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".
低种族出身，就像剔骨难消的出厂设置，在印度成为低劣人种、品行败坏的刻板标签。此种语境下，遭受黑警惨绝人寰的暴行依然坚守自己清白的丈夫，成为穷途末路上捍卫自身正义的献祭者。始终拒绝和谈、不向当权者低头的妻子，仿若莅入人间炼狱、争取平权社会的湿婆真身。而以良知和专业毅然对抗国家机器的律师，外加不愿同流合污的督察组成的双雄搭档，最终成为印度腐朽司法体制的破局者，奉献了这场属于“贱民阶级”的公正胜利。文本依然很印度，法庭抗辩和调查取证过程紧凑而跌宕。就是前情铺垫和歌舞混剪显得拖沓冗余，如果去掉奇观化、风情化表达，剪到120分钟会更好看。
薛景求不演苦逼父亲之后，又一诚意之作。摄影、美术、演技、剧情看的十分舒服，真的相当难得。《兹山鱼谱》是按照《本草纲目》的思路来写的，但愿有生之年能再内地银幕上看到《本草纲目》。
妻子不退缩不妥协，她只要正义。律师为人权而战，他们对抗的是当权者，是体制。
不用说百年之前，即便是当下，也有很多人只能写自己的“玆山鱼谱”。看了一些近代史，最令人感慨的是风风雨雨之下依然坚持下来的那些人。可是，可是，道阻且长，何处求索？
不知道真实的丁若铨是什么样的人物，但在电影中，他超越了自己的时代。“活得像兹山一样，虽外表看着黑暗，却生机勃勃，自由自在，也未尝不是有意义的事啊！”开阔，清醒，坚韧，乐观，不失去好奇心，这样的丁若铨，好像从电影中走了出来，成为我的老师，我的朋友。另，兹与玆（玄+玄）是两个字，前者读滋，此也，滋生也；后者读玄，黑也。但因为两个字长的太像了，常常混用。所以这里丁若铨写的是“兹”，韩语读音也是“兹”的读音，但意思用的却是“玄”的意思。
3.5。本质社会意义大于电影本身吧，虽无过多视听技巧加持且人物塑造扁平了些，不过情绪感染力挺强。以印度史上真实司法案件为蓝本，探究了印度社会根深蒂固的种姓歧视、司法/执法系统公正性、底层平民的人身自由权及财产权，片名《杰伊•比姆》主要是为了颂扬这位努力为贫民阶层争取权益的原型律师。出生定终生，阶层不可逆，身为印度底层女性才真的是惨上加惨吧。
主要是剧本扎实
太长了，印度电影有时候长是必要的，但这部长是没必要的，尤其是前面交代背景部分。老毛病吧，非要充三个小时。
正所谓“地也，你不分好歹何为地？天也，你错勘贤愚枉做天！”惟愿公平正义满人间，窦娥冤屈永世休！
剪辑版。考虑到前一阵的一印度女性拒绝一男的，那个男的自杀，那个女的被杀死（好像是被处死了）以及以前他们霸凌网暴老白男强吻的女演员，完全不想夸他们。不过好歹印度拍了这样的电影。倒是也很真实。这个人权律师竟然没有被暗杀
“既然无法学以致用，那便按我的性情活着好了。
甚至不如梅峰老师的不成问题的问题
「昌大啊，第一次听到黑山岛时，我很恐惧这名字。但是我遇到了你，一起度日，恐惧渐渐消失。原本被流放之罪而折磨消失的我那强烈的好奇心本性，再次被点燃了起来。……活成不断向上飞的鹤虽也不算坏事，但是即便身上沾满污水泥浆，也选择活得像兹山一样，虽外表看着黑暗，却生机勃勃自由自在，也未尝不是有意义的事啊。」
印度版的《辩护人》之感，不过就故事剧情、思想深度…等而言，个人感觉韩国电影《辩护人》比这部《杰伊·比姆》更胜一筹。—— -如果你同意的话，我会和那些警察谈谈，补偿给你需要的钱。为了孩子们的未来，你需要钱，你需要做出决定。-还没出生的婴儿，我不能给他看亲生父亲，但我却会有很多钱，购买我要养活孩子们的食物？如果他们问起，买食物的钱是怎么来的？“是把你爸爸活活打死的人送的，我们需要这样子生存。” 长官，我要这样教育我的孩子吗？当我们被杀的时候没有人在乎，我们也不会靠从凶手那里获得的救济金生活。我不在乎我输了这个案件，我可以骄傲地告诉孩子们，虽然失败了，但我们没有放弃抗争。如果你可以，就去惩罚那些凶手警察。
在流放地，做个黑色的无名者。明净之物，可寄托我心。
非常感动的影片、感叹韩国能将我国的儒学诠释的如此之好并且不枯燥还能让人思考、当时韩国面临的其实跟中国非常相像、由于儒学将人民固化形成统治工具的时候自然放弃了欧洲的工业革命。就像丁先生说的性理学和洋枪洋炮是朋友可以一起走的、他的思想就是想要一个没有压迫没有阶级没有王的国家那其实就是社会主义。但是对于昌大来说从小被父亲遗弃的庶子、他一直想要靠读书来改变命运摘掉贱民的头衔、所以他无法理解入世又出世老师的敦敦教导。于是他去考了功名但是他还是无法做到为了抓泥鳅而深陷泥中。当他洗去铅华的时候老师已经不在了。其实两个人都没错、丁先生已经非常恐惧在西方日益发展的情况下朝鲜的闭关锁国代表着什么而昌大依然想着学而优则仕、去除贱民籍步入两班切近君王再去为百姓做好事。但是真正的政治中你是无法做到改变整个体制的。
真不说阿三国严重的社会歧视问题，至少这个国家具备自我批判，审视和通过艺术的能力。演员都太拼了，包括配角
因为在现实里，我看到太多有一点点小权，就作恶的人类。
黑白色质感的电影，像极了中国的水墨丹青。师傅已经宦海沉浮参透人生，徒弟想学有所成施展抱负，虽似矛盾冲突却是一体两面，没有入世何谈出世。只识字不成诗，诗是精神世界的外延。白鹤虽好，兹山污泥亦善也；庙堂虽高，无名之人亦正也。影片涉及的哲思话语比较多，从安身立命、阶层跃迁、经世治国、贵贱平权、男女平等、民贵君轻、中西碰撞、人生觉醒，原以为会有很深奥的思辨和对白，但却举重若轻点滴融入到流放生活和浅白话语中。大道至简，悟在天成。PS：我国多少文人墨客流放的故事，可惜少了这样的好电影。
根据真实故事改编。地狱空荡荡，恶魔在人间——赤裸裸展现了印度种姓制度的劣根、强权体制的阶级压迫。不作任何渲染的镜头下，是纯粹而可怕的野蛮暴力，是单纯善良的劳动人民手无缚鸡之力的悲哀。
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