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".
1、虽然场景简单，多靠人物对话推进剧情，但看得津津有味，微妙情欲暗流涌动，彼此之间有博弈有共情；2、聊天真是一门学问，内心情感外化为语言表达，需要对生活和人际关系细致入微的观察。
想去那个“滨口龙介在拍gv/av”的平行世界。
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。。。
啊，不好意思啊，我插个题外话……就是……软塌塌的阴茎真的能射出来吗？……like how
（太困啦，睡着了三次）210801/211225 3.5 按喜爱程度是213
其实内容都是简单到俗的内核，但是就不知道为什么处理的特别舒服流畅，留白很妙，且深度，这种观影像是在读村上春树的小说。也有点像日式的侯麦，只是亚洲人特有的细腻和对女性那种自我的剖析都更易产生共鸣。最喜欢第三个故事，整个故事浪漫并散发着如阳光一样温暖的善意。
本片看似是兩三個角色在喋喋不休地對談，實際上是編導在世態人情當中暗藏機鋒，讓慾望在隱約之間流轉。濱口龍介確實是一個模仿大師，無論在激情和想象過度對話，場景生活的佈置和入侵日常生活不安感都有向候麥，卡薩維蒂，黑澤清和洪尚秀這些大師借鑑的痕跡。但濱口龍介在嘗試把握錯敗和甜蜜共存的生活中，坦誠了那些難以言說的事情，或是出於妒忌傷害別人，或是沉溺於性慾而導致的過錯，坦蕩至此，真讓人不忍責怪。全片亦發揮了獨立電影的特色，風格簡潔，正反打鏡頭運用得當，用變焦鏡頭來連接兩個可能的處境，而不是剪接，暗示了各種偶然性，這種心思靈動，意味著濱口龍介作為一個作者導演在逐漸走向成熟。
刚一打开，心想短片凑一凑也能进柏林了？看完只能说，对不起对不起，是我不敬是我不敬。为再来一次加半星！btw哥们拍片也太省钱了吧！
像话剧，我觉得张力最满的是第一个故事里男女对话那部分，挺喜欢的，但三个故事结尾都有点稍弱的感觉，可能生活里大多数的结局都是这样。
熨贴心灵，就好像热爱文学的精神器官被对话爱抚着，人物都在某种“排演”的状态，却又有跳出剧本的冲动，which来自文字自己的引力，一些话说出来就是在制造情境，与影像有张力，也融洽（车窗、门开、扶梯），其中命运以一种戏剧的方式舞蹈，像不定的天光，再返回被特写的脸上，让你相信一切都是副本，也都是合法的。唯一的问题是，过于舞台、书面的表达（比如很美的那句通过心的缺口相连），会让小说读者略感违和，在《驾驶我的车》中，就用契诃夫完成了这种桥接。又，舒曼的童年情景在此有一种《图画展览会》主旋律的感觉。
第一个故事，表面看上去一个优柔寡断男和一个强势任性女的故事，最后的双结尾又给观众赋予一层开放式想象；第二个故事，一个女子“复仇”五年不晚的故事，那邪恶的一吻让看似成熟的男人瞬间滚回了屁事不懂的小男孩，但整篇最精彩的部分毫无疑问要属于办公室的对话，有种侯麦式剧情附身的感觉；第三个故事，“断网”使其有一种灾难片背景，但作用是为人与人之间剪不断理还乱的情感拔高了格局，相信这是最打动人的一个故事，它告诉我们姓名不重要，身份也不重要，重要的是一种“场”，不管这个场是气场还是磁场，它打破了熟悉和陌生的界限，让两个萍水相逢的人也可以紧密地联结在一起。在这个依然足不出户的下午，我愿意为这份人与人之间的真诚给电影加一颗星。
《魔法》车内部分8分，剩余部分4分，6分。《开着的门》9分。《再来一次》设定8分，呈现效果6分，7分。总评分7.3。 台词写的很棒，故事设定也挺巧妙，然而呈现效果还有待提升。看得出来功力，满分尬吹就不必了。
三星半，絮叨一直是我的痛点。故事二中的教授可真惨啊，学生连segawa和sagawa都分不清啊。
小而美犹如舒曼，温柔精致如片中所有女性的穿着。可惜对时刻小心翼翼确认“我是谁 我需要什么 我快不快乐”的日本女性无法心有戚戚，第一个故事里的小作精在闯入前男友办公室时的胡作非为反倒是看得人兴奋。
感觉像看了三集《深夜食堂》。典型的日本式别扭/憋屈。第一个故事好狗血。
四星半。精致又饱满的短片集，仿佛是阅读了三篇上乘的短篇小说，偶然与巧合的事件，被勾勒得合情合理，也从中窥见了人与人关系的微妙之处。太期待第二部了！
很喜欢滨口，洪尚秀真心看不太下去，第三个故事差点，前两个不错看半小时就去搜索导演的其他作品了，还是日本短篇小说功力深厚。
都说导演构筑的世界不真实，我却感觉到另一种脱离戏剧的真实感。
2021.12.29 小半年后二刷。第一遍看的时候用的影迷个人字幕体验不好，因为偏差太多干脆关了外挂字幕纯靠听，我的日语水平使我对一些人物对话进行了二次“想象”；第二遍找了字幕组，清楚很多，两次观看中那些被我误会的部分变得更有趣。在我这滨口最有趣的点，在第二个故事“开门谈性”的推拉中尽数体现，充满轻盈、琐碎而失真的会话，迷茫的女性一遍一遍直面自己所欲所失，而这种反复追问甚至没有结果。但又觉得第二个故事的公交戏最泄气，炮友说出的话摧毁了这个故事中与观众距离感和想象空间最大化的节点，远不如第一第三的结尾来得舒服。整体而言，滨口还是更适合长篇。// 2021.07.24 消化消化再补评。
三次偶然伴随三次想象：自如与爱欲，修整中的城市慷慨为春花盛放让出阳光；小谎与真相，始终敞开的门扉是否也会预感下一个跨进的形象；邈远与嘈杂，时间折皱后还能玩耍状扮出真实的心绪。命运的示意图在镜头前绘制，而后者在两人一室的场域内尽兴腾挪，捕获暗涌和可能性，以自己的魔力给这片景致充能。真正让我思考电影本质的电影，或许就是各类规诫下的人奋力脱困，步入我们的视野。
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