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".
一边惊叹于美术表现，一边在吐槽剧情结构和对话的片子。本来选的题材和角度都相当好，硬是变成喊口号、强行转折和贴标签的片子。这一点编剧给美术和技术道歉！但人物造型也有离谱的点，唯一拥有正常脸型的是剧中“反派”，什么意思就离谱。
可以放开说了。我觉得比起一二幕的稍显草率，最大的遗憾是审美的整体性和原创性欠缺。但第三幕就是我们自己的鱿鱼游戏，也为触及留守儿童的现实主义打个Call，好看的。至于所谓的争议事件，只能说太坏了，什么时候我们不被概念定义，我们才能定义概念。
木棉、民工、雨、粤语、南方混混、舞狮、咸鱼等南粤元素与五条人、九连真人的配乐共同描绘了一幅庶民图景，比官方话语富有生命力多了，非常动人真实。
可能是口碑过好期待太高，看完觉得就挺套路的一个励志片，好多台词都太中二太尬了，而且从设定上来讲，舞狮这种需要台下几年十几年的练功，让他们一组几个月速成，多多少少是对武术人的不尊重了。
韩国有《辩护人》，印度有《杰伊比姆》，中国有……？
其实舞狮并不能改变什么，也不会真的让你走向成功。但生活中总是要有点奔头，要有一口气，这才是活下去的理由，也是会觉得热血的原因。
所谓的种姓及一切区隔，都不能决定人与人本应平等的事实。印度化的拍摄手法是唯一瑕疵。
人物完全是被推着走的，不是自己主动的行为。人物描写刻画全靠旁白，而非动作和画面。师母的后悔只是太过情怀的对梦想的追逐，并没有其它的考量。很多地方不符合逻辑，也不符合现实的情况。
这才是正能量啊！如果没有真实的苦难，怎么会有理想的光辉。简直是印度版的捕蛇者说，仅是看电影中的暴力镜头就已经很让人感到不适了，但谁又知道现实存有的暴力会残酷多少倍，而那些棍棒是真实打在人身上的。电影很规整，不同段落的法庭戏的打光蛮有意思的。
比姆是印度宪法之父，也是印度第一位法律部长 。印度的姓氏是分级别的，贱民身份世代相传，不能接受教育，不能穿鞋，只能从事卑贱的工作，甚至在走路的时候影子都怕落到路人的身上，这是印度历史最黑暗的阴影。
这个场景，应该被载入中国影史。
看得我热泪盈眶，感慨万千。
唯一的败笔就是男主这个人设有些缺乏情绪的流露过于理性化。整体看着很压抑愤怒，然而人家毕竟敢拍能拍随便播……
大概是老了，最触动我的不是热血的、中二的台词，而是那些现实的、中国的、社畜的场景。明显有很多戏仿周星驰的桥段，甚至可以说内核就是照搬周氏喜剧，这都不要紧，重要的是终于在动画电影里看到一个具体的、亲切的空间环境，并且足以承载一个本土的故事。
另外，请剧组不要把观众当傻子。
女主角抱着手印砖块痛哭的戏真的绷不住了 那种普通人卑微的希望被粉碎的感觉
用真实事件歌颂值得给个8分鼓励，尽管从电影制作角度上来说瑕疵一堆，尽管从"他们逃跑了"我就猜到了主角已亡的结论，尽管人性的黑暗体现还不够具体。
国漫要都是这个水准，豆瓣Top250的动画电影里就不会只有日本和美国立足。
咱也不懂可经验的实际境遇不可能改变后它到底在燃什么，是心境燃烧吗？另外两疑问：1.全红婵家庭贫苦，母亲卧病，苦练跳水，试图改变命运，和阿娟舞狮的目的区别在哪？而前者翻天覆地的变化是否就应该因为赶上了一波波运动式“God-making movement”或因为舞台更大挣得了更大的面子，而就比后者更体面更上档次所以更理所应当？2.对诗仙的千古“励志”绝句误读很大，不考虑李白写出“名人名言”的真实情境，无时无刻不顾场合地随时引用都能“爆燃”斗志，和时刻高喊xxxx就是好有什么区别？人的判断在其中真的存在？这俩疑问如果不能很好回答，《雄狮》的燃就有毒，在一个基尼系数都查不到的地方，少年之脚踏实地只是换个地方打工罢了，传统文化耽误了他仅可能的“好生活”路径，当他努力到中年依旧打工，可就不是弘扬传统文化，而是恨不得扬了传统文化。
pps,看的版本是机器翻译吧，太差了……
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