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".
影片背景是魏玛末期的柏林，但不是讲的历史，更像是某种个人体验的思想史，外面政治动荡，时局愈发险恶，法比安试图在混乱中保留喘息的空间，但混乱不断侵蚀个人空间。前半个小时其实已经讲清楚内核，后面有点冗长。
饿了偷东西跳舞那段，很可爱耶。法比安，法比安。
如果能早一个月看 这就是我2021年的最佳电影了 如此惊喜的“电影的气质” the comeback of real cinema 时隔90年后对1931年柏林的此时此地的展现 汤姆·希林与前半小时飞起的手持摄影 让我在观影体验越来越钝的今天再次爱上电影
后半段认真讲故事比前面各种炫技好看，但都低于预期。汤姆希林演得挺好～
你在痛苦活着，失去爱人失去朋友，纳粹在身边忽隐忽现，世界崩塌的时候，一个不会游泳的人如何去拯救溺水的人？
深深地击中了我，感觉就是世另我，纠结、清醒也迷茫、体面且虚伪，就是不够真实
这是一部很精彩的创伤电影，原著故事很硬。导演很聪明，传统的形式下，是一个非常现代感的故事。老套的视听配合现代语境调度很妙。
很喜欢，从开头的长镜头就开始喜欢，之后，画幅设计、充满怀旧感的胶片，一幅德国浮世绘悦然眼前。一个小人物也可窥见大历史，风雨欲来前的社会终究无能为力，就像小人物湮没水中，波涛继续翻涌，仿佛他从未存在。
记得先看这个 再看无限列车哈！我都看反了……哈哈哈
一场绚丽的冒险，一场时代的落幕，一种精神的永垂不朽
我就mark 给其他人看，不要花时间看了。这是tv抽的合集
83/100，一個浪漫主義的色彩的康德主義者被一個道德淪喪，集體有意識發瘋的失控時代碾壓摧毀的故事。沒法說不好，但就是因為太好了，從拍攝，鏡頭調度，各種學院手法駕輕就熟，湯姆希林演這類的角色自然不用說，一如既往得好，好得在此種氣質的人物里無法指摘。也不知道是不是導演為了儘可能忠於文本而把結構內容鋪得這麽滿，太眼花繚亂反而少了一些風格的統一和驚喜。就是好，肯定是好，但也依然少了些跳脫，多了幾分中正的德式匠氣。當然是得再看的。
这一篇相比其他的，因为没啥战斗内容，当时看tv版就很囫囵地看完了
“不管怎样，生活是最有趣的工作”；“学会游泳”。故事最后，那把熊熊燃烧的大火，把法比安留在人间的最后一点痕迹焚毁了。爱人在等他，永远等不到。
电影风格快速利落，又同是魏玛时期的背景，不得不令人想起巴比伦柏林。电影的情绪张力与灵光时刻不断，近期看过电影中的最佳
太有文学性的电影有时候并不是不爱看，是比较难看懂，即使喜欢也很难准确说出它的好。当然水平不足是我自己的问题。
“我们可以再认识一次。”
总体来说比较失败。《法比安》原作终结于1931，这叹魏玛悲凉又何曾不与希特勒在众人呼声下上台有直接关联，2021的法比安死于不会游泳则像浪漫化的嬉皮游戏，所有视点凝聚于这男人身上，旁白不过是他脑海中的声音，所有导演闪现的形象不过是一厢情愿的小小魔术。《柏林巴比伦》虽然melodrama，但单刀直入，直逼1931和第三帝国人们的信仰和选择，此时法比安却说：我要回家。
1.开始的长镜头在地铁站内，一出地铁站立马从当代“穿越”到了1931年，且胶片的质感非常有感觉
礼崩乐坏毁灭即将到来的时代，自尊心和道德主义一点水声都没打出就被淹没，Tom Schilling睡会不爱呢！
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