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".
官媒讲政治正确讲过头了，养蛊了吧，这么好的电影都被黑造型……
2021年度真正黑马惊喜之作，画风与故事的写实走向，代表国漫内容视角的全新飞跃，兼具中国独有的人文与民俗情怀，又不乏爆笑、热血、感动之观感。开篇水墨动画讲述舞狮历史与文化，已预感此片了不得；中间唢呐吹响、鞭炮轰鸣，交织励志少年的成长谱曲；最后咸鱼翻身、雄狮舞起，彻底奏响扶摇直上九万里的生命乐章。每次狮头直立、鼓点响起，胸口便会被点燃一团火，唤醒我们心里长存的一声吼。最后半小时太会抓观众痛点，燃到飞起，个人今年华语片Top3。“一山总有一山高，世界上总有达不到的奇迹”，没人踩的擎天柱，提醒舞狮人保持敬畏，而影片结局告诉我们，《雄狮少年》已无限接近这个奇迹。国产动漫原创IP难出佳作，5星是鼓励，更是值得。
结尾高明👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻梦想创造不了热血奇迹，只是让你短暂地发光，而后归于籍籍无名的平庸。但只要“开过光”，一个人终究会变得不同。
熟悉的小人物热血传奇，对无厘头经典梗的化用充满周星驰作品的影子。剧情虽无出人意表之处，但节奏张弛有度，情绪收放自如。作为跳出神话改编窠臼的现实题材原创国产动画电影，以罕见的舞狮元素为载体，令人耳目一新，既弘扬了传统文化，又映射出当代痛点，实属难能可贵。而且这制作也未免太精良了吧，场景拟真度直达国漫天花板，光影效果和毛发渲染碾压某些三维动画爆款，没有强行3D化更是业界良心。至于所谓的人设争议，分明是居心不良的无稽之谈，刻意用惺忪的睡眼表现人物初始性格和精神状态，再随着剧情推进使少年们的眼神逐渐坚毅且光芒闪烁，显然是旨在营造强烈的反差效果。狮头悬天，咸鱼落水。这一上一下，堪称神来之笔。赛场上的奇迹并不会直接给生活带来质变，高光过后还是要回归现实。但那又如何？鼓点已在心中响起，雄狮必将昂首挺立。
并不是个人传记，这片名不是很恰当，可能这人名气大，能吸引人去看电影
2021年度真正黑马惊喜之作，画风与故事的写实走向，代表国漫内容视角的全新飞跃，兼具中国独有的人文与民俗情怀，又不乏爆笑、热血、感动之观感。开篇水墨动画讲述舞狮历史与文化，已预感此片了不得；中间唢呐吹响、鞭炮轰鸣，交织励志少年的成长谱曲；最后咸鱼翻身、雄狮舞起，彻底奏响扶摇直上九万里的生命乐章。每次狮头直立、鼓点响起，胸口便会被点燃一团火，唤醒我们心里长存的一声吼。最后半小时太会抓观众痛点，燃到飞起，个人今年华语片Top3。“一山总有一山高，世界上总有达不到的奇迹”，没人踩的擎天柱，提醒舞狮人保持敬畏，而影片结局告诉我们，《雄狮少年》已无限接近这个奇迹。国产动漫原创IP难出佳作，5星是鼓励，更是值得。
狮头像个做梦装置，戴上就是雄狮少年。
国族寓言。最后要跳上“擎天柱”的情节太狠了，争得第一已经不能再满足，哪怕自己从最高处坠落也要让自己的“狮头”挂上去。有着不顾一切地自我毁灭的冲动。很多时候，我隐隐约约感受到的不是所谓的“小人物”成长，而是压抑过久后集体性的精神爆发，当然这一切都是在“父”的领导下。
《Rolling on》和《道山靓仔》响起的时候，你大概知道创作者是哪一群人了。确认过BGM是想要疗愈自己和身边世界的那群人了。本片的优点和缺点都很明显，个人感觉是在80分左右的国产动画片水准，不过这个市场反馈确实让人在思考，大规模点映期间业内的高口碑吊起观众胃口是否是一种意料之外的捧杀？说审美辱华的，大概要不就是声讨者骨子里带着深深的自卑，和对自己的不接纳，要不就是非坏即蠢的有意攻击。
院线片愿意把目光投向留守少年的生活与梦想，比卖力渲染的“燃”宝贵很多倍，但剧情走向的潦草（尤其前半段）太过瞩目，实在不是几首应景的好歌就能应付过去的。
连音乐也不放过，把《功夫》和《成吉思汗》稍微改改就变成自己原声了吗？《世间始终你好》《十年埋伏》换个版本用。
一个老师曾让我们克制面对作品时的高高在上，观众是上帝，但迟早我们自己也得接受市场和观众的评价。
另外，请剧组不要把观众当傻子。
终于看到一部高质量的非神话国产动画电影了！结构和套路确实传统，但是玩出了花，浓浓的烟火气，以及留守儿童、打工人、小镇生活等现实因素的加入，让电影成为描摹广东生活的画卷。每个人的心中都有一头雄狮，可以是舞狮，也可以是任何小小的发光的自我。
本片后40分钟，好的一塌糊涂。
喔，好看！制作精良。尤为喜欢片中对岭南乡村的生动呈现。故事是典型的“弱者逆袭”的叙述模式，但依旧看得热血沸腾，原因在于前面情感积蓄得足够多，到后面释放时才如此动人。看完后，我想这是留守儿童的一个梦，多少人能够真的从如此艰难的处境中绽放出来呢？很少。很多人只是重复着父母辈的命运。
宁愿做过了后悔，也不要错过了后悔。
4星半 。影片的主人公钱德鲁説过：一个人不在于拥有什么才能，而是可以用才能做些什么。影片中拉贾坎努案人身保护令的颁发突破了法律的限制，《杰伊•比姆》则在文化输出上让印度出圈。即便在电影制作本身上还存在一些不足，但不影响展现的事件的重要性
印象最深场景就是，警察和律师听着一堆人讲述自己的冤案，没钱没身份的底层人民，就真的没有说话的权利，在警察面前，连人都不是。
我：“不，我不相信。”
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