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".
——《最可爱的人》
这个演员赋予甘谷独特的魅力，虽然剧情很跳脱
电影还是有很多不太符合常理的地方，但反映了某些真实的社会问题，这大概是艺术作品引发人们深思的原因吧。
以男性的目光投向女性，又以男性的拍摄角度来塑造女性。在遭受苦难之后，甘没有走向黑色，而是身穿白色纱丽一往直前，在每段经历后变得更加具有力量，形象更加丰满。从对一个人说，再到对整个妓院，整个社区，整座城市甚至整个国家，发声让妓女们的权益得到维护，尊严得以拾回。尤其在最后两段讲话里，更是用过往的发声来争夺现时的权益，让缺失的声音响彻银幕内外。在月神的庇佑下，所有身着白色的人们在这一时刻实现了真正的平等。巴哈特的表演完美的实现了这一点。
编剧: 兰晓龙 / 黄建新
命运多舛，自强不息。虽然女主是当了一把大哥的小妹后才一步步当家做主翻身把歌唱，但自我觉醒和奋斗已经堪称传奇。
同样是妓女题材，印度出了《甘古拜》，国内出了《梦华录》
非常棒的传记型题材影片，在很多细节上处理得分寸刚刚好！摄影，美术，服化，都较唯美！叙事重点突出，情节丰满且推进有力！虽有理想化和美化，但主要部分还是接近现实的！演员的表现力整体也不错！
从爱国主义教育而言 还可以 从具体战术刻画而言 有点英雄主义的刻板痕迹 电影而言 总的来说还可以 现实而言 致敬最可爱的人
请不要以传记来观看这部电影..... 说明改编很大 高度也太高了 相信那个年代的印度不可能到那种地步的民主...电影终究是电影 但不影响它是一个好故事...女主真美
每一次美军遇袭的爆炸声 都让他拍手欢呼
虽然剧情上有诸多硬伤，这位女演员的演绎也太过霸总了一些，但桑杰导演还是保证了观众视听上的享受，最后花车游街一幕也算颇为动人。勉强三星半。
4/10。故事还行，整体的节奏也把控得不错，然而主题与逻辑十分混乱。追求女性平权、卖淫合法化，基于社会的不公与需求，都有其合理性，但置于这样一个故事，却风马牛不相及。首先，甘古拜的崛起依靠拉辛，最后的成功也是靠记者Carry，两者皆是她口中不可靠的男人。此外，甘古拜当选社区领袖后仍然保留妓院，这个禁锢原本该自由飞翔的鸟儿的地方，凭靠她的财力、权力与影响力，完全可以带领其他妓女从事更为体面的行业，这不是职业歧视，而是影片中大部分女性并非自愿成为娼妓，她们都如甘古拜一样被贩卖至妓院，但甘古拜当选后却几乎碌碌无为。最后，影片结尾呼吁卖淫合法化，理由是因为有大量女性被贩卖至妓院，且可以避免女性被家暴、强暴，实在令人摸不着头脑。究其根源，难道不是更应该提倡打击贩卖女性与针对女性的不公平行为吗？
女主让我想到张柏芝。对比国内的90后女演员，演得都是些低智角色。
但她的自强不息与善良让人敬佩
你那永远坚毅的模样
你要带我去深夜秀？一巴掌，打过去！TA没有错，错的永远是施暴者！
五星给原型、给女主角的美，能拍摄这类电影和这样拍电影的国家和民族有未来。
这个国家依然还有美好的未来。
我们的祖国真的苦难太多，但是徐克这个主旋律为什么这么老套，吴京牺牲的凝固时刻，我差点没一口老血喷出来。
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