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".
难怪至今能在IMDB收获9.4分，我们能感受到印度观众（尤其低种姓和贱民社群）籍此吐了一口恶气的那种万般舒畅和荡气回肠。当我们知道基于真实事件改编，尤其片尾列举了人物原型詹德鲁律师彪炳的职业生平，顿然掩卷长叹——我们的国邻能在上世纪末，以人Quan律师牵头，历尽艰辛成功挑战无为政F和腐败警黑，谱写一曲法制凯歌。引用片尾的马拉地语诗歌——“斗争代表了光，斗争代表了爱，斗争是我们从黑暗走向光明的道路，斗争的运动代表的是千万受压迫者的泪水——安贝德卡尔”。
22/1/16:对这个导演比较陌生，从能把一部剧的体量浓缩进了电影还是能看出功底的出色；导演对政治的态度也很妙。三星半
拍法非常不可以，哪来这么高分。近乎病态地直接表现暴行（孟买酒店也这样，算是风格化了吗？你确定观众的反应是你想要的？），却对律师毫无描绘平板一块，简直天降英雄。法官更是无欲求的青天大老爷，最终只能是下面人的错，并不触及系统，是与中国电影同归了。
3.这种电影看的真的难受，因为电影里的问题是真实存在并且还将一直存在.
知易行难，值得重复看的电影。2022年看的第一部电影，幸事。
没想到这样一部有着文人风骨的电影，却是隔壁的韩国拍出来的。儒家士大夫的进与退，被电影道尽，既有苏轼屡遭贬谪却自得其乐的不息生命，也有“居庙堂之高则忧其民，处江湖之远则忧其君”的胸怀。师徒二人的人生，仿佛是出世入世顺序的对调，最终即使活不成一只鹤，也能如兹山一般生机勃勃。“能看清世界，才能写得了诗。”影片摄影构图满分！
于多数人而言，功名利禄和人的善性，总得抛掉一个，有人不接受现实，到最后幡然醒悟之时，不论头破血流还是全身而退，都已是沧海桑田
打五星不是为了影片质量，五星是为了那些底层无法发声的人们。
好看，入世出世，值得回味，真为我们的文化而自豪，不过这个文化，我们自己不看重了……
若是不能按照所学来生活，就得按照自己的性格来生活
若是不能按照所学来生活，就得按照自己的性格来生活
最大的玄学不是印度的宗教系统和各种各样千奇百怪的神，而是印度电影的时长。看别的电影，两个半小时已经很长，看印度电影，一看两个半小时，第一反应是这么短能行吗，看完果然觉得差口气儿，后面要是多三五分钟能把群众参与进来，意识被影响改变的地方像男主出场时一样再烘一下，把案件影响力的范围、层次感加深一点，且用画面展现出来会更好，现在低种姓、部落的平等权利那里后面没砸实，都是用语言表述的。以及当我们鄙夷、愤怒的时候，不要忘记最多苦难的地方也意味着最大觉醒的潜能。不然，为什么说浪子回头金不换呢。
黑白色质感的电影，像极了中国的水墨丹青。师傅已经宦海沉浮参透人生，徒弟想学有所成施展抱负，虽似矛盾冲突却是一体两面，没有入世何谈出世。只识字不成诗，诗是精神世界的外延。白鹤虽好，兹山污泥亦善也；庙堂虽高，无名之人亦正也。影片涉及的哲思话语比较多，从安身立命、阶层跃迁、经世治国、贵贱平权、男女平等、民贵君轻、中西碰撞、人生觉醒，原以为会有很深奥的思辨和对白，但却举重若轻点滴融入到流放生活和浅白话语中。大道至简，悟在天成。PS：我国多少文人墨客流放的故事，可惜少了这样的好电影。
警惕印共打黑警牌。太冗长，结尾真把律师当意见领袖了，欧美也不敢这么吹。
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！
如果我拿了钱，我的孩子问我：我们的钱是哪儿来的？的时候，我要怎么回答呢？告诉她这是打死你爸爸的人给我们的，所以他们没有受到惩罚吗？
现实中有太多这种绝望的罪恶了，又有多少正义能得到伸张呢
年轻人还是要入世感受一下现实世界有多么的操蛋，才能懂天主教老爷子为啥子要出世啊
韩国电影题材广，而且敢于揭露国家的阴暗面，”百姓把地当做农田，官员把百姓当做农田”，官场黑暗和文人自我修为间的冲突，传统儒学文化和西学的冲突，，本来应该是我们最贴身感受，却被韩国人拍出来，真是遗憾。黑白画面返璞归真，蓝鸟的生命力太震撼了。
「活成不断向上飞的鹤虽然不是坏事，但即便身上沾满污水泥浆，也要活得像兹山一样，虽外表看着黑暗却生机勃勃自由自在，也未曾不是有意义的事啊。」
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