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".
要叛变皮克斯了，或者已经没有童心，讲的都能明白，但就没太大情感触动，可能跟一直都是放养模式、依赖性人格也有关。
Leo the sex worker claims he can put up a fantasy, and he delivered. But I think the screenwriter did a better job on that.
青春期的伤痛大多来源于被父母教条困住的开始寻找自我的渴望，青春里的每一次嘶吼与变形都是对家庭关系的撕扯，我们往后的人格、观念以及对待子女的态度也正是在这「自我」与「家庭」间的一次次拉扯中成型，悲剧喜剧就这么一代又一代的无止境的延续下去，多年回首，尽是狼狈。不喜欢叛逆期这个词，「叛变」与「忤逆」天然就带有着「君臣」与「驯化」的不平等属性，结尾的大战其实也昭示唯有「血与破坏」才能带来全新的关系变革，男女也是如此。
然后，都是女的~
片子讨论的议题是现在生活里仍然要面对的难题。非常relatable，非常动人。没进院线太可惜了。
刻板印象严重。既然已经是2022年了，就不要拿上一代的父母来做文章了吧？
Pressure pushing down on you and me.深入谈话和性爱都是一种释放，把自己最脆弱的地方交出去。
我的熊猫我做主！我的青春我做主！我的人生我做主！东方女性的母女和解之道。
没看之前以为会有很多笑料，但实际上是一部对人性，性爱，亲密关系，家庭关系的一次观察与探讨。但是确实也提醒我即使在西方很多女性也确实没有那么多性经历性幻想或想象中的放得开，而尊重自己的意愿和探索自己的身体，作为一种pleasure也并不是一件需要感到羞耻的事情，我虽然知道结尾作为老师的女主对再次相逢的学生道歉当年教训穿超短群就是下流是一个很有理想性的结尾，因为现实中年长女性的性压抑和身份地位都会被社会禁锢住。确实这是一部“Chick movie”,一般直男确实难以提起兴趣，但我也建议和希望男士们看一看如何尊重取悦一位女性，在身体上和心理上，因为这并不是什么丢人的事情，尊重和取悦女性也并不会使任何男性少一丝丝地男子气概，相反温柔体贴和共情是人类的稀缺品质。
用一个可爱的巨型小熊猫来指代华裔小姑娘的青春期烦恼，皮克斯在讲述不同族裔多元化故事的道路上是越走越宽了。
1，Leo Grande非常敬业；2，想有一个Leo Grande
太棒太棒了！讲亲子关系讲得这么通俗易懂，又感人至深！每个人都会或多或少感到共鸣😭皮克斯不愧是你！
这个男孩太帅了！原来我喜欢的男人是这种款，高端鸭款。
有点落入俗套，毛茸茸的red panda也不在我的萌点，只剩感叹动画做得太好了。
Pressure pushing down on you and me.深入谈话和性爱都是一种释放，把自己最脆弱的地方交出去。
成长，认同，好无聊。人物仿佛只是带着面具，没有灵魂，硬拗的可爱，连没有具体故事的玲娜贝儿也比不上。
—埃隆·马斯克(特斯拉创始人兼CEO)
直击中式家庭痛点，剧情共情能力很强，不过后半段相对失望，解决问题的过程过于天真，毕竟这是动画片，就是有着现实世界中没有的奇思妙想，倒也没必要较真。希望每个家庭都能做到相互尊重，父母居高临下的“我这是为你好”，没有什么比这更伤孩子的心...
既想讲中国，又想讲美国。既想谈深刻，又想图一乐。马儿一边跑，一边吃青草，马儿没吃饱，跑得也不好。中美不如功夫熊猫。深浅不如头脑特工队。既不好笑，也不好哭，很无聊。关键在于，核心不是普遍客观的两难，而是一种儒教吃人疾病，适合批判，不值一辩。这几年美国电影流行走类型元素叠加融合的路线，但儒和发展心理学真的不搭，既没有关联，也没有冲突，就好像吃米饭就热狗。概念先行，命题作文，除了毛发，别无诚意。
成长什么的不重要，红熊猫太可爱了太可爱了，妈妈熊真的巨大一只哈哈哈哈哈哈
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