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".
稍微镜头对准下体几秒，就受不了了？屋顶还没掀翻呢，这才哪跟哪。
小景别，冷色调，疼痛展示，无男性凝视的女性裸露，导演在电影技法上做的很好，但相比起夏布洛尔的《女人韵事》还是觉得在主题研讨上略显单薄，在当今世界女性受到的歧视其实也是“正发生”，但没有达到更深层次的探讨
Walked out when she tries to abort with a fucking stick ...
好像每年都至少会有一部电影讲述这种题材的故事，每次看这种题材的故事，都会为女性的境遇而心痛。故事根据个人真实经历改编这件事就足够具有影响力，作者经历了非人的摧残和心理折磨，成为了自己想要成为的人，其中的不易与心酸我们不得而知。之前看《成为波伏瓦》，里面有几段讲述波伏瓦和她的朋友们参与女权运动的段落，很难想象20世纪60年代的法国，对女性的歧视和偏见有多大，当然，这样的偏见在如今的中国依然延续。女性不易，不要放弃。
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。
英国，瑞士，爱尔兰，韩国，法国。全世界就这五个国家有这狗规定。
This movie made me feel the pain, in a physical way. Just the thought that my body could potentially bear a life makes me feel horrified. Having a uterus is the original sin of a woman.
震惊于“浪漫”的法国，也才1967年避孕合法化...
这片看的恐怖效果十足，心理和生理上的疼痛感都传达的很好。女性生来具有的生育能力是不能被任何人反驳的，堕胎不意味着否定自己。法律要求的对生命负责所需要的条件对于年轻女性来说是苛刻和残酷的，这意味着在巨大的困难和压力下承担更多的痛苦的自我的人生和另一个生命，在现在社会制度中还未曾有这样的自发性去强制要求女性是不公平的。影片对于传达女性面对性与爱的困境和孤独感有不可化解的悲哀和无奈，这一点在对于人的孤独命题来说呈现的十分悲观。花费众多笔墨去呈现的生理的痛苦还有巨大社会压力的焦虑的作用下一个首先作为人的女性的生存困境是非常无助的。男性在恋爱关系中体现的轻浮和自私的形象很尖锐，所有的痛苦和后果女性来承担，男性只需要有乐子的时候享受就好。太恐男了。可悲的是面对糟糕的人与人之间的关系却没有人可以逃离。
我们只需留下荣誉
3.5，与当下时局十分契合，很难想象法国在1975年才通过堕胎合法化的法规，是最早通过使用RU-486（米非司酮，口服堕胎药）作为避孕药物的国家。原来也就几十年前，有些不敢想象以前的生活。
为了呼吁女性赋权，我选择给出5星，如果光评价影片质量只能给4星。
#TIFF 2021# SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS。前入围2021威尼斯地平线单元。贾静雯这是要拿金马影后了么哈哈哈。片子的最大亮点大概是片头VCR钟孟宏自己玩的梗“我这次没有再跟日本摄影师中岛长雄合作”，笑了半小时……片子玩不确定叙事是挺有些意思的，但是拍得还是太电视剧了——同一件事先拍一遍，演员台词再说一遍，接下来再说一遍，明明画面说得很清楚了非要用台词说出来……看得是挺捉急的。在家里戴口罩这种设定有点呵呵（当然除非是不确定叙事的一部分）。看完觉得还有个问题就是有点太搬演社会新闻，比如结尾突然有个堪称WTF的事件。好处是贾静雯这个角色尝试“治愈”的过程和方法，确实遇到过一个类似的案例，很好。
观感很复杂，确实没有和疫情非绑在一起不可的关联，但却又像是不得不在疫情时才能get到的电影。很多东西都不断把人与人之间的界限模糊消去，但却也鲜有人真正去认识一个人，而在这种危险的亲密关系里，盼望“雨”将对方打醒的同时，却又不再盼望“雨”消散，于是“雨”积压泄落，结局亦未必是天晴。场置美术某种意义上弥补了本子里不够细腻的东西，每个场景的细节都做得又足又厉害。王净表现得挺好，虽然也有角色本身的加成吧。3.5归4，个人而言比《阳普》更加喜欢这部。
钟孟宏的电影很怯懦，他不敢让人物真正“破”，也就谈不上“立”，所有的绝处都留着不那么坏的尾巴。他的角色疯魔杀不死温情，温情却杀死了疯魔，人物无法成长，也就不可能在文本上出现有新意的东西。所以钟孟宏像是在熬鸡汤。导演的怯懦，导致电影的“圆满”，一个看不到残缺，却要表现残缺的电影一定是失败的
镜头和表演都很好。不要让它变成女孩们的未来。
很难想象是金狮奖的片子，手段和内容都毫无新意，中规中矩稳扎稳打。
画幅除了时代特征之外对氛围和细节的遮掩也很有表现力，视角始终跟随女主，观众好似她的同学一样参与生活，时长够紧凑节奏够快，事件苦无出路又迫在眉睫，当被设下规条母职大于人的身份之时，怀孕成为了对女性享受sex的惩罚。女主果断的执行力在一层层突破父权对她的围剿，而代价痛楚异常九死一生，中间和后段两场戏如果作为女性视角简直幻痛惊惧出一身冷汗。具有时代意义的是，六十年后的现在，堕胎权在某些地方居然仍属女性需要争取的自身权益。我们应展示鲜血，而不是选择忘记，如片名所示，此事正在发生。
2. 能够拿金狮，个人觉得还是有政治正确叠了buff，影片本身还没有精彩到这样的水平
不同国家的女性，都是男权政策的受害者……影片最后男医生说的"自然流产"，我真的是想骂人，一个年华正好的女性的生死命运被他人掌握……
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