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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改编自印度记者号称纪实的小说《孟买黑手党女王》中的一章，原型在上世纪孟买靠做老鸨大量敛财，人称宾利夫人。
女主角金手指大开一路过关斩将，最后和首长提议麦阴合法，我一口气差点没上来😅
这个演员赋予甘谷独特的魅力，虽然剧情很跳脱
1. 真人叫Ganga Jagjivandas，印度黑手党大姐大。2. 電影中那個對手區長，到底是不是男人演的？3. 女主演一張巴掌小臉，漂亮～
看1的时候其实一直都没太明白，在水门桥刚开始的两三分钟内，我好像才终于明白了这部电影教给我的是什么。血性，一股拼搏的劲，不认输的精神
类型: 剧情 / 历史 / 战争
从一个极端洗白到另外一个极端。从一种罪恶沦陷为另外一种罪恶。电影一直试图给人光明，但是却成为了替作恶者唱赞歌的道具。
过于美化了吧，性服务合法化是否合理？这是个课题
故事是好故事，但细节只能证明印度导演还不够缜密。因此拍出来的成果就会让人觉得差了点什么。
印度关于姓氏、性别的问题比很多国家都严重，所以他们关于这方面的探讨也深刻很多。
虽然没有成为电影演员，但她的人生被拍成了电影。这样的故事能拍出来能上映证明还是有人在努力改变在斗争。
女主人设太虚了!!前期的铺垫实在乏善可陈，女主被拐卖，一夜之间就长大并强势起来，老鸨一死，她莫名就直接上位! 这所有的转折点都是黑手党老大的出现帮助了她，后期黑手党老大对她无限输出也不怎么求回报很不理解，黑老是降临的救世主吗？女主开豪车，没见一个保镖，像个暴发户在摆场面。最糟糕的部分，女主给自己的情人包办婚姻，wtf, 按照中国的一套说辞就是，成大事不要谈儿女私情! 大女主的人设立得特别虚!最好的部分是在最后的演讲部分，煽动人心的确很有一套!
节奏爽快鲜明，虽然难免被诟病女主角的意识觉醒来得太快，但是也挺喜欢电影的处理的，并不是一味的依附男权，从最开始为了自己去找拉辛这种勇气，到看到嫖客被打后对权力的渴望意识觉醒，前半段很爽文，但是后半段回归深刻的主题中，电影更多想表达的，并不是卖淫合法化的论题，而是身为女性，可以真正的选择，自己想做的，就像甘古拜获选的时候说的，女性也可以是权力和名誉，财富的化身。
走出电影院看到天边的红日。他们永远留在了那个寒冷的冬天，也永远留在了我们的心里。如果电影是一封给他们的情书，或许可以再绵长一些。
里面的每一个人性格特点表现出来了，虽然这不能让没有参加过战争的人起到落泪的效果，但是这已经比很多国产战争片强了！
对外靠人民军队保家卫国，在内发展国力也很重要，只有自强才能不被欺负。
豆瓣某些人平权时像从2222年来的，观影时像从1622年来的，衷心希望这些人穿越回1622年时能大谈2222年的平权。
3星半，女主是真的好看！剧情感觉少了些东西，很难理解这个女性一直争取妓女的教育权和人权是因为什么，怎样一步一步获得成长的，都缺少交代了
⭕️摒弃了上一部的宏大叙事 剧本从战争缩减到战役 节奏好了很多
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