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".
60年代的法国女性还没有拥有堕胎的合法权利，“正发生”恰恰说明了从过去到现在，直到现在也不是所有女性都有子宫自己做主的权力，电影中很好展现了女性的生理疼痛和心理重压，加上上周看《钛》，真是连续感受超强疼痛。还想起了于佩尔的《女人韵事》，本片中帮人堕胎的女人和于佩尔都有坚毅硬朗的脸部线条。
2021最佳外语片女演员：The Female Ensemble Cast
完全聚焦在女主本人的角度很好，特写近景拍的也很好。
2021最佳外语片女演员：The Female Ensemble Cast
应该是钟孟宏熬得最差的一碗鸡汤了吧。呆滞，割裂，有气无力的心理病故事，连疫情也只是一团模糊的背景布。如果不是最后10分钟真的可以拖走了...
堪比恐怖片，导演成功将那种痛直接冷静地传给了观众！为堕胎无罪而奋斗过的人们，你们也创造了人类历史的伟大发明之一啊！
看之前做了非常足的心理建设，怕自己受不了，疼得昏过去。但导演明显是仁慈的，女性的痛苦已经被极为克制地呈现了，或许只呈现了tip of the iceberg。
头皮发麻。“正发生”恰好也是对当下的警示。本就属于女人的、被剥夺又奋力夺回的对自己身体的处置权，如今又面临着再次被剥夺的风险。所以对女人的子宫虎视眈眈的人都应该看看这部电影，睁开眼睛看看那些痛楚，然后再问问自己的良心（如果有的话）自己凭什么可以禁止女人堕胎。
太痛了，太痛了，太痛了。仿佛我也在痛，我也在被撕扯——我的灵魂和我的肉体。长达四分钟的堕胎长镜头和一闪而过的脐带掉落出下体的镜头让我共情到飙出眼泪。身体上疼痛到扭曲痉挛，还要承受外界的质疑、学业的压力。难以想象，在过去的年代愚昧的法律戕害了多少女性。没有子宫，就没有发言权。现在所有女性都应该觉醒——没有任何一个人拥有能替代母亲做生育选择的权利，没有！
女主演的很好，更重要的是少有的看到这个题材
简单的题材，全篇就围绕着一个事，跟拍风格下的情绪展现：不敢相信、惶恐、接受、尝试、绝望、最后一搏、重生。严苛政策之下，连生命都可以放弃的人们在追求什么？结尾部分的不适感甚至超过了《钛》，因为太过写实。
我感到羞愧，但欲望比羞愧更强烈。这或许是很多年轻男女的内心读白吧。
看到五十分钟处，主人公开始自残，我几乎吐出来，因为那真的巨痛，无法形容，就跟男的自宫一样痛。但她没有办法，她只能那样。可以猜到打不掉，但看到她那么惊讶失望还是很难过。而后她开始暴戾，我能理解主人公这种羞耻、犯错、痛苦煎熬，找不到任何解决方法或愿意帮助自己的人，又觉得不该是自己一个人的责任的矛盾致死的心情。她确实是傲慢的，因为她本来就是尖子生，且她说的也没错，男方说“我能怎么办我又不是医生”“你下午那样我原谅你了，我的朋友会怎么想”我真想一拳打在他脸上。末尾医院的简单更让人痛苦——这么简单的处理，要不是快死了她就不能去。而这种挣扎和束缚绝不仅仅是那个年代独有的。女性们以为得到了什么，实际上仍然不具有什么。如果有一种基因能让所有女人在三十岁之后才能怀孕，那真是造福人类。
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。
@某些“少女”（知名不具），不如找心理咨询师“谈谈心”………@鸢鸢：看过！
我不希望这部影片广泛传播，但是又想让人直观的感受这恐怖。
这中间的一切成为一段秘闻
This movie made me feel the pain, in a physical way. Just the thought that my body could potentially bear a life makes me feel horrified. Having a uterus is the original sin of a woman.
切肤的那种疼！风格有些达内兄弟的感觉。看到了冷酷祭典里的博奈尔，罗塞塔里的罗吉恩，烧女图里的女仆，黑道快餐店里的女主，还有同义词女主。
22-086. 極具寫實的鏡頭，大量的跟拍以及女主角的面部特寫，鏡頭語言運用得太好了。半個多世紀以前的女性甚至沒有墮胎的權利。如今看來，很可笑吧。身體是她的，子宮是她的，孩子也是她的，可她卻沒有是否要生下孩子的權利。墮胎像是在搞特務行動，萬般艱難的情況下打聽出一個號碼，撥過去對方什麼也不問，直接報上接頭語暗號，時間地點，準備好錢，於是，“特務行動”開始了。看到女主自己用燒過的棍棒自行墮胎時，真的看得心如刀絞。這一段演員的演技太爆表了。如今所有的女性權益，都是那些偉大的女性先輩們用各種方式爭取而來的。所以女人啊，擦亮你的雙眼，不要被任何甜言蜜語所蒙蔽，一旦意外懷孕，最痛苦的那個人還是你自己啊！
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