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".
滨口还是一个很擅长“拿来”的导演，因此很多技巧和效果会令人感到熟悉甚至有些生涩——因为还在实验过程中，他人痕迹犹在，情境却已不同。洪常秀、侯麦、里维特、黑泽清……这部里的许多人物正面镜头正反打镜头和奥利维拉/尤金·格林也是相通的。夸太多滨口如何“电影”，这部其实远更“文学”了，激情与想象的接飞盘游戏，时间压缩连接的方式，换场景如换幕……不过坦白说，滨口能让我过电，但还是嫌他像魔术师没感情，只有门的女主角在五年后憔悴损，跳到了演绎之外。（最后一段两个演员感觉掉了）
好喜欢第三个故事。即便是偶然的相遇也是注定的邂逅。就算记不起名字，也不代表已将你点滴忘记。虽然只是角色扮演，也能获得慰藉。你和她真像啊……
魔法互文
视听语言和文学调性紧密融合，有的镜头很洪尚秀。2》1〉3
特别喜欢从反转开始到贾玲最后任性的大哭。其实是很私人的电影，贾玲就是任性的想拍一部片子来怀念母亲。没有太多感同身受，但确实为她高兴。
三段式文艺电影🎦
明星导演的一个问题，是他们无论形式如何，主题是只契合某些年龄段或有某些心结的人的口味。第二个故事虽然最好，最情欲，电影感最好，女主在破碎之后新生了独立人格，但男主不该就此消失，不像坦荡荡大作家的做派。三个故事都在教育人：关键时刻不坦白自己最真实的心意，直面最真实的自我，会后悔一辈子。聊天都可以是色色的，嗯。
滑动梯上两生花， 以错误的名字相呼唤， 候麦的绿光乍现， 便胜却人间无数， 候麦的蓝光闪烁， 在仙台的天桥紧握， 偶然与想像，现实与勇气， 两生花开遍， 却都付于赵先生~
看第二个故事，我惊呼完爆洪导，结果被第三个故事硬生生拉低…不过，现在大家都知道涩川老师有多厉害了吧
记得听深焦的一期播客，采访侯麦工作人员有提到滨口拜访的事。之前看洪常秀，总觉得侯麦电影里的轻盈感他学不来，看滨口的片子轻盈会在不经意间透出，《偶然与想象》更让我坚定滨口会是这个十年里有影响力的电影人。三个故事的偶然性，都是在日常的生活流之上的。镜头聚焦在某处时，想象在故事的框架下延展开来。看完许久，突然意识到“偶然与想象”这个命题。
女人之间的爱因为相互理解而更深。城市清洁真的很重要，同样一场戏在我国街头拍不会有纯洁感。
喜欢01男主的绿衬衫和女主的绿外套。女主打扮太幼态了，呃，一开始像她妈给她拍艺术照。一些个不甘心的贱心情，清醒一点，其实不爱彼此，还是爱自己；02男主高配李现。做自己吧，丑就丑陋；03俩戏精甜蜜相遇，真有礼貌哇～
80/100。#IKSV#滨口龙介舍弃了《欢乐时光》里的絮絮叨叨，丢掉了《夜以继日》的无病呻吟，用极具精巧的拍摄手法为我们讲述了几个有关于女性的小故事，可能手法上并不能为所有人接受，但情感足够真挚动人。或许在人生的某一刻，你也是彷徨于过往情丝中的纠结者，你也是想逃脱自身缺陷却又一直出不去的迷失者，你也是想理清曾经反反复复不止不休的执念的不甘者。但当你经历了命运之轮的吹拂，当你在想象与现实的交界线上突然认清了未来的路，当你终于在破碎的记忆里看清了那道如何继续走下去的明灯，所有的幸福和愉悦，也许就在下个街角等着你。我们的存在，就是对无声时间的最好宣战。
谢谢这世界上一切平凡又伟大的母爱！
#hkiff45# 当开篇第一个故事古川琴音和玄理在车上聊到“光是和他说话就感受到情欲”就确定了整部电影的感觉。我太喜欢第一个故事了，特别侯麦式的偶然与想象（滨口也说自己是特意想效仿下侯麦）也很喜欢那个双重结尾。越来越觉得滨口选女演员比选男演员的时候品味高出太多。第二个故事也不错。总之不过瘾，没看够。
好喜欢第三个故事。即便是偶然的相遇也是注定的邂逅。就算记不起名字，也不代表已将你点滴忘记。虽然只是角色扮演，也能获得慰藉。你和她真像啊……
〈Door Wide Open〉大胆谈论，开放的声音。高意志于私密空间。
科恩兄弟以《巴斯特的歌谣》重现西部荒蛮，滨口龙介借《偶然与想象》编织情感纹理。这二部应该是短片集能够触及的天花板了，第二个故事后劲尤其大，虽然也有一处剧作上的神来之笔，但相比较之下第一和第三个故事则更具设计感。演员都演得很棒。
# 看到第三段同学聚会，想起了前天中午逛望京公园时碰见了毕业后就没见过的同学。
底子还是小品而非电影。催泪效果因为欠缺共同经历而不及预期，不过虽然没看哭也并不妨碍这是部好电影，比唐探三要强很多。贾玲第一次做导演把控还是不错的，也又一次证明优秀的喜剧演员无一不是深刻的。沈腾的喜剧功力已然登峰造极了，只要出场便有笑点。 春节档观影也暂时告一段落，票真的太贵了😅
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