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".
案中案，重重反转，把原本已经拍俗了的题材拔高了立意
“都造出你一天了，你也该长大懂事了”...
总体观感不如杰伊比姆。反转还是很多，副督察从正义到邪恶再到良心发现，瘸腿律师从出场看着像个正派，说话像个反派，抽丝剥茧还原了副督察给的真相。新闻媒体和警察操纵了真相，程序正义的重要性。
评论生态：敢拍就是好，反转到我没想到！牛比，震撼，硬了。大多数线索的存在都是没头没尾的，根本不考虑美学逻辑学的生搬硬套。节奏剪辑配乐慢镜头渲染全部一比吊糟，靠着zz仇恨和讽刺媒体的题材，自己却在用最讨好观众口味的素材搞了一盘实事大杂烩。160分钟的电影想反映一千本专业著作阐述的理论，涉及的每一个点都是血往头上冲的隔靴搔痒，青春期的智商拍出了这么一部叙事混乱流水账，拿着大针筒子硬生生往你下半身注射西地那非
2022发现的第一部评分过誉电影。
印度电影真的是越来越好。几次反转让人眼前一亮，还有深一层对种姓，政治，媒体的抨击。
反转再反转，加上配乐很紧张，确实看的一愣一愣。但是人物符号扁平，督查从好人变坏人再变好，完全为了情节反转服务，律师半路杀出来感觉是另一个电影的主角，大反派政客真的肮脏，对比大学女教授真的圣母。最大的问题是主题混乱，一开始以为是督查伸张正义，中段以为是即时正义与程序正义之争，反转到后来发现整个剧铺垫，是为了引出续集。
可能剧本还行，但导演真是太水了，音乐滥用，表演也差。。。
很简单的故事，却蕴含着丰沛的情感。比起自己的生存，Finch更在乎狗狗Goodyear的生存，甚至做出个机器人Jeff照顾它，甚至一路向西去一个更好的地方，“它不是我的狗，它是它自己的狗”，在Finch眼里Goodyear不仅是一只狗，也承载了他对于那对母子遇害的愧疚
沒有鋪墊就開始煽情唱歌，庭審整個歪掉反掉了，應該圍繞程序正義和事實還原來打，結果是充斥無意義的詭辯，控方在論證死者該死被告無罪（黑人問號），辯方在證明死者不該死被告有罪（？？？）。
泪奔……好片！没有个人英雄主义，只有一个垂暮老人、一条狗、一个有感情会做梦的机器人。
印度和韩国一样，文化界的反思很多，却没什么用
过誉，隔靴搔痒。视听感像电影，情绪煽动性极强的新闻专题片。配乐和歌曲不错，歌曲部分常速欣赏，其它1.5倍速飘过。以现实中印度强暴案的体量和深层根源来看，都改编电影直到看吐也难有改变的一天。电影其实是以谋杀而非强暴致死来规避风险，在没有原型事件情况下编拍并通过印度电影审查，国情不同，无需代入。2022·6·28 8.6/2189 短评889条 %83/13/4 【IMDb8.4/8300 全球票房313.51万美元】
题材很讨喜，但问题在于似乎太过执着于情节上的设计导致整部电影并不是那么流畅。故事性上塞得太满，导演和编剧应该学会做减法。/问题真的不能忍，但多一星给法庭上的调度，and女老师发声那段真的太飒了
条件宽松容易出好电影，但是并不代表一定拍成了好电影。
不知道看什么，无聊，快速拖放看完，中间没有一处镜头或者什么有趣精彩的东西让我停下来看，（除了车子快被龙卷风吹走那段），可能这是文艺片，符合豆瓣文艺青年口味，所以分数才会高，我给不及格，很差。
类似风格的印度电影看过不少了，可依然还是会在32℃的环境中汗毛竖起。
💯 电影，致敬 Tom Hanks，演技无可挑剔~
看惯了只在结尾最后五分钟的那种大反转，这部电影的反转提前了整整一个小时，我只能用shock来形容当时的观影感受了。唯二的缺憾，一是配乐太烂俗煽情，商业片气息扑面而来；二是结尾找补过头了，没必要花几分钟的镜头快速切换堆砌出一条新的故事线。总体而言，肯定是我天朝没办法拍出的好片吧
几次反转在翻新剧情的同时也带来了新的社会反思。原本以为庭前质问是思索程序正义与事实正义的区别，但或许是因为「可能的结果」抵不住群众「愤怒的情绪」，所以索性一下子写成事实。舆论操控、女性平权、教育腐败、被控制的愤怒，故事一步一步影射着更多的社会问题。两段式的结构使得观众前期被煽动的同情与愤怒在后期得知真相后得到了更进一步的爆发。希望这种情绪的铺垫能多带来一些观后的思考。
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