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".
实在是无聊至极！电影就像一个口水电影一般！典型的一个大号小品！前一秒埋包袱，下一秒就翻！
相较之下，《四月三周两天》强不少，一切都太稳了，甚至有些刻意。
扑面而来的生理疼痛感和精神压迫感，极其写实的女性生育困境，对身体权益的无声呐喊。
以视觉疼痛为主导的女性主体意识爆发。女性因天生生理因素限制在两性关系里总是被迫承受更多，合理支配自己身体是每个女性天然拥有的权利，千百年来却要在男权制定的规则下不断抗争与呐喊。双重语境→正发生，无论过去还是现在这样的故事依旧在不同国家、地区、种族不断上演，结合最近的X县社会热闻来看实在讽刺不已。
7.5/10。①意外怀孕的女主在禁堕胎的1960s法国费尽各种努力想堕胎（中途学业和生活质量都严重下降），最终成功堕胎回归生活。②焦抑、紧张、动荡的氛围的营造：大量（大）特写和长焦镜头（后者通过「虚化」与「缩小人物间距离」营造了疏离与逼仄的氛围）；塞满人物的构图；手持；4:3窄画幅；少配乐。③几段堕胎手术戏女主表演地很好。④摄影美术都太中规中矩没起到多少烘托情绪的作用；很多（不是全部，有些增强了浸入感）地方的长镜头调度都缺乏影像意义（是为了写实还是为了什么？也许剪碎点会更有动荡感）。
但凡女子，同一命运。
怀孕成了不可言说的疾病，伴随而来的是不合常理的性羞辱和道德审视，体制的封闭和社会环境的冷漠拍得没有《四月三周两天》来得深刻，但这种针对女性的“疾病”即便是最直白简单的勾勒也足以让人心惊胆战。
人物反复踟蹰思忖的状态是真实，镜头直接对准受难的身体之视角也是真实。
时代背景好震惊，我只知道二战期间法国堕胎是违法的，没想到居然持续到了六十年代。对电影探讨的议题只觉得心累，已经没有更多想说的了
为所爱之人而死为天下苍生而死，永远能戳我😭
直接的可怕，主题跟之前一些作品类似，没什么出彩的，大招在最后。特写跟拍，完全聚焦个人情绪，痛感伴随着无助，永远无法经历的伤痛，是女人不该得的“病”，却是这个社会的病
疼。不单单是视觉维度通过画面传导的“共情”的疼，还有由影像调拨其他感官所造成的拟态的疼。三场戏中，这种钻心的疼痛感不断从边缘推移至中心，由掩盖着的表情-声音描述到最后的直视血腥，紧张与不安逐渐被幽暗的环境、糟糕的基调挤向高潮，再于最后的一片白幕中被瓦解。可悲的是，虽然是那个时候「正发生」的痛苦，在如今这个渣滓泛滥的年代，我们也无法不怀疑它不会「再发生」，甚至愈演愈烈。
过去曾发生的，正在发生的，未来也将发生的事情，某种只针对女性的伤害，因为时代的变迁而转换了模样，却恒久存在着。
情绪电影，不同于《四月三周两天》直指国家和男权，《正发生》注重临场感，让观众与女主一起感受到切肤之痛。过去，现在，未来，正发生。
将铁签伸进那一段是遮住眼睛看的 作为女性 看到生理疼
影片聚焦的矛盾是极端个人主义与极端集体主义之间的激烈碰撞。最大的争议点在于，作为一个「母体」空间，我们该把阶梯教室里《正发生》的悲剧视为个体性悲剧，还是当作集体性悲剧。如何认定？谁来认定？教授的「标准」答案是其中一个尺度，女主和她的同学分别给出了两种同等残酷的标准：爱情的特殊普遍性，即「阶级」跃迁，和做爱的普遍特殊性，即「挂科」劝退。幸与不幸，在「大部分医生都反对堕胎」的年代，女主坐在了「政治」正确的对立面，并于当下成为了「政治」正确的代言人。显然，这个引起生理和心理严重不适的决定她是在理性加持的非理性状态下作出的，即在爱情语境下将政治的文学性与文学的政治性统一了起来。为此，对于「反复」做爱的人而言，这是痛并快乐的「清除」手术；对于怀孕的人来说，这是需要承担风险和独自承受痛苦的「分娩」过程。
背景在1968年之前但事实上很少能感受到时间壁，着重表现女性身份的感受反应处境所思所想与当代观众仍有共时性的共鸣，这种设计表现了女性处境相较于社会变化的静止状态。我觉得这也是电影名的由来。
“正发生”是现在进行时，从女性生理上的疼痛去理解女性。
*女主对于堕胎这件事从头到尾就是很坚决、没有一丝犹豫，自己的人生要自己主宰，去他妈的宗教和政治，不保护人权的宗教和政治都不是好的宗教和政治
相似的故事60年后仍在发生，子宫仿佛不是长在女人身上。还是喜欢这种短小精悍没有多余东西的风格。
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