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".
3个短篇故事集合。片名恰如其分地点了主题。
第一段的偶然与想象有点狗血，结尾还升了个镜头不忍吐槽，她们在叨叨的时候一句没听进去，自动过滤话痨电影哈哈哈。
【A】看完更多的是惊喜之感 涌上心头 三个小故事 如果让我排序最喜欢哪个 是很难排的 因为我觉得讲的故事 不分上下都是冲击力特别的强的 1《开着的门》；2《再来一次》；3《魔法》
前两个故事感觉很洪常秀，最后一个讲的是什么？
喜欢2开门念书这张力、3中学时我们喜欢的那个女生
【YVR-Vancity】四星半。三个短篇相互独立，但又莫名其妙的很搭（虽然无法明确说出那种勾连在哪里... 不仅仅是巧合那么简单，还有些更为纯真的人际关系。难以捉摸但又那么美妙。今年终于懂得为什么那么多人那么爱滨口龙介了，拍的的确好。
滨口好喜欢又一个窗口的封闭的空间啊，车厢、电车厢、办公室、 带窗子的客厅、带窗子的咖啡厅，像是一个盒子，戏码在这里面上演，最喜欢第二个故事，不是特别喜欢第三个故事，假定性叠加假定性，已经超过偶然太多了。
静水流深，暗涌的波澜一浪高过一浪。再度重逢，宿命与道歉背后女性坚韧的力量
【YVR-Vancity】四星半。三个短篇相互独立，但又莫名其妙的很搭（虽然无法明确说出那种勾连在哪里... 不仅仅是巧合那么简单，还有些更为纯真的人际关系。难以捉摸但又那么美妙。今年终于懂得为什么那么多人那么爱滨口龙介了，拍的的确好。
看的第一部濱口龍介。挺不錯，用大量有意思的對話構建起來的劇本，加上靈機一閃，很有侯麥和洪常秀的感覺。
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
是我深处在呼唤的那种话唠鸡汤片吗，是你吗，被治愈得猝不及防 😭 镜头平移伸缩回到熟悉的洪尚秀的光晕。转折的狗血服务剧情而抓马程度慢慢递减，挺好，就是能超脱浪漫与特定阶级/品味，再地味一点，会更骨感悠远吧。而且 イケメン太多了吧。
和寝ても覚めても有点神似。还是对称性、暗流涌动的自我与平静生活表面的冲撞。我真的好吃这一套哦。
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。
滨口龙介编剧之神，比坂元裕二的直球说理高了好几个次元。大段对白构筑情节的方式回到了《欢乐时光》，但情节本身的跌宕甚至胜过《夜以继日》。很久没有被剧本反复戏弄而又乐在其中的感觉了。
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。
马特达蒙虽丑，但实在没有丑到能把亚当司机衬成大帅比的程度。
都整部影片的叙述节奏缓慢如流水，导演抓住了人与人之间微妙的关系，如一颗小石子投入池塘中，慢慢泛起涟漪，平静的湖面下却是汹涌的情欲。
和驾驶我的车一样，无感，太阳春白雪了～中产吃饱饭之后谈爱情和理想和生活方式…相对来说第三个短篇稍微好一点 结局很好
在手机上没看下去，放到电视上看出了一些滋味。前两个设定的场景多少有点摸不着头脑，第三个倒很能理解，而且很喜欢它展开的方式。我可能太在意理解不理解了，会损失感性的体验。三个故事的女主角都有微妙的舞台感，应该是台词的原因？但表演还是很生活化的，非常自然。
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