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".
愿世界和平愿世界美好。
热评给我看笑了。无可挑剔的台词被说成匠气，音乐一般带着激情又优美律动的剪辑被说成凌乱，只能说这种观众配不上Sorkin。单单是Dave在法庭上无意识打了警察然后不停道歉就值得本信徒再看100遍。
我算了一下一个名字五秒，四千多个名字要念六个多小时呢。
我觉得索金变了，这种变化很微妙，甚至有可能仅仅是小雀斑和拜伦科恩的个人风格带来的改变，但这部真的终于不再那么那么那么的索金了。他拍电影有点匠心，也有点匠气，可他对他的祖国终保有一颗赤子之心，让人看了总不禁热血沸腾，肃然起敬。
浹淇说：“在此时这部电影的社会意义大于电影本身。”我也这么认为，换个时间，我可能都不会选择在周末看这样一部zz庭审片。跟《燃情岁月》里的父亲一样，一直主张远离zz，但其实我们的生活处处跟它息息相关。才看了没三分钟，C就说“这不会是那个人编剧吧？”一查，真是，艾伦·索金，太厉害了，好久没见过台词写得这么精密又有效的了，有点新好莱坞时代或者比利怀德鼎盛时期的意思。人物很有意思，性格面貌不同，充分体现出阶级差异。萨莎太出彩，他这种表面嘻嘻哈哈的人容易被大众误解，其实内里最坚强也最正义，行动上也很有逻辑支持，算是这7人中最让我喜欢的。小雀斑的角色最后没让人失望，骨子里还是manly的。故事相对简单化了一些，但有高密度的台词打底，还是很有看头的。
here are their names.
不愧是百老汇啊，舞台上的每个人包括最后的乐手都是魅力四射，通过舞台，我们看到了在甘德这么一个平时被人遗忘的小镇，危难时刻涌现出人性的光辉，又通过中东人，飞行员，纽约市民，失去消防员的母亲等等个体完整的反应了整个事件，轻松而严肃，幽默又不失温情
喬說那時他在芝加哥公車上遇見過William Kunstler，向他表達了敬意，就在七人案審判期間。比照如今…一言難盡。
forget cross-examination, settle in for a 2-hour long cross-lecturing
现今时代已远非60年代，每一起游行变成暴乱的背后究竟是谁策划的，谁可以利用“程序正义”光明正大地行使权力？司马昭之心路人皆知。
情绪饱满的最后宣判一幕与《辩护人》遥相呼应，我深呼吸好几口气才把眼泪压下去。并不巧合的是，两片讲的都是政府蓄意给普通公民思想定罪的故事。
民运也许存在很多问题，但这绝不是思想审判的正当理由。当法律沦为政治的走狗，那么自然法上的正义就不复存在了。对正当程序的背弃、对政治迫害的容忍、以及对公民最基本权利（生命和自由）的肆意剥夺，都是这种状态孕育而生的产物。这是一个完完全全的警察国家。
人物众多，台词密集，看两遍才理清人物关系和前后铺垫，视听语言做的很好，调度很棒
这才是好的故事。水银泻地般铺开，又能紧紧地收住。好像网飞挺擅长这招的。
四星半，看哭了，想到很多事，说不出话，说不出话。不想去谈论那些关于什么电影技巧，导演技法，文本是否盖过视听，不想谈，因为没有意义。“—你是否蔑视你的政府？”“—相比政府对我的蔑视，我的蔑视不值一提。”起了一身鸡皮疙瘩。
老索金了，这次亲自上阵执导筒，密集至满溢的台词剧本，交叉叙事，闪回，编排精致。然后在这个时间点上出这部左翼电影，含义不言自明。撕裂与冲突，平权、民权，借古喻今。
B+. 剧本剪辑音乐交相呼应，把文戏拍出了极具律动的musicality，尤其探员作证-公园警暴/模拟审讯-大会抗议两段蒙太奇，真实感到了肾上腺素的飙升。在如同冲锋号角的高能推进里，索金用历史影像-戏剧重现-当今时局的互文，完成了最热血的政治动员：太阳底下无新事，这正是他为理想主义所写的战歌。
"it's nothing compare to the contempt my gouvernment has for me"
只想知道电影是什么时候拍的，能踩准BLM的点上映也是没谁了。法庭戏精彩，其他部分实在不怎么样。通过一些台词和细节把法官拍的那么令人不齿，让人恨的牙痒，有多少是真实的，这么煽动观众情绪可以吗
女机长这段好感动🥲，连小动物也有人照料好有人文关怀哦
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