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".
这他妈哪是电影，简直就是春晚小品大荟萃。亲情作为题材，永远是最安全的，你敢说妈妈不好，你就是不孝，不孝是多大的罪啊，比杀人放火还严重哦，已经对构建社会主义和谐社会造成极大威胁了，很大一顶帽子
视听语言和文学调性紧密融合，有的镜头很洪尚秀。2》1〉3
喜欢3，女性毋需多言就能互相看穿情感的那种惺惺相惜。“我有个秘密，我不说你也懂”。
从小荧幕的小品扩成大荧幕的产品，资本进入势必就要以赚钱为目的，所以充满了大量搞笑但与主题无关的“废戏”，新导演通病也都一个没落，相较于原来的小品，内容和质量都没有更大的提升，没有把母题细节丰富，真的蛮遗憾。但，贾玲真情实感的把对母亲的愧疚和怀念透过那张幕布传递了出来，母女二人对彼此善意的谎言和爱意让这个产品有了温度，它变成了一份纪念品，是女儿想告诉自己的妈妈，自己现在过的真的很好，她可以放心了。
对白写得太好了，丝丝入扣的逻辑和细节。三首美妙的练习曲。
在电光声影中寻找心灵的平静。第二个故事读书部分的对白，真心太精彩。像有把叉子直接挑开日本社会的内核，又轰地一声把日本文化在世界之林地地位猛地提高很多很多！
情节设计略显套路，最终反转赚足眼泪。最后的票房成绩，再次证明了只要用心，好作品还是会被大众接受的。
在电光声影中寻找心灵的平静。第二个故事读书部分的对白，真心太精彩。像有把叉子直接挑开日本社会的内核，又轰地一声把日本文化在世界之林地地位猛地提高很多很多！
滨口龙介逐渐在开创一种新的语言，未来的大师影像不再属于曾经那些瑰丽的史诗，或许会属于结构，滨口呈现了一个个bad romance，情节全靠偶然驱动，想象却构成结果，这种言不由衷的主观意图昭示着滨口创作上的情绪化，却又不失结构对仗的层次美。但总体上不如《欢乐时光》大体量带来的充实，长对话就是要看5个小时那么长的，不然就太不尽兴了，基本上是欢乐时光和夜以继日的一次中和。
分裂和重叠，相似又多变。完美的奇迹常常落空，但终究会有某种不可预知却更加迷人的东西等在缺憾背后。第三个故事像熨斗冒着蒸汽抚平褶皱，记忆先行唤醒身份、赋予姓名的主次序列更是让人欣喜。在最后的拥抱里，谁是谁故事里的谁又有多重要呢。
几个故事都很妙，用对话推动剧情，在日常中发现魔幻时刻。最爱的其实是最后一个，尤其是两人第二次假扮重逢的时候，突然被感动了，又是属于电影的魔力时间，偶然的重逢，有趣的想象。以电影实现生活中的不可能。有点意思。
被稀释的侯麦（或洪尚秀），只有偶然，唯有最后一篇才有「想象」。〈Once Again〉3+，像一篇村上调的短篇小说，奇迹般的相遇。记忆并不总像是我们以为般牢靠，正如MLA所唱，世间所有情爱的事，不过是我们浪漫的想象所致。角色扮演的灵感，应该是来源于Celine and Julie Go Boating？
尽管不该单纯将外景比例、调度和场景的复杂性等元素作为衡量”电影感”的指标，但就三个小故事排序来看，叙事的语气（画外信息量）无疑是次第加深的。末段设定虽有些突兀，但也最值得玩味，由「错位」生出的人际尴尬和风波，总能发展为轻轻晃动的美妙，将这些转折点缝合起来的对话内容，几近返璞到视听语言最舒服的形态。而人物总会在情绪的饱和点直视镜头，将观众拖入一个深邃自省空间。当世鲜有像滨口这样描绘两性关系同时，将女性心理抓得如此准确的创作者，这是他在对于影像灵巧和从容气质的拿捏上，优于洪等老男人的杀器所在。
近年看过最好的新日影了。刚看完觉得四星，回味后改成五星。每个故事都喜欢，充满了对个人的观察、体贴、理解，虽然明知导演创作了一切，却又毫无上帝视角感，体会不到丝毫创作者的自大。第一部的古川琴音你人生中一定会遇到，第二部的文学式诱惑与古典结局，第三部对美丽错误的珍惜与想象，都是何等大气又何等细腻。多一些这样的电影就好了。
【柏林 2021】喜欢《夜以继日》的观众应该会很喜欢这部，三个短片互为交织，滨口龙介再次将女性心理状态拿捏得恰到好处，同时配合其高超的调度技巧，将影像的穿透力用到极致，大师气象已成。
稀烂的翻译也没能太影响对文本的理解（几个月来重复听了三遍柯南现在我居然能听懂一丁点日文了）。以为是沉重的，意外地却又轻盈，感觉像是村上写的那个被养乐多燕子队投手扔到空中飞行的棒球⚾️。看完让人想写小说。
女性的对男人的试探吧
第三个故事比前两个要好得多，不仅妙趣横生，还充满了令人感动的暖意。
所有的凝视都关乎权利，只有妈妈的凝视关乎爱，那注视的眼光那么温柔。
☆：4+
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