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".
四星半。“这个世界正在走向毁灭。”“我离开你是为了和你在一起。”30年代初的柏林混乱而疯狂，如同万花筒一般折射出罪恶、堕落、不安与愤怒。但与此同时，政治激荡，艺术繁荣。与《歌厅》一样通过细节暗示政治风波，最终纳粹崛起如同汹涌浪潮，吞噬故事中的所有角色。“死亡是必然，活着只是侥幸。”明明是从灵魂到身体都极为般配的爱侣，却因现实的层层阻碍分道扬镳，最后决心弥补也来的太迟。科迪莉亚每天3点在咖啡厅等待，可她爱的人却再也不会出现。好喜欢看希林小天使醉生梦死……
开场不知道在干啥，后面我就走进了他的世界。
德国人精细严谨的特点被表现得很好
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。
可怜的斯蒂芬——一个“有进取心的”青年黑格尔派
苦苦等待中，上帝好像听到了你的呼唤，以为转机来了。可改死的善良又让你在最后连死都无声无息，像个笑话，泛不起一丝涟漪。
她每天下午三点会来 不管是无主之作还是法比安 汤姆希林总给我意想不到但是又在意料之中的意外
时代来了就是来了，我们谈不了理想，也进不去广场。
确实是“不合时宜的人”。摄影满分，色彩极佳。最近看的片子越来越像自己，做不了婊子又要立牌坊，抛不开撒不下，自欺能力强到登天，肯为五斗米折腰，活到最后也没输出像样的价值，人就在这样的状态中行步入中年。活着究竟为了什么？
心爱的人还在餐厅等他，而法比安到死也没有学会游泳。明明相爱的人总是要分开，奇妙的爱情。
太爱了。魏玛时代混沌的社会，一切精神都充满了撕裂，正直与道德无法生存。希望拥抱爱情最后却溺水身亡的作家。只有真实才会给人以慰藉，只有真实的慰藉才给人以活下去或者死亡的勇气。
从来没有看完一部电影让我产生无比生理心理不适。恐怖片跟这相比算得上成人童话了。官僚体制会议流程程序至上一切都那么熟悉，就像我们平时开的一次次会议，竟然决定了六百多万人的生死。太恐怖了，太恐怖了，太恐怖了，每个人都没有错每个人都是做自己的工作，那到底是谁的错！是这个体制的错吗？是集权体制的错！是平庸的恶的错！
魏玛式的魏玛故事，末日将至的世界反而眼花缭乱。带着任务看，才发现“学会游泳”一闪而过好几次。
电影后劲儿特别大…酒吧混乱的相遇，朋友豪宅的狂欢，粘腻潮湿的爱恋，纯朴有冲劲儿的年轻人，纠结迷惘的女孩儿，一切都让人喜欢
“她喜欢他，但他不是她想要的人。相反的情况也会发生。被一个人吸引，却不想一起生活。”“那就没有方方面面都合适的人吗？”“不要期待太高。”//“我们把爱当作商品，但我们也希望商品能爱上我们。”//“你总会找到阻挡女人前进的男人，而她为了绕开他不得不与他纠缠，你会习惯的。”//“我以为我们是一派的，我以为我们之间没有嫌隙。”“两个人无法成为一派。”
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。
法比安还没学会游泳就溺死在这个人生间的漩涡当中，事业、爱情、亲情一切的一切如同一个巨大的漩涡，死死地缠绕着他，让他一步步一点点走向毁灭。最后时刻，似乎还有点希望，似乎幸福的大门悄悄打开一个缝，但又是过眼云烟。
任何动荡的年代都有怀才不遇的人 人生就是存在着很多的不确定 明天和意外哪个先来谁也不知道 我们现在这么小心的生活着又和那个动荡的年代有什么区别 稳定的工作带来了稳定的收入 而处处小心到处限制又怎么让我们去享受这收入呢？
法比安淹死了，淹死在社会的洪流，迷惑颠倒，颠倒迷惑
道德上的计算与算术是不同的。
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