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".
小张21岁。两个孩子，现在在湘潭跑快车。他在中专毕业后和自己的同学结婚。在昆山当了两年厂工觉得太辛苦……
一个九十年前（1931年）的德国魏玛共和国时代之浮世绘，传统的外表（4:3的画幅、古典的色彩光影，老式的布景、服道、歌曲舞蹈等）却与极现代感的电影表现手法、技艺奇异、令人炫目地结合了起来！做专业的同行们可以仔细看看。由于时间和历史的距离，虽然使我们不太能共鸣主角在乱世中的苦恼与挣扎，艺术上的新意还是值得体味。
2.布莱斯·帕斯卡写过一段话，其中他提到，秩序是死亡的预兆
喜欢最开始的长镜头以及100年前“被呈现出的”柏林与真实景象交错而成的故事。朋友说拍出来了Kästner的核心，只是爱情和纳粹两个元素被过多强调了，人生的荒诞与孤独也不过如此... 现场见到了Schiling小哥还是很激动，他太适合Fabian这个角色了！
想拯救女友，女友靠自己事业有成。
与火影忍者有有一定的相似之处，但是打斗场面和那个兄妹之间的那种感情，那是比较感人的，我觉得还是非常不错的，但唯一的就是他里面的主角确实牺牲比较大
最喜欢的两场是科莉莉娅试镜时的独白和出入名利场和法比安在咖啡店的对话。
颠覆的时代与疯狂的人类，绝望的生活与悲伤的爱情。史诗般的拍摄手法与细腻的镜头。眼泪落在咖啡里，烟头漂在水面上。一条鱼淹死了，等她的姑娘每天三点会来。这部电影太令人震撼了
法比安被淹死了，因为他不会游泳。
一点都不有趣，可以说是极度悲观，主人公事业爱情家庭可以说一事无成，最后连自己的生命都没能经营下去。似乎他一直都想要拯救别人，但别人都不需要他。
很好看的日本动漫。喜欢里面的人物，情结也好
这边就是让我们看了一些大人物 和主角的矛盾
他不会游泳，法比安活过的刹那，前后皆是暗夜。魏玛共和国的动荡背景，小人物的虚无感，无力无奈又骄纵。
无形的剪刀笼罩在德国上空，最近的历史就在二战前。时代感虽然有，可是散乱地聚焦在局部。人种、阶层及性别间的对话，唯有中规中矩的三人行，止步于中途的小插曲。法比安倾尽了所有，却无法守护自己所珍视的。收尾可谓全片亮点：明明不谙水性仍然义无反顾一头栽进去，付出了沉重代价可什么都没留下。
两天前看的，那时豆瓣因为没认证身份不能标记。我恨豆瓣
LERNEN SCHWIMMEN!
救命，我刀我自己。
导演用凌厉新潮的手法描述了三十年代德国的混乱失序，开篇一个地铁站长镜头就把时光推回到过去，犹如噩梦般的闪前（五官扭曲的脸）又在预示着更可怕的将来，此刻像是被巨大的车轮赶着走，所以镜头切换相当迅速，男主在爱情友情事业三方面的失落中最后走向了覆灭，咖啡馆里不会赴约的恋人，广播里即将到来的屠杀，结尾收得毫无希望可言。
难说有多少共情，却见到了某种共通，可怕的共通，这个世界还容得下体面么？
拍的还可以，从TV剪辑的～这部比较平淡一些～
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