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".
滨口龙介终于找到他最适合的表达方式：以一个主题概念为核心的人物关系延展。洪尚秀专注于拍摄人物的状态与情绪，滨口龙介则着重呈现事件发生的过程。三段呈阶梯式延伸的命题作文，分别展示了：偶然对现实的毁灭，偶然对想象的开悟，想象对过去的弥补。《魔法》中的魔法，是脑海中的直觉所引发的一次决斗，以言语为刀，最终被另一次偶然击败，落荒而逃。《敞开的门》里那扇反复开关的门，正如二人之间反复拉扯的心绪，朗读的声音越来越微弱，而内心的声音越来越高亢，读者的想象与作者的想象彼此爱抚，创造了一个凌驾于原有想象之上的幻觉之书。《再来一次》里上下追逐的二人，以回忆作为基底，用想象作为材料，搭建了一座从过去到未来，但仅限于当下的治愈之桥，是对遗憾的弥补，也是对未来的憧憬，是平凡生活中的魔幻时刻，也是特殊情景下的善意谎言。
9。导演的女性心理把握得出神入化了，男性角色比较符号化。第一段被事件激发的小心情，第二段文本的本体论和交流的转化深入，第三段的缺口和治愈，仿佛被导演触摸着缺口填充进什么，又痛又暖。
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。
想到侯麦的绿光和冬日故事，日常的奇迹。每个故事都让人不自觉去建构与想象一段情感关系的状况，不断去试探又打破，一段真实存在不被导演控制的关系可能往哪里发展，短片结束了它还会继续流动。第二个故事大概是近期看过最让人心潮澎湃的片段了，有禁忌的憧憬又是美好的心流时刻。
谁不向往迷人的魔法时刻呢，谁又能洒脱地接受再次见面魔法消失的样子呢
7.5/三个故事展现不一样的相遇、离别和重逢，巧妙的人物关系和剧情设定让这种人生的偶然性别有一番滋味。
年度十佳。1＞3＞2，沟通，构建，颠覆，重建。
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
4.5 突然大降温的鬼天气里歪在家里看这样一部作品简直是至高无上的幸福。
很厉害，三个故事的冲突都是拉满的，那么多碎碎叨叨，一点不无聊。
如果没有第三个故事，整部电影就非常普通了。最后，如果错过了，希望今后各位都能解开心结。
像三个精彩的短篇小说，第一段精准打击，第二段香艳幽默，第三段可爱暖心，对情感关系、心理活动的捕捉还原实在是精细；“如果下次见面，我们之间的魔法消失了，那就随它去吧～”
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
一种性冷淡式的闷骚，比洪尚秀精致许多，很高级。
个人7月日影最佳。三则文学感浓郁的短篇，放弃、争取、错落和扮演，充满巧合与错过，行云流水自然流畅地孕育诗气，又是如此让人蓦然一笑，所有的着力就是在努力争取之后完美的错落，这个曼妙的文本就像是再读贝克特《等待戈多》，就是偶然地起因，想象地缘结，然后毫无意义，人生的美好就是荒谬之中尤能产生连接。太奇妙了这个文本，似乎是当代存在主义式生活日常的最舒服展现。8.5
在谈话中冒险推动自我坦诚的边界是最最最打动我的地方，虽然如果不是偶然，自然无法使这样的谈话被说出，但我却觉得这个因为偶然所以谈话的推导过程不够自然流畅，它更像三场严格控制了变量使其发生的小实验，偶然是注定的偶然，可惜我一向不喜欢太扣题的小说，也不认为电影像小说是一种褒奖（笑）
9/10.
恰到好处的处理 室内剧爱好者狂喜 第三段给我看哭了难道因为来姨妈T____T
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。
《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。
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