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".
4.5不难理解，想想片中的男人都做了什么，简单而深刻，片名具有意义。国外对题材探索的脚步已经甩我们好几条街，而我们还沉浸在虚构爱情或是挥舞励志正能量的大旗…
他叫正发生，是因为就连现在也真的在发生。
大量近景和特写镜头带来的紧张、焦虑和窒息感，太有效了。跟蒙吉那部比，格局小了，但“格局小”本身并没有对错，女主的表演也值得一个佳女。想让《钛》的导演看看，如何拍出不恶心且有效的“疼痛”。
又幸运的是没有成为那五千之一
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。
无删减 已有，看完觉得我等了这么久都值了。金狮奖名副其实。
远不如《四月三周两天》那样具有手持跟焦近景的现实冲击力量。《正发生》撞上的现实好像一块海绵，反弹的力量远远大于撞击那一刻的疼痛。主体描述的是得知怀孕后的精神状态，流于表面，除了几次大胆地展露身体，用铁棍刺痛私密部位，再没有可以引起情感变化的点。虽然仍旧是在批判制度的无情与亲朋的冷漠，家人、朋友、医生、爱人也都点到，奇怪的是每一个人物与每一场对峙都不“好看”，不“动人”。如果因为大尺度的几场戏给到桂冠，未免令人失望。
这片看的恐怖效果十足，心理和生理上的疼痛感都传达的很好。女性生来具有的生育能力是不能被任何人反驳的，堕胎不意味着否定自己。法律要求的对生命负责所需要的条件对于年轻女性来说是苛刻和残酷的，这意味着在巨大的困难和压力下承担更多的痛苦的自我的人生和另一个生命，在现在社会制度中还未曾有这样的自发性去强制要求女性是不公平的。影片对于传达女性面对性与爱的困境和孤独感有不可化解的悲哀和无奈，这一点在对于人的孤独命题来说呈现的十分悲观。花费众多笔墨去呈现的生理的痛苦还有巨大社会压力的焦虑的作用下一个首先作为人的女性的生存困境是非常无助的。男性在恋爱关系中体现的轻浮和自私的形象很尖锐，所有的痛苦和后果女性来承担，男性只需要有乐子的时候享受就好。太恐男了。可悲的是面对糟糕的人与人之间的关系却没有人可以逃离。
从头到尾一直为女孩儿揪着心。故事很简单，但是很有冲击力。
04/23 SFFilm 女主试图堕胎的过程简直触目惊心 虽然是60年代法国发生的事 可能又在德州之类的地方重新上演 it’s happening again and again
“一个人并非生下来就是女人，而是逐渐长成了女人”。
Walked out when she tries to abort with a fucking stick ...
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
止痛药失效的一天，身心俱入深海。那些声称支持生命的人，大概从未像安妮·埃尔诺这样，困于孤独和绝望，渴望而无法碰触，生命。
必须睁着眼睛看这部电影，必须直视几千年来女人们子宫的秘密和痛苦，那些抛向陈朽的质问放在今天依然适用。老实说以前体感类似关于生育自主权、堕胎、分娩的直接的视觉呈现对电影本身是一种剥削，现在觉得那部分自我太可笑，到底什么正发生，它们是禁锢自由的铁链、等待绞刑的牢笼，而残酷在于对“不相关”的人而言，你让它发生，它才发生
看完又生气又想哭。男人真的没有一个好东西。反对堕胎和豆瓣短评里说反对婚前性行为的那位都有毛病，你反对你自己不要性行为就行了，凭什么限制别人。
电影本身或许并没有多出彩，可以说它平庸，但是无法否认的是——这个时代，正发生。这个时代女性仍旧没有自由选择生育的权利，在这个男权社会下，“生育”成为了“梦想”的对立面。女主在电影中说到：“因为这是只攻击女性的绝症，无差别地把所有人变成家庭主妇。”
是不是为了呼应那个年代而采用了4:3画幅？故事情节流畅，很女性向的电影，女主蛮漂亮的
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
生理上的疼痛是第一层，心理上的无助是第二层，社会上的冷漠是第三层。层层痛苦揭露了女性的脆弱
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