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".
和《无主之作》 女主二次合作，干脆结了婚吧
4.5 前半部分的才华与狂放一倾如注，迷幻畅快淋漓得仿佛看到后现代版的法斯宾德，中后段叙事趋于平庸，但私心觉得比金熊那部要好，至少没那么装
因为盼星星盼月亮了一年多中途也因自身原因错过了一次，所以这次实在不想再等就从葡萄牙德国电影节那花了四欧元租了72小时并伴着葡语字幕看完了整部，人生又添一奇妙经历🥲……结果是我没有怎么看懂，希望今年有机会重温。看下来的感觉是，拍摄意图很复古（甚至能看到用footage设定场景再拍新镜头这种，上学期正好讲到了），但拍摄手法让这部电影感觉有丝混乱。这个结局呜呜呜呜………希宝大概是贡献了他演艺生涯中最大的裸露戏和最认真的打架戏吧。
开始那些黑白片和分镜头剪辑以为是怀旧歌舞片、然后那个旋转铁楼梯酷似特朗佛某部片，这是法国片吗？！停下来几次感叹，怎么那么好呢，那个从额头到鼻尖再被吃掉的手指细节——啊想哭😭
很古早的年代片样子，很灵动的拍/剪，突然搞几分钟默片字幕笑死😆，就是叙事最后很规整了。希林演这种边缘形象完全驾轻就熟。
你穿着旧外套，饿着肚子，但仍然可以挺直腰板。你总被拒之门外，是你自己的问题。
随了剧情推进，形式感被逐渐消解，代入感却越发真实。文青的结局似乎从来都是注定，在任何国家，在任意年代。“我应该去当教师，只有孩子适合拥有理想”。
喜欢电影的质感，场景的细节体现了导演满满的诚意。然鹅，法比安就是个暴殄天物的“作”家，只有感性，没有脑子。外面的世界在变化他不知道，女友的需要他不清楚，死党的痛苦他不了解。
开头很灵。看只是因为是德国电影，不知道洛洛会不会去电影里出现的地方。
法比安 这个上世纪30 年代的文艺青年， 白天老老实实在公司上班当个平平庸庸的广告文案，夜晚则混迹在城市街道酒吧中 在昏暗的灯光下美酒美人 推杯换盏 。。。。。。挚友八卦 庸俗八卦 美妙爱情 然而滚滚前行的历史车轮不允许法比安如此安逸无聊 平静或是无聊度日 ╮(￣▽￣"")╭ 从一日被公司辞退开始 他就被落入冷冰冰的现实生活中。。。。。与此同时，如白噪音般不时闪现的时政新闻和黑白纪录片影像提醒观者1930年代的德国是怎样的世界，法比安就在这样的社会中随波逐流、随遇而安，直到挚友的过世。。。当他冲入其大学导师的办公室、痛揍恶意中伤学生时、要求教授主张正义时，教授的声音响起：“德国不需要文艺青年，社会需要。。。”当臭名昭著的袖章出现在学院，法比才意识到自己已无处安生╮(￣▽￣"")╭
因为清醒 所以绝望 所以无所适从 所以格格不入
叙事上还是不令人舒服，主要是前三分之一，混乱剪辑衬托当时的社会背景，不过个人更偏向现实主义叙事，或许导演是故意采用了表现主义形式以符合当时德国的电影艺术趋势。
最后一段很精彩，应该是秘书长，对于灭绝犹太人政策本事并未直接挑战，他没有直接庇护犹太人，但是，他也知道作为人性的根本，杀人，而且是屠杀，一定会深深扭曲每个人的人性。虽然屠杀者貌似强者，完全碾压众人的生命，但是，他自己之后的生活，精神上的煎熬，将永无止境。
一个符合二战后流行文化规训的纳粹想象，但深入纳粹风暴的核心来解读最终解决方案的诞生、实施人类灭绝的屠刀落下，似乎有更好的视角和路径。这部只做到了忠实、准确和严谨的会议纪要。
（真的好喜歡德國片啊）我們該如何度過這一生，大雨來臨之前，Fabian和舊世界一併下沉。會想到贖罪裡等待愛人的Cecilia。
陷入了无尽的、混乱的自我表达，且未被具有内化力的文本所组织起来。后重看<彼得罗夫的流感>。
万湖会议，德国人自己讲这段历史，纪录片的质感。完整的记录了一场会议，德国人严谨效率秩序得让人可怕。
故事并不新鲜，但是仍旧像一首长长的现实文学叙事诗 何去何从 看着形形色色不同的人们 却无所适从 喜欢那句“生活是一个有趣的工作”。 略讽刺政治 战争。汤姆希林拍的很有味道 有点阴郁 低沉。午夜电影很推荐。
跟随镜头的律动感受爱就好了。
道德上的计算与算术是不同的。
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