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".
虽然每部电影的质量已经参差不齐了，皮克斯凭借soul依然可以证明自己有创作出年度最佳动画片的能力。好的脑洞匹配上一个完整延伸出来的世界体系，这是一部达到皮克斯标准预期的作品。配乐很好听，如果不是大团圆结尾，感染力会更强。
Well well well, it has to be NYC!!!
好治愈呀，最戳的是那些脑子里只有目标的人其实是 lost souls。所谓的 spark 并不是人生目标，只不过是让你愿意尝试生活的 last mile 罢了，人生哪来的那么多精确又决绝的追求。前半段 22 的心路历程和我始终想不到以何种形式呈现的胚胎选择权桥段有点像哦
一个想探讨生命是否值得过的故事，只描绘了那些美的瞬间，而对生命的苦难却不置一词。
真正适合年底看的治愈之作，皮克斯太会了，心甘情愿服下这碗暖汤！Jazz lover也心满意足了；Spark is your connection with life, to live full of appreciation, love the present to every minute of your way. <3
可是你们都不知道，真的有人活着毫无意义、什么都做不好啊，浪费地球的资源啊（比如说我），感觉每天在一个假的身体和假的人格里假装。20200812去英国的飞机上重看，治愈了我的焦虑。人生是一个旅程，enjoy every experience and every moment! Improvise, live it all!
把肉身投入人生的汪洋，去感受所有的美好，就是活着最大的意义。
生命的好体验并不是一块披萨能搪塞的 秋阳下的翩然落叶只是自然之美 无关俗世 有人觉得笑比哭好 但我以为笑和哭是一样的不好
2020最后一天治愈了苦大愁深的我，一个人坐在电影院里又哭又笑的，尤其是看到乔伊爸爸带他第一次听爵士，就想起小时候我爸给我画的唐老鸭和维尼。
从哪一刻你觉得想要这辈子搞这个了？如果人生还有第二次机会你会做什么？干了这杯Pixar的鸡汤，猫咪好评。灵魂学院的宝宝们可爱度好评。全场大人小孩喝得还是很嗨的，不过也有不少成年人才能体会到的辛酸和梗。赞美细节，爵士钢琴家手型勾还是不勾都做出来了，整个剧本很不错，笑点也算密集，音乐本身倒不算惊艳。二刷一定要找一个平日下午，以往常能包场的ume今天竟然那么多人，阔怕！片尾有一个很小的彩蛋。
皮克斯总是在枯燥平庸乏味的生活里寻找火花，然后点亮它，光芒照耀在每一位观赏皮克斯作品的普通人身上。皮克斯让我这类平凡的人知道我们有平凡的权利或者不平凡的可能性。
树叶掉在手心那一刻，很有代入感，因为我也总是为这些世界突然变成立体声和升格动画的时刻所动容。能平庸地活着，能因为吃到美味食物、听到动人旋律、看见微小光影，就是找到了火花。我的人生啊，是由这些无数无数个微弱却始终明亮的火花组成的。
不打分了，可能是我的预期和电影主线有点偏离，我以为是动画版拉拉蓝，发现不是就很难入戏。实话说看皮克斯用非常概念化的画风，去呈现这种所谓的“超度”或者说“往生”，视觉上的确新奇。但是找到spark，拼凑成一张完整的通行证，这还是换汤不换药的inside out吧？并且看一草一木都新奇，特别懂得捕捉生活美好，甚至比Joe还会享受当下的22，真的会是一个如此cynical的灵魂么？我反正多少有点不信。而且仔细一想，这个片子打动我的地方，其实还是裹着拉拉蓝爵士的壳，装着少年时代the moments catch you的核，至于它自己的“中心思想”，不太是我的菜啊
我简直要怀疑是我爸拍给我看的教育片——女儿：人最终是要生活的
22和伟大的灵魂交流依然没有遇到生命的火花，点燃它的是美味的披萨，穿过衣服的风，天上的星辰，植物飘落的种子，脚踩在地面……这就是生活的实感。你看书看电影，你看网络上的美图，始终无法代替真实世界用视觉、嗅觉、味觉、触觉建立的实感，实感消失，灵魂再丰富也变得索然无味。是不是伟大是不是成功没那么重要，趁活着，打开感官去感受更广阔的世界，珍惜每一分钟拥有实感的时刻。
如果有什么，值得保留 那仅仅是 窗帘为风所动。——魔头贝贝
轻松欢乐，温馨可爱，又不失智慧。对其中一个观点深以为然——忘我的灵魂和迷失的灵魂距离很近，当忘我的快乐变成执念，就迷失了，火花儿不是人生目标。
第一感觉更喜欢寻梦环游记的和更喜欢心灵奇旅的会是两种人。
虽然主题有些偏低幼，但还是很棒的作品。无论是风格还是想表达的内容。非常喜欢对meditation（内观）的表达：当心灵是平衡的，就算是在街上舞牌子，也可以是在内观吖。
自我否认和和自我沉迷都会沉入混沌的深渊，对某一领域的热爱和成就不是生命唯一的火花。什么样的人生是有意义的人生?不论是林肯还是阿里，我们似乎默认了那些功成名就的人以及他们的人生是有意义的，却很难发现你我就是秋色里的一片落叶、 理发店里的棒棒糖，也许并不宏大，但是本身就有意义。年度最爱
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