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".
这部电影是三段式结构，分别是《魔法》，《开着的门》，《再来一次》，
年度十佳之五 对于日常的欲望 滨口龙介依然奉上了他切片一样的精准观察 有关纯粹 有关纯粹在世俗下被打压与抗压过程 有关人的两面性 权力位置随着话语不断置换 有关话语中的暗喻在表达与接受两方的相互作用力 滨口龙介喜欢我们 看前两部听到里面的女人说话和表情感觉触目惊心 仿佛有人窥探了我的生活/日本女人真凶残 却又温柔 仿佛硬币的两面 呈现效果只是你转的方向而已 一些很俗的感悟 在爱情关系里 进入一个人的生活并不难 难的是如何将自己的存在植入一个人的头脑和一个人的心里 习惯是个好开始 私密的习惯是个绝妙的开始 语言永远比行为更有杀伤力/一种反差感 一种现实感 一种侥幸心理 一种处于无聊与痛苦的中间状态 对人是否能痴迷于人存疑 人所痴迷的永远都是一种意象而已 人性与反人性才是人所能拥抱最深沉的东西
偶遇是美好的，想象是性感的。现实是暗淡的，无法接受暗淡的人，就会活在虚空之中。但如果没有虚空，人就没有了前进的动力。
日本有多少年没拍过这样一部能拿得出手的爱情片了（但其实说它是爱情片也不尽然），在谈论人际关系这方面，滨口打开了当下日本电影新的视角，既具有日本传统小情小爱的细腻，也不乏欧美那种理性文艺气息，不再局限在爱不爱，得不得到，失不失去这些窠臼上，感官就豁然开朗，并巧妙地以巧合为题，探讨在人生中那些意外可能会对过去未来产生的影响，借助想象之力（第一部中说与不说的自我想象，第二部以文学和声音为题的情欲想象，第三部把Xeron当做重要道具的前提想象），把时间线宕开，在故事之外还有留白，真是很妙。接下来十年，滨口一定会成为日本电影的重要力量。
一切都刚刚好的感觉 惊叹于导演拍摄女性的视角 很舒服很细腻 演员也都好美呀
到现在最喜欢的一部滨口龙介，每个故事都很值得玩味，都有很迷人的女性角色，最喜欢第三个，完美诠释了偶然与想象的内涵
《驾驶我的车》证明了他有驾驭长片的能力，作为短片合集的《偶然与想象》则证明了他的全才。前者笑傲戛纳，后者睥睨柏林，难怪，难怪！
看得时候感觉像喝了点酒，有点微醺的观看体验（实际明明没喝酒）。
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。
《开着的门》：对于豆瓣的这个译名，我更倾向于我自己看的电影字幕中将它翻译为“把门打开”，我想这是其中的“濑川教授”为人处世 小心谨慎的一个方式，教授这样说到“简而言之 它能吸引某种类型的读者”，我想吸引的就是我这种，喜欢看到一些禁忌的性的描写。“文字会和读者的经历产生共鸣”这是最好的解释为什么有的时候会喜欢一部作品的原因，里面引诱教授的这位少妇从某个角度看有点像白百何。
轻轻唤醒了我沉睡已久的观影热情，在百无聊赖地看过一个又一个烂俗的套路后，终于收获了新的惊喜。看第一个故事的时候还在想，又是洪尚秀那样的叙事，看完全片才发现跟洪尚秀的路线完全不一样。三部故事都打破了日常生活中人们小心翼翼维护着的距离感，干净的画面和淡淡的音乐所营造出恬静的氛围感，和大胆意外并且戏剧性强烈的故事融合起来竟有绝妙的观感。开着门的sex与将错就错的告白，最后两个故事太妙了，深深地击中了我。
7.9。第二段《开着的门》似有似无的也像是书里的情节一样，故意用“色情”的情节安排吸引人想继续往下看的欲望，却也拉低了片子的质感。结局很意外。《魔法》人和人的相遇是种魔法，前女友/好朋友，想应该就是提醒，在一起的时候相爱，分开后不要彼此打扰，纠缠不清，彼此做好人和人相处最基础的尊重。《再一次》是我最爱的部分，我好想她们两个分开时留个联系方式！！！就做好朋友就好。彼此相隔20年的“再会”，居然两个人都互不相识，就这样阴差阳错解开了彼此的心结/遗憾。偶然相会，却是初次见面。
很喜欢这种完全靠对话推动剧情的处理方式，台词文本也写的很出色。三个故事都很精妙，最喜欢第三个故事。手扶梯上偶然间的相遇，各自充满想象力的扮演，又重新找到了学生时代失去的东西，填补上了心里缺失的空洞。
看得时候感觉像喝了点酒，有点微醺的观看体验（实际明明没喝酒）。
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。
威尼斯非竞赛单元全球首映，超爱雷爵爷的《天国王朝》，没想到有生之年还能看到他再次指导历史题材电影。男人的行为永远是为了争夺脸面，为了宣示权利，无人关心受伤害的女性，她的发声遭到质疑，她的命运身不由己。
几乎全部由对话构成的三个独立故事，配合适度的脑洞看下来也不觉得无聊，如果拍成电视剧能看很多集的那种！
比起戳破强奸犯的谎言，这个片子更精彩的部分是戳破丈夫的谎言。嘲讽拉满，特别悲凉的地方又特别好笑。女主演得太好了！
「夜以继日」里还有那一点的刻意感不见了，三个短篇故事轻盈灵动，耐人寻味的结尾和反转都处理的很利落，像不那么冗长啰嗦的洪常秀！三则故事也正好落在女性人生的三个阶段：无法坦率表达内心感受的20岁；迷迷糊糊不知道自己究竟要什么的30岁；以为无法再对任何事情报以热情，却惊喜的发现还能记起初恋名字的40岁。不就是你和我的样子吗？
我最喜欢第三个故事，因为年少无知，我们那时没有和青春好好的告别，最后两个女人的拥抱几乎弥补了这个遗憾，那一刻让我热泪盈眶。
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