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".
中国式的改编，选角有加很多分，5个人的个性都被放大了。青春的感觉被表达得很好，虽然是从暑期档调到国庆档，但是今年迟迟不肯离去的夏天，似乎仍是这个电影最佳赏味期限，特别清新，干净。
还挺可爱的 辛云来一直都演什么像什么 为什么不火！
谁说男孩子不能学花样游泳，四十个男生的表演甚至更精彩。
リアルなロマン、複雑な満足、
长相普通，学习成绩普通，就连名字也那么普通，全国47万多重名。一开始很好奇为什么男主要取这么一个平淡无奇的名字，看完才知道，这是在讲普通人想要赢一次的故事。还不错，大部分普通人，一生可能都没有过想要赢一次的想法。
她没有走上舞台和他共舞 他没有追上那辆出租车 “我们在哪里见过吗？”“见过吧，大概。” 只是稍微想起 点到为止的情绪 又是一年726 我想他们不会再见了
BE倒叙后成为一种HE. 喜欢公园长椅上等候妻子男人的那条线。喜欢17年那个生日。要是再前几天看的话，刚好是男主角戏里的下一个生日啊，遗憾这种遗憾。女主真的是等比例长大的啊。
影片本身只能给三星半吧，煽情段落做得工整，但剧情波折略显刻意。为难得的运动题材加半星，为国产青春片难得的昂扬向上的立意加半星，为素人演员加半星
7.6/10 还不错，对比其他青春电影聚焦的青春疼痛好：1男女平等，2不甘平庸，3友情和拼搏。
光是海报和题材就已经赢了！这种极具话题性的标题，再加上几个看起来非常专业的男子花样游泳动作，还有一帮顶着生图的年轻人，让人非常有想看的欲望。导演的切入点也是蛮取巧的，单纯的运用了青春歌舞电影中的桥段与元素，强调视觉、听觉效果，反而弱化了之后的故事情节，这一点有些可惜，其他都算是不错，尤其是那些有五月天风格的鼓励人心的歌曲。
小正太…嘿嘿🤤小正太…嘿嘿🤤小正太…嘿嘿🤤小正太…嘿嘿🤤小正太…嘿嘿🤤小正太…嘿嘿🤤
如果我们不能真正珍视
补mark~倒叙时间线，从分手后平静生活的两人一步步走回初次相遇的夜晚，每个场景都弥漫着暧昧迷人的气氛，哀而不伤，后劲极强。那些回忆里的温柔灯光和笑闹过往，就是回想起来唏嘘的爱过的证据。虽然都是讲分手恋人的故事，但并不适合和《花束》相提并论，二者各有特色，个人都很喜欢。
后疫情电影，致敬贾木许，不大日式的男女关系，卡司有点过于豪华了，想想咱们这两年的院线片，惭愧而羡慕
最后一个镜头麻了。看到最后所有发生的事情你都想起一点，然后你就会觉得这个电影后劲好大。
被《我们都无法成为大人》结结实实地蹂躏了，也被《花束般的恋爱》触动。当倒叙结构的爱情电影一窝蜂而上到了这一部，却再也没有被打动的感觉。
【4】嗯嗯，看完我也稍微想起一些，但还是受不了倒叙结构，令一切的生机变得有限。好在没有过度追求“反推法”，而是着重于动作或场域，唤起美好的源流，各处痕迹却反复地扎人。世界到底是动态发展的，人们却总执迷不悟地在为一种停滞的可能性而感伤，并畅想另一种。
虽然出租车司机概念来源于《地球之夜》，但真正体现被cue数次吉姆·贾木许精髓的是本片客串的永濑正敏，简直就是《神秘列车》之疏离感的翻版。
比预想的本土化的更好，虽然还是有些瑕疵，但至少保证了比较流畅和可看的故事，训练部分也有些打动人。张伟这个角色的演员演的不错，也反映了最多这个年纪的困惑，不上不下不好不坏，所以永远对自己没有自信，却还是藏着一股火焰。没有用任何一个明星是做的最好的点，也没有大谈恋爱，使得故事比较清新纯粹。不过最后突然跳舞就有点出戏。
补评，大概7.5分吧。一部充满毫不做作的青春男性荷尔蒙的电影，没有莫名其妙的女性凝视，一群男高中生为了自尊、友情而朝着目标不断奋进的青春故事。
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