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".
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影20370：他在求权求公平的时候被封口！他们被逼到橱窗外！历史在重演！请记住，人群中有卧底！会被引诱、误导、嫁祸！博弈的时候你没法解释！不要入断章取义的套！
艾伦索金这个表达溢出的臭毛病怎么还没改，有没有人管管了
斑太可爱了，加✨。老保守左派索金向2020年下的战书（索金眼里的2020=1960，实际上这种语境的呼应也让人迷思），以及生动的ppt展示，Ted talk，网课教学。从头到尾对话没有一秒钟停止过，真是亵渎电影。索金，一个演讲型编剧，风格是高谈阔论和白男支教，但是这种对话结构，在戏剧表现和视听冲击上确实都很讨巧，不过还是适合电视剧的规模。作为电影，用交叉剪辑配合高密度的剧本唤起观众的观影情绪，只是补短而非补长罢了。内容，就怎么说，这算是今年我看过最试图对话严肃命题的商业电影了（含对本时代的一些贬义），感觉很快就会成为各轻知识分子播客对话今年各种activism的隐微材料。
在911事件20周年之际，让我在喜欢音乐剧后有幸遇见这样一部优秀的作品。根据真实故事改编，几个人不同的变换身份，演绎了这样一群“来自远方的特殊客人”。如果你的生命中突然遭遇这样大的变故，你的生活又会发生怎样的改变呢。温暖，救赎。喜欢女机长的励志故事。百老汇，纽芬兰，奇妙的缘分
索金的剧本在，表演和影像都变得不那么重要了。这政治立场真是没法再鲜明了。1960s的政治、司法与越战都扔进一部《死亡诗社》里，简化和夹带的东西还是太多了。抽离点看，这片侧写了二十一世纪左派大佬训练营。
审判开始后，也许会很容易忘记，这一切是为了谁。丨“我无心搞文化革命，因为那会让我们分心，忽略真正的革命。” “但我们对胜利的定义不同。” 丨Your life is a "fuck-you" to your father. 丨the possessive pronouns and vague noun modifiers 丨不可欺，不操控。在其位，谋其政。不冲突。stay calm, keep cool, when you have a mic. 丨读说明书要成为习惯。读书要读完一本书。自省。
节奏和台词太好了，在今年这种全是shi的环境里简直让我感动。无论是每个角色的不同性格冲突还是庭审本身都非常好，而在现在的环境里无论对国内还是国外来说都意外的合适再重新这个历史事件。有时候会觉得那个年代充满了理想主义的梦幻，但他又真实发生过，于是带给人力量。
法律、秩序......犀利的言语，颇具史诗气质的叙事。必将拿下奥斯卡最佳影片、最佳男配角。
我港的废青看完估计只关注到了思想犯罪而忽略了行为暴力了吧。
小哥聊了一句他在记名字因为和越南阵亡者相比他们这个court fight 就很trivial, 然后一句话 马上进入下一幕了。然后我当然脑子一机灵，我觉得这个大概率就是为了结尾埋伏笔了。i m patting myself on my own back for that
历史中发生过的事件，重演过的、近些年又上演的...只是吧不同的对待方式，能让人看见其中的各不同。有的政治审判，还让人看见还有一丝光，还吐露过真相...有的连审判都没有，政治与权力就是审判...这是与我们不同的时代，不同的世界。
一部分人看来这部电影揭露了美国之耻，但这部电影也同时揭示了美国何以为美国，美国何以伟大—蓬勃有力的公民社会，不同意见交锋牵扯，公民享有意见表达渠道，关键时刻可以仰赖的普通人的良知和正义。
借古讽今得恰到好处。庭审戏中闪回真实事件场景的剪辑非常有力度。索金的剧本还是那么凌厉。Sacha演得太棒了！只有囧瑟夫毫无存在性完全是个工具人。
好一出以古讽今的大戏。索金注册商标式的剧本，一切都被设计得那么严丝合缝，好像就欠了一口令人销魂的仙气。
剧本台词的编纂和剪辑转场，简直是朝着最佳嘻哈专辑而去的，太聪明太漂亮。常常是一句没说完的话，就转成下一个互文又不确切相关的场次。大时代背景下，胜负早已定下，七君子审判也成为好莱坞剧作里难得并没有最终反叛的意外故事，但不但没有灰暗的“反高潮”，而是成功制造出另一种虽败犹荣又振聋发聩的更高级高潮。以往总会警惕这种正反分明的剧情，觉得不够客观不够有着强大反派，可七君子的节奏和能量，让我忽略了这些平衡原则。去年10月中，在芝加哥电影节时，恰好赶上NFL的熊队比赛日和七君子街景拍摄日，新上任的电影电视剧局长还跟我得意地抱怨，"忙坏了但也乐坏了。“
精彩！“你是否蔑视你的政府？” “相比政府对我的蔑视，我的蔑视不值一提。”
“Do you have contempt for your government? (你是否蔑视你的政府)” - "It's nothing compared to the contempt my government has for me.(与我的政府对我的蔑视相比, 我的蔑视不值一提)”
世界上有这么多优秀专业的创作人士，我平凡得就像一棵草☹️
Aaron Sorkin的剧本一如既往的精彩，看得我热血沸腾，庭审辩论和游行闪回间的转接如行云流水，这剪辑也太强了！结尾有种虽败犹荣的自豪感，看着Tom Hayden念名字的时候，我禁不住落泪。这片子正好在2020年上映，也是独具时代意义的。
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