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".
电影回答的就是这样一个问题，“你的生活值得过吗？”，这真是个无法逃避的真·问题。当然这个问题本雅明一百年前就谈过了，投身于生产链条之中的人，变成了游走的“商品本质”，他们组成了“人群”，但在这个吞噬个人的庞然大物之中，亦是绝佳的隐遁点，因此有了“人群中的人”——波希米亚人、游手好闲者、闲逛者、牵着乌龟散步的人……他们独立于人群而存在，他们是生产链条之外的幸存者。放在《心灵奇旅》的语境里，他们就是保存有spark的那些人，那些闯入“忘我之境”的人。这就是电影给当下的回答，在不断被驱动的世界里，生活的火花并不只存在于追逐成就，个体是允许“溢出”这个生产体系的，停下来感受一阵风，坐下来拾起一片叶子，都是对资本的抵抗。
但鸡汤又怎么了？
瞎逛的时候一时兴起看的，比想象中好，前面说人要有目标，不能平庸地活着，然后引申出生命意义的问题，最终答案是类似存在主义的说法，去体验存在本身就好，强调活在当下，这是一种颇为佛系的心态，在精英化的社会主流价值观下比较让人放松。如果生命中的痛苦和焦虑不能带来更深层的意义，的确容易产生精神危机，我相信人在一定程度上可以选择自己的生活，也必然在整体上获得微妙的平衡，但最终，生命这条河得在洪流中趟过才行。配乐不错，结尾强行给男主续命扣分，如果进入光芒接受命运，这故事就没得挑了，不想太挑剔，瑕不掩瑜了。
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。
二零二零，郑重告别，二零二一，开启我的心灵奇旅，新年快乐，豆瓣的友邻们，谢谢相瓣。
一记抚慰心灵的良药，告诉你生活是要不断寻找意义珍惜当下。反向励志，皮克斯对生与死的构思依旧奇妙。
黑男搭配白女的选举年左翼造势意图太过明显，后面的人格互换的核心设定又落于俗套，别说以往单单本年度就有一部杀人狂魔与内向女学生的换身片。但最大问题还是用动画去表现此类题材，那种互换变身后的奇特而尴尬的微妙感觉你无法通过滚圆无褶馄饨一体的动画角色面部微表情去展示。动画的特长是将动物人格化和人物虚夸化（钢琴师的茄子脸）。这一出一入就在客观上大幅降低了人与动物之间的物种差异，所以他们之间性格互换，诸如人行猫事或者猫说人话，并不能产生真人电影中的那种反差奇趣——动画片里的猫狗本来就说人话！……本位特点相互背离的动画形式与性格互换题材属于结构性错搭，加上离魂天堂走一遭的概念也在仿袭英伦经典迈克鲍威尔的《平步青云》。纵然天梯算盘和毕加索抽象天使曾让人眼前一亮，也仅仅是短暂惊艳而已。两星半。
终于明白我为啥不太喜欢动画片了，它始终相信对话的力量，坚信这是个解释和交流就能改变对方的世界。这很难让我信服。
觉得跟自己期望值不符。唯一的赞美来自他们真的能把亲子这碗饭吃得那么好。
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。
前10分钟爱极了它的音乐还有对生前&身后世界的设定和画风，后面就是逐渐消耗那股心动的过程……如果像22一样在理论层面上见过一些“世面”、同时又像孩子一样第一次用感官体验人生的种种细节，我们都会sparks爆棚，但等22在各种主义的捶打下度过几十年后会变成什么样，就是大家看完电影被抚慰被触动过后第二周又回到的那个样子吧？不管怎么说，每年都要感谢pixar给我们90分钟的抚慰和希望
没想到又是一部灵魂跟音乐相结合题材的动画，这回说实话硬伤相对之前一部要少点，但情感调动和音乐水准却要差一点。不过好歹比今年之前那一部要好。如今看来皮克斯的创作或许真遇到瓶颈了……
眼泪还没干，走出了电影院……人们总是匆匆地活着，朝着目标而奋斗，无暇顾及每一个当下。等实现了欲望，却发现不过如此，以至于匆忙活了一生。活着本身就是最大的恩赐，生命里最宝贵的都是免费的。天空漂浮的白云，透过树叶的阳光，迎面徐来的清风，热气腾腾的面，美味的蛋糕，家人守候的灯光，一切的一切，好好感受吧！好好活着吧！
死了就是死了，活着才重要，皮克斯是见不得真正的痛苦的，从来跳不出腻歪的世界观
4.5，讲故事的方式真的很牛逼啊。只是如果怀着问题来看的话，反倒可能得不到答案。
人生的目的不重要，享受过程～皮克斯还是这么会讲故事。
“也许看天空是我的火花。或者走路，我真的很擅长走路。”
其实也是关于“生命本质”或“生活本质”的鸡汤，但灵魂的设定、故事的逻辑、动画的呈现，都比较出色。不管是孩子还是成人，喝下这碗鸡汤，都有益无害。
看到后来实在是有些不耐烦了。唯一的亮点就是中阴身的世界还算新奇吧，其他的部分也不过就是鸡精汤而已，并没有很打动我。我发现自己越来越厌倦皮克斯的套路了，尤其是皮克斯动画片里面人类的形象和动态。
配乐也非常让我沉醉，不论是爵士乐，还是抽象的灵魂世界的配乐风格，还是现实世界里岁月静好的宁静配乐，都与影片有着非常高的契合度。
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