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".
法比安消失了 就像他没存在过一样 献给所有生活脱轨的人 正在失去自己生活的人 到底什么是体面的生活
更让我想到了一个关于最近国际局势的冷笑话:
梦与死，在爱人的肩膀上。生活，永远在跳跃。三个小时完全不闷，好看。（汤姆希林身上有很深邃的气质）
万湖会议的会议纪要只有15页，但却决定了600万犹太人的命运。会议记录人阿道夫·艾希曼在二战后，逃到了阿根廷。当时的以色列总理本·古里安指示，必须把艾希曼带回以色列公开审判，“活的最好，死的也行”。摩萨德局长带着11个人亲赴阿根廷，有惊无险地将艾希曼“绑架”回了以色列。在3000多页的案情记录面前，艾希曼被判处有罪并被处以绞刑，算是给“万湖会议”划上了一个句号。
爱极了这种间离感和文学性强的脚本，他游走在声色犬马光怪陆离的魏玛，保持着难得的清醒又孤立于每一个群体和时代。汤姆真的太可爱了德国一美。
改编自真实历史事件，让人大为震惊。二战时德国就如何处置犹太人开了一个“万湖会议”。会议上各部门的头头为了自身利益相互博弈，会议召集者为了达到目的软硬兼施。与会者在一番讨价还价，让利得利之后，终于达成一致。大方向统一之后，大家还就如何执行讨论了许多细节，比如执行地的选择，火车运输能力，执行这件事的时间能否满足要求，成本是否超过承受能力，执行后果是否可控等等。看起来仿佛和现代公司开的任何项目的会议差不多，可这是决议对欧洲约1100万犹太人进行清除的会议。1100万人的生命，在他们口中如同1100万元的方案一般轻松。
学会游泳
在一个泥沙俱下的世界里依然善良的法比安，在罪恶蔓延前焚于烈火的薄薄的一生
因为清醒 所以绝望 所以无所适从 所以格格不入
德国方鸿渐。历史背景没啥用，90年后依然这样
在及其冷静的氛围里制定大屠杀计划，只有利益掣肘，更没有制约和反对，一片欣欣向荣，稳中求胜，这个倒是很有亲切感。
从地铁长镜头摇进了三十年代。大时代背景下的月亮六便士。“代替我好好生活。写一写过去的样子，和过去应该有的样子”“生活是最有趣的工作”。任何时代，深刻的爱情都会是前半部分那个样子。最爱的一部之一了。我愿称之为《小郑和我》。
一个人因为玩笑丧了命，一个人永远等不到赴约的爱人，一个人不会游泳却跳下了水。
德国人从多方面考虑处理犹太人问题的会议。会议的讨论十分细致，从国内外的政治环境、财产问题、交通运输、法律、外交、辖区管理等角度，分别探讨运送前、运送中、运送后可能带来的问题与对策，甚至对英美苏瑞等国存在的犹太人处理有了未来的预案，不过片中也多次反映一些处理的可行性不高。除此之外，更多地呈现了由此引发的官僚之间职权争夺、互相甩锅的现象。话说那个Stuckart博士多次和别人硬刚，坚持落实法律规定，在血统认定上强硬，我还以为他是个地下辛德勒，直到他后期来了个Zwangssterilisaionen，赶紧查了一下他的生平和他所谓的法律，也是绝了。另外，最后通过高度的分工与流程来保障德国军队的心理健康还真是严谨。这电影算是长见识了。
随了剧情推进，形式感被逐渐消解，代入感却越发真实。文青的结局似乎从来都是注定，在任何国家，在任意年代。“我应该去当教师，只有孩子适合拥有理想”。
喜欢女主的台词设计，真棒。是没有预想到的结局——“学会游泳”。
我好像还是更喜欢oh boy。少年希林开始长大啦...
“谁不喜欢和平？但我们这一代只能做出牺牲，我们就是德意志民族的医生，为国家去除生病的毒瘤.......”“为邻居铲除屎，他们还不乐意吗？”围绕最终解决方案讨论的主要是运输和“处理”的经济性，国民会不会反抗，对国内工业技术人才流失是否有影响，混血犹太人如何处理等等来展开。觥筹交错之间，决定了几百万人的生死。
一个小细节，唯一差点冒头的良心来自一个年纪比较大的官员，充满干劲的年轻人总是冲在残忍第一线，就挺真实的。
挺喜欢几度示爱的女性，但确实有点长啊（也想点三个汤姆希林的吻）
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