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".
改编自绘本，特别走心的七个动画短片。最喜欢《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》，让人想起隐秘而模糊的童年深处的记忆，对隔代的老一辈总有说不出来的深情。第二喜欢《蒯老伯的糖水铺》，一碗芝麻糊串联起几代人的温暖，一间糖水铺成为一个城市的温度，再渺小的火种都足以点亮一隅，成为明亮那方的所在。
即便判定了全是出轨方的错，破碎的感情也不能就此完美如初。
虽然有点狗血，但是我喜欢这种对于同性婚姻生活的探讨。
从来没有过笑意与泪意完全重合出现的时候，它给了我第一次
不同的创作者，不同的画风，构成一本婉婉到来的童话书，喜欢这些温暖的故事们。
除了开头的两个都ok，把这俩放在最前面不怕劝退观众吗？冲着刘毛宁来的，果然不负所望全场最佳《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》>《哼将军和哈将军》 > 《小火车》 > 《糖水铺》 > 《翼娃子的星期天》> 《萤火虫女孩》> 《小兔的问题》
像在一个秋天，刚下过雨，地面上的水不多，地上的落叶也被打扫干净了，我刚在家里吃完凯撒沙拉，因为受不了家里的争吵，骑着自行车去找我的朋友，找我的对象，不过我还是带着钥匙，因为我知道我还得回家，因为家里有我爱的家人。
是值得一看的电影，但前面传达的一个观念“出轨不是一个人的错”，真的蛮隔应人，尤其是当出轨的那个说出这句话的时候，真的恨不得钻进去扇他耳巴子。婚姻的分崩离析或许是两个人共同作用的结果，但出轨不是。当婚姻关系出现了问题，你不选择开诚布公的交流或者是体面的离婚，而是选择出轨的那一刻，就已经不配指责另一方也有过错了（尤其是片中那个出轨了整整两年，按照通讯录的恋爱期，属于是可以跟小三庆祝金婚了😅）。其实只有被出轨的一方才有资格说“出轨不是一个人的错”，这是对自我的反思，促进自我的释怀。而应该被出轨者拿来当做出轨的借口，这样得不到别人的理解，只能是恶心恶心观众了。
你可以愛一個人，你可以愛一個男人，你可以愛一個女人，你更可以好好愛你自己。有血緣關係的人不一定可以稱為家人，但互相珍惜愛護的人，一定可以。
有兩個爸爸，超酷的好吧！儘管父親們可能最終會分開，但是這樣他就會有五個人一起愛著他
血缘的淡化、感受的表达在这部影片中的表达既诙谐又温暖，桎梏和枷锁往往是法律和伦理设置的，个体千丝万缕的连接真诚而炙热。
原创绘本动画片整体质量真的很不错！！
2.5星吧。感觉是樊登读书和凯叔讲故事想要搞的儿童读物视频化，实在不足以称之为电影，顶多就是短片吧，但完全不如b站很多学生自己做的短片……老伯的糖水屋，河南郏县的外婆，翼娃子的故事，这仨故事还算可以，其他看完完全没印象。不是低龄的问题，就是不行🙅
有画面唯美的《萤火虫女孩》，
Emotional relationships can never be equal.
在内部场看的。在故事、做工、表现手法，尤其在现实主义的表现方面上超出期待了。不过必须要说这部动画比较挑人：用艺术批评视角来讲，我蛮喜欢这个短篇集的 。但在听取现场一名9岁男孩在导演见面会上的提问和导演的回答后，我现在不太确定一般大众，尤其小孩子，能够理解它的美感，甚至作者想表达的信息。
后悔没有带孩子来看，太可爱了。也是很能治愈大朋友的呀
亲情也许是生物间上最紧密最神奇的连接，联结这我们的过去也联结这我们的未来。7个短片，7个导演描绘的7个不同时空的相同又不同的故事。最喜欢第6个“外婆的铁皮柜”，最为北方长大的孩子不能说和我的童年很像，简直就是一摸一样：玻璃弹珠，玉米地，皂荚树，红薯叶煎饼。。。。当记忆中的场景被动画呈现在眼睛好像自己的童年就会像童话一样美好治愈。
就一小品电影吧。。。角度有点新颖，说的问题不管哪种类型的关系都会遇到。。。
这部电影可以称之为告诉我我人生可能会面临的问题之一电影。
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