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
女人的原罪是长了子宫。她承受了这么大的痛苦后，告诉你，她已经是最幸运的那一部分人了。
三次堕胎的自救，隔着屏幕都能感受到的疼。
钟孟宏的电影很怯懦，他不敢让人物真正“破”，也就谈不上“立”，所有的绝处都留着不那么坏的尾巴。他的角色疯魔杀不死温情，温情却杀死了疯魔，人物无法成长，也就不可能在文本上出现有新意的东西。所以钟孟宏像是在熬鸡汤。导演的怯懦，导致电影的“圆满”，一个看不到残缺，却要表现残缺的电影一定是失败的
三到四星之间。镜头语言很粗糙，但很巧的是很应这个电影。拍得真的很痛。(子宫这个生理构造就很反女性好吗！！）
#TIFF 2021#带着低预期，发现没那么差，甚至有点好看。贾静雯演绎一个离婚又失业的中年女人从崩溃到自愈的过程，前面她演精神失常的母亲，皮笑肉不笑的样子有点惊悚，后面对着女儿说：不要问妈妈好不好，妈妈会努力变好的样子又让人心疼。看到90分钟撤掉幕布阳光普照的时候觉得刚刚好，直到看到这个结尾，细想了一下如果只到90分钟不过又是一部鸡汤之作，能抗住最后一击，她才是真的完成自我救赎：生活就是给你希望又让你绝望，只有放下执念才能放过自己。
太细腻的三场堕胎镜头让人对那个时期的女性感到深深地抱歉和同情，女主的表现力也让人共情和揪心。电影通过女主和父母之间互动的前后对比，和课堂老师互动的前后对比，将一个怀孕女学生的心理转变描绘成了一张全景图。还好，最终，在医院医生的那一句“Miscarriage”中，观众的心也释然了。
演墮胎女醫生的演員在《花神咖啡館》裡扮演過波伏瓦。
金棕榈和金狮是商量好了软硬兼施一起命题作文么。狗之力 上帝之手 正发生 你选哪个当金狮，就看你是啥性取向了。
焦点很浅，景别很紧，这点蛮统一的，表现女主与周遭的隔绝与无助很到位，但没太理解为啥镜头总是对着女主的上半身甚至面部，连个全身镜头都没，放大其情绪吗？没想到最后给到帮助的是风流男同学。随着计时的推进，境遇恶化时伴随着异样的配乐。好像当前版本比电影节删掉了几分钟最“疼”的，引起的生理不适比《钛》还是少多了。7.5/10
所有此类题材，目前还是没有一部能超越《四月三周两天》。
贾静雯演技好好哦，这么熟悉的演员在新角色里还能让我感到很陌生，真的很神奇，以及怎么回事，竟然还能跟火神的眼泪和阳光普照梦幻联动，好几个地方真是，会心一笑，谁懂……
十数周的隐忍煎熬和三次反抗，女性在捍卫自己权利的同时付出了巨大的代价，社会舆论，违法边缘，自身事业的牺牲相较而言，身体的痛楚反而是最小的，然而却给予观众最直观的视觉和情感冲击。“只有女人才会得的病，它使她们变成家庭主妇”是最直白的控诉和抗议
信念 勇气 饥渴
一氣呵成，很平穩的捕捉女主角意外懷孕卻求助無門的心路歷程。女性非處女即蕩婦的封建守舊，如果懷孕是一種病，與同期看的《我的天才女友》互相對照。
法式日记小品我的菜 看的人跟着刺痛 摄影也很好
不如《四月三周两天》，女主角很难让人产生共情。窥私镜头太多，令人不适。
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.
确定
可以跟《四月三周两天》《总是，有时，很少，从不》并列为女性生育权三部曲了。直白到让人疼痛。
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