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".
超出预期，每个故事都很独特，后两个故事太深刻了。
感謝蒲蒲蘭和熊貓大大，終於在下著2022初雪的這天看上了中國首部原創繪本改編的動畫電影《向著明亮那方》。七個小故事或鬧騰，或溫柔，或幽默，或深刻，展現了國人的愛與美，也引發了我們對人情的思考，對家庭與愛的表達，對故人的追憶之情。希望今年除夕時分大家都能與家人團聚在一起，畢竟“家“裡總會有個人在問「到哪兒了？」
日本最著名的童谣诗人金子美玲的诗集名字+金子美玲的诗歌+我最喜欢的国内民谣女歌手程璧同名主题曲，串起7个关于成长、感恩、坚韧、陪伴、共生、赡养和平凡但不平淡的短篇故事，绘本包含水墨、剪纸、彩铅、水彩等各种风格，算是一部形式主义上的宝藏电影，风格上较为温暖平实，视角选取上照顾的比较多，内容上也很贴近现实，同样适合成年人观看。看得出来其中几位导演的创意、灵感和才华，希望未来冲出短片局限在长篇取得更多成就。个人最喜欢的一篇是《蒯老伯的糖水铺子》
万象城cgv，瑞内姐、雪儿、刘老师等，上完心理学课过来看曾老师力推的电影。七个小故事，不同画风，不同内容，有的充满童真，有的略感忧伤，有关亲情，有关独立，有关成长，挺好的。印象较深的一部，卖糖水的蒯叔和姥姥，剩下的时间要多陪家人，寒假陪退休的老爸练车。
哼哈将军果然最精彩 太舒服了 刘毛宁这部其实很容易共情，而共情的反而是亲子观众里家长这部分 整体都好 我爱二维动画
支持这种同性恋家庭 但是也希望也是别人能共同看待的 这是自由的 而不是鄙视的 我象征自由 象征爱情 象征这一切
第一个小兔最差，不知道放前面是为什么。有两三个还不错的。哼哈最好。
一部关照现实的童话集，用最温暖的画风去书写最平凡的故事。最喜欢的短片是《小火车》，阖家欢乐的幸福与背井离乡的酸楚，共同构成了这部以农民工及子女为主角的动画。其他短片也是如此，不管是公交司机、糖水老伯还是农村奶奶、餐厅父母，都是生活中最平凡之人，其中的川渝方言、广东方言与河南方言也是最熟悉亲近的语言。
外婆吃饭时下巴总往左边偏，因为只剩左边三颗牙。
七个小故事，国内第一部上映的绘本电影，有充满奇幻浪漫的，有写实的，水墨，剪纸元素也很多元，感情质朴，非常温馨～
前两天被《我们的冬奥》伤到的心有被温暖到。
1月16日，上映第二天，下午4点45分的场，影厅里只有3对父母和我。从第一个故事开始就哭得停不下来，给孩子讲的故事总是温暖纯粹得令人心酸，和大众化CG动画相比，独立动画导演的呈现效果也让人眼前一亮。1个多小时的片子，很短，如果想要治愈自己，强烈建议！
画风跳跃过大是会影响到情感的进入，但正如它节奏的缓慢，观众一旦慢慢沉浸其中，也能感受到触动正在涌来。喜欢水墨小兔，喜欢水彩小饭馆，喜欢外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅里唯一一句“别哭别哭”的对白。原本在好奇这部绘本电影要给儿童带来什么，其实很简单:每个作者都掏出自己的心，把美的事物呈现在孩子的眼中。不必教，让孩子自己去选。
其实并不算儿童向。同场的孩子第三第四个故事就坐不住嚷着要走了，倒是我很多次被触动。森林里公交车司机大叔的幻想、蒯老伯的糖水铺、外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅、黄焖鸡米饭小餐馆的故事都很打动我。很多次想起了《申奶奶的杂货铺》，那是一个多好的手工年代啊。
爱情经过生活和时间变成了亲情，然后呢？很有意思
看哭了，一起去的朋友也看哭了，很多哭点，但看完感觉温暖和治愈
这么多选择，低幼儿童和大一点儿的小孩都能遇上自己喜欢的一集。
问一个问题，求个回答：蒯伯伯的故事发生在哪里？香港还是大陆？为什么汽车向左行驶，但是街牌却是简体字呐
爱的千丝万缕！
血缘和DNA不重要， 我们的家庭建立在爱和诚实的基础上。
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