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".
2.5，我懂它想表达什么但拍的太平淡了，以及如果不想成为大人，那就不要去工作
这近30年的时光不也正是我们的人生吗？时代点点滴滴。
这是我第一次看伊藤裸上半身，故事很舒服不错
我们都会成为龌蹉的大人
1）“这世界上有80%的人都是垃圾”，“剩下20%的人是什么?”，“人渣” ... “我觉得至少有1%是好人吧”。 2）“我是温暖的人 所以才会孤身一人”。3）总有一天阳光一定会照射进来的。 ——《我们都无法成为大人》
成为大人就是活成最普通的模样。你真的成为那个曾经你想成为的自己了吗。7.5/10
好难看啊，这个森山未来长得贼眉鼠眼的太猥琐了，看不下去，开头十分钟啥头绪也没看出来，不喜欢这种慢吞吞的片子，弃了
岁月缓缓流逝，回忆慢慢追溯.....抓住人心的镜头调度，既隽永又惆怅。森山未来对各个年龄层次的心理拿捏都是比较到位的。
时光回溯，刚开始一下就跳几年，当回到20出头时，一年一跳，可太真实了。人在十几岁时，真觉得时光漫长的仿佛停滞了，实际上到了一定年龄回望，一眼几十年。
伊藤沙莉居然扮演起了白月光，印象中一贯的平平无奇却在片中的回忆里熠熠生辉，稍稍不适应又有些感动，这一场20世纪末的文青式恋爱，普通或者不普通的种种，构成了往事的碎片里的中心段落。
倒叙了46岁中年男的一生，好像什么都没讲又讲了一个人的一生。像车轮般往前碾压回忆，等到结尾出租车在东京的黑夜里疾驰，路过一个又一个回忆里的人，确实被触动到。东京塔灭的一瞬间，我也很伤心
橫跨25年，終究變成了一個普通的大人。滿滿的帶入感，生命中的閃光點停在青春的某些片段，無論後來過了多少年，再也無法發生超越年輕時那麼深刻、那麼充滿希望的瞬間。「遇到快樂的時刻，想要永遠停留在那一天」「深感認同」—— P.S.森山未來的外表駕馭了二十歲到四十幾歲的變化，毫無違和
时间线反复倒退，从旅馆房顶闪烁的星星灯，回到新冠年一个普通夜晚空荡荡的街道，出租车里放着小泽健二的彗星，「你小时候会想成为现在的你自己吗」最终都成为了自己口中普通又龌龊的大人
很喜欢这种碎片化的叙事，记忆本就如此。挺有共鸣的，挫败中带着点不甘心。越来越觉得日本真是一个适合认输了的人呆的地方。
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。
与桃花期相比这部更加写实，森山未来以致我们从踏入社会情窦初开到找寻激情再到谈婚论嫁。俗人都是普通的，当你回过神来已经在不经意间变成了最不想变成的大人。无论是组织家庭生儿育女也好，变成独身渣男女也好。无法改变到是我们都只能变成普通人，一名俗人。
太一般了 特别东出昌大是重要角色的情况下 看得糟心 总觉得这个剧情没必要倒叙 以及森山未来感觉演这个太大材小用了 伊藤沙莉真的也不太适合…………千言万语 casting的错！
离别后才知道过去的美好，重逢后才知道现在的不堪。
在出租上、跑过无人的街道，脑中闪过生命中一些片段，恍若隔世
你的身体里，充满了尚未成佛的词语，我能做的，也只有解读而已。
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