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".
“一种只会攻击女性的病，一种让他们变成家庭妇女的病。”
果然还是女导演对此类的情感拿捏的恰到好处 全篇的跟拍摄影代入感很强 以女主的周边满满普张开剧情 有时又会虚化身边背景以更细腻的表达情感 剧情上有许多艺术特有的夸张情节 但不得不面对随着时代的发展 现有的法规和道德意识已经远远不能够满足意识上的认知
“以后我会要一个孩子，但不是以我的一生为代价。”
看最近的新闻，历史似乎又要重演。鼓点起落，安妮的痛苦清晰可闻，尤其三场尺度戏，女主连大腿肌肉都在表演，看得我心惊肉跳，脸直抽搐。
确实是“正发生”的，氛围感不错，但实在谈不上共情，叙事弱了一些，浅尝辄止的感觉。
影片的压抑之处在于于绝望中不见悲悯。在主张堕胎犯法的法国，Anne身为一名成绩优异的大学生在得知自己怀孕后选择流产，但为了自身人生的可能性，她需要对抗的力量令人窒息，医生用保胎药欺骗阻碍、自信男同学的肆意挑逗、“闺蜜”的事不关己冷眼逃离以及“男朋友”的逃避冷漠，更为重要的，是她被一种“政治正确”所压迫，即所谓女性一旦怀孕，那她便因此需要负起所有的责任，包括身体上的疼痛以及道德上的羞耻，而身为女性，则处于被审视、被议论的角色，自身的自由与意志被一股强大的社会道德感所遮盖。毫无疑问，奥黛丽·迪万想要我们看到的，正是女性所处的被忽视的、不被尊重的处境，尽管影片结尾Anne重获了人生的自由，但影片的窒息感仍旧扑面而来。
“以后我会要一个孩子，但不是以我的一生为代价。”
悟出了钟孟宏的套路：情节走向针锋相对的关键时刻插入风景空镜头以制造深沉感。
“以后我会要一个孩子，但不是以我的一生为代价。”
我的身体不由我做主，为导演这么敢打五星，同时觉得为我们触碰不到这类题材感到一丝愤懑
我的身体，我怎样才能保护。这样的道理，不应该只有我懂。
མངལ་ཆགས་དང་མི་ཆགས་ལ་རང་དབང་ཡོད་པའི་མི་ཚད། ང་ཚོས་ཁས་ལེན་མི་འདོད་ནའང་། མངལ་ཆགས་རྗེས་མངལ་ལས་ཤོར་དུ་འཇུག་མི་འཇུག་ལའང་རང་དབང་ཡོད་པ་ཁས་ལེན་དགོས།
堕胎这件事，到目前为能够有所改变呢
看到安娜自己动手引胎，第一次堕胎，第二次手术的场面，脊背发凉，女人在身体的选择上为何要听从那些没有长子宫的人！
好像每年都至少会有一部电影讲述这种题材的故事，每次看这种题材的故事，都会为女性的境遇而心痛。故事根据个人真实经历改编这件事就足够具有影响力，作者经历了非人的摧残和心理折磨，成为了自己想要成为的人，其中的不易与心酸我们不得而知。之前看《成为波伏瓦》，里面有几段讲述波伏瓦和她的朋友们参与女权运动的段落，很难想象20世纪60年代的法国，对女性的歧视和偏见有多大，当然，这样的偏见在如今的中国依然延续。女性不易，不要放弃。
以肉体之痛外显女性遭受的精神压迫、文化戕害，最后一个突然的镜头下移特写，压抑许久的血腥一股脑喷涌而出，最大程度引起共情通感。用12周堕胎遭遇为引线，串联起禁锢在女性身上的日常枷锁。
法式日记小品我的菜 看的人跟着刺痛 摄影也很好
高高扬起头颅 高高举起旗帜
”一种只会攻击女人的病，会让她们沦为家庭主妇“
干净、冷冽、决绝，直接凝视的手持镜头放大了扎实的功力所带来的每一次震撼
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