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".
“当我们被杀的时候没有人会在意，但我们不能靠杀手的施舍生活”
跟想的一样，泪目。电影里邪不压正。现实呢。想起那个去印度集中营的随水。还能拍得出来。低头
“九连真人”的小号🎺在片尾吹响，终于找到了与他最匹配的电影视觉画面，为了这一刻，这部电影值得反复看~
印度律师为被冤枉偷窃的人伸张正义，种姓制度依然根深蒂固
为什么不能小眼睛呢？是不是也是被一些主流审美裹挟？ 我们的人生可能不会被这一次奋不顾身所改写，但是人生有这样一次奋不顾身，也会让人心不会死。
“九连真人”的小号🎺在片尾吹响，终于找到了与他最匹配的电影视觉画面，为了这一刻，这部电影值得反复看~
用力过度的水准可以和韩国掰一掰手腕，煽情太过是减分向，人物都是工具性的，最大的力量是根据真实事件改编，不过也许真实比电影里的煽情更令人窒息。
作为马保国老师的铁粉，多一星给那句“我大意了啊，没有闪”。
太惨了太惨了，那么纯朴可爱的人活的像兽，而跋扈狠毒的兽穿着警服假装是人，拍的太真实简直看不下去。男主堪称律师侠，是不折不扣的超级英雄。
导演是个乐夏粉吗，从五条人到椅子乐团到九连真人又听了一遍。然而，还是想说处理的很高级：燃的很俗套，燃的也很真实。就像片尾，喜欢的女孩仍旧是别人的女朋友，生活还是日复一日地去工地搬砖。这不仅仅是一部关于舞狮的电影，这更是一部关于人生的电影：即便身处阴沟，也要仰望星空；就算身居陋室，也不要忘记你是一头雄狮。更何况，那还是一间推开窗户就可以看见东方明珠的陋室。所以少年已经用坚定的眼神做出了回答：他可以被生活打败，但永远不会向命运屈服。
这部国产动画电影了不得，惊艳开场，而第三幕应该是国产电影年度最佳！
技术没的说了，情感和人物也都没拖后腿，送去奥斯卡没准真能搏一搏呢……
你们是何时变得如此脆弱如此不自信没有独立思考能力的，平时的大国自信哪去了！动不动就乳化！别有用心又蠢又坏！如此热血励志的动漫打一星，就你看的电影多，谁没看过星爷的电影，里面致敬的也很自然！还没剧情，要什么剧情，励志片不都是这个剧本！咸鱼也可以翻身！也可以有梦想！也可以有奇迹！就是不认命不服输！如此热血沸腾又热泪盈眶的动漫不比绝大多数国产电影好太多了！同时还传播醒狮这种传统文化遗产，记得看粤语版！毕竟这个讲的就是南狮，粤语更接近那个语境。
可能是口碑过好期待太高，看完觉得就挺套路的一个励志片，好多台词都太中二太尬了，而且从设定上来讲，舞狮这种需要台下几年十几年的练功，让他们一组几个月速成，多多少少是对武术人的不尊重了。
感觉比近十年来很多高分高票房的国产动画都要好出一大截，前一小时有点不稳定，常规的插科打诨（有些笑料很烂俗很low）以及情绪铺垫处理得时好时坏，中段转折后，无论是掷地有声的故事本身还是节奏、情绪都变得顺畅许多。以往国产动画最常见的动画技术强但是导演能力差的问题也得到了解决，分镜和镜头运动都无可挑剔，最后高潮段落的掌控力也特别稳，没有常见的煽过头。PS：有一两段配乐过于耳熟不知是否存在参考还是纯属巧合
ps,喜欢片中典型的印度电影音乐；
以为开始的场场暴行就是人间炼狱了，谁知道真相被揭开时才体会到果然是恶魔在人间。印度时不时就会蹦出一些影片，能够用独特的角度去批判现实。本片只能看一遍，身心都经受不起。
还有，舞狮这个题材多好啊，关于这项运动的传统、技术、动作，这些都可以做文章啊，结果一点没提。白瞎了这么好的题材！！！
这不就是中国人自己的超级英雄片吗？不是拯救世界，拯救人类，而是接纳自己，打破恐惧，迎难而上。广东边陲的小镇，留守的病弱少年，外出打工的父母，镇上的阿猫阿狗，备受欺凌、孤苦、穷困，但内心却有火焰。想成功，想做一头雄狮，想有奇迹，主宰自己的命运。有人说这很狗血，像一碗烂俗的心灵鸡汤，可这正是底层中国人的生活。有渴望有什么不好？成功是不容易，可人都有做梦的权利。人有信念才能所向披靡，哪怕一生只成功一次。
热血励志又残忍现实，我愿意给满分。岭南小镇、乡间泥路、农村大巴…现实场景的呈现精细到可以以假乱真，舞狮也不只是个传统文化的空壳，这才是国产动画该有的样子！那些张口闭口就是“乳化”的人不是蠢就是坏。
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