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".
韩剧式视听中规中矩
总有人仰望星空，足够浪漫，足够深刻。非常非常动人。
可能是我太崇尚务实，你如果对现实看不过眼，就去改变未来，哪怕蚊蝇之力也好，但你啥也不做的不认同和愤青我就比较没兴趣交流。
信念幻灭竟然是以如此惨烈的方式，徒弟努力过了，但这痛苦让人难以承受。师父在斗室里说这是一个不需要王的世界的时候，被薛景求迸发的理想光芒灼到眼睛，愿为这个时刻加个一星。谢谢导演，感受到了久违的文化之美。
黑白影片融入了晴朗与睿智，知识不是用来压迫子民，而是用来造福百姓。
这种类型的片子不应该我们拍嘛！着实不错的，还是得多思考、多看报，别整天想着瞎胡乱。
总体还是拍的偏“好看”了。
如果我拿了钱，我的孩子问我：我们的钱是哪儿来的？的时候，我要怎么回答呢？告诉她这是打死你爸爸的人给我们的，所以他们没有受到惩罚吗？
看电影了没，“我想写的，是没有王的世道。” 惊了，他们已经拍出了这样主题的电影了。就是纯粹的知识分子在东亚文化里的典型命运。选择平和的，没有带血的那一侧，但和另一侧共通的，是意识到自己想报效的已经在根子上烂掉，是看着自己想守护的被剥夺更多践踏更多，看着船沉得马不停蹄日日夜夜想着自己是不是今天就是水面上最后一口气，这种无能为力的苦闷、挣扎、求生、反复、寄望与放弃。不是惊讶于拍得如何，而是惊讶于他们那里，这样一个项目真的有人去拍，有人去投，而且成了。太惊讶了。惊讶到我放弃比较——没有遗憾地放弃了。
3- 比起灵感出自东野圭吾的《较量》（《误杀》原版）可是差得远了，题材形式（且那歌词直白得恨不能掐死全人类的想象力）都不新鲜，故事或纪录哪边都不靠着。
年轻人还是要入世感受一下现实世界有多么的操蛋，才能懂天主教老爷子为啥子要出世啊
低种姓部落猎人拉贾坎努因盗窃嫌疑在监狱遭受严刑拷打致死的事件，在身怀六甲的妻子多方奔走之下，于高法真相大白，警方匆促破案刑讯逼供任意栽赃打死人还蓄意掩盖的可耻行径在正义律师钱德鲁的不懈追查下终无辩驳，穷人要的不止是判决，还有希望。
得分：9.5
8.3分，这类电影评分都有题材加成，分数一般会略虚高，不过豆瓣此次8.7分已经算比较克制的了。隔壁韩国同类型的电影基本上都破9分了。但分数虚高不代表这些电影拍得差啊，只是8分的质量因为题材加成冲到9分而已，电影也还是可圈可点的。感觉有些影评人不太瞧得起这种有题材优势的电影了。
一腔正气值得称道，但说实话，靠英明神武走路生风的主角来主持正义，靠嚎啕大哭来收获同情，靠信息不对等来营造悬念，都是有效却不太高明的电影手段，跟《辩护人》、《以父之名》之类的神作不太好比。4星赞的是对部落民劳动、葬礼和舞蹈的生动呈现，左翼电影总能跳出主流商业片之外，做出些新意。记得4年前也是在金奈，一位朋友带我访问了当地的一位左翼律师，她曾从矿产公司手中为部落民捍卫了不少利益。回来路上朋友对印度的这群法律卫士赞不绝口，说中国最缺的就是这样的“真左派”。我说中国更缺的是一个能允许他们自由活动还敢判他们胜诉的司法体系。然后，就没有然后了……石头不能做枕头，左右不能做朋友，虽然我觉得自己不过是实话实说。
位居高堂也好，混迹市井也好，社会要进步，文化要传承，需要各种人，需要很多人。 什么时候我们的电影能拍出来这种水平呢，大学中庸，汉字书法，这样下去真的成了棒子的了。
2021M49/9.0《牛棚杂忆》里说到文革后很多知识分子不愿再回城市，宁愿在乡野间终老，恐怕也是这个想法吧！生命没有不可承受之重，只有不可承受之轻，当理论和方法无法成为实践的准则，那么轻必不可承受，而生活的重才是让人脚落在实地的砝码。影片的冲突做的非常到位，新旧思想，洋文与中学，官场和平民，生活之重对抗思想之轻。黑白的表达对抗性超强。节奏紧凑，张弛有度，师生情让人笑着跺脚或潸然泪下。其实很多都是浮云，人和人互相的牵绊才是生命的意义所在。
看得很舒服。超大景深海景特别美。节奏不快也不慢，不是强情节但也不是过度文艺沉沉闷闷很无聊的片子
6.6/10。1990s印度：主线是低种姓男主一家因种姓歧视而被恶警当作一起「政客珠宝失窃案」的替罪羊折磨，以及正义律师为男主辩护并获得成功。在这起案件的叙事过程中也揭露了低种姓因种姓歧视而被恶警各种当替罪羊的社会现象。总的来说故事有点意思（虽然律师被脸谱化且反派被强行降智），视听上则是很标准的陈词滥调（叙事节奏明显被过量歌舞和一些无关紧要的支线剧情拖慢）。
好故事，只可惜所有配角的表演方式和人物设置过于程式化脸谱化——不过这也是韩国电影的某种特色吧。
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