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".
3⃣️浓浓的广东味儿我太爱了呜呜呜，每一首配乐也都非常绝，不是那种工业流水线做出来的曲子。
个人最熟悉的广州时期，荔湾公园、芳村、地铁1号线以及彻底陌生的外珠三角木棉花意象，加上精神载体的舞狮和当下大广东摇滚，共同组成真正燃野少年的天空。总希望高潮在《莫欺少年穷》的节奏下，能更棒更爽一些，甚至于一个超越《狮王争霸》的《摔跤王》“大锤粉碎压”式定场结局，但做到这样，已不苛责。
恰是生活的艰辛里磨练出的英雄 最有创造奇迹的魄力 最近与学生的交谈中也深深感受到这一点。作为当代国产动漫里最现实主义的一部 那一点点故事上的瑕疵和它的乡土关注与正义关怀相比 真的微不足道了。只希望上海能善待阿娟们吧…
其实中规中矩到看个开头基本就能知道它会怎样结束了，但这并不影响主创们对底层人民的诚意。虽然精神胜利法并不能实质性解决底层人民的问题，但是对于部分人来说，精神的食粮也是必须的。
特别是台词，真的太尬了，就根本不是口语，全部都是staged。
勉强三分吧，前半段台词太差，情节全程生硬，为了热血而热血，很难共情
三星半。最后的越过最高的高山完成一个不可能完成的奇迹无疑是整个电影最高光时刻，彩蛋的出现更是打破了我们熟知的咸鱼翻身的套路感。舞狮的画面设计是真的好看。尽管如此我依旧不喜欢前面空洞的口号和能够预知到的剧情走向，人物（师父等）也挺单薄，阿娟开始学习舞狮的动机也立不住。倒是男女阿娟的设定挺有意思，放弃舞狮的原因不同折射我们看得到的阶层差异。当然当然，希望最终雄狮少年能干掉陈思诚这个抄袭怪。BTW除了应该有的版权费请导演再给九连真人打钱。7.5/10
在电影院泪如雨下，留守儿童、城市农民工、梦想与现实、朋友与青春、咸鱼中年人，个个都戳中心里的点。
香港电影如同一个神奇的庞然生物，
再来说说电影本身，毫无疑问是国漫又一匹黑马。画风写实接地气，分镜与配乐无敌，虽然剧情是非常典型的“英雄之旅”，但即使猜得到接下来主角会遭遇怎样的冲突，仍然忍不住为其动容，被燃到泪目。
很燃，别认，认就输了！
为纪念那没入人海无声无息、却又怒吼的人们，你、我、他。每个人都值得被歌颂。
唉，我想多了。
人物建模过于难看导致无法入戏，先不说只练习一两个月加上打工的时候抽空练习就能打败功力深厚的老选手们，告诉你只要努力一下子就可以成为顶峰有多么的成人童话，但是你最起码让我把这个梦好好做完啊，舞狮前两名然后主角的选择还是去工地搬砖不正是说明了传统文化已经没落连饭都吃不起，看个电影这么致郁至于吗
不够完美而美，足够克制但燃。
7.5 太套路，人物也很脸谱，音乐是乐夏专场，但也煽情渲染太多次了，不能仅仅因为最后的高光就原谅前面一切的不够好吧。18岁，不用上学吗？说打工就打工，真的很理想化……
动画做得真不错，无论是水墨狮子，还是光影下似真似幻的毛茸茸。废柴逆袭的故事很套路，但拥挤的打工宿舍的天台上，那些画在地上的桩印，写在墙上的练习记录，都很动人，用一句鸡汤歌词来形容，平凡生活的英雄梦想。一次比赛，虽然看起来热血，但并没有一步登天的童话，生活还得继续，但热爱令人勇敢和坚强。结尾和彩蛋，可以加一星。喜欢。
https://weibo.com/6232023735/L6taUBvAM?from=page_1005056232023735_profile&wvr=6&mod=weibotime&type=comment#_rnd1639732344419 我不认为中国人长这样
年度国产动画种子选手诞生，视角终于接地气也摆脱了前辈选手对各种神话IP的依赖，对底层的关怀值拉满，分镜流畅场景细腻（光影质感优秀），一中一尾两处反高潮的留白拔高主题，敢于做减法也体现了主创的自信。是真的燃，也真的煽，且燃中有煽，煽完又燃，我这把年纪，这年头看完热血沸腾的动画真不多。
尬尬的，但还行。像拍动物一样拍人类，钢筋水泥做的森林并不只存在于2005年。
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