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".
在法国上学时学校组织看，有好多同学产生不适感甚至晕倒，还有同学在交流环节时直接去呛导演..
我没有孩子我不知道深切感受 但觉得反堕胎法不是保障谁谁谁 根本就是女人们的噩梦
“我感到很羞愧，但欲望比羞愧更强烈。”
有《四月两周三天》珠玉在前，这一题材很难再超越。这部能拿金狮自然也有它独到的地方，4:3的景别下容纳不了第二个人，心理生理所承受的巨大痛苦没有人能够分担，只有在这狭小的画框内独自承受。大量的中近景镜头更是将女主挤压得透不过气来，仿佛肚中那个急于赴死的生命。两者最为接近的时候是海中游泳一幕，海水似乎要淹没银幕，犹如浸满羊水的子宫。大量身体的展示是为了让观众最大程度的“触摸”到女主的身体，以便在关键时刻体会到最大的痛感，这一点上倒是与《钛》尤为相似。
3.5。三段墮胎戲的確傳達了極強的張力與同感，但圍繞墮胎問題的其他要素仍然停留在「mention」層面。
剪脐带着实令人头皮发麻，更发麻的事，这是一部自传。
铁钳、剪断脐带
关于女主为何要在滥交的男同学说完“反正你也怀孕了”之后与他上床：这个时候的安娜是讨厌自己的身体的，她的身体背叛了她，不经她的同意为一个孩子提供了温床；男同学同样物化了安娜，声称对她来讲，唯一的区别是你是不是一个母体，性行为发起的原因不是他有多喜欢安娜，而是安娜可以作为满足“男性应得权利”的容器，安娜的内心是矛盾的，她不想让自己被吞噬，但她的身体每一天都在抹杀掉原本的安娜，安娜短暂的沉沦了，通过与男同学交媾迎合了父权制的期望，通过短暂的放弃选择，她承认的自己的容器属性。然后，当她下了男生的床，她部分的容器属性被留在了床上，通过短暂沉沦又离开，她获得了一种对自己的身体、自己的性有一丝掌控感的错觉，让她有能量去打完这一场仗。
又是一个通过声音来创造体感的绝佳案例;画幅运用绝佳,可以说是讨论个人+社会问题的典范
并不喜剧，致敬和思考挺多
同题材作品中，反而很少有如此直视堕胎这一过程本身以及肉体的痛苦。
讲述了上世纪60年代一位法国年轻女性想要夺回自己身体控制权的斗争故事，当时依旧浓烈的宗教社会系统氛围的冷漠着实令人心寒。几年之后，她们中的很多人将走上街头。
这个也太流水命题作文了 而且看到的还是意大利语配音版。。。。
历史的也是当下的，古老幽魂的返身亦是女性永恒的诅咒，正发生的高压语境不但跟随倒数计时胎死腹中的梦想，更是对保守主义死而复生抬头的愤怒瞪视。单一视角和手持拍摄的极简处理浸没困境感知和痛感传导的进行时态共鸣，战栗不绝的心理惊悚来自紧凑画幅锁住并放大绝望惶恐的神色——在闻性色变，进取有罪，欲望自由的空隙要靠怀孕免罪金牌偷来的年代，被男权意志孤立而无援的女人，被迫观看却无法施以援手的目光，周遭众人的漠视和加害模糊面孔，组成孤身对抗世界的系统。鼓点渐强提醒知情不救沦为共犯的事实，隐去血腥的堕胎仍能触犯观众就形同挑战。多少叙事隐没的伤痕，多少乘势复苏的征兆，自我献祭意味的生死一搏或可于银幕换来前程似锦的窒息松绑，但那些死于极度痛苦的无名女孩始终在场，集体受难罪孽无以偿还。政治文学分野的隐喻开头就已埋下。
“我得了一种病，这种病只针对女性，它让她们成为家庭主妇。”
请还给女孩子们选择自由…由身及心的疼痛和麻木感，真真实实的恐惧…
“谁会管你有没有心情，我们可以只做那些我们想做的事情吗？”
生物性别赐予女性繁衍后代的荣誉，人类社会（父系氏族）因为保证子嗣纯洁与手握权力，让女性成为生育的奴隶
本片发生在上世纪六十年代初，那个将堕胎定为重罪的年代，怀孕的大学生女主陷入了世界末日般的思想斗争中。
给金狮奖略显过誉，相比之下还是《钛》更新颖有趣点，但是这部题材不算少见的作品的豆瓣分可比《钛》高多了。两部影片都与女性身体有关，肌肤撕裂的痛感正是女性社会境遇的体现。为什么一次“普普通通”的怀孕，就能让女性几乎搭上生命的危险，谁造成的这一切，难道不令人深思吗？
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