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".
眼睛并未让我产生任何不好的联想，如果有，那就是整张脸绝类狮子，莫非有意为之？阿猫太像悟空了，以至于我把阿狗认作八戒，阿娟认作三藏，尤其是他刚剃完头的那会儿。
3星全给画面，纹理真的做得太好了，狮头的须，飘动，逼真度自然度满分！还有舞狮时候的步伐都非常好看！但剧情是什么鬼？一个前度冠军无端端去一个乡下，送一个那么贵的狮头给一个陌生人？几个门外汉在一个已经荒废十几年的教练手下练了几个月就能夺冠？合理性已经全毁了，就靠打鸡血推进剧情！最无言是最后那一幕，硬就是要宣扬这种精神胜利~明知不行还要冲是燃，但把狮头挂上去那种虚荣太恶心！这个时代怎么还追求这种阿Q精神？还一堆人觉得激动。。。。。
一定大卖，这种电影如果还不卖就没天理了。。。
敢於掌握你手中的權力，除此之外別無選擇，收回權力，要求權力，因為這是唯一昂首行走的辦法。絕不妥協，這是一場爭取平等權利的戰鬥，讓普通人的目光一一點亮，宣告通往新起點的道路。誰在命令我？你是誰？我們不是溫馴的羊，別以為你能讓我們屈服，我們沒有多少武器，愛是這場兵變的動力。公正屬於所有人，把這條信息帶給人民。#真是一首好歌 /"這不是對任何人的仇恨，這是對社會的愛和關懷"，共勉之。
印度人的苦难不需要过多渲染, 诚实的展示出来就能直击人心
最直观的感受是剧本太糟糕了，很多地方都太低幼，太生硬，太脸谱化，太刻意煽情了。编剧大概没什么底层生活经验，空有一腔关怀。台词中的“我爱你”“如果发生奇迹”“是在慢性自杀吧”“心里有一声怒吼”“是我老公啊”，如果改成“媳妇你真好”“要是老天开眼”“快把自己吃死了”“心里有一股劲”“我家那口子上电视了”，会不会好很多？不上学的留守儿童背李白的诗作为剧情关键转折点，45岁咸鱼店主说出“只要鼓点还能在心中响起，我们就是雄狮”作为关键台词，不真实，也缺乏说服力和感染力。臭脚段落配合帕瓦罗蒂的演唱实在有够低俗。但无论如何也是一部底层人民站在舞台中央的作品，画面美轮美奂怎么夸赞都不为过，还有楼顶孤独舞狮配合打工仔生活蒙太奇的段落，和这个收的恰到好处的结尾，还是值得一个好评！
唯一的缺点可能就是时间比较长吧，当然这是印度电影物色。看得我老婆都哭了，佩服印度演员
美其名曰弘扬传统文化，拍舞狮，却又不讲舞狮，除了片头旁白零星几句，舞狮哪里好，要怎么练，有什么讲究传统，通片只字不提，就光拍拿着狮头跳，只是借个壳子噱头而已。 全片优点可能就是舞狮行头的质感了，做的确实不赖。 团队少看点《乐夏》和周星驰，做个不偷鸡的作品出来不行麽。
影片结局出狮头的残缺、阿娟的落水以及最后彩蛋处阿娟又重新回归生活去到上海打工，都让影片立足于朴素英雄主义，给予每个现实人生活的指引，并克制地留下了“传统文化亟待挽救”的命题，意蕴悠长。
说什么RH的都有点儿强词夺理了，人物造型上的创新我从最开始的海报和预告里就喜欢，可能是有那么些向欧美动漫化方式借鉴，但我不觉得是刻意为之。尤其当阿娟剃了短发后，我想到了我侄子，所以后来看他那么辛苦，我都泪目了。故事本身是我喜欢的那种动画片该有的热血和励志，比当年的大圣归来都不差的煽动力，要说作为动画电影的不足，我想可能大概只有笑点不太够这一条？电影配乐见识到了国产电影的进步，插曲几乎要将乐队的夏天给照搬过来了，连阿珍和阿强都以角色名植入了。电影结局没有直接说跳上了擎天柱这个最开始就伏笔了的悬念，想象出来的英雄花和雄狮是一种动画片特有的浪漫主义，也让跳失败了的擎天柱的现实真实中没有丢童真该坚持的不切实际的想象。
“尊重一个人的才能取决于他们使用它的目的”
宁愿做过了后悔，也不要错过了后悔。
“一个人是否应该得到尊重，不在于他有多少才能，而是取决于他用才能去做什么。”种姓制度，种族歧视，都是万恶之源。现实往往比影片更残忍更冷酷更黑暗，所以，更要不断的谈及，不断的用可传播的方式让更多人铭记、抗争
“受害者得不到公正造成的伤害比他们遭受的不公正还要多”
警察的暴行看得害怕。感谢这么多年里为人权而战斗的勇士们！
值得去影院贡献下票房，周星驰、五条人、九连真人……虽然优缺点都非常明显，而如何平衡故事与技术上的差距依旧是国产动画的漫漫长路；后半段优于前半段，特别是少年推开天台的门开始，一气呵成。到最后，总是哭着求神拜佛的少年终于化为雄狮，上山下山，路自在脚下。
所有中国传统文化的元素都没有刻意去卖弄，以及对残酷现实的直面与迎难而上的态度，但又是一部真正创作扎实的优秀作品~
年度惊喜！打工人，雄狮魂，柔弱少年的成长史，也是万千小镇咸鱼雄起的吼声。故事套路，转折略嫌生硬，但丰沛的市井烟火气和温暖的情感内核足以弥补这块短板。技术上精益求精，从第一镜开始，照片级的景物描画便奠定了全片的现实主义基调。所谓画鬼容易画人难，水准完胜正大行其道的各路奇幻动画。对成龙、周星驰作品和黄飞鸿系列的致敬继承了香港电影融传统与现代于一炉的特殊趣味，虽然基于南狮文化，却有超出地域的冲击力与感染力，最后一幕差点把我给整破防了。
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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……
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