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".
以为开始的场场暴行就是人间炼狱了，谁知道真相被揭开时才体会到果然是恶魔在人间。印度时不时就会蹦出一些影片，能够用独特的角度去批判现实。本片只能看一遍，身心都经受不起。
完全按电影分镜画的吧，调度运镜都太牛了。一切都恰到好处，乍一看还是老励志套路，但其中的分寸拿捏的太好了。被剧透了五条人和九连，怎么没人和我说还有椅子啊。
很高兴有这样一部无IP原创国产动画电影，而它在呼喊梦想这个古老命题时又如此兼具现实性。
与此同时，影片设计了另一个处于更高阶层的女性角色，复盘整部动画，其实在说，舞狮——这个被更高阶层的人放弃了的选择之一，对这个底层男孩来说，或许是唯一可以精神胜利一次的机会。
留守儿童背景就是个幌子，就是营造困难的机器，爷爷和父母这样重要的角色没有任何刻画，就为了突出一个惨，十八岁的孩子没有上过一天学，而且是三个。舞狮是传统文化的幌子，学习过程没有任何关于这项传统文化的科普，完全就是为了升级闯关的幌子，而且在舞狮环境大好，甚至可以举办比赛的情况下，这四个人舞狮就是不务正业，没有出息，反观其他舞狮队个个神采飞扬，用鼻子看人。人物关系也是强行粘合，主角想舞狮的初衷，一半是为了爱情，其他配角就是完全的搞笑配件，两个人舞狮的动机没有，狮尾和狮头的配合没有，打鼓在舞狮中的作用没有，总之就是凸显主角一个强，一旁的群演人物，一说话，就是为了骂主角四人组，怎么难听怎么来，做作至极，全员恶人。另外，公交车的铁锈都可以做得栩栩如生，我不明白这些人物在恐怖谷边缘徘徊的眼睛是什么美学。
《心灵奇旅》里，纽约闷热拥挤的地铁和川流不息的街头，让动画片有了人情，不再是奇观和幻想的天地。一年后，有幸在本土，也有这么一部渲染极其拟真的作品。我们终于能看到国产动画讲广佛人对舞狮热爱之源，讲岭南的乡野风土，讲城市现代化和底层务工人员，讲留守儿童、工伤，从这一点来讲，他的意义远比哪吒青蛇们重大。虽然前半段很生硬，但歪歪扭扭的道山靓仔，让观众真正能感觉，他会变成那个虎虎生风的舞狮少年。莫欺少年穷，热血热肠热，比太阳更光。
我很喜欢，一方面固然是因为制作水准高度在线。另一方面我更看重的，是这部片子确实是难得有那么一点当代中国质感的作品。主人公的父亲工地上干活摔成植物人只能回家躺着，男孩进城打工备受欺凌，大雨之夜送外卖被辱骂，送快递的时候电动车被撞飞好心人来帮忙结果是自己心动的女孩让男孩顿时羞愧局促。看的时候觉得百感交集，知道这是非常有良心的创作者，虽然在这样的创作大环境里也真的只只能点到为止。但已经是铺天盖地的塑料正能量里，这已经是唯一的能打中心灵的真诚之作了。
再来说说电影本身，毫无疑问是国漫又一匹黑马。画风写实接地气，分镜与配乐无敌，虽然剧情是非常典型的“英雄之旅”，但即使猜得到接下来主角会遭遇怎样的冲突，仍然忍不住为其动容，被燃到泪目。
主角：“你相信奇迹吗？”
之所以情怀能拉满，恐怕主要是当年录像店镭射厅凤凰电影台以及央6依次看了几十遍《狮王争霸》的那代人，如今都带着娃进影院，原本是亲子顺带支持下国漫，哪知道不小心被浓浓的写实风和港片味逼着怀了一把旧。本片配乐堪称绝绝子，时代和市场兼顾，最戳我还不是乐夏出圈的道山靓仔抑或莫欺少年穷们，而是中间那首射雕，罗文声音还没出来，眼眶湿了一大片。。。
浦西封锁的第三天，也是清明节假的第一天，完全摆烂地打开《雄狮少年》，看完后哭得脑浆子疼。两条弹幕，一个说“屋漏偏逢连夜雨”，一个说“生活就是这样，辉煌过，还要继续下去”。再加上五条人、九连真人的调子一响起，整个遭不住啊。那头雄狮的脸都烂了半张，脚也浸了血，但他平生只是想要赢一次，告诉老天他可以主导一次命运。这是现实主义题材的一次温柔，也是一次成功的努力。
影片出现了太多周星驰电影的桥段和设计，很多甚至分镜都一样，已经远超致敬层面了。
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
最后的彩蛋里，阿娟还是去了上海，住在脏乱差的宿舍里，面对着擎天柱一样的东方明珠，守护着曾经的舞狮梦想和那个还没有开始就无疾而终的爱情。心酸又现实。强仔也一定又回去送咸鱼，阿猫仍然一事无成，阿狗也依然做回那个屠夫。相信奇迹又怎样，跨上了擎天柱又怎样，普通人实现阶级跃迁哪里这样简单。想起那些口口声声说“穷就是因为懒”“没钱就去搬砖送外卖”的人，请不要在“何不食肉糜”。贫穷不是个人问题。农民辛苦种了一辈子地也依然贫穷，只有微薄的退休金和日渐上涨的物价；在外打了一辈子工的人也依然治不起病，甚至没有“工伤险”，只能不断地消耗子女亲人。那么多穷人拼命想把孩子往高处送，却受限于环境、教育、家庭。就算子女好不容易有了学历、地位，却因为家乡的父母生病、弟妹读书、缺乏远见…失去了一次又一次的机会，又变回平庸……
虽然台词和剧情还有进步空间，但是从视效风格的制作和在地文化的表达来看，称得上有国漫自己的风味了。以及…五条人的道山靓仔、椅子乐团的rolling on，还有九连真人的莫欺少年穷，首首击中我了555
热血励志又残忍现实，我愿意给满分。岭南小镇、乡间泥路、农村大巴…现实场景的呈现精细到可以以假乱真，舞狮也不只是个传统文化的空壳，这才是国产动画该有的样子！那些张口闭口就是“乳化”的人不是蠢就是坏。
你要梦想，还是生计？
其实我并没有觉得有那么那么好看，当然在我这里大圣归来、哪吒之魔童降世也就是还行，只是对于动画电影我会更多持鼓励的态度。当然本片确实有很多积极的意义和可圈可点的地方，很多人评价里也提到了，首先不再是老掉牙的神话题材，是原创IP，而且还偏现实主义，又有较多的方言和地域特色，更有九连真人和五条人的插曲，对于舞狮这类传统文化的展现和最后的高潮部分都非常值得一提，同时结局回归现实，对阶级的展现也算是比较难得的。相信张苗自己都没料到电影口碑会爆得这么出色吧，陈思诚不知道会不会焦虑，或者感到背后一丝凉意？误杀2会被截胡吗？其实我持谨慎乐观的态度，以及并不赞同在工作日进行点映的策略。下周二误杀2的点映会看出端倪，毕竟背靠万达，雄狮在市场上能跃升到擎天柱吗？拭目以待！
光影场景真实感极强，狮头绒毛很细腻，那沾水时一缕缕的质感——雨水的处理国漫绝无仅有。但人物建模廉价，可谓冰火两重天。
而且采访时骄傲的说被法国提名“东方人物形象的典范”就凭这点就该全网黑他
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