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".
加一星给不公正待遇。如果我们无法改变大环境，至少尽力保护创作者自我表达的小空间。在手里拿着锤子，眼里都是钉子的时代，到最后所有人都会变成被捶打的钉子。别认。共勉。
制作一流，从制作上看甚至可以说是目前看到最好的院线国产动画电影，非神话和非名著题材确实值得鼓励，总体来看很广东味，能在银幕上多看到南方故事还是开心的。但剧本的问题大到没法让我略过。每个转折位都像完成任务似的逐个打卡，叫阿娟的女角色有何用请问？台词分分钟尬住，“被木棉花砸中的英雄”，你来广州每年随便砸几百个好伐。从小西关长大的人看片子里的荔枝湾，真的是莫名诡异。另外最不舒服的一点，每一个和阿娟PK的舞狮队都是出阴招的，舞狮好歹也算习武之人吧？所以就阿娟那群人的精神就叫雄狮精神，整个圈子都是垃圾？（陈家村那位的转折也超突兀），值得一群废柴少年就算断腿都要拼下去的精神气就仅仅如此吗？喜欢的部分大概只有佛像和结局了。虽然剧本这样，但也希望票房好一点能继续做，或许下一部可以考虑拍拍爬龙舟？
我真的觉得很不错 不知道为什么 现在会变成这样 莫名冒出来这么多人借着爱国的幌子各种扣帽子 当个正常人吧
1.都是女人毁了男人最初的梦想；2.女人帮男人实现梦想就是弥补当初的“后悔”；3.女人应该做男人的梦想启蒙导师；4.女人有了一定成就之后就该退居二线恋爱结婚把舞台让给男人；5.中国人娱个乐都要内卷至死；6.实现梦想的人也无法摆脱打工人的命运。
摘下，就回到生活本身。
韩国有《辩护人》，印度有《杰伊·比姆》而我们什么都没有，希望都是他们的。生而为人真难啊。
现实世界里拍这样一部也很不容易吧 演员的真实生活/种姓/部落是怎样的
导演是个乐夏粉吗，从五条人到椅子乐团到九连真人又听了一遍。然而，还是想说处理的很高级：燃的很俗套，燃的也很真实。就像片尾，喜欢的女孩仍旧是别人的女朋友，生活还是日复一日地去工地搬砖。这不仅仅是一部关于舞狮的电影，这更是一部关于人生的电影：即便身处阴沟，也要仰望星空；就算身居陋室，也不要忘记你是一头雄狮。更何况，那还是一间推开窗户就可以看见东方明珠的陋室。所以少年已经用坚定的眼神做出了回答：他可以被生活打败，但永远不会向命运屈服。
在以前的印度电影中很少看到的政治派系斗争的影子，不断描绘的令人发指暴行与无耻谎言，让人感到这世界上没有安全的地方。
少一星给过于过分的主角光环，4星给黑暗里的勇敢斗士。死也不认罪的拉贾坎努，只为丈夫寻求正义的妻子，智商在线正义感又爆表的人权律师，还有那些虽然陷落贫困却不失勇气的部落人，每一个，无论是有大大的力量还是小小的坚持，都无比勇敢，让人愿意在这世界上继续。
前半段有点儿尬，但是舞狮的部分都太帅了，感觉经费都花在刀刃上了，难得不是老IP的原创故事，而且还是个完整的故事，少年与大佛的几个桥段都很喜欢，至于闹得沸沸扬扬的人设问题真的感觉矫枉过正了，值得一看的国产动画。
一面以传统文化受到冷落为全片背景，一面以众多舞狮队对冠军的争夺为高光时刻，悖论的产生使得本片只能成为不太美味的鸡汤
法律本应是光
0元点映活动去看的，完全浪费了我青春里宝贵的2小时，可能我本身就不是影片的受众年龄层吧，怪自己太天真，以为这种动画也拥有被成人接受的可能性。
個人觀影史第1624部。在韓國已經把直面直白地揭露制度黑暗的題材拍得家常便飯的時候，印度這邊不但沒讓人覺得這類作品爛大街，還添加了一絲性感（當然也離不開男主角律師本身就長得性感帥氣這一事實）。其實我在想的是，維護公道的過程中，聰明和正直缺一不可——不正直沒那個願心維護公道，不聰明沒那個能力維護公道。行善和公益一樣，看似門檻低，實則門檻極高。
等级意识的放大版社会，看了之后牙痒痒想揍人，这么好的律师靠什么活下来啊
年度惊喜！打工人，雄狮魂，柔弱少年的成长史，也是万千小镇咸鱼雄起的吼声。故事套路，转折略嫌生硬，但丰沛的市井烟火气和温暖的情感内核足以弥补这块短板。技术上精益求精，从第一镜开始，照片级的景物描画便奠定了全片的现实主义基调。所谓画鬼容易画人难，水准完胜正大行其道的各路奇幻动画。对成龙、周星驰作品和黄飞鸿系列的致敬继承了香港电影融传统与现代于一炉的特殊趣味，虽然基于南狮文化，却有超出地域的冲击力与感染力，最后一幕差点把我给整破防了。
结尾高明👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻梦想创造不了热血奇迹，只是让你短暂地发光，而后归于籍籍无名的平庸。但只要“开过光”，一个人终究会变得不同。
这部电影就像一个能量巨大的情绪炸弹，带着观众在100分钟的时间里坐情绪过山车，喜怒哀乐不断的翻转。为了让观众能够时刻准确的get到情绪，台词、配乐和角色的表情齐上阵，导演调动一切能用的视听手段，把情绪直接给到观众。热血和燃成了观影时最直接的生理反应，而且动画这种形式，刚好完美化解了真人表演时热血的中二感，有大众爆款的潜质。虽然是一部动画电影，它讲的却是一个非常现实主义的故事，讲留守儿童，进城务工和贫穷等成人化的社会话题，为了让少年们舞狮，剧本在角色身上加了好几层外力，为少年的舞狮提供行为动机和逻辑的合理性，完成了一个技巧扎实的好故事。看完这部电影，你会深切体会到那句话，少折腾话题，踏踏实实讲好一个故事比什么都重要。
目前心中最棒的国漫。虽然在看之前就能想到大致剧情发展，但是电影一开始我还是被画面色彩构图以及男主的发型深深吸引了，运镜也好棒，在天台那一段真的被戳到…结局的留白也很喜欢。爆夸插曲和片尾曲，打算二刷。ps：眼睁睁看着前排大哥电影看一半就拿起手机豆瓣打了一星！（因为他手机屏幕实在太亮，仿佛手电筒举在了我面前😭）心碎呐喊：我刀呢？
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