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".
不完全和登月有关，更多的是对于那个时代的一次私人怀念吧，关于不为人知的成长。也许我们都曾有过年少轻狂的岁月，却终究被生活和社会磨平了棱角，想想是不是也挺遗憾呢。但人生的追梦，什么时候都不会太晚，追梦的过程总是无悔的，加油向前吧少年。
米国太空的荣光已经不是NASA，而是归于马斯克。NASA直接交给马斯克管理是好事
疫情反弹，重回云观影，感谢不散组织大家在这变异病毒肆掠的世界，再次享受到如此震撼人们心灵，鼓舞人心，感动中国的好片子。人要有崇高的追求，不能被淹没在物欲横流的物质世界。中国最缺乏的就是教育，教育才能兴国安邦。如果没有这些崇高的支教老师的奉献，以及很多胸有大爱的人砥砺前行，是不行的
多谢烂片老师让我知道不止中国动画降智了😘😘
作为一个人民教师，首先要做到的就是爱孩子，爱每一个孩子，不能差别对待
林克莱特的童年绘本，用充满童趣的小幻想，串联起儿童眼中的美国60年代。毫无以为，导演是真的非常热爱生活，回来理查德近年脍炙人口的作品，无不例外都是在用最不加修饰的视听来呈现生活的片刻。很难不怀疑，这些影片的出现，调用了他大量的生命体验和生活激情。同处一个时空，对于生命细致地观察和挖掘，就是林克莱特创作力的源泉，这也是作为创作者的一种能力。但是越发私人化的创作文本，也必然会导致观看门槛的不断提升，以及共情效果的持续削弱。对于这段休斯顿的童年往事，是导演为自己过去时光的留念，却并非观众感同身受的回忆。
梅朵演员好好看啊，那种自然美好久没看过了，演技也不错，就是这个角色有点惨
哭死了，场景特别美，都想去西藏看看了。呜呜呜，为什么不上院线。就是结局太刀了。呜呜呜，听个片尾曲都哭得不行
特别是在当下，一切都停滞了的现在，拥有一个无限可能的未来就愈发显得难能可贵，令人热泪盈眶
两个看似普通的人，就这样用自己的肩膀默默承担起了藏区孩子们的生活，这种伟大有点儿可望而不可及
他们不仅见证了登月，更见证了那个时代。继《各有少年时》重温自己的青年时代，林克莱特又在本片重温了自己的童年往事。叙事确实有点流水账，但各种60年代元素拼接在一起着实让我兴奋～
哪怕是动画电影，主题内容依旧是典型的Richard Linklater，但这样的剧情却会缺少情感共鸣，对于类型电影来说是重要的一点。三星。
3.5/ 好奇妙，完全不同的年代与区域，童年给人的感触却那么相似，在各种亲历或错过的在场与不在场中，我们成为历史微渺的一部分，历史成为我们温热的少年回忆。
2008年北京奥运会开幕式的那个晚上，我也没等到姚明举着国旗出场就睡着了。醒来后的我懊恼不已，觉得好像错过了什么很重大的事情。Richard Linklater一半讲琐碎童年，一半就在讲这件少年心事。年轻的孩童曾梦想着成为伟大的「参与者」，可殊不知我们甚至没能成为伟大的「见证者」。登月着陆的时刻我们在游乐园玩耍，留下足迹的时刻我们早困倦不已。但日后成年的我们再提及这段过往，这份「不在场」的念想其实又帮助我们实现了「在场」，某种形式上。
从画风到故事都很怀旧。那个年代的（美国）生活的确很令人向往。特别是如果忽略美苏竞争的背景，人类对太空的探索本身就是追求生命终极疑惑之解答的浪漫旅途。只是林克莱特充满私人回忆的故事用了太多流水账般的旁白，特别像一个老人在一个周末家庭聚会的午后在你耳边絮絮叨叨。动画形式虽然带来了怀旧的画面风格，但严重浪费了动画应有的更肆意的想像。
中国人已经太久没能体验多子女家庭的欢乐了，不如把三线以下城市做的特别宜居没有压力，然后让大家自由自在的生吧。
琐碎的童年回忆，六七十年代的美国，最好的美国梦，最美好的童年
烂漫天真的小学生视角回忆60年代米国的黄金时代，嬉皮士越战冷战航天竞赛，时代大背景下婴儿潮的一代的少年生活，充满了童趣的强国回忆，对复杂世界认知的启蒙，动画风格有些接受不鸟，看似真人拍摄转动画的不流畅感总叫人把注意力停留在像素过高的人物边缘线条上，哈哈。故事的名字可以是：我，小学生，差点登上月球！
就像是导演不带有色眼镜的回看了自己丰富多彩的童年，以动画形式呈现比真人电影更有回忆感，很喜欢这种呈现方式，听着挺絮叨其实看起来一点也不枯燥。
男主随着时间岁月的变迁，呈现出的不同状态和妆容都很好，不会出戏，刚出场时的青葱大学生到最后的对比，真的泪目
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