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".
好玩儿！编剧三观太正，虽然前两篇“渣女”都操作惊人，但是男主都临危不乱，观众看得十分带劲，笑声不断。基本就是“卧槽这也行？”和“哈哈哈哈怼得好”之间来回切换。见到了滨口龙介
第二个故事完成度最高，第一个次之，第三个可惜缺了个更有力的结尾。当全世界的电影都在花样百出的时候，日本却推出一个回归故事本身的导演。摄影、灯光、美术、明星、音乐等等都退居其次，只剩下台词和表演，这种的制作在大部分电影体系里都是不够行业标准的，但居然也看得津津有味，甚至屡屡有惊喜。成不了经典，但既是一种回归，也是一种突破。
第二段出现的邮箱地址居然可以访问：https://mailbox.neopa.jp/
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。
三则故事都很现代，前两则相对来说更有趣一些，整体体现导演的恶趣味。叙事类型、语言风格迥异于日本电影的常见模式，偏西方化，并且有类似洪尚秀电影里那样的情感纠葛和絮叨话语。7.3。
被嚴重過譽的電影。不過是以長鏡頭為狗血劇情賦予一個個magic hour的文青意涵。第一段千年不變二女爭ㄧ男+PUA大賞，第二段仙人跳+砲友+意淫矯情版，第三段對les男性化形象的嚴重想像刻板，仔細想想，也只有那些意外的關係換位+最後ㄧ鏡的「望美」值得稍微咀嚼，三段故事單拎出來，都是相當平庸的短片。只高在於長對話中堆砌權力關係翻轉，然而表演走位的過分精準刻意還是讓其失去了自然而生的溫度。
人生是必然的吗？还是偶然的？抑或偶然才是必然？想象的就一定不真实吗？或者想象才是另一种真实？也许就像那句话说的，“那些按部就班的生活以外的偶然，才是人生。”
看完后，真不知道该叫洪尚秀的日本分秀，还是滨口龙介本店。
另，二刷的时候突看单元一突然想起一句话——“大海是我们之间的魔法一场”
都挺有趣，每个女性角色都独特又有魅力，滨口也把男演员拍帅了一档，但也认同那些批评，对白有点僵硬
完成度很高，演员也很给力，可惜三个故事只靠电影标题拥有联系。片段电影的低难度系数和略显老套的故事情节让我对这个电影拿大奖有点摸不着头脑……第一个和第二个故事本有很大的发挥空间，可惜都在最期待对地点结束，第三个故事细腻收尾，但对一部进入电影界片单的电影来说，太日剧生活化了，没有满足我的期待啊……
我喜欢偶然与想象的三个故事，在于她们都在讲「说出来」这件事。电影的美学，素来屈就于视听语言，推崇藏匿与留白。年纪愈大，有时愈感觉没意思，太多场景，人物说着超出常理的话，作着超出常理的势，或者什么都不讲不做，只为了捕捉微妙的表演，和美的造像。就说被用来对比的洪常秀，他的对白是言不由衷、虚与委蛇，是趣味和寄调。至少在偶然与想象里，作者在讲和解和坦率，人物说出发自内心的话，确认自己的选择。于是我得到这片刻的治愈。
和侯麦中间起码隔了十个洪尚秀。对于女性情感，合适的表达方式是很重要的，好比你不能让苍井优穿苍井空的衣服，起码在这部电影里我和导演在情感上的共鸣程度可能还不如我和狗的。几乎没有节奏感，台词太满没有留白，只有对话的人物没有场景的烘托，文本不坏但很不幸进入了一种极不合适的表达。最尴尬的观影体验之一，2021年的最后一天有被折磨到
很文学的电影，基本上由固定场景和大篇幅对话构成。不管是人物性格还是对话内容都太日本了，现在对这种有点审美疲劳了
看一半就感受到了洪常秀，镜头语言上。文本上不像，在情绪递进中以不稳定的控制关系推向反转的边界很棒，情绪张力弥补了单一故事线的平淡。个人偏好1，2的大包袱（邮件）略生硬，3有点傻不是很能get到
第三个故事太打动我了，非常非常喜欢。竟然感觉到一点点岩井俊二的意味，情书+花与爱丽丝？错认与再次扮演仿若浑然天成，毫不刻意，单一的场景与大量台词留白强烈，代入的不仅是过往时光，还有彼时的心意，澎湃情感……能成为密友大都带着爱吧。
自缝隙里透出光。第二个故事在大银幕看格外有趣。
看到朱迪科摩被强奸的戏份我后排的摩洛哥男人哈哈大笑 一种和电影的恐怖互文
期待了大半年….结果就这？只能说短片门槛就是低啊，滨口生涯倒数水平吧
开始觉得自己的心里也有一个炉子，我在谈话的间隙捡柴、烧火，同一锅水，不停地加热。冷却了，加热，冷却了，加热，直到终于泡出一壶温度正好的茶，将滋润的液体咽了下去。也开始觉得自己的生命趋近于一场缝缝补补。通过无法填补的、相同形状的缺口，或许我们依旧链接着彼此，分别也没有那么让我害怕了。
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