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".
先严格按照律师的要求做到一切，最后再威胁律师“别搞砸了”【先礼后兵】。
真正艰难的不在于与谁抗争，而是坦然呈现自己。交叉剪辑叙事，人物也不少，略凌乱。即便大家都知道在推的圆石会滑落，至少别让它变得太大太重，否则推不动会被压死。
一星祝愿我们也能有这种社会进步 拍出这类电影
换到现在的话说，如果批评和反对不自由，那么赞美和拥护无意义。
恭喜网飞拍出了一部美国版《辩护人》。我被感动，不是某种价值观又或者某种壮举，只是因为自己的懦弱。
是个精彩的好故事，仅此而已。压迫式的直白观点输出真的爱不起来。
一场注定失败的审判，一次实力悬殊的较量，越是在艰难压迫中越能得见人心、窥探社会的真相，无论50年前还是后，冲动或者成熟，不变的是那5000多个值得致敬的名字……本剧的成功得益于真实事件改编，更得益于大量精彩的细节，如通过不同视角场景叙述事件经过，酒吧落地绿玻璃窗场景转换虽显刻意，却意味深长，结尾海登的自辩词陈词出人意料，又在情理之中。激励人心又感动落泪的优秀作品。
单纯从文本来看，我认为Aaron Sorkin交出了新东西——在群星璀璨中为每个角色都创造了独一无二又互相依附的故事线。这一部分得益于台词的密度，另一部分来自对剧情节奏的高难度把控。单看这两点仿佛平平，但结合在一起，却能打造出一浪高一浪的观影体验。电影的魅力在于它能把一种信仰揉在故事里，在千万人的心中播下种子。七君子既是对历史的深度反思，也是对当前时点动荡加剧的世界的一种警醒。这部片子本身很精致，也很理想主义，这两点都没有错，Sorkin一贯的风格，不好意思，我就是喜欢。如果Sorkin哪天能牺牲一点台词而给影像更大的空间，会是巨大的飞跃吧。
很符合艾伦·索金的风格，大段的对白和凌厉的剪辑，几乎不给观众喘息的机会，对于一部庭审戏占据大量篇幅的电影来说，这种风格非常适合。五个月，七个人的庭审，稍微处理不当就会显得极为混乱，但是艾伦·索金居然还在庭审中穿插了大量的前情介绍，而且也没有刻意去把案件中的一些噱头写进来，也没有去渲染情绪，这场庭审戏写的十分完美。不过剧本很好，但是拍的相对就差了一点，而且这么大的信息量拍成电影也确实有些难为导演
剪辑太好了，印象很深刻。主要人物的塑造也很好，让我觉得他们每个人都有不一样的有趣的地方，太喜欢艾比了，真的很有魅力的人啊。如果要示威游行，还是应该带个头盔，被打脑袋真的很疼诶！
台词看似字字珠玑实则含义空洞，流于表象夸夸其谈，看后没有经典人权，庭审，政治片值得回味。这题材赶在今夏美国暴乱之际可以加分
最后念名字是挺讨巧的处理 但是确实很有煽动性 网飞：记录历史我们是专业的
当然，政治官司暗藏了许多猫腻，不仅仅是美国的陪审团制度就能左右，1960年代的反越游行，夹杂了美国底层阶级各色各样的人物表演。
看到最后整个人都在发抖…
艾比·霍夫曼和汤姆·海登的那段对话说明了一种观点
watching a mistrial gives me so much anxiety.
勇敢地挑戰公信部門的權威，他們不是一個人在作困獸猶鬥，不發聲不抗爭，這個世界決不會善意一點，今日之暴亂，明日之革命，道路太血腥/艱辛/反人性了。能把冗長的審判過程講述得絲絲入扣，導演功力值得敬佩。
相当具有煽动性 看得一身鸡皮疙瘩 Aaron Sorkin用两部电影证明他不仅是个顶尖编剧 还是个极为优秀的导演 从「Molly’s Game」的传奇人物经历进化到本片激烈的民粹选题 每一场法庭戏的调度都极具水准 神速的剪辑也能给到观影者人文关怀 实在要挑刺是强大的剧作压缩了表演空间
念名字的部分其实让我觉得稍微有点突然。剩下的就是完美，剧本太扎实了。
这个世界需要反抗和不同的声音，需要我们动脑去实现真正的民主和自由。哪怕反抗在“公平公正”面前一文不值，但是也依旧需要批判这个依旧病态的社会。
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