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".
乍看是新时代新型家庭的问题，然而父辈的婚姻和家庭问题，子女青春期的矛盾与困惑，其实和异性恋家庭会遇到的问题，几乎是相同的，归根到底是人类的课题。
不知该如何评价，也许不管是同性还是异性，背叛总是常见的，反而和子女的感情更加牢固，但我们一定要顺从这样的社会，放纵自己的欲望吗？
像是在看伯格曼的电影，而不是科恩的，演员摄影补光都挺好，但就是看着无聊，而且虽然华盛顿演技确实好，但还是不理解为什么让黑人来演
{★★★} 好疯好尴尬，好网飞的feelgood电影。虽说题材就是男同版的The Kids Are All Right，剧本仍有太多人工与强扭痕迹。但相对的，精彩的拍案之处也不缺--尤其是结尾的滴血验亲。总的来说，它想告诉你婚姻很难，无论你们是否特殊；但亲情能够活得比婚姻更长久。
抓马是抓马，里面的人和感情都很温柔。年轻人的爱情友情真是美好，成年人的感情很复杂，也很美好。爱情会消失，但是千丝万缕的爱不会。
好狗血的故事，好意大利的故事，好奇特的价值观；但是毫无疑问，是我看过最平等的同性电影
本来想打四分 但是出轨真的不能忍 不要被PUA 这是出轨者自己的错 什么性恋都一样
真的有必要拍这样一部性别更换后毫不违和的片子吗？这就是所谓性多数人群眼中必须如此表现的同性情感——将同性之间的情感关系异性化，已被视为性少数人群当中的主流价值，甚至家庭内部的权力关系都必然如此异性化——电影剩下的还有什么，不过就是性多数人群眼中的奇观化展示，就像电影中医院的前台工作人员看着一个父亲接一个父亲接一个母亲再接一个父亲出现时那种戏谑莫名的表情，而所有因直接移植异性情感关系而造成的表达缺陷都要用爱这个大标题来掩盖，非常荒谬。
探讨的主题既现实而深刻，当LGBT群体由争取平权到面对婚姻关系与家庭关系，我们也能站在更开阔的事业探讨爱与亲情，人的成长与关系。只是，我们的世界并不同步，有的人已经走到很前面，有的还在观望、犹疑甚至退缩，终究意难平。
无形的细线连接千丝万缕的爱，穿过血缘在心底留下家的印记。片子用最轻松的笔触书写最抓马的生活，在满满的Skam气息中谈性向与感情，在堪比大戏的家庭里讲孩子、婚姻与法律，落笔轻盈却能纸上留痕，虽然drama浓度高得未免有些迎合市场，但还称得上是一部题材新颖的轻喜剧
本以为完美无瑕的同性恋家庭范本一夜之间变抓马闹剧，我喜欢的女孩以为我是同性恋并打算撮合我和她哥，没有停留在所谓的平权和认同，而是落点在亲情上，有点套路但也有惊喜，看了能会心一笑的可爱电影。但我仍然不同意出轨方的说辞。
之前欧美的gay影视很多是争取同性婚姻合法，而本片则给我们展示了同性婚姻合法之后的同性家庭会是什么样子。同性婚姻合法之后，就同性平权道路来说，还有孩子的出生证明不能写两个爸爸的名字的问题；就家庭生活来说，也同样会有出轨的问题存在。两个爸爸的演技很好，孩子们的颜值很高，剧情很有趣，总之值得一看。
7.9分，看了又好像没看，很平淡，可以打发时间。
如果电影是异性婚姻里的家庭纠葛，那就非常普通且让人抓马，但放到一个同性婚姻里，一切都显得如此的珍贵和前卫。是啊，我们还蜷缩在壳里仰望星空时，别人已经在讨论同性婚姻里的爱情、家庭、孩子和柴米油盐了。真好。
探讨的主题既现实而深刻，当LGBT群体由争取平权到面对婚姻关系与家庭关系，我们也能站在更开阔的事业探讨爱与亲情，人的成长与关系。只是，我们的世界并不同步，有的人已经走到很前面，有的还在观望、犹疑甚至退缩，终究意难平。
ohno…爱的千丝万缕是好名字，爱而不是血缘才使我变成如今的模样不是么？ 可是婚姻这么多年，只有孩子是羁绊又让我难过。突然在爱里失望之后，互相伤害不能让状况变好，但也没有解决的办法，它是单向的，这样想着又好绝望，哪天搞不懂对方了真难过。 是可爱好电影，意大利、攀岩、骑车，俏皮和年轻人tla，可爱，喜欢。
（不喜飞叶子那部分，但青少年也正常）
家庭伦理片，不过从👨👩👦变成了👨👨👦
老生常谈的家庭故事，只不过套在了一对夫夫身上，遇到了更多的阻碍。在保罗发现西蒙尼的外遇后，那些情绪的揪扯，很细致，失去爱过的人，我们试图毁掉属于他的痕迹。争抢小孩，妥协和退让，神奇的转折，看起来都是为了配合里昂的纪录片，立意对社会宽容与立法的探讨，只是最后，爱情还是失去了它原本的模样，有的人立即找到新的归宿，有的人似乎还在原地，或许没有挣扎。
1. 酷儿议题在西方社会已经彻底变成了亲情问题，不以血缘为基础的亲情也不止在同性婚姻家庭里，invisible thread，当代亲情的形态。2.没想到曾经先锋的酷儿话题这么快成为了情节剧的材料。为影片中的纪录片和结尾彩蛋加一星，某种程度上稍稍中和了情节剧似的煽情和争斗。如果真的以儿子视角做一部伪纪录片应该会更有趣。3. 几个喜剧场景有设计感，三个青少年在浴室的片段宣告了青年一代新的家庭观；医院场景生动解释了extended family的形态（也是曾经人类社会的常态）。
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