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".
印度又一部“正义扳倒邪恶”的主旋律电影。电影背后的真实案例令人肃然起敬，但近年来多部印度主旋律对观众已然再无新意，超过2.5小时的时长以及缓慢的故事推进，硬撑着看完。结尾也是一贯的流俗结尾…感觉一段时间内不想再看印度电影
7分左右，过于冗长，其中穿插的歌曲也是很让人出戏，估计印度人民喜欢吧，有些台词不错，但法庭上的张力不够，这种题材主要体现的就是冲突，对抗，心灵上的碰撞，而印度片却很喜欢在案件本身上下功夫着重描写，以至于人物显的很平，这点宋康昊的辩护人就直接秒杀了，该平静的时候平静，该爆发的时候爆发，把观众的情绪在恰当的时机点燃，而不是四平八稳的看一场审判这么简单。这部电影到底是把重心放在悬案的解题，还是放在律师的破案技巧，还是为种姓问题付出的心血，还是刻画底层人民没有尊严的生活，导演什么都想要，所以拉了不少时长，有些戏一场足够，太多就满了，离佳片还有不少差距
刑讯逼供，屈打成招甚至被死亡，黑警勾结，官官相卫，而执政党为了维护自己的管治也是默许纵容。
看的不知道是不是对的版本，感觉音画不同步，观感不是特好。男主出场的bgm太出戏了，4.5吧
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！
此时不想讨论叙事，类型，技法，形式……
“这将是一场艰苦的战斗。”
印度真是一个恐怖的国家啊，但勇敢的是可以把恐怖的一面展现出来。0110-午
另外盛赞本片女主的表演，在这样高强度多场次的崩溃绝望与决绝的戏份里，每一次都让人印象深刻，也不会觉得像哭多了，泪多了的乏味。表演可谓细腻中的大起大合。
我上次有这种“你们这个司法体系要维护法律尊严简直小菜一碟嘛”的感觉还是看「华盛顿邮报」哎！灯塔国也就勉强算了，但是我现在竟然在羡慕印度？？？
观影过程中一直在思考为什么美国大公司的CEO都是印度人，难道我们中国人不配当苹果的、facebook、谷歌的ceo吗，我的结论是到顶尖人才这个层面拼的就不是赚钱的能力，而是内心的修为和信仰，将连数字都不识的村民和莽荒时代的警察们，那么落后的印度拍出来的，却是的印度精英的电影人。
感觉自己才进入社会1年，就变得有点冷漠了。明明也是一个普通的打工人，处在被割韭菜和割别人韭菜的中间阶层，深知只有自己强大才能保护自己。这也是现实生活，没那么多英雄主义。常人做不到的，更加佩服这些人
还有人为不平等在战斗，即使是烂到骨子里的封建制度。
宝莱坞风格的《辩护人》，但同样非常有力量！
但权势者需要之时还要讨价还价地拿走它。
至少在电影方面我们没有资格嘲讽印度。如果还有人说：他们能拍又怎么样，拍了还是一样的情况。那我只能觉得可悲，因为不能拍的人在嘲笑可以拍的人。
印度电影传统而娴熟的叙事方式，作为电影本身来讲，称不上极其优秀，IMDB9.4也是虚高，但它贵在真实，贵在毫不遮掩地袒露自己丑陋的伤疤，最大程度地印证了艺术来源于生活这句话。相信只要历史是向前发展的，这个国家最终将消灭种姓制度。
印度分为4个种姓，婆罗门是原人的嘴、刹帝利是原人的双臂、吠舍是原人的大腿、首陀罗是原人的脚。前面3种是征服者雅利安族，他们肤色白，主要从事脑力劳动，是统治阶级，像影片中的高等法官、高级警察、政府律师，级别越高往往肤色越白。而最后一种是印度原住民、被统治者，肤色普遍较黑，他们主要从事体力劳动，为前面3个种族服务。还有20%的人是贱民，属于不可接触者，像拉贾坎努就是来自于伊鲁拉人部落，他们原来都是印度南方的原住民，肤色最黑，他们是社会最底层，被印度所有的种姓欺负。印度宪法之父比姆拉奥就是贱民，他终身反抗种姓制度，但有人扮演甘地、尼赫鲁，就是没有扮演他的。警察们为了结案，就故意抓无辜的贱民顶罪，钱德鲁一个人的力量毕竟是有限的，他无法推翻印度社会根深蒂固的种姓歧视。
虽然现实在绝大多数时候比电影中呈现的故事更为黑暗，但我们还要保持足够的信心，因为生活中有钱德鲁律师这样的人为正义而不懈地努力。
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