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".
让我想起《观音山》。对人类来说，重建比面对失序更困难，需要缝合，需要舍弃，需要从头再来。真正的悲剧始于大楼摘下蓝色“口罩”之后，经过创伤，重新走进阳光里，安详又死寂，我们都回不去了，即使那是一条末路，也被修改了轨道，进入另一个平行宇宙。
一时的爽，换来无尽的痛苦，但这难道是应该一个人承担的么？！
凝视的、伟岸的、索取的、冷漠的、知识垄断阶层的，那些男性角色，天真又骇人的尸孩。只有女性才会帮助女性，也只有女性才能帮助女性。
她知道自己有一天会有孩子，但也确定不能以自己的人生为代价，还是女性能否为自己的身体自己的子宫做主的问题。有些纪实画面让人观看都感觉到疼。
如果是个be的话更深刻一点，不过这是自传小说改编，真没活下来也没这么一个故事了。片子比其他同类型片好在没那么多戏剧化的冲突，还是比较贴合现实的
作家未免太坦白了，坦白到一些细节让人发抖的程度。女人最容易找到身上破裂的部分，因为她们天生有子宫，并且有能力孕育一个与她相互残杀的东西。这一过程，不管最终变化成何种模样，带给她的人生改变都是巨大的。
安重返校园，重返那个在雨果诗句的带领下，优胜劣汰的校园。生育权，应该真正还给女性，而不是利用宗教、法律禁止堕胎。倘若安顺应社会规则，生下孩子。那么，这个孩子极大可能面临着单亲家庭，成长环境不能得到保证。安也因此失去通过上学实现阶层跨越的机会，极大可能留在出生的阶层、区域，重走父母走过的路。那么，这将是对两代人的沉重打击。生育，意味着责任。倘若不能给下一代提供更好的环境，不能给下一代留下更多的选择，那么下一代极大可能被迫重复你走过的路，你父母、爷奶辈走过的路。这样的人生，这样的生育，有何意义？
女人，再不去反抗，这样的未来就在不远处等着你们。
影片内容基本围绕着女孩怀孕后的外界反应和堕胎过程，除了主角之外其他人物都十分扁平，主角也不够立体。相比同题材的《从不，很少》缺乏了饱满的人物，以及社会现状在故事中的投射，最主要缺乏了那种暧昧性表达，基本是把一切摊开在观众面前，没有给观众思考和反思的空间。
短小精悍且扣人心弦，活脱脱将怀孕堕胎拍成了恐怖电影，现在再和美国最新的禁止堕胎法案结合起来看真是讽刺
没有太多新意但足够直接。画框、景别、调度无一不在加强逼仄感。片名起得极好。最棒的是那句台词：一种只攻击女人的病，把她们都变成家庭主妇。个人认为在第一幕的铺垫中需要强情节把女主逼向更无路可退的境地，结尾的高潮效果会更强烈。去年的这部金狮比金棕榈给得靠谱多了。
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
还好最后小静得救了，不然我真的想飞起给编剧一脚。
三星半。匠气不假，但仍是对疫情的有效叙事。剧情在以重重不确定玩弄观众，但毕竟总不会比疫情下现实的不确定玩得过火。心理惊悚成为近年电影不约而同选择的一种题材，并非偶然。公寓楼防水拉皮蒙上的蓝色帆布、疫情之下我们始终无法卸下的口罩和生活洪流冲击下内心的瀑声两两构成互指的精巧隐喻，又与故事中的大小细节层层镶嵌。德加的《赛前训练》，夕阳之下，数骑并辔，右侧只有一名蓝衣骑手反向独行，也是一个概括人与人间彼此封闭境况的准确的内心意象。陈以文那句“主动点，不吃亏”是勺对我有效的鸡汤。
It didn't have to be like this.
与NRSA相似的浅焦+特写 角色都处于长焦镜头下逼仄的空间之中 但相比之下Hittman镜头下的空间更加开放 有着存在感更强烈的环境背景和城市空间 而这部则几乎完全局限于角色的平面 面孔与面孔周围 情绪封闭在4:3的方块之中 而观看则是一个沉浸并共情的过程 性别的障碍被打破 HER pain 同时这种手法也抽离了时代背景 聚光灯打在角色一人身上 背后的布景处于阴影之中 尽管设定于上世纪的法国 但她也完全可以身处于任何一个年代 任何一处地方 而这一切也可以是“正发生” 而非仅仅停留在“发生过” 比NRSA更狭隘的空间也是因为Anne的处境相比Autumn来说更加的无助 相比整个国家法律的禁止 travel to NY似乎还是个简单的方式 我们永远需要这样的female voice
拍的真好，使人身临其境的镜头语言，完全感受到了身体和心理的巨大痛苦，太难受了。女主很有眼缘，镜头里有天然的魅力。
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?
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。
美国时间6月24日，美国最高法院裁决推翻了半个世纪前的“罗诉韦德案”，将堕胎的合法性问题留给了各联邦州应对。预计约一半的州将宣布堕胎为非法或严格限制堕胎。呵呵，自由的美利坚
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