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".
代表着生命的数字不断累积，肚子里藏着不可说的秘密，面容上已是掩不住的焦虑。戛然而止的音符不时而起，随时提醒着这个危险世界处处需要警惕。直到红色的鲜血无法止息，突然转为急促强烈的震击，对准女主角的特写镜头外部，是同为女生惊慌失措的神色，是黑夜里城市闪过的痕迹。这是关于凝视的意义，「她」拥有「她」自己的身体。
特定时代、特定制度下的一段堕胎史，对比《四月三周两天》，同样呈现了堕胎过程中的女性痛感，只不过少了体制性的批判，多了一些纯女性主义的关怀。
片子的时间约在55-60的期间，闺蜜们讨论着加缪和萨特，却无人提起波伏娃。海报里Anne的目光是穿透60年的女权审问，成功了吗?以及，正确了吗?
《从不，很少，有时，总是》
几乎没有避讳用镜头，我不知道伴随而来一波又一波生理心理的双重不适感袭来的，算不算影片带给的精彩。。。头次看到这种犀利直面女性生育伦理的电影，不得不说我被某些画面和自己强作的感同身受给震到了～
令人窒息，倔强的少女，这股劲儿用在哪不好...干净的法式画风
“一个人并非生下来就是女人，而是逐渐长成了女人”。
完全聚焦在女主本人的角度很好，特写近景拍的也很好。
女人的原罪是长了子宫。她承受了这么大的痛苦后，告诉你，她已经是最幸运的那一部分人了。
这样的真实影像表达只会让人觉得疼，而不是反思。
又是一部感官上异常疼痛的电影，想到之前看过的《女孩》和《钛》，想说为什么这几年的电影都喜欢描摹和放大这种痛，然后被今晚的breaking news一记打醒，片名起得太恰当，表现手法也可以说是和某些时代的倒退针锋相对了。
这是属于女性的权利且必须只由女性自己拥有全部决定权，无论保留还是堕除，即便是伴侣也无权置喙，这不是什么女性主义男性主义，而是一种基本逻辑，因为这一切都作用于且只作用于女性自身，一切都要女性承受和承担，所以只有她们有权做出决定。那个开保胎药的医生，以人道之名违背人道，是一种巨大的恶。这个电影和《四月三周两天》可做参照，一个是以国家之名，一个是以人性之名，都在反人性。这电影最大的力量在于它呈现的恐怖的“安静”，躺着地下医院的床上肉身忍受着巨大痛苦时不能喊叫出声，精神在巨大压力之下也不能喊叫出声，而她选择写作本身是一种喊叫，不再屈从于被迫保持的安静。
全程守护天使视角
在一个堕胎将会坐牢的制度压迫下
又是一部感官上异常疼痛的电影，想到之前看过的《女孩》和《钛》，想说为什么这几年的电影都喜欢描摹和放大这种痛，然后被今晚的breaking news一记打醒，片名起得太恰当，表现手法也可以说是和某些时代的倒退针锋相对了。
事实证明依据个体经验而形成的个体叙事更锋利也更柔软
完全聚焦在女主本人的角度很好，特写近景拍的也很好。
这个世界就是太缺乏这样的电影了，这样直接的，血淋淋的，感同身受的，关于女性的困境的电影。女人为什么不可以选择不成为一个母亲，女人为什么要因为这种选择众叛亲离，要因此放弃毁掉自己的人生，要面临健康生命的风险。这仅仅应该是女性的选择而已，凭什么要剥夺它？这种血腥，冷酷，而又直接亲密的视角正是我们需要的。把自己放在女人的位置，去体会女人的痛苦，才能明白这个世界拿走了女人多少自由。
都是和女孩有关。
对峙、脆弱之下需要的倚靠、盼望的理解、魔怔与控制，亲情关系的百般滋味尽收其中。在这特殊时刻，拷问它是否也如世间其它人际关系接近崩裂。有那种像《利器》、《恶行》带来的如芒在背，也不乏刘冠廷的彩蛋所带来的会心一笑（：以及，事业批贾静雯真的太迷人了。想说它是疫情命题之下最细腻温柔的电影，但依然需要时间和观点来检验（这里指的是…（恶趣味）部分）。
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