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".
PS:有几个场景是真的膈应人，怪不得据说威尼斯的时候有影评人直接看晕过去了
如果生下这个孩子需要以我的一生为代价，那我永远也不会爱它。它也不会想被生下来 。
荣誉与旗帜
身体的痛感超越语言传递我控诉，但终究忍不住要学《四三二》快速下移的镜头，其实变成了一种恫吓。最后匆匆结局，暴露了仿作的本质。
L'avant-première a eu lieu au Louxor. Un film qui m'a touché, j'ai ressenti la souffrance et la mélancolie de l'avortement avec l'empathie, je me rappelle que j'aurais dû lui donner plus de tendresse, et partager sa douleur. C'est trop tard qu'on peut pas revenir en arrière et le regret devient à jamais une vrais épine qui me hante toute la vie.
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。
如果镜头一转袋鼠不存在（或者是个抱枕），就给加一星！喜剧部分还好，但是有一些太陈旧的硬胳肢笑点（一群人同时把头转来转去等等），舔番茄酱学的是韩国电影《色即是空》里任昌丁。月球基地搭建得很生动真实，地球景区就过于糊弄，感受不到大灾后的满目疮痍和绝望，而且地球工具人们实在太工具，一到地球戏就如坐针毡、如……特效真是很棒，有几幕颇具诗意。
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。
《索尔之子》的浅焦用在以60年代青年女性堕胎的题材上，以沉浸的方式，把观众拉锯到极其私密的地步去凝视主人公所经历的对身体、对社会的疑惑与痛楚。子宫之于女性是什么？一个与生俱来的痛楚来源，让你月月感知身体的存在，性的欢愉，身体的异化与异物入侵的恐惧。男性如何能感知这些因身体构造不同所带来的截然不同的最基础的生物有机体的体验？就更别提在这最基础上面所构建的层层，这一切也许都能简化成枷锁两字。而我们都应该反问自己一句，一具生而就能孕育其他生命的身体，为什么是生而带着枷锁的奴隶？为什么会是第二性？
能感觉到，导演奥黛丽·迪万试图解决传递身体痛感和避免影像二次剥削间看似不可调和的矛盾，特殊的画幅、浅焦和特写在构造一个压迫性的视觉空间之外，也有意限制了观者的目光，从而保护片中人物的身体不被过度剥削。仅此一点，《正发生》就比《钛》值得尊敬太多。当然，表现身体痛感这种直球难免过于浅白，也很难牵动复杂的社会问题。这是《钛》很糟糕而《正发生》不够好的原因。比起肉体之痛，我们始终更需要用深焦、在广阔无边的现实中去审视女性精神的疼痛、内心的疮痍是如何被造成的。
1.看的时候再次掉落到那场似曾相识梦魇般的精神折磨里-----当躯体和精神痛苦大于自身对外界的一切体验。2.几段堕胎戏实在于心不忍直视。3.镜头追随着她的后背，跟着她一直走，恐慌不安的子宫，恐慌不安的命运。
片尾音乐响起鸡皮疙瘩起一身，在女主自己尝试引产自戳那里，是我唯一一部无法强忍自己直视下去必须要按下暂停的电影。虽然这关于那个隐秘时代的女性剧痛，对一个共情痛苦能力max的人来说，当下共情到的那种痛苦让我愿意一辈子做个处女，就这么老死下去，对我来说肌肤之渴一直要比性来的大得多。而即便现代有很多新医疗手段可以解决女性面临的这个巨大难题，但风险依旧无处不在，而这种风险对我来说实在太令人窒息。在马桶下脐带垂下来的画面太有警醒和冲击力，忍不住截图，虽然这看起来有些血腥变态，但我想正是这样的隐秘剧痛让这部电影成功了。认为全世界人类都有必要看到这部电影，有必要将它得到推广。昨天刚看完波伏娃的记录片，正好在讲法国这群女性在争取堕胎合法的这段1960年的历史，女主经历这次死去活来以后决定要写书，太无缝衔接了。
“我得了一种病，一种只会攻击女性的病，一种把女性变成家庭主妇的病。”
这部要和《从不，很少，有时，总是》对照着看，同一个题材，不同时代不同国家。
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。
一部不忍直视的“冒险史”，我们被“捆绑”在女主周围却无法介入和挽救，被动的经历这段虽不及她承受的百分之一却已足够残酷的受难，三次堕胎，直指历史的三层罪孽：虚情假意的权威欺骗，走投无路的个体自虐，以及被左右在窒息濒死的炼狱中意外未被碾灭的幸存者的渺小，当然最终还是留下了希望与真相，但哪怕女性权利终于崛起，今日必然也无法同历史保持着绝对安全的距离，我们仍身在其中，一次次恐怖的对身体的摧残与流血，也是向历史的回击，伤痕与悲悯中，女主被赋予了强烈的宗教意味，然当下的人们又有谁在牺牲和落泪，仍该叩问，仍该抗争。
看看吧，女导演把女性堕胎的经历拍下来，就是一部恐怖片、惊悚片。而对于60-70年代的法国女孩儿，这就是她们可能面对的现实。
并不喜剧，致敬和思考挺多
7.5 模糊的临场感，完全聚焦于身体政治而几乎忽视了环境的罪恶，对于内容的衍生比起相同题材的其他作品相差甚远，只有疼痛感是真切的。
生长在一个计划生育的国家，不知道堕胎还是违法的，几处堕胎镜头都快进了，实在不忍直视。不管在哪里在哪个年代，女性觉醒之路不会停止。
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