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".
再则就是我本身对印度的腐败、封建、奴役和阶级矛盾有自己的成见，所以，对这样一个国家能够形成个整体呼吁正义，民众良心万众一心，政府担当，司法公正就没有信心，所以，无论怎么演绎，都很难在我心中建立反转，因为假，反倒是如果将看似邪恶、冷血的人反转成嫉恶如仇，大概才有可能反到我一下下。
每次看印度电影都为这个民族感到悲哀，语言是文化的根，但印度已经丧失了语言独立性，印地语掺杂英语听着很奇怪，更奇怪的是，他们还觉得特光荣，总是嘲笑中国人英语发音。庭审过程中，为了凸显辩方律师，控方检察官和法官被塑造成傻子，导演试图通过一场庭审表达诸多东西，但很多不符合庭审规则，像是一出马戏。
以为是个简单的反强暴反性侵的电影，谁知道上升到了腐败，还有警察良心的事。为了权利，几个屁民的生命算什么呢，幸好正义胜利了。
可能剧本还行，但导演真是太水了，音乐滥用，表演也差。。。
“让提出问题的人沉默的政治，给讨论的人戴上手铐的政治。但无论你如何试图让他们闭嘴，无论你把他们关进哪座监狱，都会有人提出问题，而且必须有人回答。因为这个国家不是任何人的私有财产，这是我们的国家，我们的！”
不知道看什么，无聊，快速拖放看完，中间没有一处镜头或者什么有趣精彩的东西让我停下来看，（除了车子快被龙卷风吹走那段），可能这是文艺片，符合豆瓣文艺青年口味，所以分数才会高，我给不及格，很差。
末日生存独角戏，狗狗很加分。但当科幻电影看其实算比较平庸那种。
转轴拨弦两三声，未成曲调先有情，
旧金山为什么没被破坏，或者最先恢复生态，难道只有我一个人有这疑问？这片是讲芬奇，更是讲杰夫。末世废土，人类为了所剩无几的生存物质相互拼杀。芬奇命不久矣，为了自己的爱犬能够继续存活，他制造了一个机器人。他在教机器人杰夫生存技能时，一直在给杰夫灌输不能信任其他人类的观念。可是他在培养杰夫和小狗的感情时，却一直在强调“信任”二字。杰夫拥有很强的自我意识，在短暂的公路旅行结束之后，他终于找到了活着的意义。没有主人的机器人，成为了小狗的主人。“信任”在智慧机器和非智慧生物间得以延续。
一部电影包含3种触发泪点的元素：狗、机器人和将死之人。三者都很脆弱，其中一方受到伤害都会引发共情。小机器人没了令人心碎，演到最后简直提心吊胆，怕出现什么岔子。再说一次：汉克斯出演的角色真的都是遭罪的命啊！
其实科幻末日背景挺弱的，借助阳光灼人的设定讲人的封闭孤独和不信任，当杰夫芬奇和狗狗建立起信任时，生命就能重返阳光下，人害怕伤害不愿信人，但又总是渴望获得赞扬陪伴和信任，就像芬奇始终保留来自父亲的明信片，杰夫想获得芬奇和小狗的认同。所幸芬奇离开时身边有杰夫和狗狗的陪伴，杰夫领略桥上明媚的风光后还有信心去看新的世界。 汤姆汉克斯独角戏carry全场，机器人杰夫呆萌，小狗值得一座狗界小金人，难得能看到一部如此舒服的电影。
印度的电影，缺啥拍啥，这是最大的民主表现。
一个现代社会，居然一宗凶杀案究竟是恶意车祸还是qj案都分不清就开始定罪，真是太可笑了。影片主旨不是案件而是种姓制度和严重社会问题。
当媒体不是传播真相而是制造舆论成为权利作恶的工具时，每一个推波助澜的平民都是权利的帮凶。幸运的是，印度平民手里还有选票，每一次的清醒都让他们更加成熟。
仿佛彼只需吼一些我们所不能言的口号，
整体没什么问题，但在2021年还讲这么陈旧的故事，确实没什么价值。
还想说一句
欣赏一些真正的文化输出，好在我已经看开，祛除不必要的母语荣辱与共感，我来地球是来欣赏整个人类文明，谷底爱咋烂咋烂哈，反正高峰多得我这辈子看不完
而每一个细节动机却经不起可信度推敲。
就可以让我给满分。
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