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".
女主真好看～就是一开始心路历程的变化略显草率 怎么无依无靠就能那么刚？而且还有黑道大哥甘愿支持？不过总得来说是个大女主爽剧之旅，印度真是个神奇的国度
如果你是男性观众，中途近一个小时很难不会感到不适，你会认为一个女人竟可以如此狂妄、如此大放厥词声称要征服卡马蒂普拉，你会惊讶于当她遭受肢体凌辱、竟会尝试使用政治手段寻求庇护，接着连自己的情人竟也成为政治筹码、被她许配给了性工作者同事的女儿，你会不适仅仅因为她是女人，而将主角换成一个男人，只会觉得稀松平常、内心毫无波动。文明的进步总是得益于这些信仰与理想的殉道者，认为妓女恰恰有着用之不尽的尊严、她们的尊严每个晚上都在被践踏，认为妓女从来不歧视不同肤色和种姓的嫖客、每一位嫖客只需支付同等的金钱，认为宣扬团结和平等的牧师却试图驱逐妓院、让妓女们流离失所并剥夺妓女的孩子们受教育的权利是一种虚伪的正义。而妓女们“满足男人的欲望、保护女人的正直”并捍卫社会的尊严却无法得到保护则是全社会的整体的虚伪。
大女主啊大女主~
然后剧里的妓女也不是被严格管控的那种 能出门 但是不敢回家说是因为会被家人打死
《甘古拜·卡蒂娅瓦迪》是一部让人颇难评价的电影：洗白妓女或者卖淫当然是不对，没有买卖就没有伤害，她鼓吹合法化是不对的。但是在哪个年代，她能以类似工会的方式为妓女争取最大权益，帮助尽量多受苦的女性也值得佩服。
其实不用拍得这么理想主义诶 还是得靠傍大佬 要说跟大佬没点什么我是不信的 这种很好嗑啊干嘛不拍谁要看跟小白脸恋爱调情
电影既保持了印度特色，又找到了独特的叙事切入点，不拖泥带水，直切主题。近几年，印度女性主义电影层出不穷，而且佳作频生，想想也是跟世界大环境有关吧。
-
被男人欺骗卖去妓院的女人悲惨又抗争的事情。
看似像一场将苦难史包装成女权主义的狂欢，甚至有伪女权的嫌疑。全片将真人经历作为背书大肆营造出人物精神所带来的持续影响力，成为深陷困境女性（娼妓）的精神向导，但内核依旧是在依托于男权社会中的男性，二者所带来的违和感片中并无细述。从影片的题材与真实历史背景而言，依旧被触动，被拐卖沦为妓女的悲惨命运以及与之抗争并争取弱势群体权利的毅力与决心让人感慨。但从影片主题思想传达逻辑而言，实属平平，受迫害群体争取权利并不能成为卖淫合法化的直接理由，为社会降低强奸事件发生的功效更是理论上的治标不治本。题材辛辣，深度不够。
他妈的，他妈的，我真的好喜欢印度的歌舞爱情片
其实还是有点玛丽苏，如果没有黑老大拉辛……而且律师家庭掌上明珠失踪了12年都不带找的？但是演员演的太好了，电影完成的非常精致完整和专业，所以还是想给四星。
看到评论区一些读者说，她到最后还是靠着男人一步一步胜利的。世界上除了男人就是女人 ，那个时候的女人可以被买卖 她们能有多大权利？ 关于电影内容有很大争议，但是 电影里一些台词也是相当好的！二刷的时候一定把他摘抄下来！！！
电影里花了太多时间去唱歌跳舞，该政治斗争的时候还在谈情说爱，减弱了这部电影的内涵深度。
在各种MTV中穿插着故事的这部电影，的确让人大开眼界了。一个原本出生高种姓家庭的女孩因年少无知被卖到妓院，但她意识到已经无法在回归自己的日常后，不是以泪洗面，而是在现有条件下奋起，仅凭这点就很厉害了。其实对影片中讲到的合法化，肯定不能作为一个可以被认同的价值观，但这个台阶之所以下不来，也是因为电影立意过高了，我倒认为甘谷白这一提议完全是为自己生意考虑。她能在那种环境下成为top，仅凭高尚怎么可能做到。
这么好的题材，不管是往爽剧拍还是往深度拍都可以，所以这一部怎么能把故事讲成这样？
其实剧本一般，但印度有这个意识还是不容易，加一星
女主好漂亮哦，和近期那个热门国产电视剧比起来真的好有意思哦
你行走在黑暗里，所以想点亮火把，可一旦你点亮了火把，就会有人走向你，把更多的女人合法的推进黑暗里。我想这也是为什么代孕是违法的，道德教我们向善，法律则管教的是恶徒。
被称为"Mafia Queen"的女主，表现得像个圣母，最激烈的不过是刮了男人几巴掌。而且所有的成就，都离不开拉拉在后面的支持。只能说这是个真洗白，伪女权的样板电影。
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
