虽然觉得恋爱线作为逐梦的动力有些太随意，但这太校园纯爱了，好甜好蠢萌的初恋实在治愈人心，最后机场标配吻别（此处必须点题）就是很套路但还是会被一瞬撩到的那种。相比傻白甜恋爱而言亲情线更好，李星民戏份主要在后面但几处演出都印象深刻，临行前父子一起夜间长谈的地方很感动，要想消除隔阂的东亚家庭问题永远都是需要两代人去坦诚沟通与相互理解的。
让姐姐“活着”的这样半奇幻手法并不讨喜，还是觉得纯粹采用过去现在两条时间线并行叙事更加发挥余地大。演员方面，三十多岁的人演高中生无法让人不出戏。另外，87年的时候首尔应该还是叫“汉城”吧
日韩电影能把细腻的心理拍出来；“罗熙”这样的妹子不好找了。
充满期待打开，结果却失望而归。 感觉导演想讲的东西太多了，导致电影有点四不像，完成度当然也就有点低了。 而且笑点泪点的设置也比较普通。从人物完成程度来看，朴正民虽然是第一次担当主角，但总算是不辜负期望，继续好好用心的话感觉以后的电影路会越走越宽的，反之女主林允儿的戏就程式化多了，表演痕迹无敌重，还不如姐姐这个角色演得自然流畅。另外从未生这部剧开始就喜欢的李圣旻也是一如既往，有他的镜头都看得很舒心。
活着的人要继续活下去
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