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".
多一颗星给女人因生育功能遭受的苦难。不要把成为母亲当作完整人生的一部分，若男人生来完整，女人亦然；不要期许或轻信一个男人可以理解体会女人的痛经、孕育、生产之苦，不要。“（怀孕）一种只会攻击女人的病，把她们变成家庭主妇的病”，女权的路上，法兰西坚挺决绝。
拍摄方式没有特点，主要还是内容让我震撼。女人从始至终和政治密不可分。
8。Helpless. ( ; _ ; )
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。
看完不得不把本片与【四月三周两天】对比，两者观影的过程同样都产生了一种窒息感。蒙吉更多是对大环境和政治生态的压迫力表现；而本片主要集中在人物从怀孕到堕胎过程真实的无措感与疼痛感，让观众感同身受。看完去年的三大奖，深感在表彰女性电影顺应当下趋势的同时，是否正在逐渐跑偏
前半段真该拉去反矫组批一下，不过结尾我挺喜欢的。（菜头好帅，女主是照着文淇找的）
先看的《美国女孩》，觉得很好呀，再看《瀑布》，才明白角逐金马奖为什么《瀑布》能更胜一筹。印象最深的一句台词是精神科医生告诫小静的那句“不要再否定你妈妈了”，这几乎也是对贾静雯为什么会得病的官方注释。先是丈夫背叛，然后女儿叛逆，最后工作濒危，爱情、亲情、职场，人生最重要的几段关系几乎全部毁灭。好在导演给了我们希望和出口，只是讽刺的是，自从贾静雯病后，他们遇见的每一个人几乎全都是好人。真实的世界是这样的吗？
公权力在任何时代都是在无形中灭绝人类的瘟疫。学会驯服它，与它共存，是文明的脚步。
看到五十分钟处，主人公开始自残，我几乎吐出来，因为那真的巨痛，无法形容，就跟男的自宫一样痛。但她没有办法，她只能那样。可以猜到打不掉，但看到她那么惊讶失望还是很难过。而后她开始暴戾，我能理解主人公这种羞耻、犯错、痛苦煎熬，找不到任何解决方法或愿意帮助自己的人，又觉得不该是自己一个人的责任的矛盾致死的心情。她确实是傲慢的，因为她本来就是尖子生，且她说的也没错，男方说“我能怎么办我又不是医生”“你下午那样我原谅你了，我的朋友会怎么想”我真想一拳打在他脸上。末尾医院的简单更让人痛苦——这么简单的处理，要不是快死了她就不能去。而这种挣扎和束缚绝不仅仅是那个年代独有的。女性们以为得到了什么，实际上仍然不具有什么。如果有一种基因能让所有女人在三十岁之后才能怀孕，那真是造福人类。
相比于柏林的《忍者宝宝》和戛纳的《钛》，这部拿下威尼斯金狮的怀孕题材作品显得更加压抑和稳重，不使用隐喻和概念来包装，不尝试调剂氛围，以极其真实的镜头来书写一位六十年代女学生非法堕胎的全程经历，这样扑面而来的严肃令人喘不过气，奥黛丽·迪万将镜头脂质怼到安娜玛丽亚茫然痛苦的面孔上，一部极具时代性的作品，大概在女性文化史上会留下属于她们的位置。
《正发生》
小静，你可不可以答应我一件事
故事其实没太多新鲜之处 和主角一起为不明朗的处境感到焦虑 和主角一起疼 演得真好
过于聚焦，总觉得女主的形象还不够丰满，除了堕胎这件事再看不到其他的了
1.片名影射的不错；2.传闻中吓昏影评人的场景让我无语，这影评人要是看了女性瘾者该会是什么反应？3.女主演技很不错，群像塑造的很模板化，每一幕我都可以预算到。4.堕胎题材希望某天有导演能拍出美国司法绕行下的故事，这才是“正发生” 而且也足够震撼
67/100。我看的这版，貌似最有视觉冲击力的片段被删减了……？所以看后觉得没有《钛》痛啊……女主的绝望通过镜头表现得很好。但确实没有什么独特之处和创新的点。获2021欧洲三大电影节最高奖项的电影里还是最喜欢《钛》。
老师问她怎么成绩落下这么多，女孩说她得了女的才会得的病，这种病会让她变成家庭主妇。
很难不与《四月三周两天》对比，这部更温和、更坚毅、更多善意、更多女性间的互助。那句“这是只攻击女人的绝症，无差别地把所有人变成家庭主妇“是对制度对社会的质询，振聋发聩。任何关于abortion的电影都是痛的，看的时候让人坐立难安的痛，《四月》《从不很少有时总是》《女人韵事》甚至只作为支线的《烧女图》都会带来这样共通的感受。记住这种痛，要发声、要反抗，拒绝沉默。
与《让娜迪尔曼》形成互文，无时无刻都笼罩着可预见的未来里的痛苦与重复，年度最恐怖之作。
这样的真实影像表达只会让人觉得疼，而不是反思。
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