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".
ET+Wall-E+末世余生，以汤姆汉克斯的气场在，不需要其他演员😂。
为什么印度男人都留胡子？学生VS警察，暴力冲突，不断升级。在良心面前，没有少数服从多数的法则。一个国家的尊严等同于给女性的尊严。歧视无处不在。政治的游戏，腐败黑暗的体制。感觉没结束呀，还有续集？
片头说这是导演的第一部作品 真的nb
社恐福利，适合一个人看的公路片。二十年后，陪伴他的从排球变成了机器人。汤姆•汉克斯，从阿甘一路跑来，见证了帝国的衰落。
印度人对自己社会问题反省和批判的力度让我们汗颜，虽然表现手法直白幼稚了一点，还是给个高分支持。
有的人佩服印度和韩国敢拍还过审，但他们或许不知道，这两个国家所拍摄的敏感题材电影并非子虚乌有，虚构出来的，而是已经到了反反复复发生，全世界皆知的地步。韩国的腐败世界有名，几乎每一任总统都贪腐受贿被弹劾，印度的贪污腐败更是根深蒂固。韩国性侵案也很多，不止是娱乐圈还有孩子。印度的腐败阻碍了他们的经济发展，强奸案影响了他们的社会和谐稳定。今年几部印度关于这方面题材的电影我都看了。片中的2019年的案件确实发生过，当时传到国内只是奸杀焚尸，并没有说是谋杀。不管怎样，我觉得再多这样的影片也唤醒不了印度人民，因为民主制度的缺陷并不适合十三亿人多 印度。上世纪八十年代跟我们在同一起跑线上，如今被我们远远抛在身后。再过十年印度还是会如此。等着瞧吧。某些人不要觉得看了几部印度好片就觉得印度电影胜过我们这很无知
一个现代社会，居然一宗凶杀案究竟是恶意车祸还是qj案都分不清就开始定罪，真是太可笑了。影片主旨不是案件而是种姓制度和严重社会问题。
又一部印度神片，太厉害了！不得不说，印度就敢拍这一点，就让国内望尘莫及无数个层次！！！学术造假、性别歧视、媒体操控、公检法的万恶体制……几乎所有的点都说到了，个人认为任何人都应该看一看此片！除了震动、震撼、震惊……之外，我找不到词汇表达我看完之后的情绪；另外，很多时候，我们知道的真相真的就是真相么？真相背后是什么？真相是谁说的算的？其实都不重要，重要的是你相信了什么……连续反转，律师振聋发聩的诘问让人灵魂颤抖！！！
男主开头生活环境不错，还能制造高端人工智能！可是为了尘暴和情怀突然出走，途中回忆狗的由来，快到目的地了，紫外线又不强了！逻辑不通畅，缺乏说服力，一度想打低星。又想到，将死之人，行为逻辑可以理解。不禁感叹，这个人工智能，真好啊！！！！
當法律與體制的根基有問題，當你以為的真相是騙局，拿什麼來實現那所謂的正義？！本以為是反應社會現實的刑偵人員被高層壓制以身抗法匡扶正義，結果是一出政治操弄的陰謀騙局，這個大反轉做的還是非常棒的。從講女性在印度的困境到當局肆意操弄愚民騙局最後走向整個國家的政治體製種性種族歧視問題，雖然庭審為了主題和情緒過於舞台話而沒有現實感，最後幾分鐘的埋筆卻有點主人公復仇爽劇的意思了，雖然還挺期待續集但的確有點分散了之前庭審的註意度。
故事C：肮脏政客煽动民粹主义换选票；
每抛一个严肃社会议题探讨却浮于表面。
我们不方便讨论的故事，究竟是什么故事？女性权益？不是的，这只是这个电影的起点，每出现一个反转，人家就向前走了一步。最后你会发现，印度人要讨论问题是我们绝对的禁区。绝对绝对的禁区，只属于我们。
我们对它呈现出的“尖锐”的赞美仅仅来自于我们遭受的审核制度。
看到好几个电影的影子，但是看这个老头演戏就很舒服。
作为退学博士，
立意超高的电影，案中案，反转又反转，寻求正义的群众看完会高潮的那种爽片——只不过最后揭秘副警督和律师的背景那部分可以不要，对于一部宣传社会正义的价值观，应当是法理和道德律双重约束下的群体性正义，是如同片名（也是印度国歌）的《Jana Gana Mana（人民的意志）》，而不应当是因果报应这种玄学命理，那就格局小了；尤其是还要暗搓搓铺垫续集的引子，唉，那格局简直是开始歪了……
作为观众前半段亲身体验了不知细节的民众多么容易被情感操纵，后半段庭述一句一个巴掌，打得你说不出话，现实中，政治从来没有对错良善之分，只有忠诚的政治，站队的政治。虽然铺满的BGM和无意义慢镜头太恼人，但真的就是忍不住的好羡慕啊
故事愈简单，况味愈深。尤其是在今年看到，代入感是当年观看瓦力时所不能想象的。也是这部片子让我第一次去思考机器人与人类的关系，Finch教Jeff技能的时候，用了机器人三定律的模版，但内容更近似一个父亲教儿子如何谋生。我发觉对于我们的星球而言，机器人永远不能脱离人类的范畴，所谓机器人，无非是人类超越肉体生物性最远的一次尝试。机器人的属性，中文名的字面便可完全解释。机器人就是人类，他使用的是人类的逻辑和情感，他也就会因这样的逻辑和情感或繁荣或毁灭。所以，片中的Jeff和杜威之所以显得比人类更有人性，也是因为对于他们而言，环境对于他们的机体没构成毁灭性的挑战。如果有一天，地球变成机器人也不能运行的样子，他们之间为了生存也一样会冷酷无情。我们人类的历史就停在那一天，也是很好的结局。
过誉，隔靴搔痒。视听感像电影，情绪煽动性极强的新闻专题片。配乐和歌曲不错，歌曲部分常速欣赏，其它1.5倍速飘过。以现实中印度强暴案的体量和深层根源来看，都改编电影直到看吐也难有改变的一天。电影其实是以谋杀而非强暴致死来规避风险，在没有原型事件情况下编拍并通过印度电影审查，国情不同，无需代入。2022·6·28 8.6/2189 短评889条 %83/13/4 【IMDb8.4/8300 全球票房313.51万美元】
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