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".
我也有学业、工作，梦想！
没有想到回忆录改编尽然可以拍的像青春thriller
“我不打算留。”“我想办法。”“我得了一种只攻击女人的病，把女人变成家庭主妇的病。”这是一个压抑、窒息、令人不安的故事，但女主的坚定眼神让人无法别过脸去。
改编自Annie Ernaux同名自传作品，致只有女人会生的病。
女性应该看，男性更应该看，可和“四月三周两天”搭配观看
其实有点陈词滥调，跟四月三周两天有明显的差距，但个别镜头不错，还是给4星吧
大改原著结尾！所有cue萨特的地方我都爆笑了… 不知道为什么要和《钛》比，这部片子就是在找共情，情感机制完全不一样，所有在求大姨妈小组接过血气的女性懂都懂，ps. Anne为什么是黑头发我好出戏啊。
432的另一面，非常直接和现实的展现了痛苦的过程
三星半，浅景深多特写，以至于开场很长一段时间都没有反应过来是部年代戏（虽然信息给的非常明确），总有一种“正发生”的感觉，外部（人物和空间）的模糊是缺陷可能也是意图，更本质的转变是，把柯南伯格那种身体恐怖片做法应用到女性的身体知觉和生理感受，生成一种拒绝符号化和客体化的力量充盈着新的生命力。喜欢参加应试的结尾，沙沙的涂写声是希望似乎也带有意味深长的嗟叹与荒诞。
麻花正常发挥水平，平稳落地。没见到有什么类似《夏洛》《西虹市》爆梗潜质的台词，还是等闫非彭大魔的《全民狂欢》吧
【B－】能看吧只能说。以为学432结果是出《索尔之子》。几乎没有力量感的粉饰之作。
《四月三周两天》珠玉在前，没看出这部电影有什么新东西；甚至它最具痛感的镜头，在《女性瘾者》面前也要逊色好多。
4.5 如果要比较 这部电影对我来说更像《索尔之子》 跟随着主角的镜头和压抑的配乐牵制观众在这场主角的斗争里无法呼吸 所以也可以说是一部“关于女性的战争片” 而那痛苦的三场戏虽然没有拍出来 却也真实的血淋淋 导演的镜头语言控制很好 剧本我觉得反而弱了些
看过的关于「堕胎」题材的电影，前有2007年获得第60届戛纳电影节 主竞赛单元 金棕榈奖的罗马尼亚电影《四月三周两天》，后有2020年获得第70届柏林电影节 银熊奖 评审团大奖的美/英电影《从不，很少，有时，总是》，还有这部2021年获得第78届威尼斯电影节 主竞赛单元 金狮奖的法国电影《正发生》。---- 怀孕12周的安妮做堕胎手术的长镜头让我联想起《罗马》中女佣克里奥生孩子的长镜头，而后安妮将死胎排出体外的血腥画面莫名让我回忆起妈妈说曾经计划生育时期村里有妇女超生被抓后强行堕胎的事情（不过我印象中却没看过这方面的影视纪录片），……
但电影之外的社会现实更是让人痛苦，在全球各地广泛的限制堕胎法规，宗教威权下对女性自由的迫害………对女性权利的限制从未停止。而电影更像是一次记录，不是对那些争取平等权利的女性的歌颂，而是将“正发生”的苦难展现出来，镇痛。
emmmmmmmm我在想这部片究竟是缺失了什么以至于让人看了都没受到什么触动。
一种只会攻击女人的病，把她们变成家庭主妇的病
在写The Day时注意到的一部电影。贴着人物拍摄的风格很像我下一部短片想要达到的视觉效果。剧本在不该留白的地方留白了，让我看得有些不舒服（也许是因为删减问题剪掉了）but overall it is the kind of film that I want to make. 出了完整版会再看一次
不可能的。男性不可能懂得女性的痛（自然包括熱評上的幾位男性影評人）。
疼。不单单是视觉维度通过画面传导的“共情”的疼，还有由影像调拨其他感官所造成的拟态的疼。三场戏中，这种钻心的疼痛感不断从边缘推移至中心，由掩盖着的表情-声音描述到最后的直视血腥，紧张与不安逐渐被幽暗的环境、糟糕的基调挤向高潮，再于最后的一片白幕中被瓦解。可悲的是，虽然是那个时候「正发生」的痛苦，在如今这个渣滓泛滥的年代，我们也无法不怀疑它不会「再发生」，甚至愈演愈烈。
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