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".
一名大学教授的残忍谋杀案引发了学生骚乱，临危受命起来调查的警察，再抓捕到4名罪犯后，由于愤怒，在押送途中枪杀罪犯，随即受到审判。在法庭上，面对4名前科累累，底种族肤色人种罪犯，舆论一边倒地指向警察为正义英雄。但是在最后关头，却被“铁拐李”拿出的证据所击穿，原来所谓的英雄也不过是参与其中的一颗引导舆论的棋子，而且还是以妻女为要挟的棋子……【真相：正义英雄把自己犯罪的证据偷偷给对方律师】
故事C：肮脏政客煽动民粹主义换选票；
今年最满意的悬疑片，比去年的杰伊博姆有意思多了，千万不要低估印度阿三的原创能力，最近唐山事件引发了社会热议， 相比起中国，在印度这个国家发生的事远远更令人发指，但他们用更加高的视角去阐述社会议题故事。无论在社会探索深度和社会舆论的反思程度都远远吊打误杀2，我估计陈思诚会对这个故事很有兴趣，与此同时，我非常期待韩国的改编版。 内政部长的表现堪称洪先生。
全篇都是热血激情反转的bmg，故事拍的像MTV一样😂印度人很敢拍，仅此而已。
最后找了一个反派大BOSS当替罪羊代体质受过，把所有的恶都推诿到人性上。大BOSS的属性和那四个犯人是一样的。电影用片子里BOSS忽悠民众的手法，把观众也忽悠了一遍。
程序正义，舆论操纵，种姓倾轧，
典型的印度电影，除了跳舞其他元素都在的，各种渲染，可惜我并不感冒。并不怀疑故事的真实性，只是太刻意也太没创意了，如副校长当着媒体的面的的讲话有点离谱，为了调动观众的情绪可以理解但有点过了，如警察同时审判四个嫌疑犯也太扯了，如我不太明白印度女人头巾戴了又摘摘了又戴了的区别，只是了解肯定有象征意义，可惜我也没兴趣知道了。
1.议程设置是如何一步步遮蔽、修改真相的
名过其实。一群律师和法官连基本的法律训练都没有受过。
落后的国家，落后的体制，竟然为了博取选民的投票而费劲心思操控司法和媒体，真是笑死我了，还好我在中国
片头光感谢的名单就放了2分钟，注定了这是一部不简单的片子，自编自导自演，太敢拍了，政治、阶级的遮羞布统统撤掉。第一次160分钟的片子还嫌短了。
以为是讨论程序正当的话题，法律牵扯上媒体和政治革命以及女权保护、导师压榨论文机器，真是大餐。政治家最大的武器是利用公众的情感。既白虎后又一力作，印度越来越敢拍。为大尺度+★
学会做减法是印度电影百尺竿头更进一步的最大难关。
非常极限的ab故事倒装结构，印度电影版《沉默的真相》，台词、人物塑造极为精妙，关键是触碰的话题无所顾忌，酣畅淋漓。印度电影神如斯，我等汗颜。
十分精彩，剧情不断反转，内容针砭时弊，涉及政治阴谋、教育体制、种族歧视、性别歧视、法律公信等，真是太敢拍了，期待续集。
除了种姓和出身，研究生导师的权力太大，与学生不平衡的关系也是蛮重要的点
良心发现，英雄出现，民众狂欢。
最后找了一个反派大BOSS当替罪羊代体质受过，把所有的恶都推诿到人性上。大BOSS的属性和那四个犯人是一样的。电影用片子里BOSS忽悠民众的手法，把观众也忽悠了一遍。
一个国家的尊严等同于它给女性的尊严。
给国人带来巨大震撼！这就是操控舆论的下场！当法治变成人治，当舆论左右司法，这时，你以为你看到的就是正义吗？PS：看到结尾感觉学生真是最好煽动的群体，青春热血又自以为是，政客们应该挺喜欢的～
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
