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".
I am what I am. 如果这些励志片都是假的，那为什么每次看都让人热血沸腾呢!
我最爱的国漫出现了！！我欠它一张电影票！！！本以为是男主努力拼搏实现梦想追到女神的爽片，没想到后半程丝滑到不行，直接滑到我心里了！画面很美，几首bgm也很加分，把中国传统文化巧妙融在细节里，那些说rh的都是为黑而黑吧，反正我是准备2刷粤语版了。
这电影太摇滚了，互相的救赎，背景音乐画面结合的让人感动
21世纪最好的中国动画片，因为只有它能完完全全撑得起中国两个字，从骨子里弥漫着一种如青松般的劲头，不惧一切地向上爬，不惧困难地疯长，从一颗种子长成枝繁叶茂。三个舞狮的少年，别认，你别认！
全程搞笑又很感动。结尾也是出人意料又在情理之中。每次这种电影都是带着看漫画的心态去，然后被激励地热血沸腾地出来。里面有句话，“每个人都是一头雄狮，上山下山，阿娟有自己的路要走”
暴哭！画面、细节、情怀、剧情都真的太好了！终于不用再反复看悟空、哪吒的ip了。只要心中鼓点不停，你就是雄狮。
风格化方面 包括人设 塑造音乐特效 桥段设置等 各种照搬周星星的无厘头风. 而从故事设定 美术场景 光效和内容地方化等方面 又很见用心 加之也是动画题材中少有的涉足现实题材 尤为难得. 希望未来的动画业界 能再接再厉 不止于挖掘神话 复刻西方 在扎根生活之上 创造更多有生命力的作品.
天台段落里，当下的少年斩断了前方的后路，放下舞狮的决断反而带来了清明的激情。所以这时必然地出现清晨与积水，这些轻盈透亮的物质现象呼应着整个城市澄明的呼吸，舞出了最完美的一场戏。不过片子的缺陷也在于除了像这种布置好的段落，剩余的部分可供开掘的东西不多。我们能想象大部分好评的观众在长评短评中所会称赞的部分总会聚集在十来个段落之内，而很难有余地去做一种私人性的生发。导演做好了门，也做好了出口。
提两个瑕疵
非常感动留守儿童的背景设定，执行得也很自然，结尾并没有强行全部HE、命运改变，主角仍到了上海打工，但心有猛虎，看不见的东西已经改变了。希望看到更多关注弱势群体却又不止于卖惨说教的好故事
广东自然风物表现得比较好，可是广东风俗就完全无法代入了。曾经吐槽过一反映澳门的电视剧里，让当地人生啃黄瓜，这片竟然也有，不敢说广东人完全不这样吃，但拿黄瓜当水果那样吃是少见的。人物来说，给人感觉就不像广东人，无论体型、脸型、做事风格，就像是一群北方人生活在广东。更别说被人吐槽得很多的在广州打工，几年都不回家。感觉这片就是用一个励志主题来结合舞狮，但广东风俗文化是很不到位的。
对工地的打工生活、街井人物，都是不加修饰的白描，鼓点和舞狮、少年人的奔跑，则是浓墨重彩的渲染。木棉和热带的阳光，画面的美好扑面而来。有一些尴尬的句子，尤其少年不断背诵李白的句子问李白错了吗的时候，可能是我最出戏的时刻，毕竟当代网络文学的文化素质的天花板就是背唐诗，没想到动画片也这样子。
好久没在电影院看到这么燃的华语电影了，对！你没看错，是华语电影，不是华语动画电影。虽然是动画，但他少有的热血和少年气超过太多真人电影了，不仅画风水准很高，音乐也非常好，使用的剧作结构非常类型片化，几个转折点和细节都很到位。故事内核聚焦于留守儿童的教育和成长以及童工和农民工等非常现实的议题，形式上结合广东舞狮文化，两者匹配的非常成功，这种片子放在春节档都有的一拼。
不太适应人脸建模，前面入戏慢了。想二刷补一下前面漏掉的细节。这部电影不能说是2021年最好电影，因为它太棒了，我以后的人生都会有它的画面。
市井小人物的传记，人物的外形或许并不符合大众所追求的审美，没有多么耀眼的外表，跳脱出动漫一味追求主创自身审美的桎梏，走向更为贴近现实的真实感。看到了许多周星驰电影的味道，树下鼓舞是《喜剧之王》，无名之辈到一举夺魁像《功夫》。《阿珍爱上了阿强》，还有人字拖是五条人。大隐隐于市。故事的选材很特别也很难得。当一众国漫创作者还沉浸在古典神话故事中你追我抢时，这样既有传统基底又接地气的作品属实难能可贵。当然，作为一部动画电影，最重要的还得看创作者的细腻程度，最后决赛的舞狮部分画面堪称精致，令人眼前一亮。至少是有花心思的，值得被肯定。｜7.5
白人不是因为你眼睛小嘲讽你，是因为讨厌你。可以因为它丑打低分，又扯到rh，实属过于敏感了，又敏感又自卑。你们知道外网怎么嘲讽中国人敏感吗？有条件的去看看。你们既然这么在乎外国人的看法，为什么不改改这个整天“rh”的毛病呢？🤣🤣
美术造型等可打85分，故事人物58分，可惜得很
7.5 太套路，人物也很脸谱，音乐是乐夏专场，但也煽情渲染太多次了，不能仅仅因为最后的高光就原谅前面一切的不够好吧。18岁，不用上学吗？说打工就打工，真的很理想化……
有的拿去孕育新的芽苗，有的只是当摆饰。
在离家期间看直接看哭，生活是越不过的擎天柱，有人还非得带着信念孤注一掷；有闲暇才能赞扬生活的昂扬斗气，更多的时候是不被人理解的孤苦无依。
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