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".
略失望吧，本来以为会是茉莉在剩下的十年中怎么一路探寻自己生命的意义，和家人、朋友、恋人去把短短的时间活得更加精彩，当初看了预告片真的很期待来着，用手持录像的形式把对生命里的各种情感和为之付出的努力奋斗都好好的记录下来，这样的感情和升华多好啊🥲结果没想到手持录像这么好的点只在开头和结尾出现了一小会儿，甚至女主最后还把它们都删了😩而且很遗憾整部片竟然前半部分大多都是在讲女主的各种纠结和闹别扭，和朋友相处的美好时光、和人的暧昧几乎都是一闪而过，甚至确定关系后对于生活的描写和探寻也是止步不前，感觉这个题材爱情真的可以只是一个闪亮的点缀🙁而且不知道是女主的人设思维比较拗还是小松的演技问题，整部戏她的戏份仅有一半（甚至可能是靠配乐和角度）是能让我入戏的，更多时候真的觉得她耷拉着眼睛很丧很困的样子。
节奏有很大问题，推进的太硬，拍的也不抓人，没能很好的调动起情绪，以至于就剩下了演员用力的表演.
小松菜奈和坂口健太郎拍的照片真的好有感觉。
故事讲得平庸也不耽误我看俊男美女。但编剧和导演还是得好好反省！！！
很无聊的电影，一切都如此老套。屏幕那边似乎时时在催“你哭，你快哭，你必哭”，下头。有些人只有从「绝症」才能体会非日常，我从来不理解这种奇怪的G点。
——金子美玲
万万没想到有一天小松菜奈也可以在演技上吊打对手男演员。
很治愈、清新、明亮的绘本动画电影，每个故事都那么贴合实际，无论是在怎样的境遇下，所有角色都是“向着明亮那方”。最喜欢《蒯老伯的糖水铺》《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》两个故事，里面有绵远的乡情、浓厚的亲情，看着这两个片段，不自觉地就代入了自己的爷爷和外婆，那些未竟的遗憾和内心的愧疚，只有从电影里寻找和解了吧。
全程看小松菜奈的脸，惊喜是发现竟然是同款双肩包🎒😄；家庭情感设置单薄，爱情线也蛮多漏洞了，男主面对女主病情永远在那哭，全程主打女主生病治不好，记录女主在身心上与疾病斗争；但疾病描述本身也是比较浅层的，感觉仅仅是借助苦难的一种抒情，轻松看
这种绝症爱情片要能看得下去，还是得女主角看得顺眼，情节啥的基本不大会有新意了。
不好看，剧情很简单，男女主相爱铺垫的好少，但是剧情又很拖沓，浪费我两个小时，单纯看颜可以，小松很美
剧情老套，开头知内容知结局，又是唯美爱情。霓虹小清新片，nana躺在妈妈肩膀哭那里触动到我。板口演技太差啦，看见他就想着⏩（勉强三星）（想买胶卷拍照了）📷
茉莉滑雪回来抱着妈妈哭那段也太好哭了吧！！日本纯爱剧果然离不开樱花啊…樱花树下的镜头都超美的！片尾献给原作者 再伴随野田洋次郎的歌声…妈啊太好哭了吧…然后卡司好强…放眼全是熟人…剧情就自动忽略了 绝症啊拯救啊都是十多年前的梗了…
在死人纯爱里也算是拍得无趣的，剧情和表演都毫无波澜，我看得也毫无波澜……唯一可取的是雪地里的两位主演是真的蛮养眼的，不过和共演们的演技一对比起来真的有点割裂……
中国首部原创绘本动画片，好几个故事并不是简单的讲童话，它的反转和寓意更眼前一亮，方言动画也新鲜。非常适合父母带小孩看，寓教于乐，充满《麦兜故事》《海洋之歌》式极致的爱与美。最喜欢的3个：《小火车》一句不会垮的新家道出故事真实背景，“一旦出了事，牵连一大片”，落脚点又在幸存小孩的独立成长，“你们放手嘛，让我自己走”看到泪目；《蒯老伯的糖水铺》高架桥两边，一边是冰冷的高楼大厦，一边是温暖的平房街里，破晓前的城市两极面貌，衬托出邻里街坊更像亲人，而亲人更像陌生人，“她们太忙太忙了”；《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》，台词略散文，但当外婆的铁皮柜东西散落一地时，眼眶又湿了，想起那年老妈收拾外婆的遗物，藏在棉衣里的零钱、褶皱破旧从没用过的笔记本…“就在这个铁皮柜，仿佛装下了她整个一生” #11th BJIFF
剧本太平了，演的也很平，主演比不上配角
《向着明亮那方》采用单元片模式，以绘本和儿童文学为创作蓝本进行改编，以水墨、水彩、剪纸、定格等不同的形式，展现了独特而纯朴的国风美学。这是中国内地第一部绘本动画，由顾辰、朱彦潼监制，兰茜雅、李念泽、赵易、俞昆、刘高翔、刘毛宁、陈晨七位导演分别执导七个短片，这七个短片虽然题材、内容并不关联，但是总体而言，却都能让观众由其中感受到许多的温暖与爱，无论是童趣世界，还是童年回忆，以及我们生活中许许多多的美好瞬间，那些欢乐的片段、浓浓的乡愁、淡淡的忧伤，就这样被娓娓道来。
坂口需要什么演技？他就乖乖地站在那里不说话，感觉都像谈了一场甜甜的恋爱…谁能忍住不和坂口谈恋爱？女主😂
（下次这种题材木村来演我也不碰了，我发誓）
这部片子真的是给这个寒冬里抹上了一缕阳光！七个导演通过七个原创绘本故事改编的七个短片。有关亲子关系、人与自然、兄弟手足、邻里之情、异地成长等故事。绘本的表现形式也很丰富，有水墨、剪纸、水彩等。儿子看完特别喜欢《蒯老伯的糖水铺》、《哼将军和哈将军》、《翼娃子的星期天》，因为他觉得很亲切，很搞笑，就像在说他自己！
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