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".
4.5，鲜活的视听手法与文学趣味奇妙共振。揶揄口吻下光怪陆离的柏林一闪而过的阴霾，为"生活"提供了多个模糊的面向。然而婉转的爱情却更能打动人，一如《爱乐之城》那样传统、平庸，却悄然结成了情感的水晶。
你会非常的难过 而我们要出去
很好，但很难描述。不合时宜的人，这个电影名比较贴切。
学会游泳！！！
从数学上来说，这是一次零和交易，两个人拥有的金额与之前相同，但善意不会因此抵销，
同时经历过一战战败和德国青年运动的法比安，面临着魏玛共和国逐渐高涨的民粹主义和经济衰败，书写着"活着只是侥幸，死亡才是必然"预告末日的来临。
（20220801高铁G1672）
没有半点血腥
1.从柏林地铁站开始，把我一下子拉回德国的1931，复古的拍摄技巧，摇晃的镜头，胶片感的色调，语音书般的旁白…立刻让我置身于那个动荡、迷茫、躁动的时代…这是我看过的配乐、摄影、旁白、表演配合得最好的电影，没有之一。如同同时在看小说、话剧、电影和经历生活。 2.关于结局，令我叹为观止的结局，不会游泳的Fabian沉入水底，他的灵魂在火焰中死去…还有每天三点等待他的爱人… 3.活着只是侥幸，死亡才是必然，关于Labude，他的悲剧一开始就注定了，世界容不下一个超脱的圣人…他被拉走，彻底和我们告别的时候，亮起的是烟花。 4.这是最有默契的恋人，也是最动人、克制的爱情故事… 几乎所有台词都有荡魂摄魄的力量… 5.一部纯粹的电影，触碰到了人类的终极问题，生命、爱情、死亡 6.这部电影还有第二个名字
一不小心可能会被犹太人，又或者，一不小心就是坐在桌上讨论如何处置犹太人的人
活着只是侥幸，死亡才是必然。
事件情绪、冲突的开始结束、延续…做得特别好
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。
莱辛从一开始就眺望着远方，一切终将毁灭
不是短评：女主和男主分开后第一次在咖啡馆见面，问他为什么不看着自己 镜头只给了男主手一部分戏 无奈的手势
外行人也看得出来这部影片很特别：运用报纸海报与录像带进行的场景拼接、哥特式的浓妆、裸体的疯女人、自动弹奏的钢琴、两位旁观者(话外音)…我是个老古董，本来以为这样有意为之打破观者观感，呈现碎片化的电影不会是我的审美取向，但是看完后发现这些奇特的元素都还停留在我的脑海中，如陌生化理论所说“延长了审美感受”，也许我该多尝试些新鲜事物。
前半段断断续续看了一两个月 终于一口气看完太喜欢后半段了 是无常
“我热爱生活，但我也逐渐在失去生活”
1 有一個大反派 導致了悲劇 如「天鵝湖」
如此大的邪恶，以一场相对文明的会议形式达成。
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