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".
LFF2021。滨口老师什么时候出一本“二人对话戏”教材，我一定买。
让观众笑的同时还能笑中带泪，这不是靠技巧能做到的。贾玲在《你好，李焕英》里也不是靠技巧去和观众交流的，她是真掏心掏肺，心无杂念。这真的是她的人生，她的遗憾，她的渴望，普通观众在电影院里看到这种故事，根本抵挡不住，笑着笑着情不自禁眼泪就下来了。80 后也到了开始怀旧的年龄了，美好的 80 年代在好几部电影中都带着暖色滤镜出现了——不是那个年代真的有多好，那只是一代人再也回不去的理想国。光滑洁净的回忆，必定映衬的是坚硬冰冷的现在。为什么都开始怀旧了？因为意识到自己面对生活已经逐渐无能为力了。虽然可以刷抖音快手的短视频来暂时地麻醉自己，但你放下手机的同时就会忘记刚才自己在笑什么。真正能让一代人同悲共喜还走心的，还得是「电影」。
春节档最强黑马吧，对开心麻花以及贾玲系完全不感兴趣的我从头到尾笑中带泪看完整部电影，那种私人感情真的太戳我了！！！很喜欢最后贾玲开着那辆破车的结局，贺岁档合家欢温情喜剧，却没有沦为给成功人士自嗨的鸡汤，这恰恰是最温柔的地方。
1. 夜以继日，伤害、选择、奔跑，爱的确认；2. 驾驶我的车，声线的情欲，文本的爱溺；3. 天国还很遥远（/合法副本），扮演后的真情实感，卸下或是穿上伪装，都抑制不住的追寻。语言让我们建立联系（在驾驶我的车中最终完成让步），我们的感情触角超出语言，超出的部分由影像的魔法补完。滨口集大成。
十分轻盈的电影，滨口龙介用短篇小说的笔法写了三个命题小故事。很典型的侯麦式的用对话和巧合驱动的心理描绘小说，习得人与人之间情感的距离以及风景的嵌入让整个电影的观感轻盈且充满柔和的律动。第一个故事其实我抱有很大成见，私以为导演太过于依赖巧合而发生的情感涟漪导致剧作看起来很生硬，且出租车对谈和最后真实与想象的推拉镜头又很难不让人联想到阿巴斯和洪尚秀的招牌，而使第一个故事劣质的像是一个热衷模仿的学生作业，第二个故事渐入佳境除却结尾有些生硬办公室引诱的戏份十分好。最后一个故事最自然，把偶然和想象的空间丢给观众电影结束，十分完美。此类有着作者意识的电影无疑证明了导演的才华，但之于滨口龙介如何处理狗血般的际遇以及磨炼个人的风格还有一段路要走。
正叙时有两处确实是感觉焕英台词有点奇怪，第一处是焕英拿着结婚证给贾晓玲说“你怎么知道不幸福呢”以及对晓玲价值观的评论，第二处是喝酒时说“你占我便宜啊”。原来都是留给结尾的铺垫和小细节。 杀伤力最大的莫过于妈妈的那句“只希望孩子健康快乐”，太感人了。 看到晓玲说“这个时候我妈还不会缝纫呢”时真的脑子一嗡，眼泪汪汪的就留下来了。 总的来说，这是部能让人笑的前俯后仰，哭的稀里哗啦，我心中的满分电影，让人有共鸣，最亲近的人太讨巧了，但又不得不买贾玲账，服气！看完更爱妈妈了呢！
第一个故事很绝。难道不就是我的失恋故事 如果那天下载没有卡在一半 如果一起看了 会发生什么。你不是我的完美假阴茎，我也不是你的完美假女友。第二个故事有点毛骨悚然却很治愈 直面欲望之后才能做真正的自己。这个“真正的自己”，就是最可怕也最治愈的东西。可怕是因为它永远未知，是一种“偶然”。治愈的是“想象”，我们无时不刻不在想象一种真正的自己。看到第三个故事的时候我有点困了，合上电脑，就这样吧。
开始觉得第一章偏幼齿，后面发现三组故事就是人成长成熟的轨迹，抓住机遇，应对意外，锻炼豁达，让交流无限靠近对等。但从另一个角度看，角色的初始关系是越发淡漠的，生人间的坦诚没什么代价也就更容易，怎么和最亲近的人保持信任避免猜忌才是悖论式的难题。当然，在这之前得先实现中产。
它可以是再来一次，她终于记起了恋人的名字，她眼里的那道光，彷佛生命被再一次点燃，习惯于平淡如常不代表那些过去已经不存在，情感的喷薄往往只需要一个窗口，就会再次闪耀光芒。
演-不具反思性，不会笑自己只笑他人
这次的滨口好纯正啊！喜欢第一个短片两个女生在出租车上聊“魔法”的场景，对话的节奏和氛围真的太舒服了。后半段三人对峙的洪尚秀瞬间和滨口的气息也好相衬。偶然与想象不仅来自剧本情节的设置，更是闪现在每一个剪辑点的缝隙之间。
如今，滨口龙介于电影，就像克洛德西蒙于小说，同样是让人陷入持续流动着的思绪漩涡，一个用语言做到了，一个用影像（+文本）做到了。三段寓言体的故事，三次魔幻般的转场，循序渐进。闯入的不可抗拒，日常积攒的暗涌通过无尽的谈话释出，既可孕育光亮，也可制造混沌，个体的内在通过运动着的媒介（地铁/公交/电梯）不断重组，暂且忘却时间，踏进虚空，那些过往是否会重新变成偶然？在找到确切的出口前，所能做的只有想象。（如果能在人物塑造层面上多花点心思，将有可能成为短片集的典范）
4.5 滨口已经不满足于展现magic moment，而是在人物对话的碰撞和错位中创造magic的观感，日式生活流的场景却发展出不可预知的剧情走向和层次，介乎于侯麦的哲思与洪的反讽之间，轻巧又耐人寻味。
没想到这么好看，幸好收到了票。第一个故事很有趣但算是常见的套路，第二个故事电影里不常见但像是短篇里读到过，第三个故事大惊喜！！！触发了隐藏彩蛋！不枉我下雨天大晚上的跑去新彩云。恳请四十岁左右的女本子们都给我去看！！！就第二次扮演重逢的时候默默流了一个泪…
突然间，她们出现了，站定不动在那窗前，她们又变回了自己——两位演员，念着一些话语，没有什么是真的，但也都是真的，只属于她们自己的，“同一个雪糕的味道，我们永远无法真正分享......” 但一切又是被分享的，即便只存在于内部；偶然正是属于电影的想象，而在想象中没有什么是偶然，所以席琳和朱莉才能去划船。
现在似乎能够理解滨口龙介说的“不在乎演员的演技，最看重外表的意境和存在感”了。在这样的文本下演技几乎完全不会进入视线无暇被顾及。
三个短片，三段由偶然产生的邂逅，又是三段没有终点的旅程，未来的道路是怎么样的，都留给了银幕前每个观众自己去想象
四星半。三段故事的开端皆出自偶然，角色间的邂逅与重逢，抖出了人物平静外表下巨大的情感波澜。而突破枷锁的法门竟是一次次的扮与演，这样的选择所簇生的斑斓人生超乎参与者的全部想象。滨口龙介对人类情感的细腻捕捉，润化于环境之中，浑然天成。
看第二个故事，我惊呼完爆洪导，结果被第三个故事硬生生拉低…不过，现在大家都知道涩川老师有多厉害了吧
本片8.8分感觉比《夜以继日》7.4分还要令人难以理解。（《欢乐时光》我是喜欢的。）
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