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".
是不是每一代大人都把失落的愿望寄予给了每一代电影里的小孩——“要做个诚实勇敢的人。”
能感觉到是国产青春电影里独树一帜的存在，看着还是在讲爱情，但故事核心其实是“勇气”。不多见的DJ元素承担的不只是氛围感，甚至是剧情的发展和人物的成长。色彩灯光的使用很棒，角色在虚幻和真实里跳跃，是青春的懵懂也是自我在认知。枫磊的表演更是锦上添花，情绪掌控得精确且自如，太棒了！而影片里提到的比较隐晦的点，说是性取向的自我认同也好，或是对朦胧未来的向往也好，我觉得都没问题，都是对于“MING”的理解：无论明天怎样，我们都要变得更加勇敢。
我有很多爱给你，但更想给你勇气。“我希望我们都能够更诚实地面对自己，都能够变得更勇敢”，勇敢的人会用谎言去守护自己的爱人吗？无非是交换彼此的谎言。所有大道理，放在电音节这场戏上，一个失恋、一个初恋、两个爱而不得，意识到“接受喜欢的人不那么喜欢自己的事实”，并仍旧怀抱“我们喜欢的人在未来会喜欢我们”的想法。真好啊，片子热乎地像是抖音微信的品牌大电影
说句矫情的话，在电影院的两个小时，就好像把我自己的青春又温习了一遍。
这反正不是我的青春...
看完以后对00后羡慕嫉妒到肝肠寸断：我小时候怎么就没有这么棒的青春片呢？你知道我们小时候的国产青春片有多垃圾吗……
MING就是个符号，不涉及年龄，地位，性别，性向，就是在最美好的青春岁月对美好事物义无反顾的向往，渴求与探索。
点映场看的，不太喜欢张子枫，本来以为是甜腻的夏日爱情片。没想到是性转版的蓝色大门，直接看哭，看完电影恍惚了几个小时。在内地这么逼仄的环境下，导演还试图去关照到少数人群的成长故事，我很感动
看完以后对00后羡慕嫉妒到肝肠寸断：我小时候怎么就没有这么棒的青春片呢？你知道我们小时候的国产青春片有多垃圾吗……
MING就是个符号，不涉及年龄，地位，性别，性向，就是在最美好的青春岁月对美好事物义无反顾的向往，渴求与探索。
抖音作为出品方之一出镜率不要太高，微信，电子乐音乐节等情节元素的穿插作用无一不展现新时代其“新”。
结构成熟，情感饱满，台词写得很老道，符合日常叙事，表演和细节也非常具有当代感，遗憾的是结局还是略显保守。给我的感受太接近《阳光灿烂的日子》了，一层层剥开明媚又圆满的糖衣，一点点露出青春沉郁且痛苦的本质。落脚点是与无望的爱和解，陈辰仍然可以找到共犯，马小军们却只能独自消化那些阴暗的秘密。
比预期中好。整个观影过程轻松愉悦，关于00后高中生活的描绘简单灵动，伏笔设置巧妙，答案揭晓也有效。笔触涵盖父母感情和家庭，少年成长和为家庭和桎梏作出的努力，早恋话题，酷儿与酷儿家庭等等。
从细节上，作者从记忆里撷取闪光的片羽，不是那些勾兑糖精的假把式。张子枫和吴磊二人有火花，很多台词写得很实，比如郑宇星在家给陈辰介绍电子乐，以及郑宇星屋内布置，影片空间环境布置很资深，有一番功夫。不过，成长之残酷被绕开，他回避而不面对《孽子》式父子矛盾，两个父亲形象模糊而单薄，提及又不作深入，这是他应对审查之法。
好像回到了刚上大学的时候，五月天，拥抱，蓝色大门，一切都那么简单，那么纯粹，那么充满希望，不想不想不想从电影里醒过来，狗日的工作，狗日的现实，我想看电影到天亮
如果同志片，请直说。不要搞那么多宣传。如果不是，剧情也别那么浮夸。md我好气，为了两个人的颜值，一人一星。
你拉上我的手奔向梦想的疆界，晚风吻尽荷花叶，
看到了导演的努力，但这样的电影只能又一次让我觉得悲哀。在大陆只能用这样遮遮掩掩的方式展现性少数的困惑和痛楚，即便他生在一个家境优渥的环境。再一次证明性少数在这里是一件多么见不得人的肮脏的事。我为自己感到悲哀。为几千万性少数感到难过。更难过的是，随着大环境的收紧，以后连这样的晦涩擦边球也大概率不会看到了。十年以后，当年轻人回放古早院线片，会不会竟然发现这已是性少数在大荧幕上能够争取到的那一点点可怜的正面形象。而即便是这一点点，在他们的时代也已经是一个消逝而无法重现的传说。
远超预期，陈正道终于收起来了《秘密访客》那套故弄玄虚的东西，拍了一个非常轻盈明快的青春片，没有离奇狗血的情节，用力过猛的煽情，看完有春风拂面的感觉，也蕴含一些遗憾在其中。校园部分的展现轻松又接地气，还加入了抖音等多种潮流元素，通过两个主角的相互了解，秘密的交换，去更加勇敢诚实地面对自己和世界，这是很多青春片难得见到的自我审视和成长，郝蕾角色的中年线恰巧又和两个年轻人形成了一种互补关系，虽然说结尾的反转强行将二条线联系起来有些多余。MING这个从来没有出现过（甚至连海报也不完整）的角色是全片的一个高明之处，是爱而不得的一个遗憾，是一个含蓄而委婉的秘密，也是对未来的一个期许。张子枫吴磊的表演非常好。（8.5/10）
抖音作为出品方之一出镜率不要太高，微信，电子乐音乐节等情节元素的穿插作用无一不展现新时代其“新”。
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