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".
影片中涉及到的这些主体和荒诞事件，或多或少的发生在如今这个世界的每个角落，变革还是革命？这是这部影片带给我们的思考，也是每一个国家和每个公民都应该思考的命题。
欣赏一些真正的文化输出，好在我已经看开，祛除不必要的母语荣辱与共感，我来地球是来欣赏整个人类文明，谷底爱咋烂咋烂哈，反正高峰多得我这辈子看不完
很长，但也很震聋发聩。每个国家都有自己的弊端，有的国家有揭露的自由，却没有改变的力量。也有的国家，在为一代代柔性化的男性发愁社会文化趋势，却也应反思文化形成的根源在哪里，未必是韩流。
一波三折，除了印式bgm偶尔需要快进，160多分钟的电影总体还是挺抓人的。美中不足的点是内容稍显繁冗，个人感觉律师的过往回溯并不精彩，也没有太大的必要，全片最触动的点就是那个“头条”的诞生，而以学生为代表的群众简直就是乌合之众的一个注脚…（然而哪里又不是这样呢
确实有意思，几处反串紧接大幅度反转，的确是重构了不少“气抖冷”套路的典——嚣张横行的土霸王F4原来小丑是自己；副警被架空土霸王要被保！又气抖冷，我上私刑，爽快！结果告诉你是《神探》，啪啪打脸；又是奸杀暴行按理不能忍吧——但我印度本土化后，“不能忍”居然是个非比寻常的细节，开头又奸又焚整得巨惨烈，但正是这聚光灯下，奸杀恰恰不在此处；死者妈从入庭到出庭也是过山车级别体验，除了副警“人设崩塌”，她还被“绝对正义”律师差点气出心脏病；zz绝对正确的妇女主席也一度被这过于尖锐的律师破防。相对来说，对种姓带来的法西斯式教育观似乎都是其次了。包括庭审初期双方律师的台词处理，影片整个感觉就和那大boss手段如出一辙：用魔法打败魔法。后真相时代，魔法至上！
节奏较差，反转一般，被廉价的同情与愤怒煽动的观众，就和里面被愚弄的民众一样，他们和电影本身一样，不会进行深刻思考。电影整体上缺乏深度，只是对一些现象简单罗列，娱乐效果也一般，做成纪录片加详细社会调查，再把多余的钱用来拯救那些无助的女性或许更有意义。这些缺乏深度、没有独到见解，消费大众道德感的电影越来越多，本质上和娱乐电影并无区别，甚至可以说是另一种伪装，会让这个社会更加疲惫。
确实很敢拍，抽丝剥茧，融合了各种深层议题与思考，有很多振聋发聩的金句，美中不足就是宝莱坞配乐依然太满，片子也拖的有点长。
这是要拍续集还是留白啊，尬在中间了……重杀一遍人犯没有必要，前面交代得挺清楚了。女老师真好看，虽然逻辑不能太深究了，埋的线挖的坑也忒多了，填没填导演自己还搞得清吗？简单点，故事说得简单点，去掉不必要的，会更好！所以那么好的题材，最后突出一个复仇吗？最后真是败笔。总体还是很值得一看的！
2021有《杰伊·比姆》，2022有《宿敌》。两部针砭时弊的印度电影都极度震撼了我。我曾在其他影评中有这样一种观点，好电影能让人从犯困看到不困，差电影可以让人从不困看到犯困
这么一来，拍这么一部电影，不光不会被封杀，还有可能专门拨款助力向全世界推广呢。
精彩绝伦！是这几年看过的最棒的印度影片之一！能把本国政治丑陋的一面搬上大屏幕很值得佩服。剧中无数的反转看的也很过瘾。简洁干练不拖沓。
大伙夸这电影之前，先冷静下来细品一下，这个《宿敌》不就是印度味的主旋律嘛。
律师一句句的质问真的就像导演的满腔赤诚，对这个国家发出的一声声呐喊，每15分钟就有人遭受不幸，为何只有她被看见了？反观我们，那些被看见的是不幸也是幸，网络以秒在更新热度，又有多少被遗忘。我们满足于获得“即时正义”，而鲜有人关心与追究根本。说到这，又要自省，是老师说的：坐在观众席我们有评论的权利，那我们敢踏进去吗？
很明显，印度上层在积极推动社会革新，最近揭露社会弊端呼吁改变的电影密集上映，又新选出了一位底层女性总统，一切都在加速变化。本片片名敢用印度国歌的名字，可见一斑。
看了这部电影，感觉好多电影都是在狗刨…编剧神绝…
整部片其实都是以“反差”来让人兴奋，虽然知道这个套路，虽然很多也不合逻辑，但关注他的内核，可是杠杠的发人深省
每次看这种题材的印度电影都只有一个感觉：印度这个国家还有救。
堪称《杰伊·比姆》的姊妹篇，在立意上甚至比其更加深刻，最精彩的是随着剧情推进完成了立场转换和内核蜕变。一起惨案被广泛关注，逍遥法外的凶手引起众怒。看似正义的枪响终结了罪恶，顺应民意皆大欢喜。法庭上的“怒汉”对案件提出了质疑，民意是否能凌驾于法律？当真相水落石出，原来一切都是肮脏的政治游戏，众人都是被操纵的武器。“未知全貌不置可否”对如今的网络时代不过是一纸空文，舆论的浪潮足以席卷所有异议。“媒体的存在是为了报道真相，还是媒体所说的一切都是真相？”比起质疑，宣泄情绪要轻松得多。比起思考，随波逐流要容易得多。打破偏见的勇气，好过执行正义的工具。
几个疑问 学生会主席煽动的动机
还是印度敢拍，咱们应该也有类似的事件，但绝不会搬到大荧幕上去的。民众、舆论是很容易煽动的，所以咱们的言论管控很严，想让我们知道的我们会知道，不想让我们知道的我们也不会发现。
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