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".
三段式的处理比较轻盈却又足够丰富且扣题，第一段将情感的角力与欲望的脑补全部堆叠在对话中，女主既是强势的一方又是弱势的一方，言语的每一次撞击都能有所发散，就像结尾谁也不知道生活将走向何方，偏偏又收得干净利落；第二段好似庸俗版欧荣；第三段个人比较喜欢，生活中的偶然造就了巨大的梦幻与出口，可能比真相更加美好，能感受到结尾弥散着的喜悦与若有若无的答案，可能是本年度最佳LGBT段落。
古川琴音长得很婊，但又非常适合这个角色，可以说琴芽子是那些外貌平庸，内心自卑，对外却又十分挑衅、故作强大的女性缩影，她们易在感情中受伤；《把门开着》 是滚烫流动的情欲，奈绪的朗诵秒杀 小姐 里同读小说的金敏喜；《再一次 》穿越了时间、空间，我做了她，你成了我，完成了彼此心中缺口的弥补。滨口龙介用细密平静的台词精准构建了一个又一个偶然，又奇妙地牵引观众跟随角色进行想象。三部里最爱 《再一次》，今夕何夕，恍如隔世，太强了。2021年度观影最佳。
4.5/5，也难怪本片要拿评审团大奖了，非常洪尚秀，zoom in zoom out，非常欧洲文学，整体的推动全靠演员一张嘴，再加上幻想在色彩、重叙、演绎上的想法，外加打破第四面墙，要是再来点嘴以外的戏，那就满分了。
门，打开着就行；
精彩，可以看成是后疫情时代的三则寓言，共同点是都在讲埋藏或压抑在内心深处的情感，力量层层递进。第一则侧重剧力，第二则侧重技法，第三则将力量推到顶点（尘封已久的感情爆发最强大的力量。进行到角色扮演部分是本片的绝佳Magic时刻，大题小题一起点，力透纸背）。它们是三则寓言，也可以是一则寓言，还可以是现实世界的某种缩影。也因此我们看到每个寓言故事里的人们表面上在不断地说话、交流，实则完全处于失语状态（好似戴着面具的假人，卡萨维蒂从未显得如此重要），迷失在自身所处的尴尬境地里，一如当下的我们，看上去已然恢复到正常生活，其实这层口罩早已成为我们的交流屏障，语言、思想以及太多重要的东西被无情地阻隔。时过境迁，一切都回不去了。
男【呆，不知道，气！，不上你当！，你有病逼我爱你，绷不住了 爱你！，笑死 要吐了，你坦诚 值得信赖，努力理解你不伤己，退缩】
创意类似《生死停留》+《盗梦空间》，母亲于弥留之际创建的共同的梦境（彼此安慰、补全遗憾），满满的情怀杀与段子集锦反正是把俺整得又哭又笑。最后的桥段“下辈子还是我当妈”与《开心家族》结尾大揭秘的桥段挺像的，《萱草花》响起敞篷桑塔纳渐行渐远神似《在蓝色时分飞翔》的结尾，老照片+字幕强势补刀，这催泪效果真真是杠杠的。把各种“致敬”与“资本运作”暂放一旁，这确实是一部很有诚意的作品。我只想说：“妈妈，我爱你。”
滨口龙介电影里人物的对话总是有种板正的疏离感，因此带来的是打破心灵之墙的真实。
《欢乐时光》读书会光环升级护体，滨口甚至自我解嘲——只要中间加入色色的东西，读者观众就会想继续看下去。尴尬非常态与紧张悬念，绞合在一念之差，一间办公室，一种陌生熟悉感，一个沉睡等待唤醒的名字。过去有五小时的滨口，现在也有了短片合集形式、轻松不累的滨口，即便这很容易滋生集锦片先天毛病——一如有人宣称爱1踩23。123表面没任何关系，却与主题息息相关。如此多女女/心灵/爱情对白，认真较劲得让人拍大腿，令你惊呼她们根本不是演员，而像是从生活中，直接来到拍摄现场，进入摄影机前面。电影，就在日常生活中开始，滨口总是这么有办法，矢石交攻的恋人、目光炽张的读本、言笑晏晏的执手，一再捕获到魔法、醍醐和灵光时刻。
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
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~
很奇妙...当发觉到的时候已经不知怎么就清晰地来到了人的深而幽微的地方...太神奇。不动声色不着痕迹地曲径通幽。又，开诚布公/开门见山/坦诚相见...被这种毫无障碍物的交流的力量感动了，在静默的震撼中时间停滞的感觉。又及，觉得日本语是一种书面表达也很适合（很自然）被口念读出来的语言。
看似洪式的焦推实则流于形式，更像是为了暗渡陈仓地完成地位调度，心理与动机为所谓「反转」的戏剧性所牺牲。从欢乐时光之卓然，不难归因可能是小品篇幅所限。车内戏和如沐爱河一样令人抓狂。偶然提供灵感，想象负责敷衍。然而这部由几个灵光一现所敷衍出的长篇对我而言并不如前作。
偶然的想象，想象的偶然，各种魔幻时刻，各种三，斯阔以和阔瓦伊的坦诚，对镜头的直视，好久不见的变和没变；比较喜欢第三段和第一段出租车上的聊天，在谈话中相互爱抚的境界；滨口有种特有的语调，忍不住和洪尚秀相比，感觉滨口对人与人的亲密关系还是更乐观一些，拥抱生活里的偶然和想象，还挺鼓舞人的呢
一边哭一边被治愈；爱是魔法，会消失的那种。滨口龙介真🉑️ ，这一部情节对话表演都是大师级的
a new Asian minimalism with excessive dialogues? 更像是趋近一种（电影与文学之间的）戏剧（？），三部更关键的共通线索大概是storytelling，并根本上被radicalized为一种随时开放给犹疑分叉、转折迂回、假意又真情的展演流程。第一部结尾略显僵硬，第二部结尾很狗血，第三部最佳 with great reparative power.@2021HKIFF香港文化中心
不太明白我为什么会哭。就是面前这么大一个荧幕，里面哭得那么动情，音乐也足够煽情，然后妈的用力忍也忍不住。
9/10，没想到春节档最好看的居然是之前我最不看好的李焕英，对不起，我严重低估了此片的质量。开篇的切入就能瞬间入戏，结合贾玲的经历，不难猜到后面一定会抛洒泪弹。到中间的穿越戏，本以为是类似夏洛特烦恼和乘风破浪一样的四星电影，没想到最后来了个“大反转”，又意外又催泪，实在是好哭，直接五星。中间的喜剧片段笑点也自然且密集，比隔壁唐探装疯卖傻式的笑点好看多了。沈腾虽然戏不多但演技真的绝了，肢体语言加神态加语言功底，不火都难。我原本不看好此片一是因为贾玲导演，二是因为怕用沈腾作虚假宣传。看来，贾玲真的用心了，此片绝不是圈钱之作。春节档口碑最佳，实至名归！（贾玲说把心掏给观众看，观众确实是看哭了）加油，票房冲！
滨口龙介把文字的影视片化的功力实在是，未见有人能出其右
像在看一本村上的短篇集，第三个故事真不错。好想看《驾驶我的车》！
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