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".
三十年代德国一个小知识分子的混乱生活。超闷。
#IFFR 2021 太他妈喜欢了，电影节目前为止看到的最喜欢的一部，不出意外也会是今年的十佳之一。多么精彩地一个希望是如何破灭的故事，非常喜欢导演的视觉风格！
“我们可以再认识一次。”
魏玛时代终结 进入犹太新年。法比安没学会游泳，世界容不下体面。
打标签的时候想了想，虽然从电影中看到太多，看甜蜜走向悲凉，看一群人走到没有人，看庆贺走调成哀悼，看浪漫走样成无望的守望。一桩桩一件件洋洋洒洒，但它们拼接起来的东西，大概只能也只需要用“人生”这个标签来总结。
有些人无法解开自身的枷锁 然而却可以救赎他们的朋友
8.0 与《柏林亚历山大广场》一样，成为历史的注脚，前面手法太过于惊艳，以至于中后期保守的镜头使这段非常“文青”的爱情故事走向庸俗，好在有死亡，改用电影的一句话就是“活着是无力的，唯有死亡可以力挽狂澜”
当代德国电影里常见的杂糅、拼贴等手法，《法比安》都有。黄金二十年代的大城市，在格拉夫电影的前半部转变为令人叹为观止的万花筒效果。但也许是为了带出某种诗学立场，特别是作者、演员和制片人之间的冲突，格拉夫突然在后半段为这部电影造出了一个爱情故事的核。这个过度感伤的情感故事不仅将凯斯特纳精辟而几乎愤世嫉俗的笑话和批判变成了自怨自艾，更是把法比安这个维特式的道德向人物变成了笑话。当最后他的日记在纳粹焚书里烧毁，你不由得怀疑这是格拉夫对凯斯特纳的嘲讽。
4.5 现代派文学叙事的影像化，无疑是新奇又成功的：不是就应该用上各种手持、闪前、跳切、噪音，广播、报纸、海报、archive footage，才能描绘出一个肉欲横流、道德沦丧、萎靡不振、疯狂右倾的魏玛时代吗？但这事儿直到2021年才被完成，也是挺吊诡的。与德布林的《柏林亚历山大广场》异曲同工，相比剧场的、室内的、为“电视”拍摄的法斯宾德，多米尼克·格拉夫实在是另一个极端。
电影看完后很久，我左右顾盼了一会，发现自己两手空空什么都没有，却“不自量力”地和法比安以及他的朋友们处于一种何其相似的境地。那时候柏林的每一个角落都潜伏着毁灭，笔迹之下是思想和心灵，政治的号角在一片绿草地上吹响了，牺牲了。
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。
或许是预算所限，导演着眼于从美学形式手段去呈现魏玛末期“疯魔”和前卫，布莱希特式间离效果也大量引入，但手持、无人机镜头无序滥用，又在瓦解这种时代幻灭感。就和这场爱情一样，终究是烟花一场。 @望京电影资料馆
有丢丢超出理解范围。脱离时代背景好像也能成立，时长长了有点散，或者是我没跟上吧。小汤姆和无主之作中的姨母谈起了恋爱。
如果爱情在你心中是那么圣洁的话 那就最好不要靠近 因为世俗的东西中多少会有那么点不尽如人意的瑕疵…所幸 如果能把爱情从生命中剥离的话 在失去一半快乐的同时 也会失去一半的烦恼…再热情似火的爱情中 也需要面包…
3.你选择的生活方式是，砍下你自己的头，但请确保这不是无谓的
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。
首先说明：这部剧超棒！我要吹爆它！蝶屋这部分是过渡篇，相对剧情比较平缓。也好的，休息一下，一直燃看得也累。😁😁
每个活在「魏末」的国人都应该给这部片子打一个五星
前半小时飞起，后面的两个半小时逐渐平淡琐碎，并且也非常道格玛95。每个人都有着弧光和残缺，那种充满梦想的理想主义者在这种混乱荒诞的年代里格格不入，背后的话外音像是命运主宰一样旁观又充满冷峻绝望诗意地阐述法比安的破碎生活和被时代肢解的梦想。混乱与集体无意识年代里正常人的一首挽歌。
在他梦想的天堂里，人们仍然在自相残杀。
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