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".
focus在人和情緒上的寫法和拍法，很沉得住，準確的地方也不乏力道，那份踏實和成熟度還是令人覺得服氣的。唯一缺陷是配樂，像是直接拿了幾首罐頭鋼琴曲就擺到音軌上了
写到这里，我蓦地想到《兰亭集序》中一段话，虽意不相通，然情可共，附于此：“向之所欣，俯仰之间，已为陈迹，犹不能不以之兴怀，况修短随化，终期于尽！”
艺术的「政治性」再次被至高无上的「金狮」强调出来。事实上，赵婷只是被它选定的艺术家中的一个而已。如果《圣殇》是对宗教文明的重构，颇具争议的《小丑》是对城市文明的讽刺，那么《无依之地》就是欧洲知识分子给全人类指明的出路。这条路通往哪里？我们追随着一团流动的篝火最终来到《青山翠谷》里的教堂。但不要忘了，仁慈的父可是鼓励我们走出他的庇护：艺术家是浪子，宗教太沉闷，科学太枯燥，艺术家是水淋淋的浪子。然而这不是浪子回头，而是先有家，住腻了，浪出来，带足家产。不能太早做浪子，要在宗教、哲学里泡一泡。我相信科恩嫂的「家产」深厚而富足，但我不认为每一个无家可归之人都做好了奔赴《无依之地》的准备。在远征或者流亡之前，我们需要扪心自问的是：我们会不会和自己做朋友？我们能不能克服对于死亡的恐惧——与艺术称兄道弟。
本来以为奖项作品不是我的口味，看完很喜欢。哲学家柏林对我们的贡献之一是把自由分成两块，积极的自由（free to）跟消极的自由(free from），电影里看似逃离实则反叛，即能不被裹挟，又抵达成全各种自己想成为的自由。劳动本应该是人实现意义的选择，却被消费主义异化成通往奴役之路，只有下班后的生活才有片刻的自由（free from）。电影冷峻的描述了无产阶级精神层面难以被资本驯服的高亢。Being human means yearning for more than subsistance.As much as food or shelter,we require hope. | Hulu
The other side of America: conservative(?), crude but tender. 片子节奏非常舒服，最大限度去戏剧化，人物哪个阶段在干嘛都在不经意间，但又自然而然。确实是美国传统，自由即漂泊，自由永远在路上。
产业转移后失业的丧偶中老年人流浪般的床车/房车生活，到处打零工，很拮据。床车/房车生活，短期可能浪漫，无奈的长期生活就是凄惨。。
除电影本身而言，现在的Anti-Asian Hate运动/ First color Asian women 应该起到了一定的作用，不能说这没有“天时地利人和”的”运气” or 运气本事也是一种实力？
开着房车，沿途停靠，兼职取代全职，一路的风霜取代固定的屋檐，在回归游牧的生命之路，多少人背负着伤痛，在孤独中体味缺失的自由，如斯万基描述的悬崖边的燕子，融入自然成就了思想上的极大满足，人的不断前行，是不断的舍弃与丰满。
她灿若银河，她泯然人海，新年的一束烟花，山林的寂静回声，谁此时孤独便永远孤独，谁此时于路上，便永远于路上。
有太多可以说的东西了，流淌的画面里暗藏着巨大的属于一个中年女人的孤独的能量。应该推荐给56岁自驾游的阿姨看
故事足够有趣，很大程度可能是对这个群体猎奇般的窥探。看到一半一直找不到答案，贫穷并不是流浪最根本的原因，她一直都有选择。在影片最后和“Santa Klaus”的对话中我终于理解了，不禁泪流满面，see you down the road then!
向往自然主义生活方式的游牧者和大萧条下“无家可归”者的身份重叠道出了美国梦破碎后被抛弃群体的生存困境，赵婷用一种简单又重复的镜头记录下了他们始终游移在路上的复杂心境。这是一种受到主流偏见对待的文化，也是一份属于勇敢者的生活方式。有人认为他们在逃避，有人认为他们无路可逃，也有人认为他们信仰某种自然主义的生存模式。我喜欢赵婷所呈现的东西，尽管有时候镜头总是想摆向弗恩作为依靠。不过配乐一出来着实削减了影片的质感，有几处恍惚间像在观看美国国家公园的宣传片段。
生活显然是艰辛的，但依我看Fern大多时候并不痛苦。有的人一阵子在路上，而有的人注定一辈子都要在路上，我们只能路上见见…
生若蜉蝣，行如流水
不得不上路是哀伤也是倔强，强烈的主观情绪削弱了时间与事件的感知却也强化了行为认同，启用大量非职业演员加剧真实观感，带来颇具沉浸感的体验，可惜这种特质未能贯彻到底。
纪录片式影像、冷静的镜头、忧伤配乐，沉郁苍凉悲伤执着的格调，这是比较鲜明的感受。以公路片“在路上”与生命之旅呼应，包含逝世与新生，孤独与温暖，困境与相助，那些路途中我们曾相遇相知相依相伴相离的灵魂，刻骨铭心，积淀为黯然柔软脆弱、不可碰触的角落，选择远方的山峰荒漠草场放逐，期待伤口的愈合。。。弗兰西斯不用说话也具有极强的表现力。
不懂好在哪里…可能是思想的不一致，没有受过这种文化的熏陶，所以无法感知故事的震撼和感动…一个为爱不顾一切的女人，因为爱守护着丈夫的一切直到无法守候，一路寻找自己生命的意义，尿尿拉屎的镜头意义存在是为了呈现真实感吗？不懂…她是个试图冲破一切常规思维的女人，但是最终还是在常规中迷失……被吹捧的20分神作，被配乐拉到及格线，整部影片亮点只有配乐！
21_164。空旷的场所，对自己说新年快乐，带着与他的记忆一起，身外物都不重要，没有死的冲动，但也没有留下来的理由。
我倾向于把片名理解为No mad land，一切都是平静的，感伤的，甚至垂死的。弥漫在整个影片中的琐碎空镜头看似没有必要的剧情逻辑，却饱含情感逻辑，无法用理性归纳的判断与决绝；人生的微小闭环，却延绵至少半个生命。创作者的关怀基于美利坚大陆的社会边陲，又超出单一国别属性，直至人类内心的软肋——夫妻、父子、亲姊、故土、病症，那么多关系等着疲倦的人去处理，而路边的温暖无论如何坚实，都杯水车薪。无论如何，Fern们起码有云黛四横的沙漠、噼啪篝火、温柔敲门，我们呢？当命运不公，内心脆弱的时刻降临，有没有一片土地，一撮老灵魂、一辆雀小脏全的破车，载我们去坦荡未知呢？
对西部风景的浪漫化与对拮据生活残酷化都过于刻意，对人物的情感几乎没有进行挖掘，政治立场分裂，对工人社会团体极度怀疑却在生存问题上仰仗人的联结，如果说《骑士》提出了问题但没有给出解答，《无依之地》甚至没有提出问题
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