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".
《雄狮少年》破除了“高概念+奇观=成功”的迷信，下功夫去呈现服帖的口型、入耳的对白、流畅的动作设计，虽然还不完美，但努力让技术跟上自己的想法，画里画外都有一种钻研劲头。训练过程不过分煽情，结尾大战也不拖泥带水，全片看得人心里敞亮。更加出挑的是，它的少年义气根植于清醒和成熟，越到后面越写实，故事立意经得起推敲，成就了中国眼下非常稀缺的合家欢动画片，应该爆。
如果普通人只配像猪狗一样活着，生命只能任凭他人蹂躏，那这确实是一个不值得过活的世界。
从《我不是药神》开始，我觉得有些悲壮的事情能商业化讲述，挺好。
@金逸影城杜比影院超前观影
也有很多人被现实按在地上摩擦，但他不认，他选择做一头雄狮，战斗到底。
配乐：还ok，有地域特色
这是难得不需神话打底的原创动画，为它奠基的是传统文化。
印度电影永远在拿捏观众情绪及共鸣上处于世界顶级地位！观看的过程虽然能清醒的认识到拍摄水平、配音水平、叙事方式模式化等诸多小毛病，但就是让你铁了心的觉得瑕不掩瑜，自动忽略。近两年看印度电影真的有点上头。
没想到看个动画片也要带纸巾，剧情非常工整，每个情节都不出意料，但线索铺得高级且克制，画面堪称光线大师。最珍贵的是，我们很久没看到一个真实的中国城市出现在屏幕上了，荔枝湾、芳村地铁站、红木棉市花都是真的，舞狮文化、留守儿童、工伤、一闪而过的富士康厂服也是真的，有这片子是广州之幸。
仅仅因为能拍就得到了好评。电影本身问题很多，挖掘的深度相对这个时长是不够的，靠歌曲烘托的气氛反而把题材的严重性冲淡了，坏死体系对申诉的阻力无从体现等等。看完查了一下才知道片名的涵义，按表现手法还以为是律师英雄的名字。（看的版本翻译奇烂，可能影响细节）
没想到看个动画片也要带纸巾，剧情非常工整，每个情节都不出意料，但线索铺得高级且克制，画面堪称光线大师。最珍贵的是，我们很久没看到一个真实的中国城市出现在屏幕上了，荔枝湾、芳村地铁站、红木棉市花都是真的，舞狮文化、留守儿童、工伤、一闪而过的富士康厂服也是真的，有这片子是广州之幸。
很印度，不过戏剧性不那么强，更加真实。社会价值大于电影价值。主角出现的似乎有点晚？看了好久才知道，哦，比姆大概是这个律师，主角也是他，而不是最后的死者。
真惨。不太想看下去。都知道是怎么回事了。整个村庄就好像原始人一样。
没想到看个动画片也要带纸巾，剧情非常工整，每个情节都不出意料，但线索铺得高级且克制，画面堪称光线大师。最珍贵的是，我们很久没看到一个真实的中国城市出现在屏幕上了，荔枝湾、芳村地铁站、红木棉市花都是真的，舞狮文化、留守儿童、工伤、一闪而过的富士康厂服也是真的，有这片子是广州之幸。
speechless... but there is hope and justice. ironically though, in blackwater, it takes years in a modern western world. and then there is also
阿娟决心告别舞狮前，在天台最后一舞。舞狮结束，朝阳升起，照亮正在生长却不属于他的城市，他内心响起舞狮的鼓点，激活一切澎湃，镜头给到成群结队进入电子厂的工人背影，那一刻他们仿佛也听到了鼓声。
4.5 很久没看到这么好的国漫。不蹭任何IP不卖萌讲土生土长的中国故事，把根扎进自己脚下的土地，前半段的嬉笑怒骂节奏混乱，可遇到阿强后的情绪爆发就像开了挂，一波一波地献上泪点。叙事能力超越同期大部分电影，画风没有眩目空洞满屏飞舞的特效，自然写实。什么乳化？没事别乱喊乳化，容易变成狼来了。
前阵子豆瓣一下子出现了好几部高分片，《倒数时刻》《芬奇》，包括这一本。是今年内地引进片又少又拉跨，还是压抑的环境所致，上述三部都完完全全是1.0的东西，竟然还能有接近神作的评分，《杰伊·比姆》甚至接近9分，最原始的以弱胜强，能够博取绝大多数人的心，就像春上说的“鸡蛋去碰石头，我永远站在鸡蛋这一边”，《杰伊·比姆》就是这样一个故事，且完成度不错，逻辑自洽，一切都刚刚好，不差也没有惊喜。
一开始就猜到了死在警局，钦佩律师所做的所有努力，找出来了真相
作为闽南人也很喜欢，感觉片中每一座房子都像老家的房子，路边混着榕树樟树和芭蕉，木棉花一碗一碗地掉，一股东南沿海的气息。在城市不断崛起的同时，民工子弟的生活却是坠落的。年纪大了就知道这种勇气很难，舞狮踩的高桩就是万重山，“人这一生，上山下山，有自己的路要走”，就常常觉得难走，可是他在楼顶张着双臂，变得结实黝黑，“嘭—嘭—嘭”好像自己的心也在跳。台词有些刻意，剧情问题倒不算大，最喜欢的设计是林中的石佛像，一个具象化的“命运”，使这个片虽不是神话却有一丝神性，那个地方就是隐秘的内心世界，少年半信半疑地向神佛许愿，但实现奇迹的却可能不是佛像而是他心中的狮子。
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