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".
剧作蹩脚，刻意煽情高燃，新意远远谈不上，映后场直接跑路。@金逸影城杜比影院超前观影
本片后40分钟，好的一塌糊涂。
非常不错，看完这个片子，才豁然开朗，为啥很多国家——美国、印度、日本等——能拍出一些小人物的自传类的影片，而且还能引发不同国别、地域、人种的共情，我想应该是他的社会制度、包容度、文化的多元性决定的。 其他不好多说了，想想我们自己这边的，也就明白了。
前半段密集的A貨周星馳和露骨的打雞血簡直看到難忍，連《功夫》的配樂也照模仿不誤；去了廣州後觀感好了許多，現實主義的背景讓故事終於有了一定的本土性，場面處理上也多了原創性，收尾很乾淨俐落。如果能少用點標準國語配音就更好了。
看到妈妈的抗争与那么多人对正义的维护，小女孩以后会更有自信吧。
一场追逐梦想和现实妥协的矛盾冲突，题材对准了底层劳动人民和留守儿童，虽然影片前半段的“咸鱼翻身”不免俗套，但是不影响后面的燃，所以是要梦想还是要生计？最后结局找到了平衡，狮头挂在那里，生活依旧，梦想也在延续。
看完就是生气。这么好的画面和题材，剧本稀烂。希望中国能出几个懂内容的制片人，别浪费了这么好的技术。老梗我都忍了，人物塑造失败是致命伤。
结尾高明👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻梦想创造不了热血奇迹，只是让你短暂地发光，而后归于籍籍无名的平庸。但只要“开过光”，一个人终究会变得不同。
“杰伊比姆”是“比姆万岁”的意思，这是印度人民为纪念一位伟大种族平权者而流传的一句口号，此人是比姆拉奥，他出身卑贱，他一生都在为提升“贱民”的社会地位而做斗争，推动并主持印度独立后第一部宪法的制定，构建了印度宪法的基本原则，被誉为“宪法之父”。电影以暴露95年印度一个被冤枉在监狱致死的罪犯为背景，律师最后申冤看出来了印度的制度
個人觀影史第1624部。在韓國已經把直面直白地揭露制度黑暗的題材拍得家常便飯的時候，印度這邊不但沒讓人覺得這類作品爛大街，還添加了一絲性感（當然也離不開男主角律師本身就長得性感帥氣這一事實）。其實我在想的是，維護公道的過程中，聰明和正直缺一不可——不正直沒那個願心維護公道，不聰明沒那個能力維護公道。行善和公益一樣，看似門檻低，實則門檻極高。
咱也不懂可经验的实际境遇不可能改变后它到底在燃什么，是心境燃烧吗？另外两疑问：1.全红婵家庭贫苦，母亲卧病，苦练跳水，试图改变命运，和阿娟舞狮的目的区别在哪？而前者翻天覆地的变化是否就应该因为赶上了一波波运动式“God-making movement”或因为舞台更大挣得了更大的面子，而就比后者更体面更上档次所以更理所应当？2.对诗仙的千古“励志”绝句误读很大，不考虑李白写出“名人名言”的真实情境，无时无刻不顾场合地随时引用都能“爆燃”斗志，和时刻高喊xxxx就是好有什么区别？人的判断在其中真的存在？这俩疑问如果不能很好回答，《雄狮》的燃就有毒，在一个基尼系数都查不到的地方，少年之脚踏实地只是换个地方打工罢了，传统文化耽误了他仅可能的“好生活”路径，当他努力到中年依旧打工，可就不是弘扬传统文化，而是恨不得扬了传统文化。
真实改编是本片最值得夸耀的地方 民主法制的建立和斗士愤慨激昂的斗志是现代人权主义建立健全文明社会的核心价值 片子的剧情和剪辑很标准不花哨 虽然有些镜头有些年代感 但叙事节奏一直在线 人物塑造特点鲜明且工整 而最值得称赞的是一个民族值得承认错误的气度和勇气而不是欲盖弥彰
无论你是达利特还是婆罗门，在外界眼里都是阿三本三，没有任何区别。
咱也不懂可经验的实际境遇不可能改变后它到底在燃什么，是心境燃烧吗？另外两疑问：1.全红婵家庭贫苦，母亲卧病，苦练跳水，试图改变命运，和阿娟舞狮的目的区别在哪？而前者翻天覆地的变化是否就应该因为赶上了一波波运动式“God-making movement”或因为舞台更大挣得了更大的面子，而就比后者更体面更上档次所以更理所应当？2.对诗仙的千古“励志”绝句误读很大，不考虑李白写出“名人名言”的真实情境，无时无刻不顾场合地随时引用都能“爆燃”斗志，和时刻高喊xxxx就是好有什么区别？人的判断在其中真的存在？这俩疑问如果不能很好回答，《雄狮》的燃就有毒，在一个基尼系数都查不到的地方，少年之脚踏实地只是换个地方打工罢了，传统文化耽误了他仅可能的“好生活”路径，当他努力到中年依旧打工，可就不是弘扬传统文化，而是恨不得扬了传统文化。
很难得见到国产动画不以神话或者奇幻为素材原型而是描写现实生活。平心而论前半部只是勉强及格的动画电影，情节常规，人物觉醒和困境的突破都没有打到点上，口号喊得略微浮夸尴尬，情感也不流畅。但从天台舞狮一幕开始，整部电影突然蜕变了（除却脚气这个点），随着五段舞狮戏，人物情感层层递进，放弃、激发、面对、对手、自我，流畅而激动人心，半个狮头极富象征意义，化身木棉花的狮身更是充分显现了动画电影的魅力，舞狮时的配乐与节奏和情感也是完美融合。其实到了这个年纪，已经明白一次胜利也不会改变什么，不会有翻身咸鱼更不会有鲤鱼跃龙门。但我们都需要一个狮头，在凌晨的天台帮助我们超越现实，哪怕只是短暂的一刻。
妻子一次次不畏强权，被部落首领威胁，警察威胁，更高地位的人威胁，数次以为她，一个失去丈夫，怀孕带着女儿的农村妇女即将对命运妥协，拿着协商的钱，过下半生时，她都选择挺起胸脯站起来，与其说是律师伸张正义，不如说是颠覆低种族人的一种反抗。
女主角抱着手印砖块痛哭的戏真的绷不住了 那种普通人卑微的希望被粉碎的感觉
印度律师为被冤枉偷窃的人伸张正义，种姓制度依然根深蒂固
印度版的《辩护人》之感，不过就故事剧情、思想深度…等而言，个人感觉韩国电影《辩护人》比这部《杰伊·比姆》更胜一筹。—— -如果你同意的话，我会和那些警察谈谈，补偿给你需要的钱。为了孩子们的未来，你需要钱，你需要做出决定。-还没出生的婴儿，我不能给他看亲生父亲，但我却会有很多钱，购买我要养活孩子们的食物？如果他们问起，买食物的钱是怎么来的？“是把你爸爸活活打死的人送的，我们需要这样子生存。” 长官，我要这样教育我的孩子吗？当我们被杀的时候没有人在乎，我们也不会靠从凶手那里获得的救济金生活。我不在乎我输了这个案件，我可以骄傲地告诉孩子们，虽然失败了，但我们没有放弃抗争。如果你可以，就去惩罚那些凶手警察。
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