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".
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“一个人并非生下来就是女人，而是逐渐长成了女人”。
女主好像第一个喜欢过的女孩，已经十几年没见过面了，以后也许不会再见面。
观感很复杂，确实没有和疫情非绑在一起不可的关联，但却又像是不得不在疫情时才能get到的电影。很多东西都不断把人与人之间的界限模糊消去，但却也鲜有人真正去认识一个人，而在这种危险的亲密关系里，盼望“雨”将对方打醒的同时，却又不再盼望“雨”消散，于是“雨”积压泄落，结局亦未必是天晴。场置美术某种意义上弥补了本子里不够细腻的东西，每个场景的细节都做得又足又厉害。王净表现得挺好，虽然也有角色本身的加成吧。3.5归4，个人而言比《阳普》更加喜欢这部。
这几年，每逢春节都会看一部台湾电影，从2020年《阳光普照》、2021年《孤味》到今年的《瀑布》，依然静水流深，温暖治愈，台湾家庭片的艺术水准已丝毫不输于日本。疫情如同突然汹涌而至的瀑布激流，重创着每个人的身体和精神，也改变了许多人的家庭关系，母亲会慢慢走出精神失常的阴影，孩子也会渐渐理解大人成长起来，瀑布急流终会变成涓涓细流，奔向自由广阔有爱的心世界。片尾，母亲在电视新闻上焦急搜寻女儿获救的身影，那泪光盈盈的注视，是对基耶斯洛夫斯基《蓝白红三部曲之红》的深情致敬。贾静雯、王净的演技真好，摄影真好，音乐真好，温柔敦厚的台湾国语真好。过低的豆瓣评分配不上她的好。
一部血淋淋的自传，贡献了与《女人的碎片》开头分娩戏同样真实揪心的几处堕胎戏。手持摄影近景跟拍，4:3画幅将人物困于压迫空间，屏幕上出现的时间数字在提醒即将到来的审判日，观众作为旁观者无从协助，只能在晃动的镜头下紧随安妮经历这场残忍磨难。比生理痛感更加焦灼的是心理摧残，父权社会剥夺了女性主宰身体器官的权利，堕胎是明令禁止的法律条文，是避忌不谈的敏感话题，女性满足欲望需要付出惨重代价，怀孕是一种只会攻击女人的病，剪掉脐带像是切断束缚。剧作和技法并不比同类题材4m3w2d或NRSA出众，威尼斯评审团授予它金狮更多是褒奖其直面社会议题的勇气，绝非陈词滥调，无论何时何地何种方式，它都值得被反复书写，我们也需要这样的电影不断警示世界，抗争之路从不平坦，由历史映照当下，直指这荒谬的时代，一切都“正发生”。
发现法国电影尺度是真大，说脱就脱。这类堕胎电影感觉都差不太多，不一样的就是当地的堕胎政策不一样，整体跟《总是 从不 有时》差不多吧。
013921 安娜玛丽亚·沃特鲁梅全裸 女配全裸
在一个堕胎犯法的大环境下，男方装死隐身，把怀孕的风险和痛苦完全转嫁给女方，全程看着非常焦虑窒息
期望过高导致在性别差异难以共情之后只剩下一如结尾天空过曝的苍白
这是一部恐怖片！一种只会缠上女人的病，一种把女人变成家庭主妇的病。
2022.5.14 没想到1.26突然就出资源了！但资源是95分钟的…终于在5.13等到100分钟版本的了马上看起来了 不错 和钛同样是去年法国女性电影 同样得了三大奖最高级别的金棕榈还有金狮 为啥后者比前者好这么多呢？但可以看出法国人确实尊重女性 女主没想到是99年的 一开始就脱内裤毛都看去了 澡堂洗澡一堆女的全裸都看去 毛都看得一清二楚。。还把做爱的照片放在女主书里 10岁的时候就偷哥哥的黄色杂志看 拿着枕头做就离谱 第一次洗澡还没奶子特写 第二次都是奶子特写 就是没想到法国大学生怀孕了就不能继续读书甚至还要进监狱 色调运用的真的完美 还是小说改编 女主给自己打胎看着就痛 黑心医生还给她开了保胎的注射剂 都要去堕胎了还和别人乱搞还是真摸奶子…后面找黑市里的打胎一次没成功第二次终于成功了
五星，又是一部优秀的女性主义题材电影。相较于去年的金棕榈和金熊，去年金狮确实保守了些，但本片的质量确实也配得上一座金狮。对视听的处理可以说是颇为优秀。以视听来牵引情绪，视角对准女主安妮，把安妮作为整个女性的一个缩影，来展现女性遇到的困境，以及特殊时代下女性的焦虑、绝望、挣扎与彷徨。
相比四月三周二天、从不很少有时总是、女人韵事、女性瘾者、燃烧女子的肖像里的打胎过程，这部更第一视角，相对沉浸，还有就是导演手下留情了。
期望过高导致在性别差异难以共情之后只剩下一如结尾天空过曝的苍白
6/10。故事讲得太浅了，以至于像是纯粹呈现了一位女性意外怀孕，为了学业而不择手段堕胎的故事。但女主说她得了一种只有女性才会得的病，加上影片的背景设置在1960年代，显然想引入对女性意识的探讨。
这种让人潜意识里知道可能“正发生”的疼痛 要比那些血浆B级片更令人不忍直视——虽然 导演对于展现感官上的血腥终究是克制的 但不去拍 让人脑补那金属利器进入子宫的画面 反而更令人窒息
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20220402 这部电影给人最大的震撼在于，60年代的法国和世界或许远不如今日人想象得那么激进，而是充满了残忍的保守，在那里堕胎等于犯法。和《钛》对看比较有趣，今日关于激进政治的想象只能坐落在性别上，而关于性别的言说又进一步精细化，坐落在女性的身体-生育上，而对于生育过程的展示，才能最直观地抵达这种痛苦和压迫。
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