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".
生育是女性的原罪，伴随其来的恐惧、焦虑、羞辱、疼痛、疾病以至于人生角色的束缚和社会控制，由始至终有且只有女性自己独自承担。最痛苦的，不是身体的伤害，而是“你接受吧，你没有选择”。
9 最直白的身体之痛，与绝望、无助的女性。在这个全球右转的节点，我们需要这样充满政治意味的作品来警示一切曾发生、正发生、即将发生于女性身上的生育牢笼。
被告知怀孕后的冷静，到图书馆查阅性书籍，花20法郎仿佛抓住救命稻草般所注射的雌二醇，一个人在房间幽暗的灯光下用烧灼后的细钢针直刺入下体，她没有足够的性常识、当面临着比地狱还糟糕的情况，她孤立无援，无法求助母亲、密友和那个让她怀孕的人。三次对身体的破坏，每一次都让痛感冲出银幕。我想到了《钛》，这个故事将背景设置在1960年代，年轻人对性的憧憬和欲望，女性对自身性吸引力的灌注，却让女性成为这一切没有错的原始欲望所造成的结果的全部承受者！更可怕的是畸形的法律、始终置身事外的精子提供者！那些身体上的疼痛，直到今天仍在书写。“正发生”
止痛药失效的一天，身心俱入深海。那些声称支持生命的人，大概从未像安妮·埃尔诺这样，困于孤独和绝望，渴望而无法碰触，生命。
“只会传染女性的疾病，这种疾病会把人毫无差别地变成家庭主妇。”呵呵，这不禁又让我想起那个想要套路我，继而按照他的计划，去过我下半生的那个人。人流手术时，虽然我们只是看到了分开的双腿，但女主的表现却让我感觉到很疼很疼……
开头以贾静雯焦虑、失序、诡异的主观臆想起始勾画，随后就在母女俩正反打的叙事角度中迷失，紊乱、拖沓、乏味。
子宫是属于女人的专利，而生育权却不属于女人！
2.5 偶有亮点但情节拼凑感太强，从失序惊悚到温情鸡汤的转变又和试图传达的“瀑布”意象略显割裂。以及魏如萱真的不适合演电影啊，希望导演们不要再用她了好嘛。
笑抽了，这种nt意淫结尾的片子居然也能有7.9，豆瓣小资不是一直喜欢把洗白挂在嘴边吗，评价掮客的时候用腻来形容(人家用了开放式的结局，也没像你们说得那样没有呈现复杂的社会关系，应该这么说精神白左的智商可能无法理解开放式结局到底是什么含义），怎么到这部片子光明结局的时候(而且还是明示的），就没见你们出来批判，说它有涂脂抹粉的地方，说好有大概率死亡的风险，怎么就女主那么幸运活了下来，还能参加考试😂，这种试图无脑站堕胎派的导演不值得多关注，当然你们蠢逼小资的话语本来就没有什么信服度，更不用说目前毫无可信度的豆瓣评分
赶巧前脚看了《忍者宝宝》，后脚看了本片。一夜情怀孕和非婚怀孕有区别吗？在一些人眼里有，在一些人眼里没有，恰如意外怀孕后处理方式上的不同和各执一词。性是男女双方的权力，而堕胎的不安和焦虑、苦痛却几乎完全由女性来承担。在这件事上无论男女都必然会进入对女性关注关怀和关爱的视角，这是她们的主场，我们是认真聆听的观众。遗憾的是目前看起来仍然无解。
从电影院出来两腿发软 头晕目眩 即使看过书知道故事发展的每一步也还是不断的被一种疼痛感shock到 其实导演没有真的选择让人看到血腥的细节而是通过演员极为精彩的演出把所有的痛感传达到淋漓尽致 很喜欢书能做到同样喜欢电影 觉得是很成功的改编 尤其是书这么难改的前提下 电影中没有阐述的“happening”的来由期待也很喜欢 Mon double voeu: que l'evenement devienne ecrit. Et que l'ecrit soit evenement.
#12，June 2022
必须睁着眼睛看这部电影，必须直视几千年来女人们子宫的秘密和痛苦，那些抛向陈朽的质问放在今天依然适用。老实说以前体感类似关于生育自主权、堕胎、分娩的直接的视觉呈现对电影本身是一种剥削，现在觉得那部分自我太可笑，到底什么正发生，它们是禁锢自由的铁链、等待绞刑的牢笼，而残酷在于对“不相关”的人而言，你让它发生，它才发生
女主演的很好，更重要的是少有的看到这个题材
我的身体不由我做主，为导演这么敢打五星，同时觉得为我们触碰不到这类题材感到一丝愤懑
比起前作有了长足的进步，会长期关注导演后续的作品。
取巧的议题，电影本身没有什么亮点。凭什么击败犬之力拿下金狮啊？我不理解=_=
虽然新意不足，仍然能称得上杰作，只是时代感比较差，不知道是不是有意为之
以肉体之痛外显女性遭受的精神压迫、文化戕害，最后一个突然的镜头下移特写，压抑许久的血腥一股脑喷涌而出，最大程度引起共情通感。用12周堕胎遭遇为引线，串联起禁锢在女性身上的日常枷锁。
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。
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