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".
80分/印度电影质量真的不错。议题深刻，直指印度女性的核心利益；悬念保留到最后一幕，就是反转稍弱了些。
印度女性面对的环境确实恶劣，以这种非现实的手法去警醒立法者，更像是文学创作的无奈之举，以假想的女性总理的同理心而促成这种后续立法上的跟进，受害者何其多，体制是根源，印度一直是个分裂的社会，却有全世界最多的年轻人，贫穷却欲壑难填，得不到满足的发泄在女性身上，法律作为最终手段在这里显然没起到改变现实的作用，才需要更进一步的强有力的立法。
她挟持了16个孩子但没有伤害过他们 孩子们什么都不知道甚至任何恐慌情绪都没有。她勒索了政府五千万卢布 全捐给了受伤者自己一分没留。她把自己的伤口扯开给世人看 被大家咒骂被误解成抑郁至病的疯狂人士。她要什么？她希望强奸犯可以得到惩罚 她希望那些坏人不要再逍遥法外 她希望可以让全印度的女性能拥有一个安全的生活环境 仅此而已 仅此而已 仅此而已。希望其他国家也能借鉴一下这个意义重大的星期四 不要让提出那么为广大人民着想的途径变得那么极端卑微。
难得的一部没有歌舞的印度片，印度片质量越来越好了。除了片尾的煽情之外，其他细节等都处理的很好，演员表演也不错。
听说印度女性出生都要对下体处理到结婚的时候由他丈夫再处理用来证明自己还是清白之身，这样就很容易理解影片里面的女性了
继《一个母亲复仇》《云端之上》《杰伊•比姆》后又一杰出的印度社会现实题材电影。透过媒体报导可能我们看到的尽是印度这样或那样的不好，然而，看了这些印度电影之后才发现是一个让人肃然起敬的有很多地方值得我们学习的伟大邻居啊。
有蹭热点之嫌 有狗血 有刻意 可是坏人就是要被惩治啊 为什么受害者还要承担更多呢 记住这个星期四 不要再置若罔闻
片子整体质量三星，但4星推荐一看，前半段拖沓，也有蛮多不合理的细节，但片子本身的意义跟最后的反转还是有看点的，如果一部影片让你对所处的环境，体制，身份，角色，还有这个世界的运行规则有一定的思考，就还是值得一看~~~~PS:印度片拖沓是常态，要习惯，，，再曝个粗口，TTMMQJF是没有手的吗。。。
陈思诚看完电影拍着大腿让公司把这个本子买下来，马上订机票去泰国拍《误杀3》，这次肖央不能演第一主角了，那就演那个警察角色吧。
一部印度乌托邦的电影，不过能拍出来就值5星了！
3.8吧。立意和落脚点都挺好的，就是这个剪辑真的是……一言难尽，每次突然推荐突然给个音效真的是有些受不了。如果音乐不要那么冲或许会好很多吧
印度的社会问题还是相当严重的，很了不起能有这种片子出来，只可惜他们政府依旧不作为
《开端》＋《恐怖直播》＋《黑镜(首相X猪那集)》
“譬如你说，这屋子太暗，说在这里开一个天窗，大家一定是不允许的。但如果你主张拆掉屋顶，他们就会来调和，愿意开天窗了。”——鲁迅
那个前程似锦的女孩。人的生命不能只换来一场烛光游////行。不是这个代价。不能这么衡量。
太牛逼 在一个沮丧的周六晚上看完 热血，完整，激动人心
第一次给印度电影打满分，我以为就是个劫持幼儿园的老套故事，没想到结局是有个原因。没有绝对的坏人，发现他走到这个地步的原因，不要一棒子打死。反之，也没有绝对好人。剖析原因，还原事实。我希望国内影视剧也可以这样。社会也可以这样。
作为悬疑片来说，氛围感营造的还是不错，该有的细节也有，逻辑尽量达到了圆满，是一部中规中矩的类型片，值得一提的是故事发生的背景和立意，印度强奸犯罪率居高不下，该有这样的发声，虽然故事是理想主义，但希望这是个好的开始。
立意有四星，不过故事只有三星。强奸犯毁了一个人的一生但是去只受到十年甚至几年的判刑，出狱之后还活得像个人一样。我一直觉得物理阉割是个非常可行的方案，也让强奸犯在被毁了的人生中活下去。
很適合現在的人類觀看 不應該把自己社交媒體化
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