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".
拉贾坎努被殴如此都不承认自己偷了东西，
可能是去年最热门的印度片之一，希望这样的律师越多越好。
这句响亮的口号喊出了印度历史上第五种姓的变革。
中规中矩。虽然小人物对抗强权的剧情很容易引起观众的共情，但整体没有特别出彩的地方，几段歌曲的插入也破坏了叙事连贯性，法庭戏也基本处在我方王者，对方青铜的状态上，没有营造过多的紧张感。
虽然现实在绝大多数时候比电影中呈现的故事更为黑暗，但我们还要保持足够的信心，因为生活中有钱德鲁律师这样的人为正义而不懈地努力。
【7.0】豆瓣评分老毛病，题材好＝满分。印度电影通病，用大量洗脑神曲配合琐碎剪辑来交代故事进展，严重影响叙事节奏。所有表达都用最直白肤浅的方式呈现。讲的是低种姓人群对抗警察的故事，但表现警察凶恶的方式只是刻意拖长的刑讯场面和受害人的哀嚎。每到展现主角和女配正义光环的时候就是慢镜头+配乐，有点尴尬。辣椒粉的线索挺重要，但先期药店和诊所不在一个方向、谎报打电话的时间的伎俩太愚蠢了，完全显示不到律师的能力，只能看到他的意志和敌人的蹩脚。中间的转折也很突兀，扫盲课老师和农家妇女一样无知吗？明知道受害人不可能打电话为何不在第一次庭审后直接告诉律师？非要刻意制造本不存在的困难吗？是用笨拙技法拍出的有一点社会意义的故事，仅此而已。
——但这不包括我的良心，先生。”
4分给电影1分给题材，印度能够拍出自揭警察和司法体系伤疤的电影，就说明这个国家有他了不起的地方。电影讲述被歧视的部落男子被陷害逮捕殴打致死，他的妻子和人权律师伸张正义的案件。杰伊·比姆并不是人名，而是比姆万岁的口号，用来致敬比姆·安贝德卡尔，他为了印度种姓体系最底层的贱民阶层争取权力，是印度第一位法律部长和宪法之父。钱德鲁是印度著名人权律师，用了十年的漫长时间处理96000起案件，平均每天处理75起，对抗种姓制度、执法和司法系统。电影取材于真实案件，这个案件打了10年官司，是当地高等法院历史上最长的人权案件。主演电影的苏利耶还受到很多批评和威胁。印度有这样的杰出人物，敢于揭露自身的社会问题，这样的国家不可小觑。
很可悲的一件事是，当不公正发生时，低种姓并不能通过任何方式讨回公道，最终还是要依靠高种姓的良心。
电影是强大的武器，但重要的是我们通过使用它来保护谁......
完全没发觉这部片的时长哎！人类对故事的接受度永无止境
印度的问题不只种姓制度这一方面，一两个案子治标不治本，电影只是代表一些觉醒，要想解决问题需要一个长期艰难的过程。还会有很多不为人知的被歧视被冤屈被虐待被杀害的人永远抱屈衔冤了。
事件是震撼的 但拍摄手法人物塑造太过于刻板流水账
魔鬼在人间！警察的暴行，让人发指！一个妇女，一个律师，寻求公平正义种族平权！印度能拍出这样的电影，印度是有希望的！
7/10
三星半。看片的这天网络上传开了在金奈集中营被关了三个月的中国人故事，感叹一下金奈几十年过去了也还是够黑，比剧组找的泰米尔群演的皮肤还黑。真实案件改编，在改编和拍摄手法上基本遵循了旧有方式，仰拍男主、插入拍广告短片式的人物小传、黑警和对方律师都无脑无智、法院达到了明镜高悬的公正程度、延长和反复对酷刑的拍摄等，把双方的对立关系搞得很抓马，但我相信当时实际的维权之路绝不会是主人公完全占优的开挂模式，为贱民人权奔走绝不是一条通途。反而独立监察的警察老大是本片相对丰富的角色，他既要调查案情真相，又要有反思警察作为的决心，但是有点高开低走，可惜导演没有抓住这个人物的复杂立场表达更多内容，笔墨都给案件和男主了。吐槽一下南北印度片都好喜欢下雨，一下雨就等于和解。男主真·共产主义者，原型的面相特别慈悲。
虽然现实在绝大多数时候比电影中呈现的故事更为黑暗，但我们还要保持足够的信心，因为生活中有钱德鲁律师这样的人为正义而不懈地努力。
虽然现实在绝大多数时候比电影中呈现的故事更为黑暗，但我们还要保持足够的信心，因为生活中有钱德鲁律师这样的人为正义而不懈地努力。
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