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".
三星半,卡萨维茨-林克莱特式的.毋庸赘言,滨口总需某些"魔法词语"来触发"剧场时刻",因为环境早已不能提供契机来揭开真实之一角.对卡萨维茨来说这揭开得益于酒精的作用;于林克莱特则是"时候减少了",终末性质的迫近悬临("Before...").真实总要求着另一种语言;导演却不愿放弃由日常表象介入的可能,于是我们在艺术之外所操的堕落退化的闲谈便以"自然主义"之名一再安居于作品之内,一种大规模的Sprachverfall在东亚电影中全面展开(无妨参考洪尚秀《引见》:其对白已空洞乏味到让人毫无兴趣去探究剧作之机巧).滨口只由《夜以继日》短暂跳出这一陷阱,那里"脚"或地理空间的潜能超越了"口"或剧场局势的驱力.他从不像侯麦那样信任自然(physis),非本真的时空何来裸裎之真？太近,太远,太早,太迟.
本屆電影節最高，新世代的日系侯麥～好久沒有看到這麼高超的笑點設置，（說笑點設置感覺有點辱沒了編劇）最好笑輕鬆的第二段用一個最灰暗沈重的現實底色的結局來平衡，第三段的橋上告白又淚崩，導演說一段長鏡頭的對話，需要演員用一週的時間排演。教授最後對性癮主婦的遵遵教導真是沁人心脾啊
“我只是最大限度地表达可以用文学表达的东西”算是滨口内心台词吗，精神北欧人，还达不到侯麦的境界。他懂得都市人的空虚冷清迷茫，在明亮的美容院做了一场深度按摩。人际关系就是【偶然与想象】，每一天经历的事情被滨口捕捉编织成电影，“诶这竟然是值得一提的吗，它甚至都不算故事。”这既是一个私密的空间又是办公室敞开的门，它是每个人的故事，却在每个人的废纸篓里。最后一篇故事和阿巴斯的《合法副本》异曲同工嘞。
第二段居然还有比较
4.5，滨口在小体量中建构复杂情境（人际关系）没有太多优势，他所擅长的是利用言论交谈的内容充实情境以及内容对人物当下情绪的延伸。
念小说时我一直在想：为什么你们能把本来很涩情的东西搞得一点都不涩了啊
剧本太迷人了，如此细密精致又惊心动魄。女性在偶然与想象中一次次地确认自我太打动人了！
滨口龙介说，角色的表演（说谎或扮演另外一个人）并不是戴上一层面具，而是角色内心的一种表达，并折射了一种真实。#NYFF59
三个“偶然与想象”短片组成，偶然是瞬间是大段旁白可以描述的奇妙，想象是镜头之内的推进切换，也是舞台化的语言赋予镜头之外的空间。三段利用对白和镜头基础特性实践偶然与想象之下的东方深层情感情绪的流动，细腻捕捉一切。低调地突出一些叙事魔法，消去一些视听技巧，观众迅速沉浸。
三个短片，三段由偶然产生的邂逅，又是三段没有终点的旅程，未来的道路是怎么样的，都留给了银幕前每个观众自己去想象
4.5。像在拍摄中才真正写就或不断替换着人物小传。结尾要是停在追上那一刻就更好了。
写不动点评哭太惨了，电影整体给4星，另外加1星给对贾玲的喜爱，真诚永远打动我。
自然捕捉，简单而深邃的对话。三段情爱，请对号入座。★★★★/8.1
这部有点超出预期，虽然依旧狗血但是很喜欢前两个故事，有了好的剧本滨口拍出来的效果大提升，这突兀的切特写让我怀疑我在看洪常秀。
最喜欢第三个短片再来一次。
滨口龙介最有意思的地方在于他电影里的情感实在是太丰富了 夜以继日里面的人尽管如此面无表情 却有非常intense的情感 这真的是太神奇了 这部电影也如此 人物的每一个决定都受制于突如其来、无以名状的情感的支配 不知从何而来的情感 像自然中的东西一样 像河流 像风 像暴雨 突然就来了
三个关于偶然相遇的故事，调性一个比一个温柔，浓烈纠缠的爱，暧昧迷人的情欲，清新可爱的结识，少量的人物和场景，大量的对话，勾勒出情感的轮廓。三个故事通过“偶然”串联，想象稍欠，因为一切似乎都挺清楚，给人的印象都很深很深。看完之后，没有想起洪尚秀，滨口龙介更丰富更圆润，三个故事里，2最有趣，1最热烈，3最符合主题的“想象”。
滨口龙介说，角色的表演（说谎或扮演另外一个人）并不是戴上一层面具，而是角色内心的一种表达，并折射了一种真实。#NYFF59
虚实转换（骗-袒露欲望）
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