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".
最喜欢外婆的铁皮轮椅的画风
😭重庆小火车一篇处理得太温柔了，开火车时“隐形”的腿和最终的奔跑。里面的人儿都善良得可贵，农村和小镇被浪漫化，但这是给孩子的故事，是向着明亮那方的，是我们需要寻迹出发的。嗯嗯，人是要和人建立连接的。结束后前排小朋友喊“可以再看一遍吗”，我右边一女孩“妈妈，我也想再看一遍”
老伯的故事就是老手艺人的坚持，一家老店传承的每个客人的故事，照顾每个路过人漂泊的灵魂。在这么浮躁的社会，这种店是越来越少了。人情淡薄，金钱至上。这到底是人类的进步，还是退步呢？亦或者只是自己的个案。
一整个在影院哭惨了，那只在相框里蹦蹦跳跳的兔子，被萤火虫照亮的司机大伯，双胞胎小朋友的哼哈二将，外婆的蓝箱子轮椅，小朋友无畏的小火车，蒯老伯的香甜的糖水，还有最后结尾在南京的重庆一家人，江南公交的站台，扬子公交锈蚀的站牌，南京长江大桥，清江花园，南京成片成片的法国梧桐，让人热泪盈眶。
前两个单元故事小娃配音有点出戏，这是一个莫得感情的朗读机器吗？尤其是《萤火虫女孩》，看着又美又萌的动画，听到这个小男娃内心毫无波澜的配音……
动起来的绘本，因为设想对象是孩子，剧情略显无趣
《翼娃子》:原书出彩，这个单元也蛮喜欢。
给外甥随机点开的睡前电影。他觉得可可爱爱，我也觉得可可爱爱，哼！哈！打怪兽。
永远可以相信语言具有丰富性的作品。两个镜头看出这是哪个城市，有点小得意
小火车不错 我的家也很好 小兔子的丧偶式画面让我感到自己坏掉了
七部由绘本改编的动画短片，涉及了人与人之间的情感。有长辈对晚辈的呵护，有双胞胎之间的矛盾，有小辈在晚辈过世后的内疚，有陌生人之间的关怀等等。故事简单，但每一部情感都非常真挚，能看得出创作团队的用心。有将军那一部巧妙设定，外婆那部亲情细腻绵长等等，个人最喜欢火车那一部，短短几分钟将汶川地震后百姓苦中作乐的坚韧与家庭成员之间的亲情与守护结合的非常紧密饱满。抛开剧情，画面也让人十分惊喜，水墨、油画、剪纸等等风格都有涉及，老伯糖水店的转场十分出色。在这样一个快节奏的时代，能有这样一部纯粹的去商业化独立动画短片作品在影院上映，是中国动画产业不幸中的万幸。
从第三个故事渐入佳境，最喜欢《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》，在其中看到了许多童年记忆中的老物件
如果蒯老伯的家人不那么忙，就可以早点儿回去慢慢一层层地用小勺喝他熬的芝麻糊，陪他在甜汤里搅出时间百味和世间百态，在高楼大厦边的小巷店口坐着聊聊天。外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅里仿佛装着她的一生，也装着一件外孙没有对她说出口、却再也没机会对她说出口的愧疚事，也许走了的人并没有在意过，可童年那件小事却一直挥之不去，成为遗憾，也许每个人心中都有些无法弥补的遗憾，可能母亲也常常在心里后悔，要是那年记起给外婆买个电热毯，她是否就能再多熬一个冬天。虽然有遗憾、有残缺、有告别、有打闹、有苦有难、有不能常相见的羁绊，但是，我们的心，还是依旧向着明亮温暖的那方。
七个绘本故事组织，非常的温馨和治愈。泪点低的朋友一定要带好纸巾。
7分，小火车最有深度，蒯老伯糖水铺和外婆的铁皮柜，细水长流真实打动人，哼哈二将很有趣，萤火虫女孩还蛮可爱、小兔子成长烦恼有点无聊，最后一个翼娃子的星期天是我最不喜欢的，或许是导演想呈现生活美好的一部分或是理想状态，但比起儿女不回家的蒯老伯、偷拿外婆钱的我静静看她吃完饭。翼娃子的家庭少了一些反差和人物情感的变化，所以不能打动我。
有时候我就想啊，世界是一个多维度的立体空间，每一部电影都能开启我们对这个立体的更新维度的探索。不是所有的动画电影主角都是小孩子，起码在《向着明亮那方》中，好几个篇章的主人公就是中老年人，这样的动画向孩子们展现的是一整个世界，而非夸张低幼的无脑作品，一味只顾着嘻嘻哈哈哈。
6分。给个及格吧，毕竟木偶戏我太喜欢了。哼哈二将的故事本子和拍摄制作都不错，可以说是全片最佳，但是紧跟着那是个啥？没记错的话好像是导演亲自念的旁白，念的不错下次别念了，换ai语音都听着更舒服些（外婆的故事其实我哭了，但那个整体感觉真的太差了）主要的扣分点在于方言配音：如果受众是小朋友，那根据今天在影院观影的情况来看，小朋友们听不懂方言，字幕也看不懂；如果受众是成年人，那故事又没什么深度。一影厅都是忙着给孩子翻译故事内容人物对话的家长，没有人的观影体验是好的。
🤔画面不错，但我觉得故事很普通也很无聊..
温暖真诚可爱。有章让我想起了外婆搞得我眼线大概花了。
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