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".
真的非常好看！！！因为温柔的风间，还有可爱的小新他们！
印度土著贫穷且悲惨！不知道什么时候厄运就降临，家破人亡。PS：去珠宝柜那边抓蛇，已经知道会有问题，放生蛇与大自然和谐相处也预示带来正义与财富。主旨跟《第15条》类似。
完全听不懂。。。
剪辑版。考虑到前一阵的一印度女性拒绝一男的，那个男的自杀，那个女的被杀死（好像是被处死了）以及以前他们霸凌网暴老白男强吻的女演员，完全不想夸他们。不过好歹印度拍了这样的电影。倒是也很真实。这个人权律师竟然没有被暗杀
虽然面包最后还是被“精英”拿到了，但是小新他们在终点之前就已经成功了
破例给个5*吧4+1情感分，前40分钟看得有点犯困，节奏有点慢，另外这片子叙事节奏也有很多欠技巧的地方，略平了，悬念和细节都有可改进得更好看的地方。但情节真的是可以用震撼形容，就冲印度可以随意示威加司法独立这两点，也比某国强的太多。很难不让人类比雷洋案。你国不是电影不如印度，…… 再多就不说了。应该是我2021年看的最好的电影。IMDB评分有点虚高，TOP250的倒还合理，不知是怎么排的。
小新爸妈的台词不超过10句，但他们说的话令我印象最深。“被嘲笑是常有的事，他在为朋友而拼命努力，我很骄傲。对父母来说，输了也好，被嘲笑也罢，只要他自己能挺起胸膛活下去，这就够了。” 真希望有人能对我说这样的话。
能拍这样的片子，能够正视这样的问题，比…一些地方官僚司法体系强太多。
根据真实故事改编。地狱空荡荡，恶魔在人间——赤裸裸展现了印度种姓制度的劣根、强权体制的阶级压迫。不作任何渲染的镜头下，是纯粹而可怕的野蛮暴力，是单纯善良的劳动人民手无缚鸡之力的悲哀。
底层人民真的太惨了，就像被权力脏手扼住了咽喉，他们呼救无门，他们拼命挣扎，他们痛到窒息。这不是励志片，这是恐怖片！更可怕的是，时至今日，仍有「印度一桩谋杀案关键证物被猴子偷走」这样的新闻
讨厌啦因为我现在一定要赢过风间才行。
3.5
是要做一个苦闷无趣的精英，还是享受当下酸甜苦辣的青春？😭拒绝压抑的社会竞争吧😭如果精英是精致的利己、是机械化，那人生有什么意思。享受谜团重重的青春，及时行乐吧！😆
看他国电影，想本国的事情。我就想想
为可以激发“想做一个对世界有用的人”的激情，原谅它装逼、说教和喊口号了
想起很多年前的印度电影《流浪者》，这也是一部与偷窃有关的影片，演员表演太棒了，尤其是扮演部落男女的演员。整个故事环环相扣，悬念丛生，一直到最后结尾都能吊住观众的心。影片立意高远，同情弱者，揭露司法黑暗，彰显正义的力量。
虽然有很多程式化的印度电影镜头，但基于真实事件的扎实剧本和合理的表演，给了电影非常棒的观感。即使可以猜到其中角色的遭遇，也会好奇会如何推进。
用影视渲染的方式极其快速地将观众代入了印度底层社会的惨状。印度的电影有着阿三的奇妙中二氛围。至于看了外国的电影，就开始无理由抨击、唾骂我guo司法的网友，我也不知道说什么好
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。
现实中依旧乡贤横行办事靠钱。。。
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