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".
剧本很扎实，前面的铺垫初看有点拖沓，却在后半段起了巨大的作用。信息化时代，地球果然扁平化了，那些发生在其他国度的事情，就像某些投影…
开始看不进去，后面两次反转还是相当精彩的～
题材和内核非常好，但是拍摄手法我不太喜欢，剪辑和配乐过于煽情。下半场才开始渐入佳境，其实完全可以在两小时甚至100分钟之内拍出更加震撼的效果。
满篇写着都是矫揉造作！
现实主义题材是电影的素材宝库，遗憾的是我们的宝库不能轻易打开。所以我们近年来只能看华丽空洞，载道言志的《影》。恒河帮真是个神奇的国度。愚昧与进步，部落“贱民”和暴发户，传统种姓制度与进步开明观念，地狱中的妇女和不休的平权运动，多神多宗教多语言多意识形态糅合成这么一个乱成一锅粥的不好打理的国家。影片想说民意其实是不理智的，你眼睛看到的也不一定是真相。媒体提前定罪，阿sir提前执法。司法独立给弱势群体带来微弱但肯定的希望。每当有脏事儿发生就会有另外一些无关紧要的事来分散民众视线，这一招，我们也会。阿三在进步，鸡国当自强。
外滩18号，两个大相径庭的女宁面面相觑，恭候这个自以为老懂女宁额上海囡宁多时——用轻松幽默、四两拨千斤的调性论述两性关系的争议主题，颇有看点。缺点是插曲多，有滴乌苏。
"媒体的存在是为了报道真相 还是媒体所报道的一切都是真相？"
印度片最让我不满意的地方就是太长了，导致前部分都是提速播放，整体看下来还是挺震撼的，虽然反转已经不算是新鲜的方式，但中段开始的法庭戏比较吸引我，节奏也飞快的，近期值得推荐的一片印度电影。
讨论的话题非常有意义，剧情反转的设置也很爽文，但就一个问题，印度的法庭是可以这样随便一人show的吗？
拍的真是太棒了，如果没有最后一段转来转去的，会给5星。
是一个很好的剧本，只是节奏不太好。透过不正义手段去追求所谓“正义的结果”，并试图以此将过程合理化，是一件危险的事情。
敢说能说说了还能播就已经够让人羡慕摩拜的了，5星里一半是羞耻一半是摩拜
全程无尿点，虽然很早已经大概猜出了故事的脉络，但是依然会让观众充满期待下一个反转的优质电影。电影本身围绕“权利”探讨了很深刻的社会问题，让观众思考：什么是公平？社会是否有绝对公平？什么是真相？是谁带给了我们真相？我们该相信什么？我们又该相信谁？媒体是什么？他们代表谁？谁又可以代表弱势群体？ 电影想表达的内容太丰富了，所幸的是，通过了一个系列性有牵绊的故事，导演和全体工作者让观者感受到了他们想表达的，并且深思出电影外更丰富的东西。很热血沸腾的电影，就像其他观众说的，印度电影在批判现实方面，已经有了韩国电影那味儿了，不管现实究竟是不是黑的，但总还有人能够有公开的渠道去表达出阳光且正义的看法，是令人感动的。
吴越“我只是犯了所有男人都会犯的错” 这是国产电影的进步哈哈哈哈哈
“我的出生是一个错误”在这个国家，他们唯一的错误就是出生在这个体系里，他们的出生确实是个错误。 虽然不怎么喜欢这个结局，但2022目前最佳😭（昨晚复盘电影，越想越觉得后半段为了反转而反转，使前半段很多内容显得牵强；但我还是很受震撼，也许是这部电影或多或少有点最近一些新闻的影子
后劲太足了，看完台湾电影，感觉大陆还不如台湾呢，看完印度电影，完了，大陆电影竟搁哪比谁票房高了，我命由我不由天，犯我中华者，虽远必诛，现在想想，太tm尬了
徐峥的角色简直是失意中年男人yy的天花板：有钱有房有技能、离婚但是他没犯错、儿子高高帅帅、生活小有情调、什么都会一点、做的一手好菜、能耐心照顾孩子发福但是没脱发、三个女人都喜欢他，一夜情一波接一波，这哪里是讨论中年人的爱情，简直就是爽文模板。跟人滚完床单还一副委屈巴巴的样子，总让人觉得像个完美受害者。
从这个电影也可以看出来，各国都是天下乌鸦，一般黑 ，哪里都差不多
题材挺好，胜在敢说，技术手法上算不上佳片，比之前的印度高分电影差多了。
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