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".
6/10。过于轻松的方式去表述，反而会忽略了许多现实困境，也弱化了主题的表达。此外，攀岩的象征也用得不好，跟主题与主线也没什么关联。
别人开始拍夫夫离婚抢孩子了，我们连耽改都被禁了。
刚刚看完《关系未来式》，这部《爱的千丝万缕》完全可以作为它的一个具体诠释，同时又想起多年前看的书叫《如父如子》，作者是是枝裕和和佐野晶，也是讲述一个父亲发现自己带了多年的孩子其实出生时在医院意外调了包，但最终还是明白爱远远浓于血脉的故事。人们因爱与被爱产生联结，对“家人”的定义相较于以前真的扩大了不少～
太抓马了，但是感觉里面的三观输出真的和我们不太是一个层次的。
别人开始拍夫夫离婚抢孩子了，我们连耽改都被禁了。
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。“
除了摄影以外都很平庸，尤其加上科恩电影的话唠属性，更像是在听一个故事
温馨 充满了意大利式的好笑，用小品的形式探讨展现了复杂的社会议题。人类是不是古今中外都在追寻谁是我爸爸？😂
为什么几乎所有（我看过的）欧美青春片，全都要吸毒！！聊天的内容也永远是吸毒吸毒，不吸毒不青春？！！
家庭drama和衝突蠻真實的，探討的非血緣關係的親子關係觀點很好 一個家庭裏比起真正的愛，有沒有血緣和基因一點關係都沒有
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。
看來看去都是一個play，毫無新鮮感而言。
（不喜飞叶子那部分，但青少年也正常）
另：
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。
全程抓马，笑点十足。无论是剧情还是演员的演技都值得5星，
感觉已经看到好多男主角这个类型的男主角了 哈哈哈
以一个纪录片的形式讲述了一个代孕同性家庭的故事，还比较新颖，更偏向一个清楚教育片，也比较有趣不算太坏，这种类型真的只能看国外了，国内真的再过几十年或几百年也不能拍出来，性教育国外真的开放且先进很多（没有恶意仅个人见解）！“虽然我们不能爱彼此了，但我们诞生了你，他值得拥有世界上所有的爱”这可能就是不爱后最好的结局了吧！
非常网飞同时也非常意大利的片子，短短90分钟想要包含的元素太多：夫夫婚姻危机，少年初恋，家庭矛盾，同志婚姻议题，代孕，亲情和血缘…最后却都只是浅尝辄止，为了剧情很多地方转折都很生硬，结尾强行煽情。。。总体来说很一般
没看前以为是部纪录片，看了几分钟后：这也太电影了吧？哈哈哈哈哈。
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