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".
浪漫又温柔 平凡又质朴 爱的千丝万缕（这个中文译名也太好了）
4.5 题材太好了，千丝万缕都是爱！无论是同性婚姻还是异性婚姻，其实都是普通家庭。很喜欢这部片子的节奏，笑中带泪，莫名狂戳我笑点；可以说是非常dramatic了，两个爸爸性格截然不同。
小男主像t子，男主的好基友挺好看的，法国男转校生身材不错👍🏻
能够依靠的从来都是千丝万缕的爱，而不是血缘。这个道理真是高级又现实又无奈。希望所有国人都能尽早明白看透。电影而言拍的中规中矩，就是你看到这个海报和故事梗概的感觉，没有失望也无惊喜。
过于夸张抓马… 很多问题点对于欧洲人来说 根本不会如此纠结吧
浪漫又温柔 平凡又质朴 爱的千丝万缕（这个中文译名也太好了）
一对同性夫夫和他们儿子的故事，笑中有泪泪中带乐，意大利人的幽默和抓马太招人喜欢了。涉及到领养试管婴儿友情亲情爱情和青春期等多个议题最后升华到爱的本质。在幽默诙谐中让人思考好多问题。当我们还在为二三胎发愁的时候，人家已经开始为非血缘领养与同性离婚孩子归属问题开展探讨了。到底血缘和爱哪个更重要，或者说这两者到底有什么正反向关系。
最后有了两个家。不知道算不算是皆大欢喜的结局。爱的千丝万缕让分开的人还是在一起，不知道算不算是一件好事。
普通青春片让基友看了想要男人，这部青春片是让基友看了想要儿子。
一连看了两部意大利同志片，都在讲出轨离婚生育问题了。虽然非常drama，但探讨的主题还是很好的。
很有意思的LGBT电影
或许婚姻中本没有绝对的一名反派，只是我突然失去了新鲜，而你只想要一份平坦。但当它不堪了，粉碎了，终于结束了，过往的所有难道就不再是真爱的佐证吗？“天真幼稚”的感触是，或许婚姻在现在（或者未来）会失去其情感上的意义，一纸文书，更多的只是法律的枷锁。到最后再思考是什么时候结束的？油污的餐盘任其堆砌作高墙，散乱的袜子只想用来扼住对方的脆弱颈管，裂隙成裂纹，金子熔成的液拿来，一切也不再是原初。然而，与其说是在讲述同志“不平常”的婚姻，不如说是在聚焦爱情的另一结晶——孩子。千丝万缕是一个孩子成长的剪影与回忆，它是爱的金缮，既然回不到原初，便让爱更加珍贵。
在以婚姻关系为纽带的背景下，爱情能存续多久呢？🥲🥲🥲
传统内核加新式夫夫关系，以及周围人和事各种错位，带来一些小幽默。
才刚年初2022年最好看的同影就已经出现惹~在油管看到预告就上头了，还祈祷最好是部短剧让我一次过足瘾。结果成片是部体量刚好的110分钟电影。看gay family的出轨、撕逼、抢娃大战真爽~这个剧本相当精彩！配乐风景全部在线，少年的成长弧线相当完整，结尾彩蛋还有父亲的采访，仅仅扣住亲情之“爱"。主角死党一句话道破真谛”家家有本难念的经，原来你家也不完美，gay couple当父母也和我家一样的烂。“
峰回路转的抓马剧情果然是我的菜😂，爱的主题虽然是老调常谈了但永远不会看腻，爱了。ps同性恋家庭果然还是欧洲才拍的出那个味道，吊打某坞一百条街啦。
哈哈哈哈又搞笑又有點溫馨，狗血但是不算俗套。家庭和感情有千千萬萬種形式，人是紐帶把彼此和所有聯繫起來。
by the way。我还是坚持，养且育者才是父母。
学校因为疫情封校，在寝室里断断续续地一天看完了这部电影。可爱的意式抓马，恰到好处的节奏，一边看一边感谢编剧的才华。三个少年在浴室里那段真的钛好笑了。中间有很多亮点，装得进步实则保守的自命不凡的女士，还有surrogate议题，"你的家人和我们的一样烂，回到现实吧"，爱与诚信万岁！如果原本相爱随着时间变得形同陌路，就放手吧，潇洒。维系人之间关系的不是血缘，而是爱
似乎这样的荒诞离奇都不是问题，而是我们忽略同性恋爱情中那些不美好的时刻
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