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".
越是逼我哭 越是无法共情 本来“余下10年到底是长是短”这样我很感兴趣的主题硬生生变成不断的哭泣且人物几乎没有观念上的转变 欠缺感染力
😭为两人的绝美爱情流泪…… 樱吹雪里相视的两人太有氛围感了RADWIMPS的音乐是主题的升华，nana和坂口小天使太搭了。Be美学果然才是灵魂。
虽然用影像记录珍贵瞬间的意义是为了全部回顾一遍再删除 但看到宿命般相爱的瞬间 还是会犹豫吧 是无需要深究 也没太出挑的纯爱电影
如果说《我和我的父辈》等系列电影是给成年人看的，那么这部“我和我的童年”着实是给孩子们的“献礼”片了，当然，这个献礼是指送给孩子们的礼物。其实不管是绘本也好，还是用传统的水墨、剪纸等等技术也好，都不足以形容这部电影的亮点。它难能可贵的是它爱与美的内核，用一个个质朴而动人的故事，唤起了大家内心深处最纯净的美好，唤起了对那个无忧无虑纯真年代的向往。
听腻讲烂的白百何绝症催泪片，但RADWIMPS的配乐非常打动人，提升了全片质感。
缺点就是冲突处理的太差了
在日本的影院看的！很高兴国产动漫电影能在日本同步上映～大概影院一半以上都是中国人。第三个故事《小火车》出来的一瞬间就蚌不住了…曾经和爸爸妈妈一起住过一模一样的板房，看到小男孩穿过山洞的地方，在电影院哭得抽筋，惊醒了旁边睡着的日本大叔😂 ……小故事都非常温暖，有的很写实，细腻的描写真的非常戳到90后的点。只是观察了一下日本人基本都处于快睡着的状态😅 anyway希望更多优秀的中国电影可以在海外上映！！！
比起爱情线 感觉亲情线更难过 怎么可以这样呢 明明是想看他们的爱情故事痛哭一场来着 剧照真的太美了他们两个太好看了 电影隔靴搔痒 明摆着要你哭的地方都不是很好哭
【1.5】果然被拍得俗套又廉价，甚至你根本不知道两个人的情感从何而来，总之稀里糊涂就开始铂爵旅拍了，Nana酱再美也无济于事啊。
影片在秒速五厘米里结束🆒小松菜奈的演技还是有提升的，但要说大爆发就有点过头。坂口健太郎帅到我一整个梦女上身，角色很温柔，哭得脸都歪了还是帅。镜头和摄影都挺好的，剧情是似曾相识，台词能猜出下半句，不过帅美当mv或者ppt看还是可以的。
作为爱情为主打的电影却把爱情拍得最平淡，这也是感谢男主不走心的表演……亲情的共情能力最感染。
3.5。小松表现不错，坂口哭戏生硬，亲情友情的部分更多一些描写就好了。爱情Part又是藤井一贯的慢镜头MV。
还不错，最喜欢的就是哼将军和哈将军那个，真的很好笑
有幸在艺联冬暖深圳影展上看到了这一部《向着明亮那方》，七个温暖治愈的小故事，在冬天看真的是非常合适了，温暖，甜美，治愈。
《向着明亮的那方》是国内首部绘本电影。
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。
故事内容很感动，特别是外婆那一章，让我想到自己的外婆，好几个点都戳中我来；内涵也比较有深意，许多细节处需要细想才能看得懂；形式也比较有创意，每一章用的都是不同的表现手法；我觉得受众也挺广的，全家老少都能看👀
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……
剧情真的蛮老套的，小松和坂口一起的戏份过于像动态写真了吧
整体来说是值五颗星的，为这帮年轻又有才华的导演献上我的膝盖。绘本动画电影虽然概念蛮新的，但是几个单元故事里所讲述的主题是普世的，所采用水墨、剪纸等技法也是一种返璞归真，这样就有一种很奇妙的化学反应，像是在读一篇篇散文诗，回味悠长，后劲很足。强烈安利《萤火虫女孩》这个故事，手绘的风格本身就很治愈，小女孩和司机大叔的对话也让我很感动，可能我们每个人都会迎来落幕的时刻，但其实我们是别人的摆渡人，别人可能也在渡我们。
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