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".
这个剧场版内容比较简单，也就是三个人从那田山回来，在蝴蝶舞接受治疗，主要是训练。
前半段有点生硬，利用有年代的剪辑手法去剪，原本可能是希望创新，希望有什么新的感觉，但是结果却是让人感觉有些多余。这个故事可以认真地好好地讲的，但是为了艺术而艺术，使得这部片很不工整。一是前半段的剪辑和拍摄风格没有延续到整部片，就好像前面只是开了个玩笑。如果要拍那个柏林，那就换个剧本。如果想拍好这个剧本，那就不要乱玩。
芝加哥影展，从一个人身上照见一个时代！拍的真的好～
一场绚丽的冒险，一场时代的落幕，一种精神的永垂不朽
#71st Berlin#主竞赛 别样的影像化 混乱的魏玛时代 动荡的间战期 幻灭的个人际遇
前面一小部分让我想到了一个名词“电影的戏剧化”——才用多视点一定程度上还原了戏院里的观看模式，后面的叙事较为平稳，部分镜头有“私影像”的特性，多次分心。
二战前的柏林，一个男青年的故事。电影前面的部分混乱又疯狂，后面就变成了正常的叙事，有一种发力过猛然后累了的感觉。虽然叙事方式正常了，但是男主的生活更加不稳定了，失业，女友攀高枝以及好友因玩笑自杀等接连打击着法比安。妥协和接受是法比安唯一能做的，为了爱情放弃了尊严的他，最后在奔赴爱情的路上出了意外。一切仿佛是一场空，无论曾经多么热闹。那个年代的社会与现在如此之像，不知有多少现代“法比安”的人生最后成为一场空。
除了转换场景的动画和片尾预告和tv版好像一点儿区别也没有😂
炭治郎和伙伴们的成长经历篇，能看到他们的时刻在进步，很不错的一部动画电影
一个现代视角的快速切入重叠，幽灵穿过，即将进入狂热社会前的时空闪现。大量素材画面的剪切拼贴（始终重叠着过去/现在/未来），始终穿插的手持视角，Fritz Lang式的表现主义怪异柏林，性/消费/香烟/吗啡/社会主义/党卫军/一战后的畸零/电影片场/扭曲的人体/死亡/枪/断肢/异装癖/性倒错/控制/德国马克，法比安社会侧写式的文本/旁白（始终提示，这是一个过去的文本）/海报符码/渐进的事件互相扭曲在一起，在混乱的影像熵增中走向必然的毁灭（也是现在正在进行的），今天的眼泪给我们必然面对的现实。
从《无主之作》开始就开始特别喜欢男主，这部果然又没有让人失望！
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……
除了太长没什么毛病！实在是太爱Tom Schilling了！
今年看过的最长的电影……还好，没那么沉闷……在光怪陆离的林林总总中，美好的爱人是唯一的安慰，而结局是终于失去了他……而这时残酷的战争就要开始……忍不住要想到陀思妥耶夫斯基笔下的人物
4：3画幅打开一幅30年代柏林风情画，上演一出“罗曼蒂克消亡史”，尊严煎熬下的法比安不愿意接受现实，又在想象的拯救和约会中死去，也许战争爆发前以这样的方式离开反倒是一种仁慈。
导演有才，手持摄影模仿出了两次世界大战之间人们的眩晕、恐慌、不安，一切都在摇摇欲坠的边缘。
22-123. 沒get到，結尾像是有意為之，實在無法理解他們之間的感情……政治隱喻很多，遠不如之前的《無主之作》。
相爱的人再也无法赴约 乱世之中 终究得到了 也永远失去了 思辨放进电影里 形成相悖的自然逻辑 顺理成章中见微尘
在最后五分钟之前，都是我近几月看过的最赞的电影。但结局实在是让我对编剧太失望了。《误杀》有句台词：当你看过一千部电影，这世上就没什么离奇事。 在我这里，看过一定量的电影，就会希望现在的编剧能有点创新，不要为了强行制造悲剧而制造。可惜，当我看到法比安满怀希望地出发，我就预感编剧可能又要走进那个陈腐的悲剧套路了，然后就果然走进去了。因为前面部分实在太精彩，所以我对编剧的部分才会如此愤怒吧。
令人炫目的杰作！该片具有那个特定时代的欧洲气息，虽然离现代生活很久远，但却呈现得很细致入微，真实和幻想的交替存在于主人公的脑海中，都赋予了独特的影像色彩，画面构图也是一大特色。三小时剧情慢慢展开，颇具看点。值得之后再刷的好片。
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