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".
作为一出电影拍得挺失败的，看简介原本应该表现的是在一个堕胎等同犯罪的年代，女性意外怀孕需要承受的痛苦。但现在给我的感觉女主一点都不可怜，毫不爱惜自己，跟人乱搞不做保护措施。虽然法律可恶，但她的一切都是她自己一手造成的。
全程心惊肉跳 所有的一切都要女孩一个人去面对 孤单 无助 绝望 一路都是男性的甩锅 撇清关系 如果与《从不，很少，有时，总是》一同服用 恐惧加倍耶
片名一语双关的“正发生”，手持所带来的现实感对应了片中的“正发生”，观众对于女性主体的凝视对应了当下的“正发生”，那疼痛感刺穿荧幕的几场堕胎戏加重了这一点。
改編自法國知名女作家安妮艾諾 (Annie Ernaux) 的自傳《記憶無非徹底看透的一切》，片中殘酷而寫實的墮胎場面，再加上對於1960 年代的法國女性所背負的背負的道德與責任，做了生理上與心理上的雙重描繪，令人震撼！電影相當於作家Annie Ernaux本人的經歷；高齡82歲的Annie Ernaux經歷過60年代女性仍受桎梏無法自主與獲得應當的社會地位，乃至68年五月風暴後給予法國女性的解放。Diwan在改編Ernaux的作品時，保持作者低限、冷靜的敘事風格，令主角Anne置身於人群裡，卻被孤立於人群之外，既實驗也大膽。
切肤的那种疼！风格有些达内兄弟的感觉。看到了冷酷祭典里的博奈尔，罗塞塔里的罗吉恩，烧女图里的女仆，黑道快餐店里的女主，还有同义词女主。
质量特别稳的女性主义片，剧作在线摄影在线。4:3画幅还有离角色特别近的手持特别适合这个故事，也加强了身体疼痛的共感还有扑捉情绪的能力。该有的揪心地方也有了。但觉得太过稳当缺点什么...
倒霉催的看了个不知是板鸭语还是呆梨语的版本，应该原片是法语吧，反正整部片就觉得口型对不上听到的语言且配音痕迹极其严重极其情绪不到位，影响了整体质感。影片本身非常压抑和写实，几乎抛弃了剧情片的起承转合，对女主演技要求极高，不过她确实完成得很好。最近看了太多有关女性与生育的关系的片子，感觉越来越cynical了，劝自己心平气和
我可以理解和接受她的忍痛割肉 每个女性都应该有处置自己和决定未来的权利
法式日记小品我的菜 看的人跟着刺痛 摄影也很好
男人在角落，在街边，在正大光明地提出可耻的需求。在痛苦时分承担起整个屏幕重量的却是女人。
3.我能想象在那样一个保守的时代一个女大学生意外怀孕了有多痛苦。男的只要爽一爽，女性要付出这么大的代价。。。
《瀑布》以“精神（濒临）崩溃的女人”之故事，却几乎没有正面呈现恐怖古怪的想当然戏份——或许只是我过于想当然了。它的故事流向，呈现为平面画的，水流式的弥漫扩散，又平又静，近乎静的平方。入库的水量很大，容器太大、太深，在水平刻度线上，几乎没有明显的起幅。而过往，钟孟宏的故事模式，近似一串珍珠、一把炮仗，四处开爆，有血色，毒气，甚至是脓包。这个过于静谧的信赖共生故事，在几个月过后，只让我留下了“有蛇”等精彩段落印象。倒是投入水中的，陈以文等“石头”，轻松好玩。
你之前生病了吗？我生了一种只有女人会得的病，而且这种病会让她们变成家庭妇女。
几乎是华语到目前最有代表性的疫情电影，又与中产家庭的疏离关系联系起来，既是特殊性又是普遍性，很能让人产生共鸣。日常的恐怖化，加上大量缓慢推拉镜头和特殊的构图，应该偷师不少黑泽清。不过仍然是很差的杨德昌模仿者，虽有文学性，但对话时而过于矫情做作；剧作算圆但太简单，不再有杨那样复杂和精密叙事的野心，也就少了对台湾当代社会鞭辟入里的理解。至于最后洪水的来临，与其说是一个有某种必然性的突发新闻，不如说是一个编排潦草、为瀑布而瀑布的可笑事件。
“你病了？”
看最近的新闻，历史似乎又要重演。鼓点起落，安妮的痛苦清晰可闻，尤其三场尺度戏，女主连大腿肌肉都在表演，看得我心惊肉跳，脸直抽搐。
全程摄影机怼到人物脸上这种近距离跟拍的方式也挺呼应电影名字，以一种直观的拍摄手法让观众尽可能与女主感同身受还是挺有意思的
神圣的旗帜
这样的真实影像表达只会让人觉得疼，而不是反思。
Anne做完堕胎手术后，满头大汗坐在马桶上，胎儿滑落在马桶里，伴随着Anne惊慌睁大的双眼，那个声音让人难忘。切肤之痛。
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