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".
很有意思诶，虽然结局美好的不真实，但看过之后挺开心的有希望的感觉。
能拍出形婚这种题材的电影无疑又是一个进步，至少能把这种现象通过电影摆在明面上，而不是视而不见听而不闻。为了摆脱家人的逼婚而形婚，可形婚又怎能解决后面一系列的窘境呢？还是要面对真实的自己，勇敢争取自己作为性少数应得的权利，最后的光明磊落总好过躲躲藏藏，圆满大结局。有些剧情可以删一下，絮絮叨叨的困的要命。
与前作基本一脉相承，这次妈妈的演员太加分了，很难让人不喜欢。
太好了，第一次看以这么讲述同性爱情的片子，用大多数人都能接受的方式和视角。最后男主浅浅但久违自由的手势简直炸了。情理上来说，我对八十老母都说得明白的关于同性之爱的道理，法律和社会却对此讳莫如深。悲哀，痛心。
荧幕里的他们可以有好的结局，荧幕外的人呢？
有喜有悲，有小心机有担当，这剧意外的很不错！真挺好的。
希望happy ending尽快照进现实
就是感觉和是枝裕和那种细水长流的很不一样，有种九十年代那种苦情家庭剧的感觉。但好在很真诚，叙事虽然没有大起伏，但也还算流畅舒适。
第一次作为投资人参与的电影~主创都是平时一起喝酒吹水的好基友，敢想敢做，坚定靠谱，第二部电影作品完成度如此之高远超预期。调色时有幸一睹真心立马决定用养老金入股，非常有信心！
在宗教和传统的两座大山下还可以rainbow， 看来真不是不能是不可以
誰也沒有錯
中间有点啰嗦，三哥的通病，要凑时长，不过放在印度的环境，真心给他们五星点赞
★★★ 在印度拍同性恋的电影还挺大胆的，剧情简单搞笑，不过以为有什么反转，最后还是随大流，家庭人开始接受他们的性取向，太一般了。
有很多粗糙的地方，但潮汕风情展现得不错基本能盖住缺点。妈妈是全片最最亮眼立体的角色。PS：尊重，但真心不喜欢厌女氛围如此浓重的地方。
现实的开场，梦幻的结局，欢笑中反映出心酸的现实，印度已经能把这个题材拍的这么深刻了。
影片的节奏不算拖拉，很快地就进入了叙述当中，妈妈这个角色是很有烟火气息的，具有很强烈的代表性，十分贴近生活，可以让观众感到很亲切，进而从母亲的角度去理解她的行为和观念。
挺惊讶是印度的电影。西方国家开放的早，形婚可能已经成为过去式。关于Lgbt的欧美电影很少有叙述这类家庭压力的。但亚洲大部分仍然存在关于形婚和出柜，传宗接代的压力。
什么时候我们才能拍出来这样的电影......
讲普通人的故事，有地方特色，但是剧情、节奏、表演都差了点火候。最后太拖沓了。女猪脚不好看，眼窝看起来十分怪。
故事并不新颖，父母与子女新旧观念的碰撞，影片中展示的潮汕文化独具一格，演员演绎在线，部分情节上掉线，没有代入感。
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