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".
与法比安共鸣，在巨大、密集的场景里，持续睡眠，保持昏迷。先锋是妓院的名字，书写，是唯一的现实主义，在深夜等人回来，它浪漫又折磨。时代的真相，是通向毁灭的失控列车，是仇恨与疏离，是通往死亡的秩序，是撒上焦油的花香。喜欢是密集的俏皮话，是亲密地扮演，是紧密的搂抱与亲吻。爱只有一周的时间，在必然的死亡之前，它像弥漫血腥味的房间外的烟花。避免政治，避免体面，避免保证，避免爱情，避免死亡。
日漫中无处不在的龙珠……
“秩序是死亡的预兆。”（帕斯卡）秩序是指德意志的政治秩序，即不再允许存在“不同声音”的“柏林之死”。拉布德父亲的哀悼揭示了一系列灵魂破碎事件的核心秘密，“我不是那种靠儿子活下去的父亲，我是一个享乐主义的老绅士，我热爱生活，也在逐渐失去生活，我并没有准备好接受这个事实”，事实是一切悲喜都会以死亡结束。对富二代拉布德而言，填补文学史莱辛研究的空缺是确认自我价值的唯一方式，学术被政治绑架，只好劝法比安“写写过去的样子和过去本该有的样子”；科尼娅想当演员，“没有好处，但愿有无用的美”，所以跟法比安签的协议是“永远不会妨碍我的事业”，但电影业会被政治操持，前方危机四伏，这是后话。法比安的悲剧倒显得有些喜剧性，像是《温蒂妮》《弗兰兹》和《冷战》，很多浪漫乔段堆积在电影的前半部份，收尾终归令人不太甘心。
（看到第一眼就觉得会再看一遍又一遍，写得真好啊，居然没有原著可看，使人痛苦。啊！难受。
{★★★} 业余、实验、非常考验你的智力与文学品味，它和同届主竞赛的Radu Jude隔岸相望。金熊最终眷顾了Jude，不仅是因为这部电影体量更大也门槛更高，还因为Jude的章节体书册脉络思路鳞次栉比。相反，这部电影以混乱来歌颂绝对秩序到来前的混乱，它一头扎进魏玛共和国的摇摇欲坠，直言不讳有些人注定一辈子学不会游泳。“台上的是疯子，台下的是施虐狂。”紧接着：“舞厅里的冲突，就像这个国家的政治冲突。”
老黑45。广东人。因赌博千万身家耗尽，现在澳门做“保安”。
经济低迷、动荡不安、旧痛未愈、新伤将至，1931年德国魏玛时期众生相，多人物性格饱满，多场景层次分明，摄影剪辑叙事三个小时毫不混乱在失控状态下，还可以试着学会游泳，影片结束于秩序，却是危险的前兆。
二战前夕，一个失业的文艺青年，在和女友约会的路上，见义勇为，不幸溺水而亡的故事。
光怪陆离的魏玛浮世绘，仿佛看了一集《巴比伦柏林》番外
这个倒是脑洞很大，毕竟根据小说改编的或者回忆录，还摘录了很多原著的句子。。吃饱喝足搞起来，嬉皮嬉皮。。搞得开心就好了，饿死有老妈呢。。最后还是死了。。其实从Fabian要回头去找女生的时候就死了。。因为爱所以杀死了自己的人格灵魂，去的路上淹死只不过是消灭导致自己灵魂自杀的肉体欲望而已。。。其实也没有那么爱。。只不过是找一个回家的理由。。找一个自我毁灭的借口。。仅此而已。。太累了。。一边是欲望，一遍是枯草的工作。。夹在中间。。Fabian累了，所以借口爱情放弃了自己灵魂，借口救孩子淹死了自己肉体。一直标榜追求有趣灵魂的fabian，灵魂都没了，活着干嘛呢？死了算了。。所以男主角死了。。女主角名利双收。。所以啊，关键时刻，睡个老男人还是很合算的嘛？睡个小鲜肉，只会拖后腿啊拖后腿。。哪怕有才华。。
潜力，实力，毅力加上人脉，才能不断提升圈层
有一种电影属于“我能get到它的点但就是看不进去”
2021年第71届柏林电影节主竞赛单元共15部影片，瓜分8个奖，Fabian 《银幕》场刊得分3.1分，与洪常秀《引言》并列第三。最终却一奖未得，遗憾！
如果能早一个月看 这就是我2021年的最佳电影了 如此惊喜的“电影的气质” the comeback of real cinema 时隔90年后对1931年柏林的此时此地的展现 汤姆·希林与前半小时飞起的手持摄影 让我在观影体验越来越钝的今天再次爱上电影
忍姐姐quq 三只豆豆眼小妹很有萌点，不得不说，炭治郎这个意志力，不愧是主角！
“同一辆火车载着所有人，时间在前行中流逝，我们向外看去，我们看着，我们看到同一辆火车在这所有人。前方距离无人知晓，邻座有人睡觉，有人哀叹，还有人喋喋不休，车站过了一个又一个，而火车仍在岁月中飞驰，奔向永不可及的目的地。”
202202正好对上口味了，长而不腻。30年代的魏玛德国，声色犬马，光怪陆离，人们在集体无意识中走向毁灭。尺度很大。混乱的现实中没有理想主义者生存的空间。城市和乡村，历史与现实的对比很有趣，画面质感强，可看性和艺术性平衡得很不错。
这短暂的一生，还没来得及尝尝生活的甜头，就先被各种不合时宜苦死了。梦想真的活在天堂吗？
魏玛共和国时期最伟大的作品。三十年代的德国，纸醉金迷和开放性宛如二十一世纪的好莱坞，令人咋舌。
或许是预算所限，导演着眼于从美学形式手段去呈现魏玛末期“疯魔”和前卫，布莱希特式间离效果也大量引入，但手持、无人机镜头无序滥用，又在瓦解这种时代幻灭感。就和这场爱情一样，终究是烟花一场。 @望京电影资料馆
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