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".
滨口龙介编剧之神，比坂元裕二的直球说理高了好几个次元。大段对白构筑情节的方式回到了《欢乐时光》，但情节本身的跌宕甚至胜过《夜以继日》。很久没有被剧本反复戏弄而又乐在其中的感觉了。
影片以章节式的结构，从三位主角的角度出发，讲述了这一著名的真实事件。剧本稳扎稳打，恢弘的场景和配乐一瞬间恍惚到《权力的游戏》。
几乎全部由对话构成的三个独立故事，配合适度的脑洞看下来也不觉得无聊，如果拍成电视剧能看很多集的那种！
是我喜欢的类型！停在最后一个拥抱感觉很美好。
3>2>>1 延续了《欢乐时光》的对白和日常的质感，把普通日常拍出奇迹，太神奇
滨口适合拍这种小短片，话痨的在能容忍范围内，想起巨长的《欢乐时光》太打脑壳了，虽然我脑海里一直有剧情发展庸俗向的小剧本，但还好他都巧妙避免了，偶尔在镜头上调皮下，还真像美国某话痨，这么会讲故事赶紧也去写短篇小说啊
轻轻唤醒了我沉睡已久的观影热情，在百无聊赖地看过一个又一个烂俗的套路后，终于收获了新的惊喜。看第一个故事的时候还在想，又是洪尚秀那样的叙事，看完全片才发现跟洪尚秀的路线完全不一样。三部故事都打破了日常生活中人们小心翼翼维护着的距离感，干净的画面和淡淡的音乐所营造出恬静的氛围感，和大胆意外并且戏剧性强烈的故事融合起来竟有绝妙的观感。开着门的sex与将错就错的告白，最后两个故事太妙了，深深地击中了我。
目力所及最好的滨口，第一段在偶然与想象中学会放下。第二段在偶然与想象中用色情文字的写作与阅读意淫释放性欲。第三段在偶然与想象中用误认与扮演来寻回直面过去失意的情感。三段分别有着三个人生阶段的苦恼与执念。最爱第二段，以最庄重内敛的表象气质直面最淫荡的字句（内心），张力十足，也喜感十足。那扇打开的门即直面他者的凝视。“我可以把录音给你，但你要保证听我的录音时自慰一次”“好的”。这是今年最美的骚话。
靠对白填满情感上的空白。
滨口龙介对文本、对对话、对密闭空间有特殊的爱。第三个故事看完，我觉得有必要把从小到大所有的毕业合照拿出来认认人，不然大街上遇到不认识也挺尴尬的。。。
基本全靠对白的电影我真的少见又少见
出乎意料的精彩，就如同很多人說的那樣是非常輕盈的愛情故事，觀影體驗非常好。
滨口最为引人的还是似舞台化的台词写作却毫无戏剧感，在电影内丝毫没产生感官偏移，以其富有日常生活性的缓缓推进中，剖析自我以抵达暴露情感的目的。相比其他作品无疑更有了一丝异动，比如第一个故事中洪常秀式的“这时对，那时错”，但这一模式虽假借偶然激发的想象，在滨口这里无疑透出一份规整中的刻意，降神般人物的推进情节与晃动带出间离的变焦，都好似结尾那个满欲加情的结尾，不自然。第三个同属滨口历史性自我和解的脉络，依旧极具“刻意”中的温情劝解，相互救赎的戏份好似“车内告白”，但与中段扮演尴尬不同的是，极富鸡汤性的结尾中透出了滨口的缺陷。如此夹击中，第二个故事就显得引人注目，先设的“门常开”无疑是一份道德规避的姿态，当与朗读并置时便激发了一种阳光下的隐秘独白，这使平常自我追问中有了一丝幽暗，蒙上了不同的气氛。
一个意想不到的三角恋、一场未遂的诱惑和一个因误会而相遇的故事
有点爱上滨口龙介了，也太对我口味了！纯对白情节细腻而不烦闷，看不进去洪尚秀的时候always可以看看滨口龙介。太喜欢第三段的设计了，温暖又伤感，喜悦又遗憾，唯独没有尴尬，这就是女性之间的守望相助吧。
大概是三二一这样的喜欢顺序，最日常的场景和对话，生发出超脱于日常的魔法，多重文本让现代社会中人内心最深层最私密的情感脱掉外衣，跃然纸上。不得不说剧本是相当巧妙，滨口龙介也是真心厉害！
滨口龙介太棒了，这么拍下去迟早能成为新时代的大师。三篇章节拍得如此轻盈曼妙，通过人物间对话准确得剖开现代人的情感裂口，又通过对空间布局和剧本上精巧设计来突出人物间的距离和情感上的徘徊。而滨口龙介最难得的是，在室内谈话之余仍然能在影像镜头上具有一定的设计感和风格化，拘谨的空间在简洁的基础上仍然能够在影像上迸发着魔法的时刻，这一点真的比大多数庸导强很多。第二段公交车戏份以及第三段上下扶梯的戏份，已经深入我的脑海成为难以忘怀的美妙光影瞬间！
这种特意的引导使得日常对话也变得具有仪式感
三个互不相关的短片集，共同的主题我觉得就是一个词，遗憾。
MK2 Odéon. 比侯麦更洪尚秀，比洪尚秀更侯麦，三个故事都好有意思，话语的力量。La force de la parole est comme moyen de révélateur donne ,d'une certaine façon, aux personnages la liberté de s'exprimer sans limite en faisant monter l'intimité de l'âme et le incertain identificatition en eux.
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