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".
我们都无法成为大人
倒叙蛮特别的。
“我们总是在逃避中虚度年华，那些曾经的经历留下的只有疤痕。”
人们相遇又分开，往前走是成长，停在原地也是成长。便宜旅馆里的星河和雪山顶上的星河又有什么区别呢，人和人总有不同的生活，每一份回忆都珍贵。
果真初恋和昙花一现的露水情人最容易被记得，相恋多年陪伴在身的女友却没留什么美好回忆。
《薄荷糖》在前，即为珠玉，《我们都无法成为大人》的压力自然不小，当然也许本就没有相较之的压力，但是这种文学气浓厚的风格，确实无法让人忘记对标片。但是《薄荷糖》在回到过去时加入了时代背景与那唏嘘的人生某个晚上对一生变迁的影响 ，而《我们都无法成为大人》则秉承着日本电影那一贯的慢去获得情感的初始，可是既然是纯情感，情感的终点未必是起点哦，于是乎再多的细节铺陈也没有让我喜欢上森山。而且日本的大男子主义之风啥时候能改改？！21世纪快22世纪了呀！
进门的时候，还被我当成了路人……
最后flashback和剧照几张胶片很有青春感，森山的表演一如既往的神乎其技，构建了一条坚韧的情感动力。但初恋的选角却有点差强人意，整部影片像顽固的车胎追了几万里，却发现一早泄光气
看了一半看不下去 日记式倒叙但是过于割裂碎片 非常地难以看下去 真的和《花束般的恋爱》相差太多
“如果你全都懂就没有看的意义了。”sairi用中岛罗门安慰人那一段太棒了。那普通到底是什么呢？
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。
离别后才知道过去的美好，重逢后才知道现在的不堪。
就是觉得好悲伤 在love hotel、租车旅行和wave袋子这几段 其实很普通但真的又很不普通吧
披着大人年龄外衣下的失意者
稀碎的叙事
一首写给当代社畜的十年情歌。人与人之间的经历可能并不相似，但我们之间的情感却可相通。过去即现在，现在即未来。最后的剪辑与运镜相当厉害，适合一个人静静地看与回忆的电影。
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
有很强很强的代入感，又因此而泪流满面。
明明大家都慢慢长大，就只有我们保持不变。 要真是这样就好了。
从头都尾都很普通，构图、配乐、故事、节奏。是日本影视行业不景气？还是酗酒抽烟影响了脑子？抛开出轨离婚这种人品问题，单谈业务水平，森山绝对是top。但是能不能别接这种没有任何亮点的烂片了！同样是废宅《怒》里面有疯癫与脆弱、《烟霞》里万事不萦心的淡定令人眼前一亮、《澪之料理帖》又苏又渣一度可以和《阿九里》野村万斋打平、一战成名的《桃花期》好歹还秀了一把舞蹈四大女神倒贴、人设最不济的《苦役列车》山下导演起码会拍电影、《岸边露伴一动不动》的废柴漫画家，演技把魔怔属性发挥的淋漓尽致，衬的高桥很悬浮。《韦驮天》里说个落语都能惊艳观众。有生之年还能看到骷髅城里大boss人设吗？求求森山未来、富大龙别在烂片里混了。一个频频接废宅，塑造废宅代言人。一个频频接痞子混混，往油腻里捯饬。
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