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".
一群衣冠楚楚的德国人，在安静的湖边，冠冕堂皇地开了一场会，讨论如何安逸，高效，合理，不产生心理影音地处理犹太人，每个发言看似认真讨论，却无不透露着傲慢，无礼，冷酷，残忍
老友吻罢 是生日礼物的见别
虽然但是，近三个小时还是有点太长了，剧情和画面有时过于破碎，总让人有些分神。除此之外，还是很喜欢，虽说是时代的印证，却仍然是个人的故事，在时间的洪流里的独特的法比安的故事。总想起《无主之作》，毕竟两位主演都是重合的演员，法比安是二战前的柏林，无主之作是二战后冷战时的柏林，两个柏林好不一样却又好像。结局有些心痛却又觉得非此不可，“活着只是侥幸，死亡才是必然”，亮晶晶的湖面下是死神的馈赠。但法比安就是很可爱，所以他的友谊跟爱情都很动人。
一群人为了一个共同的目标出谋划策，最终达成一致的故事。有政治场上的明争暗斗，有个人信仰的火线交锋，觥筹交错间，彰显忠诚正义，秉持公正严明，最终结成白纸黑字的严谨报告——如何训练有素地消灭1100万人类。由此可见，主义错了，知识越多越反动。年度最佳预定。
直到最后，累了，走了，逃离这个陌生陆离的城市，回到童年的家乡。只是过往的人和事一直折磨着千疮百孔的心，连最明媚的阳光也驱散不开。
如果忽略此次会议的议题，这就是一场非常标准的圆桌政治博弈，各派系间就自身利益最大化展开争论、说服、协商、妥协；然而即便派系观点和利益存在冲突，但他们在犹太人种族灭绝的问题上却是空前一致，令人不寒而栗。
4/5 | 对一个正常社会而言，平庸之恶的出现当然百害而无一利。但对归附于不道德体制的个体而言，ta总能凭借体制赋予自身的他者化冷漠，形成某种程度的自圆其说，而解除个人在道德层面的反思。万湖会议某种意义上就是平庸之恶的集中反映和体现。
開頭的地鐵站長鏡頭就向我們暗示著一種當代視角，它懸浮於歷史之上并投去一個回溯性的觀看，這是插入的黑白紀實影像，也是當人物在街道上遊蕩時，突然插入的路側宣傳海報的鏡頭，而生活於其中的人或許不會如此這般注意到它們：這是兩層敘事和兩種視角，一邊入侵的歷史符號直接將信息傳遞給當代人，另一邊是快速剪輯下的洪流，1931年的柏林其中所有人感受著切膚之感，最終亦真亦幻的呈現，如被阻隔於結尾焚書烈火另一頭的回憶流
庆幸没有因为开头看不懂放弃。充满文学性的镜头语言，充满哲思和诗意的念白。影片快结束的时候还心想有点欣慰Fabian的角色弥补了Friedhelm（Unsere Mütter Unsere Väter里同样是Tom Schilling演的弟弟）带给我的伤害，然而结尾猝不及防…后劲十足
全片充斥着碎片化但却温暖的情绪，事业、友情和爱情的不幸在导演的处理下都显得不太冷酷，试镜时的独白，les酒吧里和好友的轻轻一吻，咖啡馆对峙时女孩伴着Ombra Mai Fu落下的泪水，以及山雨欲来前返回家中和父母共享平静的幸福。
看着以前的世界，我会觉得它只能走向毁灭，你要是告诉我他会变成今天这样，我是无法相信的。当然，我们可能还是走在毁灭的路上，只是还没有到达
一张圆桌，几十个人你一言我一语地讨论具体的细则，间或休会去休息室吃几碟点心，所有人效忠元首，一切讨论的前提是清晰的，要完善的仅是终极解决方案如何落地：先拿哪个国家开涮？如何安抚本国犹太人的日尔曼裔亲戚朋友，万一他们抗议怎么办？花488天把全欧洲的犹太人清除干净会浪费多少颗子弹？是不是送进毒气室会更省军力？把犹太人从各地运送到焚化炉运力承不承受得住？怎么处理二分之一或四分之一混血的犹太人，绝育手术是可行的吗？每天处理这么多尸体，德国士兵的精神状态受得住吗？犹太人中的一战老兵曾为国效力，是不是要再建一个收容犹太老兵的聚集地？所有人优雅、庄重、理性地讨论方案实施的可行性，满嘴公正、勇敢、忠诚，如果不注意讨论的内容，你根本不会发现他们在实施的是“种族大清洗”，不会知道他们正把欧洲变成一个大型屠宰场。
“你可以带我看看你的柏林，如果它仍然存在”。它完全不像这个时代拍出来的电影，好像一部纪实文学般展现了30年代的柏林，重现了魏玛共和国在享乐主义中走向灭亡。从该死的战争，摧垮的经济到，因理想和生活而遭背叛的爱情，挚友身亡于理想主义的幻灭，最终迎来无情而炙热的身心具焚的结局（救人却被当做淹死的鱼和nc焚烧的书）。“这世界容得下体面吗？”世间轮回，善无好报。法比安的问题似乎永远没有答案。
前半小时很有灵性，让我对这个作品的兴趣猛然提升。但后面两个半小时，我本应选择去读小说。好奇是这个故事本身太复杂，还是这个剪辑过乱。 ps：汤姆希林为什么一直这么帅？！
德国方鸿渐。历史背景没啥用，90年后依然这样
多少有些觉得这样克拉考尔气质的电影不应该有接近180min的时长，这让开头那种独特的纪录感有些涣散，但转念又想，能够做到完整叙述男主的主线和男二女一甚至开男妓店的女二这几个角色都表达的如此生动，还要把那个山雨欲来的魏玛柏林表现的鲜活，也只有这样的一个篇幅才能承载了，人们普遍的灰暗和挣扎，在各种荒唐的境地里自我麻醉。在我心目中这部和《彼得罗夫的流感》都是去年年度级的作品，而那部入选了奥斯卡的《贝尔法斯特》和这两部杰作相比，简直幼稚可笑。
观感极好。另一视角下的《柏林与亚历山大广场》。
与其说是看电影，不如说像是在欣赏影响化的文学作品，琐碎絮叨又散发着脆弱迷人的气质，台词都非常文学性。印象最深的是男主写给女主试镜用的独白信，以及二人隔着玻璃的那个吻，看到中间就能预感到结局应该是悲剧的，但至少悲剧是发生在纳粹上台之前，仍保有一丝的美好。
3 什麼都沒有 只是在敘述一個個故事 你說他在寫悲劇嗎 也不是 但放到當時的時代 就是一出出悲劇 如「紅樓夢」
复古的画幅和色彩感，搭配了极具现代感的拍摄和剪辑方式，确实让曾经与现在的边界模糊。我在想，法比安的文学与社会批评素养，与他愿意冒险不顾自身安危的善良。也许最后的死，是给予他不去经历以后几年黑暗时期，最终落得更悲惨结局的无奈。
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