UCLA college student Jonathan Moore (Anthony Edwards) is playing a game called "Gotcha" (popular on mid-1980s college campuses as "Assassin" or "Tag"), wherein the players are all assigned a mock "hit" on another player by use of a harmless paintball gun. Moore and his apartment roommate Manolo go on a vacation to Paris, France. After touring some of Paris, in a cafe Moore meets Sasha Banicek (Linda Fiorentino), a Czechoslovakian girl. Eventually, Jonathan has intercourse with Sasha, losing his virginity.
Jonathan decides to leave Manolo (who is heading to Spain) and go with Sasha to West Berlin to spend more time with her. Jonathan believes that he is in love with Sasha. There, Jonathan and Sasha continue to have sex and even go to an Oktoberfest beer gathering. One night, Sasha tells Jonathan that she has to go to East Berlin to pick up a package. One night after arriving in East Berlin, Sasha leaves their hotel room and walks to dark street corner. There, Sasha meets a German man who tells her the location of the pickup of her package. Meanwhile, Sasha was being monitored by a Soviet agent, who was sitting in a car at a distance. During the day, Sasha tells Jonathan that if she gives him a certain message, it means that he has to leave East Berlin immediately. At a cafe, Sasha gives Jonathan a package and says that a strudel is inside. A little later, Sasha tells Jonathan to meet her at the butcher shop near their hotel. All of a sudden, a Soviet agent begins to chase after Sasha. Sasha decides to use Jonathan (who is holding her package) to unknowingly get the package over to West Berlin. Meanwhile, Sasha is taken by the Soviet agent and East German secret police.
Jonathan goes to Checkpoint Charlie to cross the heavily fortified border into West Berlin. At the East German customs search, Jonathan is stripped of his clothes and given a cavity search. Meanwhile, Sasha is stripped and searched for possible espionage evidence. Vlad arrives at the border crossing to search for Jonathan, however Jonathan passes the border safely before he can be captured. Once in West Berlin, Jonathan feels liberated by the Westernized society. In the hotel, Jonathan receives a message from Sasha to meet him at a specified location. Jonathan finds out that his hotel room was broken into and robbed of his traveler's checks. Soviet agents eventually find Jonathan in West Berlin and chase him throughout a public park. Jonathan jumps into a water canal and manages to escape from the Soviets and stumbles upon a German rock group headed for Hamburg, who offer him a ride to the airport.
The rock group successfully get Jonathan to the airport (using full-face makeup to sneak him past a checkpoint) and Jonathan finally arrives in Los Angeles Tom Bradley International Airport and to his apartment. Soon, Vlad and a band of Soviet agents arrive too in Los Angeles. Once home, Jonathan stumbles upon a film canister, which was planted by Sasha. Jonathan visits his parents and tells them what happened in Germany but they cannot believe a word of it and think Jonathan is on drugs. Jonathan decides to call the FBI then the Central Intelligence Agency for help. Jonathan returns to find his apartment broken into and looted.
The CIA officer tells Jonathan to give them the photo film canister. At the Los Angeles headquarters of the CIA, Jonathan spots Sasha who looks like she was working there. Jonathan eventually meets up with Sasha. Sasha admits that she is Cheryl Brewster, a CIA agent, originally from Pittsburgh. Out of nowhere, Vlad and his gang begin to chase Jonathan and Cheryl on the UCLA campus. Jonathan eliminates all the Soviets with a tranquilizer gun which he gets from the campus veterinary sciences building. The Soviets are arrested, the CIA agents thank Jonathan for his (indirect) help in obtaining the film, and Sasha tells him she wants to continue their relationship.
After they part, Jonathan talks to a pretty student who rebuffs him coldly. As she walks away, he aims the tranquilizer pistol and shoots her in the rear.
走过荒野，一个人独庆新年。
家又是什么呢？家是你心里的地方，而不是任何一个实体所在（导演说的）
变老的一个标准是，不再遇见，逐渐告别。青年时，我们总是遇见新的，遇见新的朋友，遇见新的玩具，遇见新的车子，遇见新的景点，甚至包括幼儿时遇见新的父母；当我们中年时，我们总是逐渐替换，替换掉旧房子，旧车子，旧家具，与老朋友疏远而认识新的朋友；当我们老了，我们就逐渐开始告别，告别工作，告别长辈，告别驾驶技能，告别奔跑能力，甚至告别我们至亲之人，直到没有什么可以再告别的，最后我们与这个世界永别…
私认为配乐有些过满，冲淡了荒凉感，稀释了演员原本极好的情绪。
一位中年美国妇女如何走出丧夫孤地。赵婷对性格偏执的人物很痴迷，前作《骑士》中因骑马几乎弊命但仍不愿放弃的骑手，本片中沉沦丧夫阴影一直遇到脱离孤岛机会又屡次选择独自上路的女人。两片都是在“要不要放弃”的进退两难中纠结，最终都以找到心中答案而走出藩篱。人生是一场接一场的告别，但永远都不要说永别，只要在路上，总会在某个无依之地遇到最美的记忆。
4.对新自由的欲望的追求
不过台词中的说教意味有些浓，情节之间不是很连贯，导致看的时候并没有多少共鸣。
生命因奇遇而滚动
跟马力克比还是差了。比较出彩的部分是偏纪录片的一些片段，借了所谓的真实力量的光。那些所谓马力克式的镜头和剪辑、凝视镜头、科恩嫂的表演，都是按照独立电影的教科书拍法，靠着配乐制造情绪。
很轻盈。赶在奥斯卡颁奖之前看完，以此彰显自己很有品位（。
每一种生活方式
可能是由于电影中大部分角色都是真实的，这部电影又给了我一种半纪录片的感觉。我从未接触过这种houseless的生活，看完在震惊之后也只能失语。但我觉得最值得提到的一点是，导演在处理这些角色和情节时，并没有对他们或是社会作任何的道德批判，拍摄的镜头也多是平视（除了亚马逊，它实在是太大了）。它展示了这些“打工人”在被社会抛弃后的另一种可能，这也使得这部08年金融危机背景的电影，在现今的形势下有着特别的意义。
电影从头至尾的那种悲伤和执着深深打动着我，生命中那些来来去去的人们，不管去了哪里，不管是短暂的还是永远的，都记得在告别时说一句I'll see you down the road，总有一天会再相见，而那些一起经历的往事，或美好或残酷或悲伤，都会一直留在那片广阔无垠的天地里，永远都在。很爱本片的摄影！#NYFF58#
拍这种类型的片子创作者的精神状态真的非常重要呐。如果说在《骑士》中赵婷还有马力克的痕迹，在《无依之地》中，赵婷就是赵婷。一路的自由与浩瀚，与背负的隐痛交融，每个不得已上路的人，见过多少山河，又有多少故事无人倾诉。麦克多蒙德将这一复杂形象刻画得细致入微；这是一首昔日美国开拓精神的挽歌，是对每一个上路人的告慰。
沒有說甚麼故事，但呈現了一個疏離卻容易產生共鳴的情緒狀態。/ May have marked the end of hippie era?
越哥
镜头语言太美，科恩嫂表演也是真实到无可挑剔，连看了骑士和无依之后都开始期待永恒族了！当老无所依遇上我是布莱克，自然主义和反商业房产的力度很犀利
少小离家老大回， 乡音无改鬓毛衰。 为爱浪迹走天涯， 荒废小镇守空闺。 大部分人很难感同身受，与其说是观察到一群漂泊在外、与世无争的群体，不如说感受到更多的衷情、洒脱、果敢、自由、积极，following your heart. See you down the road. 个人体验：OST在最后略喧宾夺主，充盈得太满乃至于都要溢出来的感觉。
毫无疑问，它值得一看，甚至二刷。因为除开壮阔的风景，动人的配乐，真切的故事，利落的剪辑之外，很想多看几遍弄清楚它到底表达了哪些。贫穷？生活方式？追求与平静？抑或是人类这种高智商社会性动物已经彻底与自然对立了吗？另外，它也让我们实实在在体会到真实是如何震撼人心：影后已经演得那么棒了，但在真实人物面前却依然缺了几分力量。
"There's no final goodbye."
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