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".
结合普京今天的檄文，这个片子就是控诉乌克兰在东乌的暴行。两个阿富汗老兵的不同际遇反映了东乌人民的困惑和彷徨，结尾深藏功与名的小绿人宣传目的不要太明显。
基辅政府下的自愿军以及雇佣军，乌东的民兵，土匪。是这三方势力吗？
看到孩子童年的记忆就像陪着自己重新回忆了童年，虽然有巨大的文化和年代的差异，但孩子们成长的过程却不尽相同。同时也是伴随着孩子的生活视角阅读了六十年代的历史文化。还有一点不得不说，看到打孩子段，我才发现一向标榜人权的美国也是这么过来的😂
乌克兰对乌东地区的暴行!快进看完。
看的是翻译组字幕比较流畅。
非常有趣，有时候会短暂晃神是真人拍的，画风很贴切那个时代的美国。
独立思考，不是什么都质疑。公开报道也有，只不过在美国北约世界鲜有报道。我认为一定要了解事件非的曲折，再做出你自己的判断。我看到一个一个视频，豆瓣上不敢发链接。但真的很残忍，对了前些时候联合国在就反对“美化新纳粹的协议”上，一百多个国家签字，有二个国家没有签字你猜到是谁来吗？…美国和乌克兰，可是为什么呢？去寻找一下答案，或是猜一下……
对那个时代的细节刻画丰富，也会由电影里主人公的生活想到我们的八九十年代生活，我们童年时候的游乐场为什么是这个样子，唱片流行时的样子等等好多发源时代的样子。进而衍生出好多联想，就感觉影片不光仅仅只是在说主人公的童年时代，那个奔向月球的故事，而是二战后全世界、一个新时代的开端的故事。
那些无聊又快乐的童年啊
前半60年代拓荒家庭的儿童图鉴，后半似梦非梦的登月沉思哈哈哈
+，除缺少核心意义外，几乎用老套的报菜名流水账达到了月球漫步时父亲所说的“it looks super casual”的目的。
没有前因后果，剧情脉络过于简单直白，作为一部电影甚至有些不合格，就是乌克兰单方面的侵略。岁月静好是无数牺牲换来的，战争过后才会带来和平，一直强大才能一直和平。
连着听一个人讲述一个半小时也不会觉得无聊，反而很有趣
先分一些钱给...
毛子真敢编，这样乱编就不怕丁丁下台以后成为俄式宣传案例。
前5分鐘的時候我在想這是什麼鬼畫風，和《阿加莎ABC謀殺案》（遊戲）有得一比，兩個NASA的人找一個小孩上太空好像也不是什麼特别題材，但5分鐘後成功挑起了我的興趣，原來是個叙事式的記錄片（相比主觀的回憶錄更像客觀的記錄片），把大量歷史畫面給動畫化了反而覺得這鬼畫風特别帶感，最吸引我的地方一來我本就對六七八十年代的流行文化感興趣，二來雖然是美國人的童年，但有些事還真是人類共通的，什麼家長打小孩，冰棍黏舌頭，惡搞歌詞那些，旁白吐的槽我都能會心一笑，過來人的感覺。不過，愛看的人應該很愛看，不愛看的人會覺得很悶，至少你得是個愛看叙事式記錄片的人。PS：本片很多新人，但有些人一看臉模就認出來了，比如雷霆沙贊。
战争永远都是残酷的，受伤的永远是无辜的老百姓，但决定战争的只有利益与欲望，从无其它！
“只要我还能够行走，只要我还能够张望，只要我还能够呼吸，就一直走向前方。
喜欢这样的动画，回忆童年也会有一些共鸣，因为“回忆”并不是完整的，是那些看似可有可无的瞬间拼凑起来的，对别人来说可能微小到早已忘记，但自己却始终记得。
家庭片段很有1988的感觉～～欢笑打闹街区感都很美好。
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