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".
终于有人接住了示威者扔来的鸡蛋，替我圆梦了！
读名单那一刻引起的亢奋不如「波斯语课」，不过群情激昂要比后者的行注目礼自然。看起来是在批判，其实是在赞美。
“我们绝不倒下，让刽子手显得高大。”（不太喜欢结局的处理方式，扣一星
集中的群像实际只有三个半在线，唇枪舌剑没有实质性内容。
喬說那時他在芝加哥公車上遇見過William Kunstler，向他表達了敬意，就在七人案審判期間。比照如今…一言難盡。
出色而直给的技术水准让人领略文宣终极形态的高级魅力，拍政治审判非常方便地拍成政治电影，都只能是一场行军而非漫游。
20201025 60年代再次被当代世界所“审判”，不过这次却是在一个真正的白左的视角之中，同时必须放置在和2020年的对话关系里。艾伦索金讲故事的才能也尽可能呈现了一个多元，异质甚至是芜杂的社会状况，而将主人公定位为汤姆海登而非阿比霍夫曼，更非黑豹党，看看日后几人的政治生命，这无疑也是索金的政治声明——需要通过体制内部的变革，而非颠覆体制的革命，来实现社会正义。而这又成为了Mark Lilla式的，给民主党人在这个节骨眼上的喊话，也缩写了60年代运动的丰富内涵。两场戏印象深刻，一扇玻璃隔开60和50两个时代瞬间让人穿越回《罗马》里家具店那场戏，只不过这次视角被难能可贵地放在了街道上；片尾的反高潮，用念白而非长篇大论，以历史作为最强有力的证言，不落俗套，正是索金的过人之处。
索金对话和剪辑点太牛批！头两次庭审的对白简直以为拿的是桃谷六仙或者笨贼一箩筐的本子，渐次打开之后每个角色都生动和丰富起来。合理怀疑波拉特同志和索金达成了交易，拿到了最棒的台词和最多的置装费：“你是否蔑视你的政府”“与我的政府对我的蔑视相比，我的蔑视不值一提”“给我点时间好吗，我从未因思考而受审过”；雀斑假意演一个意图杀人放火受招安的渣男角色，但战歌起就一定要有猝不及防糊一脸的美国梦——来预定奥斯卡
近年来左派电影的高峰，犀利、高密度、痛快。左派的理想情怀再显得何不食肉糜，至少也有其可爱之处。对Abbie这位言必称Cultural Revolutuon的哥们很感兴趣，在一个不可说的年份自杀了。唯一不美的是，最后对那句以血还血类似的话做了“非暴力”的解读，过于牵强，还是往后缩了。这里得引用教员名言：XX不是请客吃饭，不是做文章，不是绘画绣花，不能那样雅致，那样从容不迫，文质彬彬，那样温良恭俭让。XX是暴动，是一个阶级推翻一个阶级的暴烈的行动。
最近几年，斯诺登逃了，阿桑奇被无限虐待中，防疫吹哨人一个个的被处理掉…不能一刀把这事情都切给懂，民主上台的时候，黑幕也是一个接着一个…
我挺喜欢的。特别是看了一些关于当年这件事的纪录片之后。能从这样一个混乱无序随机的东西里整理出逻辑和人物来，而且人物的占比有轻有重，外形还都跟原型特别像，还抓住了性格里特别精华的点，真挺厉害的。
纯想象的，从台词的设计到影片的渲染力，很显然艾伦·索金从未想要“还原”什么，这跟戈达尔革命时期拍摄同样题材的《弗拉基米尔和罗莎》异曲同工，两者都以此绝无妥协的姿态试图达到其目标，把审判拍摄成了情景喜剧和摇滚乐演唱会。
5/10。小雀斑在这里演技为负。看完了我还是没记住主角团任何一个人，反倒是记住了法官。君子和恶棍的对比像童话故事。《羞辱》的法庭戏比这部好一万倍，甚至《我控诉》都好于它。剧本好不好我存疑，电影感很差。也只能借古讽今了。
背景讲的是911事件，航班滞留纽芬兰小镇上的故事。同班演员，既是小镇居民又是航班乘客。不同的角色就有不同的感觉，一秒切换毫无违和，演员太棒了。另外故事的表达也是很立体的，贴近现实。虽然因事件会带来偶然的美好，但事件产生的影响不会轻易消灭。
“With the trial starting, it might get easy to forget who this is about” 当这个审判开始后，我们很容易失去方向，忘记我们最初的目的。结局小雀斑在法庭上念出那五千名在越南牺牲的士兵名字时，是个不忘初心的故事。
灯塔国的法律系统，大家懂得。找10名完全不懂法律的陪审员来审判，这里头学问可多了，可以用来逃脱法律，也可以用来操纵法律。
Love can make us alive
机关枪索金笼了一堆奥斯卡咖来拍片，都拍成这样。有趣的是里面两个造反头子一个后来去炒股了一个后来当选议员了还有一个扒酒年自杀了，文化革命真特么讽刺。
发生在那个万恶的美国？
Debate大于Art的实证。所有的审判都是反道德的，其反面即所有雄辩都是反理性的。抛弃现实的多异性和复杂性，是一种手段，也是目的。
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