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".
剧本好，明线为病猫成雄狮，暗线为留守儿童接力家庭重担，在沉重的工作中磨炼出坚毅的眼神和结实的肌肉这才比较符合现实。开头巷子里追逐长镜头好棒，天台独自舞狮的动作燃点与泪点好棒，各种农村与城市特色细节用心。人物形象设计属于写实。最后不管昨天是否拿到比赛冠军，明天还是得为生活奋斗。克制住了往“奇迹”虚幻靠，这点真的值得表扬。给满分但还是要说说不足，1.主角配音不太农村化，阿猫那种不咸不淡的才比较靠近真实。2.配乐太多了，虽说五条人和九连真人很符合但太满有点累。3.雄狮出现那一刻有泛白点，转得有些突兀。
让不漂亮的普通人被注视，应该是它最大的价值之一，而不是遭受非议的原因所在。
更让我感动的是，把五条人、椅子and喜欢的歌恰如其分地融入，一下子就代入到了广东，那份自由和张扬太让人舒服了。
画面和配乐很绝，很喜欢开头细猫与结尾雄狮的呼应，不知道算不算个隐藏小彩蛋～
上周看的点映，结局是大晚上阖家泪洒万象城【喂】小人物（最终也并没有成为什么大人物），现实关照，细节可口，高燃，还有点儿周星驰内味儿。往大了说是拓展了国产动画的可能性——神魔向确实容易出活儿，但你们说实话，不疲劳吗？现在反倒是，脚踏实地拍点儿下界的人与事儿还显得更有想象力了，这拍不就是《姜子牙》里被略过的众生么。往小了说，嗐，这一个多小时，不会白过。就也没什么意料之外的事儿发生，主角配角路人甲的每一步你都能猜得准准的，但还是会被打动。就好像，从此岸到彼岸，有一条直直的索道，你知道此岸的人必定会到达彼岸，但他滑过去的动作有点帅就是说，你心里也就还是一荡一荡的。还一个情况也类似，你看过不破圣衣来跑步么，本以为平平无奇，但其实很有观赏性就是说【喂】很想使劲儿奶，怕给人奶坏了……反正就诚意推荐一下。
3.5。喜欢朴素的部分。©孙海鹏、张苗、九连真人到场。
李白那段
牛逼！就这样一部扬我国威的优秀电影被傻der们冲成那样！你们啊！食屎啦！
剧作特别顺拐，人物都是功能性没特点，笑点设置尴尬，高潮硬来很尬……唯一的优点是终于不是神话题材了（好像跟电影本身没啥关系）……
国漫崛起，留一星给细节的不足吧，比如细节鞋子的问题，以及环境地域的关系，但总体已经非常好看了。
弄成宽眉斜眼固然是十分过时美中不足的，
一流的美术，绝伦的民族雄狮，以及俗套的剧情。
缺点很明显，几乎成缺陷，拯救只有推翻重来。
这是2021年最后的惊喜吗？一部国产动画片，却让一个中年男人在电影院里热血沸腾、热泪盈眶。
远远超出预期，特别喜欢满满的细节和起伏的节奏，也不是孩子能全部看懂的世界。 涉及剧透的谈谈节奏。从轻松的病猫，到打工的压抑，再到比赛的激情，就在我们以为欢乐收尾时，被彩蛋中的东方明珠电视塔一个细节硬拉回残酷的现实结束。擦，动画片也要这样吗。 再说另一个细节，顺节奏，我们都以为到广州放下了一切。直到他最后一次登上天台，看到画满任务的墙才给我们答案。还有看到女阿娟的男友等等，咸鱼变成雄狮很感动，很感动，可雄狮却加深了悲伤。
拜师开始好看起来，有笑点，不知道为啥广州打工的部分还真有点触动到我
鍾意的「文化南方」色彩加持西域出身的李白遺產顯得弔詭。雖然鹹魚翻身、阿貓阿狗也有夢的主題的確勵志，聚焦留守少年這樣的弱勢群體身上值得足夠敬意，但是雞血打得未免滿格，無助無望的底層人不是只靠一次「高光」來突破自我夢想成真，學校教育、社區扶助、社會保障等人文關懷統統缺席，一時高潮於功利性的「成王敗寇」心態。【Wanda-BB】
这么好看这么热血的的电影怎么有这么多人恶意评分？最喜欢结局，把狮头套在了擎天柱上。人总有越不过去的坎，但是要有不放弃希望的心。舞狮太燃了！
有好几处台词过于书面化了 现实中没有人这么讲话 少女阿娟的背景最好补充一下 结尾那个咸鱼脚太恶俗了 和整体格调不搭 但是国漫能有一部现实题材的电影还是很难得的 最后一跃的超现实化处理把我感动到了 让人想到末路狂花的最后一跃 所以加一星（电影院里居然没人get到“我大意了 没有闪”
一颗星是对这个片子的评价。另一颗星是因为爱国，所以鼓励国人制作影片的不易。
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