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".
赋予罪犯的人权是否赋予受害者？那罪犯又是否是真正的罪犯还是舆论造就的有罪者？以疯狂的公众情感推动执行的即时正义，使真相更加模糊。掌声到攻击，敬他到恨他，其实又有何差？谁曾真正过问探寻事实呢？虚伪的正义伸张，破灭的真相难还原。失去理智的信徒，是罪恶最大的帮凶。印度电影真勇啊，法庭上的质问和最爱的《辩护人》有的一拼。这是继《杰伊•比姆》之后的另一次震动。
导演问题很大，用力过猛，剧情放现在看也不出彩
以为又是一个普通的为强奸受害者申冤的故事，没想到还能有这么多反转，律师在法庭上的一次次发问简直振聋发聩，直接将故事升华了。缺点就是警长态度变化太快，那个议员脑子进水了才会去伤害他儿子，直接让他叛变。
三个小时的电影十足漫长，随时来的歌舞声也不非常下头，也没什么高超手法，部分情节有点过于小学生，虽然…但是…友邻评论的人们共情的共的都是电影之外的东西特别贴切。
这部给我的感觉很奇怪，一方面，情节注水过多，节奏又乱又拖沓；另一方面，160分钟塞满了热点要素，该讲的情节却太多没讲。律师和警察两条线明明可以齐头并进，反转点到为止即可。
也没多复杂的剧情 东绕西绕扯了将近三个小时 实在有点受不了。
全程无尿点，虽然很早已经大概猜出了故事的脉络，但是依然会让观众充满期待下一个反转的优质电影。电影本身围绕“权利”探讨了很深刻的社会问题，让观众思考：什么是公平？社会是否有绝对公平？什么是真相？是谁带给了我们真相？我们该相信什么？我们又该相信谁？媒体是什么？他们代表谁？谁又可以代表弱势群体？ 电影想表达的内容太丰富了，所幸的是，通过了一个系列性有牵绊的故事，导演和全体工作者让观者感受到了他们想表达的，并且深思出电影外更丰富的东西。很热血沸腾的电影，就像其他观众说的，印度电影在批判现实方面，已经有了韩国电影那味儿了，不管现实究竟是不是黑的，但总还有人能够有公开的渠道去表达出阳光且正义的看法，是令人感动的。
特别好，是《志明与春娇》的那种好。久违了，为这份惊喜，破例打个分表达一下。
社会意义还是很好的，但作为一部剧情片有点乱乱的
格调很差…转折轻率 煽情过度 博人眼球 浪费了生命中1个小时20分钟 :（
算是好看，但好人坏人极端脸谱化，也是有点小儿科的。没有了舞，但还是不少歌，看来歌或舞，还是宝莱坞标配。
雪天一盆火，苦药一勺糖。有房、离异、文艺、颓唐，不爱出厅堂，挺会下厨房。男人共情的是我熬了半辈子鲫鱼汤也该老来one night stand，女人幻想的是我倔了几十年总会有半个肩膀一袋吃食。沪上当然是精致的摆盘，但每一个要素都戳在普通话审美霸权的肋眼上，你能怎么样呢？导演一等一聪明，端上一锅老少咸宜浓淡适中的汤。微信里来来回回差半步就是油腻，牺牲了老乌总算是有了妥当的圆场。中国每年应该有十部这样的作品，一不小心让它出头了，其实真不是故意的。
千万不要在律师法庭陈词的时候退出，非常值得五星
因为想要探讨的话题比较繁多，所以在剧情的设置上感觉异常地丰腴，与其说是电影，节奏感上更像是一部迷你剧。印度的种姓，司法公正，政治，媒体，社会舆论……几乎都被覆盖了一遍，导演是很明白民众的情绪走向的，所以几处剧情在刻意为之的情况下确实非常有煽动性，但整体看来印度片对人物的刻画还是比较薄弱，许多情节冷静下来思考缺乏一定的合理性。不过看到片中许多台词，真的很难不对号入座，所以，我们的宿敌又是谁呢？
最好的办法是放弃连根拔起的荒唐念头，用锄头也好，大斧也好，把树根的主干切断，挖出最大的隐患，而那些残根在见不得光的地下，得不到养分的输入，也会慢慢腐烂，最终成为泥土的一份子了。这样对将来另起屋宇也好，松土种菜也好，不会产生大的阻碍。
又名《野猫猎杀记》，强于《误杀2》。一位影帝「大叔」领衔三位视后级别「大妈」，操着一口吴侬软语上演的一幕幕奇葩的追爱之旅。虽非尽善尽美面面俱到 ，却也算幽默辛辣妙趣横生吧。徐峥身上确有十足的上海弄堂里小男人的那股劲，头脑灵活细腻体贴却又家长里短死要面子，对于老白那种与女性过招疲于招架的形象塑造几乎绝了，活灵活现（他拿捏小人物早已驾轻就熟）。几位女演员的角色性格迥异，在群戏烘托方面也算出众（毕竟都是演电视剧的老油条了，台词功底相当了得），加之对于女性主义与男权世界的探究也比较辛辣，一针见血，张力十足。其实对于这类电影，权当做圣诞节的佐餐小菜即可。电影的艺术性我们大可不必过于挑剔，片中致敬费里尼的片段已经是对电影艺术感的最大化表达了。邵艺辉大荧幕，算是及格。
“你看过扫地的那个人吗 以后他的女儿也会和他一样 干着这份工作 ，你想博士毕业 这不是你应该有的权利”“所以媒体是报道真相的，还是媒体报道的就是真相”
迷住了戏里戏外的所有人。
人物是立不住的，故事结构是散的。为了金句而强行拼凑的情节，儿子线剪掉又如何，毫无影响。高跟鞋作为格里芬对剧情推动没起什么作用，就为了让马伊琍撒谎证明她是“好女人？”一个为了女儿缩在蜗居忍受母亲的中年单亲妈妈为什么要用这种方式证明她是“好女人？”索菲亚罗兰梗也很无聊，《大鱼》撒谎精模式，要前面足够荒诞，最后证明是真的，才有戏剧效果。更不要提里面错误百出的上海话台词了。
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