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".
5.教育是一个国家的根本和未来，印度虽然有保护人权，反对种姓歧视的种种法律，你不知道如何维护自己的权力都是白搭！
特別喜歡，這種讀書不為名利，只為求知的故事。雖說百無一用是書生，但書生卻能仰望星空。
我就差不多知道真相是什么了
又是真人真事！部落人的悲惨遭遇令人发指！幸好是1995年的事了。手法很平实，为作者的正义感给五星。
对“天下有道则见，无道则隐。……邦无道，富且贵焉，耻也。”这句话的阐释。在黑暗时代，有良知有才华的人往往会剑走偏锋为自己的创造力寻找出口。沈从文投身古代服饰研究也属于这种情况，只是并未完全跳出坑外。昌大的两次启智，一次理论一次实践，分别对应一个彩色镜头。
下载观看。写了一点东西外加一个影评在日记里。电影是抹黑一个国家最好的工具。印度，无可救药
黑白构图有了海岛与兹山交融的韵味。“魟鱼要走的路，只有魟鱼知道”，其实是在对比传统观念进行思考。一白群黑，将大昌与众官的对比放大，海岛渔夫“通过做官实现原初的理想”被驳得多么实在沉重，也只有这样，他在海岛的那段岁月才更显珍贵。从影像世界投射到现实世界，读书的功利心被无限放大，内心的自我沉浸往往比改变社会现实更令人接受，但从“走入”到“出走”实际上也是一个不可忽视的话题。天主教与朝廷的冲突很有意思，也很残酷，观念的和平共处几乎是无法想象的，过去固然是，但今日呢？其中值得深思，“兼容并包”永远是“天下”之所以为“天下”的原因，但“统治”天生的排异却使得一切难上加难。
#李俊溢#薛景求
3.5。本质社会意义大于电影本身吧，虽无过多视听技巧加持且人物塑造扁平了些，不过情绪感染力挺强。以印度史上真实司法案件为蓝本，探究了印度社会根深蒂固的种姓歧视、司法/执法系统公正性、底层平民的人身自由权及财产权，片名《杰伊•比姆》主要是为了颂扬这位努力为贫民阶层争取权益的原型律师。出生定终生，阶层不可逆，身为印度底层女性才真的是惨上加惨吧。
故事背后的真实案例发生在 1995 年，印度无比黑暗。同样是 1995 年，被中国公检法系统冤枉的聂树斌被执行枪决，同一时期大量的冤假错案到现在都没全部平反。2021 年，中国终于从亡国边缘走了回来，而印度连 18 大都没机会开。作为个体的救世主是不存在的，不论是比姆还是湿婆，没用的。阶级斗争才是王道，印度需要的是流血漂橹的无产阶级革命，而不是妄想着在资本和宗教的绞杀之下靠所谓的法治和民主翻身。
充满诗意的风物志也是人物志，对东亚儒学 士大夫之类刻画深入浅出，反思多于批判，让我想起前些年《沉默》和《思悼》（和兹山一个导演。个人印象最深的还是片子前期丁若铨在昌大/兹山人身上发现的大道至简，结尾昌大全家望着远处的兹山岛，镜头逐渐推进，真就“此心安处是吾乡”
当一个book smart遇到一个海洋鱼类sea smart，互为师生，互相成长
影片本身有瑕疵，但事实已经足够震撼人心了
一个人不在于有什么才能 而是用才能做些什么。never stop fighting。
A- 年度最佳电影，该火了。从头至尾，没有一句废话。根据真人真事改编，把警察做过所有肮脏的事赤裸裸拍出来，太一针见血了。律师太帅了，维护正义之道，不放过一丘之貉。印度是真能拍，也真敢拍。官官勾结行贿、包庇和滥用私权，把不配拥有土地不配活在世上的烂民活活打死，他们的命一文不值，死了就丢在荒郊野岭，太他妈黑暗了，惨无人道。种姓歧视就像吸了血的蚂蟥一般，永远吸附在印度人民身体里，吸干他们的血为止。重要的事情说三遍，这部电影该火了！这部电影该火了！！这部电影该火了！！！
3- 比起灵感出自东野圭吾的《较量》（《误杀》原版）可是差得远了，题材形式（且那歌词直白得恨不能掐死全人类的想象力）都不新鲜，故事或纪录哪边都不靠着。
其实警察大半夜来告诉女主她老公逃狱
故事的起承转合，音乐什么时候响起什么时候结束，甚至镜头摆放的位置、高低都是此类印度电影的标准程式化的结果，但确实，这种公式非常好用。
他们被冠以低种姓人，是排除在四大种姓之外的原住民。没有配给卡，不能购买低价粮食，不能参与选举，更没有自己的土地。他们甚至可以随意的被贴上任何标签，盗窃者、罪犯…虚假案件的受害者！
整体黑白的古韵风，被流放的朝鲜大夫的荒岛纪实，也有当时被官府压迫百姓的困苦以及官场压榨百姓的丑恶，观感上有点寡淡。
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