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".
4.5 I think the institutions of our democracy are wonderful things
1969年美国历史上臭名昭著的一场审判，这帮新左派狠人掀起一场社会革命，影响之深远以至于很多画面都成为了流行符号。艾伦索金是处理这类复杂政治历史事件当之无愧的大神，在庞杂的线索中开辟出一条道路，SDS、异皮士、黑豹党、保守派法官，不同人物不同立场的结构叙事，镜像对白的相互呼应。“与政府对我的蔑视相比，我的蔑视不值一提”
即便明知是索金毫无避讳射出的完全自我的左翼连珠炮，也愿意毫无保留地被击中；即便明知这是篇诞生于特殊时期的战斗檄文，也愿意不加抵抗地被俘获：在不公与强权下固守着理想主义最后防线的受审者，他们的呼号是横亘时代的宣言。
导演/编剧在开拍/开写之前就已经给开庭之前就想给主角团们定罪的大法官定了罪。
虽然到最后意识到是强烈的爱国主义片，但是真的感动，以及七君子中很多为何后续都没有善终
“比起政府对我的藐视，我的藐视不值一提。”
特殊时期来看这种民间自发互助还是挺感动的。临结尾的创伤后遗以及十年后的生活还得继续，只愿不要歧视和平共处吧！
很好的音乐剧，但这是一个音乐剧的录像带，而不是电影。
虽然到最后意识到是强烈的爱国主义片，但是真的感动，以及七君子中很多为何后续都没有善终
Phoenix Theatre, London, 4 Nov 2021. 疫情之后看这个剧还真是很有强心剂作用，大家唱得真好啊！
所以今年大选的时候念因新冠去世的人的名字会怎样？
虽然我爱Sorkin 但最后一场戏太脸谱化 太美国式高潮 但作为科普60年代的民运 还是值得一看
精彩！“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。”
首页推了高清版，果然周末和来自远方就是最配的！
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。
诉求是反战，年轻人们要做爱不要战争，拒绝当意识形态的炮灰，是理所当然的诉求。酗酒吸大麻搞性派对，再怎么颓废也是青春的一道阴影，都比喂子弹强。而国家机器的洗脑与威吓一定是号召大家参战，为政府抛头颅撒热血，合理化所有武装暴力，仅仅是少数几个政治寡头拍拍脑袋扯什么荣耀与尊严就宣布开战。而走上街头示威游行不仅不被允许，警察政府甚至直接祭上催泪瓦斯和警棍，你看，受伤的是年轻人，流血的是年轻人，被审判的也是年轻人。除了乖乖上战场把自己送上死路，年轻人再无路可走。连审判的规则，正义或者法庭本身，都被父权制、威权政府所绑架，并玩弄于股掌之中，打一巴掌不准还嘴，还说“藐视法庭”。艾比说，“给我一点时间好吗，我还没准备好会因为我的思想而受到审判”。历史是重复的，年轻人被玩权弄术之流所宰制，却又都被封住了嘴巴。
第一次感受到了舞台剧的震撼，这还是隔着屏幕的感受，在现场的话，非常幸福了！
导演/编剧在开拍/开写之前就已经给开庭之前就想给主角团们定罪的大法官定了罪。
在听到大家唱歌的时候我没哭。只是看到大家在经历灾难之后，仍然笑着交谈的时候，我就泪流满面。
他们没有审查吗？
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