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".
刑讯逼供，屈打成招甚至被死亡，黑警勾结，官官相卫，而执政党为了维护自己的管治也是默许纵容。
拉贾格努确定去世后那一场女人围坐哭唱的仪式，与《我不是女巫》里最后Shula的葬礼异曲同工，两个角色都是被偏见拴住而后宰杀的羔羊。只是这里的暴力更加直接了当，摄影机毫不隐晦地直面恶警暴殴他致死的画面，像观众眼睛被撑开在那无处躲，让种姓偏见造成的不公和血腥更加触目惊心。Jai Bhim没什么弧度，庭审破案都太神兵天降，神化到最后森格尼淋着雨跟他道谢，大众如信徒跟随膜拜英雄的那幕，形式已经盖过了情感。
7.5分。印度版本的《辩护人》，这个评价还是挺高的。故事本身拍得并不是太精彩，舞台感很强，但一想到这竟然是真实事件改编，就感觉背上发凉。说到底印度的种姓制度至今还在影响着印度的社会，这种顽疾何时能够清除，现在还看不到尽头。。。
小心不要跌倒！
以及青春是ai回答不了的问题。
根据真实事件改编这句话里承载了太多太多。
走投无路的小民，在正义律师的帮助上走上维权之路。
“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”
青春是一起做无意义的事，尽管有一天会分道扬镳，但如今重要的是把握当下。
情何以堪。
一本正经的本格推理，突然跳到长跑决胜，用儿戏般的戏剧冲突来反思精英教育反思生命意义，可惜社会与现实不会是一场儿戏。《心灵奇旅》对生命意义的反思不知道高到哪里去了。
能拍出這樣電影的國家真的很了不起，我們還真沒有資格嘲笑India🇮🇳
这种片子可以被拍出来，本身就是一种伟大。虽然时不时唱歌让我出戏，男主也过于耍帅。印度有爬满火车的人，印度也有宝莱坞。
可以说这部是自臼井仪人离开以后最好的一部，好看得让人感动了，曾经剧场版的小新终于回来了，其间还有蛮多阴暗的小细节在讽刺教育行业，推理到立意都非常好看，最后一段青春是什么的蒙太奇也太燃了，我爱小新！！
太惨了，即便是几条狗被这样打，看着都会无比难受。整体而言渲染的痕迹有些重，反而导致冲击力下降。
题材本身的社会属性远远大于电影本身，能有强大的社会思考，但是于电影而言，只是一部成步堂龙一的逆转爽片
不明白为何这种题材还要唱歌跳舞，每次男主出现的时候，后面的配乐总觉得在哪个好莱坞大片里出现过。
印度这个国家总可以把现实事件拍成电影，讽刺，探讨。但是他们又不整改，然后就会有源源不断的事件发生，接着就是源源不断的电影。
三观超正，又很中二，节奏还很不错！小新用屁股想都知道的，你却不知道！
太牛逼了，看看人家印度这电影，全程2小时40分钟我甚至都不舍得暂停一秒钟。印度是有它的缺点，但是更需要有人说出真相，这样才能反思，才能在微弱中有所改变，哪怕一点点也好。结合今天看到的某大导演要拍史诗级英雄片的消息，也就只能苦笑一下了。
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