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".
真的太疼痛了，这个世界对女性的不公平。明明是两个人犯下的错误，却要一个人承担责任与苦果。制度也没有给予女性随意堕胎的权利，导致女主只能铤而走险，电影一次次把情绪聚焦在这不安、混沌、恐惧的阴霾下，也同样让身为女性的我反省性教育的安全普及……
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恐怖片有几种境界：最差的是香港东南亚糊弄小孩的鬼片，其次是欧美一惊一乍的血浆片，更高明的是日韩的心理恐怖。而本片是恐怖片的最高境界，因为它所营造的恐怖不是源于虚构，而是来自真实，一直在重现的真实。7
女人也想要享受性的快乐，欲望比羞愧更强烈！但是风险全部由女人承担，甚至死亡。时刻担心会不会怀孕，一条还是两条，男人只管爽了就好。
有笑有泪，是现在环境下，非常能够让人开心一下的电影。我们，又何尝不是像电影里的人们一样？
诚然在《四月三周两天》那样的文本与影像之后再难以有所突破，所以这电影才会取巧地去强调‘正发生’。手持摄影的临场感确实是符合的形式，不过文本上的内容还是苍白了些。很多戏份完全是乏善可陈。
过去曾发生的，正在发生的，未来也将发生的事情，某种只针对女性的伤害，因为时代的变迁而转换了模样，却恒久存在着。
正发生水平结合现当下形势，达内兄弟变性达内姐妹，还能再拿两次金棕榈
堕胎戏拍得不少了，这部是主角跟随镜头，加上好几场相当认真的真心那啥痛的戏，应该是想将重点放在女主的这一路堕胎犯罪路走下来的心境变化。说真，痛是真痛，现在想起来我都抽抽，那心境体会还差口气。
【Sundance 2022】冷静的、直接的、血淋淋的，彼时此刻依然正发生的故事。（想把隔壁的《珍妮热线》再减掉一颗星）
可能不是堕胎三部曲里最好的一部，但却是让我哭出来的那一部。再早个几年我可能还会抵触这种题材的片子，至少现在不会了，有的故事讲多少遍都不嫌多，只要你敢拍我就敢看。A woman can be destroyed but not defeated. 女性并不等同于弱者，你可以千万次伤害我，但是你别想打败我。
#AFIFEST2021 汗毛竖立！看完像被撕碎了。想起即将把皮肤里的implant拿出来的前一天晚上做的关于怀孕的噩梦，这真的像是只有女性才会感染的致命的病症。摄影机始终在侧后方紧贴着Anne，与其说是陪伴，莫如说是像阴翳一般笼罩着她，在几个瞬间她与性和身体的伤痛对峙，观众得以瞥见她的正脸，一张樱桃似的脸。她常穿蓝色和桃红，在蓝色的空间中穿梭，旅途中遗弃了金项链和书籍。和医生和女友的几个two shot都非常有力，可惜几个正面的关键特写没有那么精确，Anne这个角色也比较空白。可贵的地方是年代感被穿透了，50年代的耻感，在今天仍然正在发生。
【B－】能看吧只能说。以为学432结果是出《索尔之子》。几乎没有力量感的粉饰之作。
純粹從電影形式的角度看它、感性上絲毫不受打動的觀眾或許無比殘忍，無論如何它值得尊重、值得更多人看。日記似的影像，淺淺的焦如稀薄的空氣，變焦間如一切在水面浮沉。你以為它老套，你覺得它無趣，像一個你聽過無數次的詞語——但它正發生！習慣了痛苦不代表它不存在，因為它被經歷它的女性的絕望與忍耐罩住；疼痛也不需要尋找招搖的藝術來證明自己，它需要一顆願意一起度過這段時間的觀眾的心。
太疼了，女人看了更觉得难受。没人能帮你，孤立无援。
很稳的叙述，冷静如用日记里记录的笔触，详尽且私人，将状态娓娓道来，将苦难直接剖白。
科幻喜剧，这题材非常出色！！几个硬科幻剧情非常棒，绝处逢生好几次，最大遗憾是英雄最后没能归来，编剧功力还是欠缺一点点
紧张和慌张让人很想离开视线，但画幅和长镜头，却又让人非常地沉浸。电影把人类的悲欢并不能相同，展现的很明显，一个人无力的世界，心里只能藏着一件事。用时间的推移，让这些“正发生”，切切实实的感受到因为时间而有的情绪与身体的变化。
和夏岚同看。仍旧是好莱坞擅长的老一套：“回家”和“拯救地球”，融合了喜剧和科幻，视效和配乐很不错，但剧情设置比较粗糙，人物关系有些牵强，强硬的煽情和惯例的“拔高”仍旧让我很不适，就像是在一桶爆米花里吃到一粒隔夜的、不脆的花生米。
4.5调色优秀，当堕胎过程被真实、血淋淋地呈现出来，观众才会更能体察到女性的痛苦吧，看完心情很沉重…
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