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".
终于有人把我对彩虹未来担忧拍出来了。当代孕家族会不会和普通异性家族一样会有离婚、争娃的事件发生，孩子的未来是否会被影响，代孕娃是否会被社会歧视……虽然影片没有演出担忧，但我看完更加恐怖任何形式的婚姻。可能我是总是爱逃避的人吧，总觉得我hold不住彩虹家族的未来。
后面有几个故事还不错，前面两个稍弱，可以给3.5🌟
这部电影是讲述着同性的，两人之间摩擦出的火花，带点欢乐在里面是蛮有意思的，其他的我也不多说了
的确是非常温暖明亮的电影，豆瓣还没出评分。与其说是聚焦童年，不如说是深刻展现每个人心中的亲情与其他各种情感。7个短片为：小兔的问题、萤火虫女孩、小火车、蒯老伯的糖水铺、哼将军和哈将军、外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅、翼娃子的星期天。除了最后一个太过映射现实之外，其他都很喜欢，有几部几欲泪目。哼哈二将的太逗了！费那奇动画群里看到有这么部片子。原本今天是计划去看《黑客帝国4》的，一查正好这部排片合适就临时来了。豆瓣电影标签消失后的第二部标记。嘉华影院姚家园路店。加上我和F才一共仨人，淘票票明明卖出去5张哦。今日北野武75岁生日。
画风真的很棒，绘本式的水墨画风格的动画形象，以电影的方式呈现出来，真的别有一番独特，感觉很温暖治愈。但本片把所有的精力都投入到画风上了，导致这几个故事并不出彩，毫无关联不说，故事吸引力不够，有些小故事甚至就是小学生写流水账作文。这几个故事都没有很出彩的印象深刻的，都比较一般。要是能把故事本身再好好打磨一下就可以算是一部佳作了，可惜了。
一个铁皮柜装满了外婆劳碌平凡的一生。外婆在墙根打开手绢包数她的钱，或许已经不记得有多少钱了。
价值：《向着明亮那方》传递的是中国情感，又是创作者希望世界可以看到历史可以留下的中国情感，希望在双减之年，本片可以成为孩子们和家长们一生珍藏的影集。
真的很棒，虽然我觉得还是有些小缺点，但是它整体挺好。它拍的广东比雄x更广东，它拍的孩子努力奋斗也比雄x更热血，怎么才7分多啊，在我心中是8分左右的作品
题材也不错。
这部电影挺不错的，真实又治愈，电影很温馨很感人，推荐观看
儿子line的剧情🉑️，浴室对峙太精彩了！
外婆，我不能看关于外婆的东西，4/5
“我和我的童年”系列电影。
这样的治愈画风再来多少我都看……萤火虫女孩很童心，人果然要善良，不为别人为自己的善良。小火车即使猜出来了，但光出来那一霎那，还是泪目了。糖水铺的转场太棒了，希望女儿早日回来。哼哈将军太可爱了，生动有趣，兄弟情啊，别扭又温馨。冀娃子的作文写的真好。
最喜欢《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》，其次是《蒯老伯的糖水铺》，很真实的故事，而且画风细腻，色彩明艳。其他就有点一般般了
先出轨的那个总归还是理亏，两个爹都挺疯的，一个倒酒一个剪衣服；结局也挺搞的，两个爹都没有血缘关系，最后也算和平各自分开生活，Again，爱并不是靠血缘来维系的
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短篇集式的绘本电影。第一个故事的小兔萌到我手软然而提问很有哲学性；第三最让我意外，泪目；第五个故事性最强，是我最近看过最可爱最有趣味的剪纸定格了！强推！哮天犬成了哈士奇这种设定我喜欢！第六起初让我觉得色彩浓烈情绪平淡，之后发现我大意了……以及第七明明就是南京动画！奇幻与现实的结合看出功力，能在院线看这样的独立动画电影真是开年福利了。
《萤火虫女孩》《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》还不错.
做动画的人都是在“用生命换时长”。有的人三十多岁放弃博士学位从零开始学动画，有的人收集了一屋子的杂物来汲取灵感，有的人纯手绘一个几秒的镜头就要画两百多幅，有的做耗时耗力的纸定格，有的人一天能吃掉几包白兔奶糖，有的人为了一杯糖水去沿街寻觅......他们都是成年人，却是内心住着童话的孩子，是一群纯粹的人。【哔哩哔哩·和之梦】
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