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".
是优秀到广东省可以用来当形象宣传片的程度✔
赶在粤语版前看一眼国语的 靓仔一起这片就有基础分了（不是//韩国人心底有贝斯 我们心里有雄狮咆哮 有舞狮鼓点 有英雄花 有李白 有不畏高的勇气 也有决不服输的心气//情节上做真人励志类型把情绪压实 画面又做出带有幻想性质的浪漫化处理 狮头毛绒绒的质感做出几分真实但人物形象尽量做虚 虚实之间保留了相对平衡//强哥一头貌似金刚狼的头型顶完全场他的失意奋起逞强和最后体力透支的无力仿佛金刚狼三又来一遍 阿娟红背心小平头的造型我很难不联想易烊千玺 拿了舞狮冠军还得去上海打工搬砖真实到让人落泪//就是前后狮子形象做实略有掉价//不能同意高赞中社达与男权的说法 娟猫狗娟的角色弧光落成后的力量来自内心而非外在 双娟感情对结果形成的影响更多是鼓励和支持而非纠葛 若男女因性别差异不能成为朋友那还真是响应三胎政策
任这片陆地上的创作者们瓜分他的尸骨，
敬你弯着腰 上山往高处走，
3.5分，本可以更好的，可以琢磨一下剧本。
真的很棒！无论是从动画的技术，视觉效果，以传统文化舞狮艺术为基底设计动画色彩和场景，从比赛时的美工到动作捕捉的快速敏捷这次都好得无话可说。开篇是类型化叙事，虽然人物原型，台词以及出场人物和剧情都是非常类型化甚至在前边有一点尴尬，但可喜的是这次的剧本圆满地完成了一个故事，从事出起因，几次成长的转折波澜，将社会问题很好结合在一起，非常真诚完整地讲述一个故事。最触动的点在阿娟去城里时三人用舞狮欢送他，在阿娟前往上海打工的前一晚决定放弃梦想时最后一次舞狮追光，哪怕仅此一刻沉浸在与梦想同生共死的悲壮。结尾处理的非常好，即使将狮头套上了最高点，阿娟前往上海打工的命运依旧未改变，而这才是生活的真相。但那又怎样，从那一刻起阿娟的命运已经彻底改变了，只要有一刻，我们是闪闪发光站在属于我们自己的顶峰就够了
但明确瑕不掩瑜与居心叵测的分野也必要。
国产动画片里第一次见到这么直面现实的题材。留守儿童、工伤、没有兜底的社会结构，影片全都直接面对。上一次看这种关注底层生态的院线电影都不知道是什么时候了，真没想到会在一个动画片里看到这么真实的生活。剧本虽然工业化，但这个所谓的小人物励志史不过是一个一生都被压抑也将被一直压抑的的人，短暂拥有的美妙的那么一刻而已，而且是建立在一个非常现实主义的背景之上的。已经很克制了，它有很多机会给我们卖惨，但每次都只点到为止。但就只是点到为止也已经让我和键盘从头哭到了尾。一开始有点不确定为什么广东的题材用的都是闽南系的乐队，但确实合适，这些本来就很棒的歌居然还被又升华了一轮。女性角色虽然很可惜都还是被沦为辅助类的角色，但确实至少没有被物化。看完这个居然唯一能想到的是什么丑化中国人的人不但没脑子，还没有心。
粤味十足的国产原创佳作，已经被剧透还是深深感动，精气神魂皮兼备，可以看到岭南宗族社会文化在90年代末期阶层分化社会大流动时代中的变与不变，非常棒。这么好的作品要被拿来讨论那种无聊的话题简直亵渎，一句都不想讨论
恰是生活的艰辛里磨练出的英雄 最有创造奇迹的魄力 最近与学生的交谈中也深深感受到这一点。作为当代国产动漫里最现实主义的一部 那一点点故事上的瑕疵和它的乡土关注与正义关怀相比 真的微不足道了。只希望上海能善待阿娟们吧…
为了音乐和岭南特色的画面给四星，故事实在太套路了些，更有新意一点会好一些。又看了下主创方对于眯眯眼争议的回复，看到成片前草图的大眼睛，看到主人公们拿了法国影展代表东方人物形象，看到主创开始pua大家要对眯眯眼文化自信。我还是一星吧，主创诚实一点吧，明明就是为了去国外拿奖，不惜迎合西方对中国人的刻板印象，连舞狮都是迎合西方，一点不关心舞狮真正的艺术，还pua观众注重舞狮没内涵要上升到小人物内核什么的。🙃
第一个惊喜：非常标准的好莱坞情节点动画片。第二个惊喜：关注底层，关注民俗和传统，和九连真人真的非常配！
一部用心讲述的好故事，特效配乐也是满分，笑点也不少。国产动画的表现越来越好了，希望这样的国产好电影越来越多。
人这一辈子 上山下山 有自己的路要走 感觉好久没看那么燃的电影了 以及乐夏真的做了一件好事 | 211228 华夏万幕国际影城长宁福缘湾店
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瑕不掩瑜，看就得了。虽然说可能我年纪大了，看到小孩子拼了命追求自己理想的那种劲儿劲儿，甚至有点害怕。
这才是最真实，最原汁原味的中国电影！
73//还是鼓励性四星。主观上太反感表演上的瑕疵，以至于难以识得剧作妙处，但确中意最后的30分钟——第三幕的热闹真是漂亮：主要角色互相关注或被关注，人物身上被洒满有温度目光，且他们用耀眼的姿态回报观众期待；最后一个悬念出现时，善良的群像用干净的激情将鼓点打出如心脏砰砰的石破天惊；舞狮化作英雄花，神气以真狮显形，阿娟入了水，而狮头悬于擎天柱——对于引起观众的狂喜，这是多浪漫多可爱的写法。
剧本好，明线为病猫成雄狮，暗线为留守儿童接力家庭重担，在沉重的工作中磨炼出坚毅的眼神和结实的肌肉这才比较符合现实。开头巷子里追逐长镜头好棒，天台独自舞狮的动作燃点与泪点好棒，各种农村与城市特色细节用心。人物形象设计属于写实。最后不管昨天是否拿到比赛冠军，明天还是得为生活奋斗。克制住了往“奇迹”虚幻靠，这点真的值得表扬。给满分但还是要说说不足，1.主角配音不太农村化，阿猫那种不咸不淡的才比较靠近真实。2.配乐太多了，虽说五条人和九连真人很符合但太满有点累。3.雄狮出现那一刻有泛白点，转得有些突兀。
舞狮如人生，都是上山下山。不一定都能赢，但一定不能认输。只要心中还有鼓点，你就永远是那头雄狮！只要还有梦想，你就永远是那个少年！
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