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".
剧本十分，而且居然是真人真事！！本片最大亮点无疑是剧本，扎实到可怕；而其二是“不可触摸者”在剧中的表演，不知道导演是如何调教的，妻子和三个被打的素人、甚至其他的素人群演的表现真的很让人信服，妻子最后在雨中那个感激、痛苦、心酸、释放的那种复杂表情真的特别到位。
根据九十年代印度一起案件改编，揭露了当时印度警察的黑暗以及低种姓部落民的悲惨生活。后面法庭戏拍得还是很精彩的，但前面的叙述太啰嗦了，导演又迷恋于对酷刑与虐待的展示，花了很大的篇幅，其实这些镜头以闪回形式穿插在法庭戏中就行了。导演过于激动，煽情过度，片中很多歌曲其实可以删去，也许可以将影片长度压缩到两小时之内。另外，导演给主角以太多的光环，且有意无意加入了一些政治符号，显得幼稚。
故事确实不错，各种有背后深意的镜头语言，要是歌舞再少点就更好了
大概 是因为自己没有 所以 特别羡慕那些 有的人吧
小人物，大历史。为推动社会进步而做出的一点点努力都应该被记录下来。
早已注定，我只能在荆棘中采拾鲜花。这是狂人穆里尼奥的名言。给原型。
那些警察的邪恶和对底层人民的凶狠，让人无法直视。
印度的犯罪题材会跟社会性问题一起做，而不是做单独某个随机的犯罪行为，这点真的做得很好。
不明白为何这种题材还要唱歌跳舞，每次男主出现的时候，后面的配乐总觉得在哪个好莱坞大片里出现过。
一个国家能拍出这种含有深刻自省的电影真的很值得赞赏，每每看到这样的电影就会想到《熔炉》里的那段台词“我们一路奋战，不是为了改变世界，而是为了不让世界改变我们”。
虽然有很多程式化的印度电影镜头，但基于真实事件的扎实剧本和合理的表演，给了电影非常棒的观感。即使可以猜到其中角色的遭遇，也会好奇会如何推进。
其实也很好理解，中国人心中的顶尖高手也是扫地僧、风清扬这类，不得不说，某种程度，他们更像现在的印度人而不是现在的中国人
苦难，会降临在这个世界的每一个角落，有的就此埋没，有的，因为一些人的努力，让世界变得美好一点。电影里的部落，电影里百折不挠的律师和老师，电影里那些哭泣与叙述，都让我们更加的深刻认识到不一样的世界，不一样的角落。
印度人社会发展程度前现代，但文化跟随还是挺敏感，学会和美国人一样拍政治正确电影了。
确实应该有这样的电影，批判自己。我们现在这样不好。
4星，题材不错，虽说是30年前的事件，但仍然值得致敬， 就是影片时间有点太长了，当电视剧看了。
当种姓成为了从出生便背负的原罪，《杰伊·比姆》作为一部为社会最底层人群发声的印度电影，它的社会意义远大于其本身。电影以一起冤假错案为原点，不畏强权，伸张正义的背后，电影让人瞠目结舌的是这起冤案背后执法者颠倒黑白的肮脏，更是印度种姓制度的黑暗。
系简炜。任大。
把歌舞去掉，再减到90分钟，绝对很燃。总有一些人会站出来发声，这个世界不是这样。冤假错案无非是升职，政绩上的绊脚石。
比较套路的印度电影，教育意义大于电影艺术。最大的亮点是几位男性受害者的表演，刑讯那一段绝了。
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