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".
每次看印度的电影都可以看到不同的层面，这次传递了一个可怕的信息，我们的竞争对手在反思，而且是正向的（2022-1）
来看看世界各国影视制作的突飞猛进！特别是印度这类第三世界国家！
是一部很好的传记片，但现实意义和影响可能需要慢慢撬动
根据真实事件改编。但是说教意味比较浓，也在主动去上升观点，导致我个人内心并没有燃起来，反而有点儿排斥。内容充实，2h44min基本没有水分（感觉这部印度电影已经很克制，只是放了歌而没有跳起舞了）。有时候看着看着就在想这算是杰伊·比姆的个人英雄主义电影还是要宣扬人权，虽然杰伊一直强调他是人不是神，但总有种他在装逼的感觉，于是这句话反而把他变得更神。虽然不知道现在印度的社会是怎么样的状态，但我想这部电影带给社会的意义应该大于电影本身吧。不过其实，这起案件中还有开明的法官和正义的调查员警官，还算值得庆幸的了。
这个社会意义得十颗星啊。超级英雄片的处理把一个非常沉重的社会议题变得偶尔迸发一点娱乐精神，三个小时看下来也不累，这样才能触达最广大的受众啊。广播质感也是杠杠的，印度电影有一手！
漂亮国还给印度戴上了最大的民主国家，若这样的垃圾国家都是民主，民主真的是被滥用了。
印度的种姓制度是用鲜血铺垫的
和药神一个思路，人物脸谱化，事件简单化，严肃议题类型片化，我也不会用“连XX都能拍出关于XX的电影”这种话来夸人了，毕竟你连漫威都看不了，人家拍个你拍不出来的不很正常嘛
社会现实向的叙述性电影。滥用的国家权利，腐败的公职人员，以及以及命如蝼蚁的平民。即使如蝼蚁，也努力需求生存的美好，和尚存的那道正义的微光。如果不那么冗余的话，可能会更好一些。
看的很难过，一是因为电影里所揭示的不公，二是因为我们无法揭露的不公。
印度版《辩护人》，居然还冲进了IMDB top 250…
“当我们被杀的时候没有人会在意，但我们不能靠杀手的施舍生活”
电影题材选的很好，全景以及一些镜头画面语言也都表现得不错，但歌声与人物的哭嚎总给我一种分裂感，无法深入其中。
并算不上很妙，伏笔埋得太明显，显得很蹩脚。但要表达的东西倒挺真诚的，其实这样一个故事放到其他国家必定觉得不真实，但在印度真不好说。
160分钟真是把节奏和情绪都拿捏住了 除去主角太光环伟光正 主线案件剧情复杂得还挺严谨 这么多人物也能随着主角抽丝拨茧让人记住 看完再看原片名可真贴切啊 斗争万岁 （真是东亚文化一体 同样的故事换个背景放在韩国也毫不违和 代入了一下如果韩国来拍 必然会交代主角背景 也必然是个小人物 事件发展会更合理
电影的价值与意义 没有追求的生活有什么意思
好看，但影片铺垫有点太长了。事件比较值得称道，但也是不幸中的理想化状态了。这种类型影片的影评真是没眼看，精印都有😅
印度电影从不会让我失望！前三十分钟就非常好了。去年光看了简介我就没什么兴趣，到2022年想想2021整年都没看过好的印度电影，无奈看看这部。对不起，2021我错过了这部电影。原来是共产主义电影。想起国内那个偷窃的妇女，被带去警察局，她的幼女饿死在家中的故事，也是security系统的问题，可以拍
全程开挂？？我有点感觉这是印度的政治正确的电影？？就没有那种看韩国辩护人的感觉，韩国的这类型电影是看得非常纠结痛苦，非常致郁的。但印度这部就有点那种表面上是在说以前印度社会的黑暗，但实际上有点在赞扬某种东西（具体是什么我也说不清）所以觉得这部电影其实也还好。
有着印度特色的片长和穿插着特有的歌舞，缺点是其中的正面角色塑造过于的完美，简直不像是现实生活中的人，考虑到现实原型还在世，这种操作也可接受。片中展现的警察的粗暴做法，犹如黑社会一般的压迫底层群众，这些山区的原住民几乎没有作为人的权利，不能上学，不能投票，没有种姓与之对应的名字，这就是达特利群体的生活现实。国家有法度，警察视之无物；国家禁止歧视，底层自发的歧视。达特利们被诬陷偷窃，为其他人顶罪。国家机器竟然用酷刑折磨嫌疑人，人被活活打死，还被冠上越狱。韩国辩护人是对人zz参与权利的捍卫，印度的则是翻案，捍卫作为人的权利。本片根据真实事件改编，律师还是印共的活跃成员，长期为底层民众免费辩护，后来做到过邦最高法官，片子中删去了这个，另外作为遗孀的她并没有得到一所新的房子，希望她的生活能有所改善吧。
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