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".
当人成为问题，成为政绩的目标。/人道主义的微弱提问也被轻易淹没，我们不会因为尽责被指责的。我们这代人只是刚好被选中要为国家剜去病瘤罢了。/获得签字走无意义的手续，是为了让人维持秩序感。法律是可以朝令夕改的，虚假的程序正当才是现实。/Sechs Millionen Juden wurden. 平实的会议纪要之后，这一切才刚刚开始。
人类真可怕
真的精彩绝伦，看得非常过瘾！这部片对当时第三帝国的政治形态把握得还是很精准：异常复杂的官僚体系，各种部门职责重叠混乱，处处争权夺势，军方与政府错综复杂的勾结/对抗关系。内政部看似手握立法大权，实际上权利已经被削弱。节奏非常棒，人物塑造也很优秀，海德里希比想象中温和些，艾希曼也是阿伦特笔下描绘的样子。最后对毒气室的论述想到了《现代性与大屠杀》，可见剧本还是相当专业
最近日本动画导演脑子里是不是连“曝光”和“景深”的基本概念都没了，“轴线”也是用不上的过时处理品了。哎呀。
封控第34天看完这部片，在恍惚中似乎抓到了影片与现实的联系
三星半，觉得前面多线剪辑有点乱（过快），但是从作品presentation最后一首歌但到结尾很多泪点，再回头看前面的叙事，情绪爆发就显得非常顺理成章…加菲演的很好；好爱LMM，怎么可以那么全能，导演处女秀就这个水平好厉害…
人的命，有时候真不如猪，都快一百年了，咋还是这个样呢
哈哈哈哈 剧情我全程都在笑 感情真的不行人物也没立起来。但是打斗真的帅啊，后面那几场打斗好厉害！这个可以说是大杂烩，有纯爱，有友情，有少年成长，有打斗，甚至还强行卖五夏cp，但是除了打斗哪方面都好平庸甚至很差😂 另外cv太赞了，男主根本就是シンジ啊，看的电影就觉得他需要个eva😂
宏观叙事抹杀个体价值的绝佳案例。相比于热评里提到的艾希曼，个人认为施图卡特这个角色更不错，独立人格、理性思辨与立场坚定的品质他都有，但信仰让他从拉斐尔变成撒旦的助手。
1. 柏林的犹太人不一样，他们千丝万缕和德国 2. 全部消灭算了，1/2、1/4、1/8都一样 3.杀小孩是对的，父母都不在了，留下来有什么用 4.捷克斯洛伐克克罗地亚罗马尼亚都把消灭本国犹太人的权利交给了我们，唯独匈牙利不从 5.犹太人死后财产怎么办？谁都不会和钱过不去 6. 我们只是在履行我们的职责，不会因此被泼脏水，犹太人是罪有应得 7.命运选了我们这一代，我们不能因此感到困惑而拒绝执行 The end：为什么这么多受过良好教育的人会相信另一个种族是天生的饿？
说的都是人话
三星半，算是很工整的歌舞片吧，但是裡面的歌舞編排只能説普通，各位演技都還算在線，只是故事本身過於波瀾不驚，沒有什麽記憶點，感覺過幾天就忘光了……
Tick, tick, for love or fear? 原来rent的原点是这样的。
大大加强阿道夫艾希曼的戏份，是因为他的结局吗？
“設若邏輯不被生命的關懷所引導，就不是理性，而會發展成乖違的智力活動。” 细思极恐，人性的恐怖，我们要彻骨反省。
和鬼灭剧场版差不多的感受，还是追剧有意思一点
全程都封闭在房间里的拍摄，一桌人谈话间决定另一个种族的生死，而每个人都冷漠得令人窒息，所有生命的价值在对话间甚至不如“一节车厢运力带来的成本”高，他们却觉得只是一个简单的“在别墅里的会议”。
他们面无表情地讨论种族清洗和大屠杀，讨论二分之一和四分之一的犹太人该不该死，讨论国防军和党卫军中的犹太混血该不该死，讨论清洗犹太人的地理顺序，会担心起义和暴乱，讨论如何运送、如何执行，枪决方案因被认为会影响自己人的心理健康而被否决，最后决定用毒气“十五分钟内完成”。后面发生的事情我们就都知道了。
三星半，算是很工整的歌舞片吧，但是裡面的歌舞編排只能説普通，各位演技都還算在線，只是故事本身過於波瀾不驚，沒有什麽記憶點，感覺過幾天就忘光了……
以一种系统性的体制机制管理运作的官僚行政系统的例行会议，来讨论种族灭绝和大屠杀，这才是不寒而栗的地方，即系统合法且合乎程序的推行反人类的灭绝政策。为了大局（the greater good）长远规划，高效、科学、精确的程序，加上宏大叙事的煽情、口号式的意识形态宣讲和复述宣传以重申思想身份的认同，一整套下来会议逻辑得到普遍认可，恶的界限更加模糊，被逻辑支配说服，而不去选择思考和质疑这一“逻辑”的荒诞和不妥，也就只有尚存一点人道主义的会潜台词发出无论何种形式都是在屠杀的疑问，但他的声音很快就被自己和大环境所沉默。单纯就会议与会者来看，权责不清、媚上贪权、派系斗争、官僚主义、利益媾和、贪腐、推诿、一些权力移交后的历史遗留问题，魏玛掌权的没落遗老和三德子当权新贵间的唇枪舌剑的话术博弈还是很精彩的。
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