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".
“要是现在不和大家一起跑，就没有办法挺起胸膛地活下去了”
极度震撼，直面苦难！把人性在体制引发的问题面前深刻显露！
妻子一次次不畏强权，被部落首领威胁，警察威胁，更高地位的人威胁，数次以为她，一个失去丈夫，怀孕带着女儿的农村妇女即将对命运妥协，拿着协商的钱，过下半生时，她都选择挺起胸脯站起来，与其说是律师伸张正义，不如说是颠覆低种族人的一种反抗。
要素齐全，笑梗不断。
4星，题材不错，虽说是30年前的事件，但仍然值得致敬， 就是影片时间有点太长了，当电视剧看了。
情节扣人心弦，激情澎湃，斗争万岁。值得9分
好片，不得不说印度还是敢拍的，种姓制度拖累了他们。
其实警察大半夜来告诉女主她老公逃狱
印度低种姓这种按照种族划分人群的制度至今依旧存在，影响是根深蒂固的，极其负面。影片基于这样一个背景，揭露这种体制下种种不公正待遇。一个抓蛇人含冤入狱被殴打致死，正义的律师克服万难，冤情才得以洗刷。但凡有关人权的议题，都与我们无关，一个在我们这无从展开的话题，就连探讨别人影片的内容都成了禁忌。递刀子这事肯定不能干，别人拿着刀子自己捅自己，我们驻足观看都不行——这就是现行审查制度铁一样的逻辑所在。与后来的《宿敌》立意接近，关照现实，意义深远。就表达方式和技巧而言是陈旧的、甚至是落后的。
"青春是恋爱，闪闪发亮，自卑感，后悔，人情世故，孤独，好耶好耶，曾经拥有，此时此刻，Fire，谜团重重…"
2.律师家里挂着马克思和另外两个我不认识的人的头像.
印度电影有的问题，它全都有，节奏冗长、无节制的歌舞、主角光环强大、角色扁平：好人伟光正，坏人丑恶无比。胜在故事讲述得还行，不至于像其他印度电影，连看都是煎熬。
能把真实历史事件搬上银幕的地方都是先进的，印度人权律师和底层人民通过法律途径解决警察对低种姓冤假错案的社会问题，改变法律，这点就足够了。
恶搞了一些经典剧和现在比较流行的漫才艺人，很有趣啊。有些道理和话束虽然听起来千篇一律，但是当风间和小新的对白一出来我还是哗哗流泪了。“你说的什么我根本听不懂啊”我是个笨蛋，我是个相信我们友谊永远不会变的超级大笨蛋，但你依然爱着我，你觉得我的心就是精英。风间和小新的cp我可以嗑一万年。
印度土著贫穷且悲惨！不知道什么时候厄运就降临，家破人亡。PS：去珠宝柜那边抓蛇，已经知道会有问题，放生蛇与大自然和谐相处也预示带来正义与财富。主旨跟《第15条》类似。
又想哭又想笑，让人想到自己的过去，又能感触到当下的人生，青春已不在，但我依旧希望自己能fire，只要我努力，那就不应该被看轻。
节奏很好，但是过于套路，双方人物刻画，探案剧情都很套路，没有一个令人印象深刻的人物。法院权力很大，还能判决给部落土地。
印度电影终于发展到了直面种姓制度的这一天了
印度版辩护人，能拍出这样的电影，至少让那些底层人民看得到一丝曙光。
每年一部的多啦A梦已经感动不了我了，但是新之助仍然行！！！！！！！
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