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".
太喜欢了，有洪尚秀、王家卫的影子，属于东亚人特有的细腻，节奏把握、人类情感洞察特别舒服、美妙。滨口龙介也太会写了，头脑和心思很特殊的存在。[A-]
魔法：无比真实的情感收放，典型的亚洲人交流方式和爱恋。爱，会伤人，也会使人盲目。随着时间的沉淀，这种博弈使人愈陷愈深，在痛苦与快乐间来回拉扯。
80/100。#IKSV#滨口龙介舍弃了《欢乐时光》里的絮絮叨叨，丢掉了《夜以继日》的无病呻吟，用极具精巧的拍摄手法为我们讲述了几个有关于女性的小故事，可能手法上并不能为所有人接受，但情感足够真挚动人。或许在人生的某一刻，你也是彷徨于过往情丝中的纠结者，你也是想逃脱自身缺陷却又一直出不去的迷失者，你也是想理清曾经反反复复不止不休的执念的不甘者。但当你经历了命运之轮的吹拂，当你在想象与现实的交界线上突然认清了未来的路，当你终于在破碎的记忆里看清了那道如何继续走下去的明灯，所有的幸福和愉悦，也许就在下个街角等着你。我们的存在，就是对无声时间的最好宣战。
9.2/10 #iksv 即便是短片集也依旧饱有后311的影子，第一段结尾的城市改建，第二段的一种身份自白（较隐性），第三段的地点设定（宫城仙台）和失联。步入此部的结构显然更容易，既是偶然，与想象，似乎有些太简单。想象既是角色的行为（身份的扮演），也是滨口邀请观众参与的观看方式（文字化的性爱）。偶然是一种结构的突变，正如舒曼Op.15的调性转折，伴随着第一段和第二段故事中行驶途中的偶然颠簸，成为了叙事的灵活呼吸。滨口只是滨口，绝非洪尚秀，更非黑泽清，不理解将几者并论有何根据。第一段>第二段≈第三段，滨口从不对画面中的“幕”（screen）做任何特定的功能，无论是使其成为自反工具亦或是额外的画幅分割，都并不如此，那些车窗，玻璃门，与倒影，都只是构建情景与情绪的温室，使人不断沉浸与沦陷。
对自己的泪点有自知之明，提前准备好了纸巾，结果没用上。
好则好矣，妙则妙矣，美则美矣，灵则灵矣。然此三篇无一能与《天国还很遥远》相媲美。
真的好哭，妈妈不希望你挣多少钱多牛逼，健康快乐就好，还有那句“来让我高兴的”。其实我很理解女儿会觉得妈妈嫁的差了，不够幸福，或者受了其他委屈等等，但从她自己嘴里说出来“这辈子很幸福”，再选一次还是愿意这样过，挺感慨的
很生硬的哲学家，是可以逼人直视细腻的，但这一部喜欢不上来。第二段也就是靠舒曼的《童年情景》吊着一份感性了。
为什么这么煽情可又觉得再自然不过。“你可能会爱上别人，但我做不到，和我在一起可能会让你的人生一团糟，但我还是希望你能选我。但我不能把这话说出来。”“嗯。”非常喜欢第三段故事，和第一段里男人和女人和女孩的对话，看的时候好紧张（即便男人有点像山寨版的小武。
通过暴露日常生活里突如其来的drama性来消解集体无意识中构建起来的“爱情神话” 但反而祛魅到最后才又回归至神话终究是神话的层面 每个篇章结尾的zoom都如神来之笔 骤然将那一时段内的所有情感浓缩放大在那一刻 就像是魔法 摄影机记录下的这一切都如同魔法
虽然美子的冲动或冷静都来得如此强烈，但当她一个人陷入自我、卸下伪装的时候，似乎才能让人感到她的内心，那里充满了对世界的不确定和不信任。
4.5，滨口在小体量中建构复杂情境（人际关系）没有太多优势，他所擅长的是利用言论交谈的内容充实情境以及内容对人物当下情绪的延伸。
还是没看到第二段里关于邮箱的字幕，又找资源看了一遍带注解的邮箱地址。依然最喜欢第三段。
被稀释的侯麦（或洪尚秀），只有偶然，唯有最后一篇才有「想象」。〈Once Again〉3+，像一篇村上调的短篇小说，奇迹般的相遇。记忆并不总像是我们以为般牢靠，正如MLA所唱，世间所有情爱的事，不过是我们浪漫的想象所致。角色扮演的灵感，应该是来源于Celine and Julie Go Boating？
滨口还是一个很擅长“拿来”的导演，因此很多技巧和效果会令人感到熟悉甚至有些生涩——因为还在实验过程中，他人痕迹犹在，情境却已不同。洪常秀、侯麦、里维特、黑泽清……这部里的许多人物正面镜头正反打镜头和奥利维拉/尤金·格林也是相通的。夸太多滨口如何“电影”，这部其实远更“文学”了，激情与想象的接飞盘游戏，时间压缩连接的方式，换场景如换幕……不过坦白说，滨口能让我过电，但还是嫌他像魔术师没感情，只有门的女主角在五年后憔悴损，跳到了演绎之外。（最后一段两个演员感觉掉了）
我喜欢。我们需要女导演！我其实是一个对喜剧从不感冒的人，一直呼声很高的开心麻花甚至都get不到笑点，看过一些喜剧都是建立在对“别人身材、长相的侮辱上”（仅我认为）。但女导演的喜剧笑点显得更温和，泪点也来的更真实。“她这时候还不会缝啊”，母亲在和孩子一起修炼技能。姐妹情和母女情都好，我来了你高兴吗，我高兴啊。乐莹忘记了李焕英也曾经是个少女，但是英子依然会告诉她，你健康快乐就好。从今以后我要把我妈妈的微信备注改成“美少女”！0508又看了一遍，又感动哭了，给妈妈发了红包，买了擦脸油。
这不就是洪尚秀？把生活中的偶然拆解成了对话，但却没有那么小品。最喜欢第三个故事，只有女性才会在意外的错误面前制造这样一份浪漫吧。
滨口将中岛步拍到这么帅没天理 偶然与想象充分刺激七情六欲 回味悠长 了不起
中国电影电视编剧，除了用穿越带来的天然认知优越，还有其他办法产生创意，让主角差异化，让观众爽到吗？
一部电影三个故事，像短篇小说集，但故事之间围绕“偶然与想象”的主题有一定的联系，并不觉得分散。滨口龙介的电影具有不走极端、恰到好处的魅力。故事有一定的戏剧性，但并不把戏剧性作为唯一的推动力。人物内在冲突很多，通过大量的对白达到一定的外化，但又不完全外化，存在一些意味深长的留白。镜头语言以长镜头为主，但没有极端的静止或运动，只是随着故事场景和节奏灵活调度。画面也不强调某种色彩，只是捕捉都市生活本来的样子。所以这样的电影很容易看下去，不累，但又能引起很多联想和共鸣。看到的是平静的生活略显波澜，感受到的是内心里永不停息的动荡。非常舒服的都市小品。
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