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".
挺有圣丹斯气质的电影 非常贴合川普、次贷危机、被抛弃的边缘白人等等时代热门议题 还挺theAtlantic 影像语言我倒是挺喜欢的 诗化的neo-nomand 从更authentic、贴近其本意的视角去呈现 游牧民族本身有重自由、轻物质的特点 本片的方法让人感觉这也是一种可以接受的生活
赵婷仍以氛围见长。原来除了女主角人人都在演自己！印象最深的是那个癌细胞蔓延到脑部而继续在路上的蓝眼睛老妇——她眼珠的颜色、满脸皱纹的胖大体型和面容，竟然令我想起晚年的尤瑟纳尔——她还要去阿拉斯加，不要到医院里等死。（回到同一影院[Landmark on Embarcadero]看的，上次还是《然后我们跳了舞》，一年有余了。）
We all die alone, but it's ok, cuz I'll see you down the road, dad.
这不是《海边的曼彻斯特》里丧偶后的生活孤独，也不是《德州巴黎》中要逃离社会的心灵孤独。这种一种最接近灵魂本质，人类在这个自然宇宙中孤独，是一种不存在任何社会符号，不能用任何语言文字所形容的永恒的孤独。女性天生比男生更接近自然，这才是女性电影人最具感染力的影像传递力量。她和李安没有可比性，而是在泰伦斯马利克的基础上的更进一步。（配乐差强人意，影像风格略显跳跃，但比起骑士已经是个很大的飞跃。）
【2021年CHI选五星1/50】我在这里感受到了生与死的共鸣，生，是件愉悦且归属的开始，死，是不必悲伤但定会永恒的再始。我们出生的那一天，脱离母胎其实就是无依可归，我们的灵魂自由而美丽，去变幻出许多种可能，这种可能是就像现在看到这部作品，看到有艺术家能拍摄到自然的美景加以情境和电影叙事呈现到观众，也有可能是女主费恩的主流群体之外的游牧生活，更有可能是导演赵婷本人，再有可能是有幸爱电影的我们能看到成千上万的艺术电影。观看中被自然宇宙中的辽阔无垠和人间之情两者间巧妙的心灵连接打动潸然泪下，人物完美的纪实化、诗意揉化纪实中的苦、对被逐渐消失的小镇的边缘人群演绎一段“流浪者的浪漫”故事。
虽然和克隆和个体之间达成了和解，也和自己和解，但是就算有百分之九十九的相似，也有一些细微的改变，比如爱狗变成怕狗，更多的还有什么都是未知的，甚至一些我们自己都不知道的，就是有这些存在，才让个体独特，所以再像也不是那个人了。
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。
我好像有点理解了她，当我独自在越南生活时。
So, hold out your right hand and look at a star. Because there are atoms from stars that blew up eons ago that landed on this planet, and now they're in your hand.
纯正的美国电影，美国现象，白人视角，所以与亚裔何干？与亚洲人何干？与中国人何干？
影像技术非常好，但是对故事重心走向感到失望，我不能满意呈现出超大型资本世界下零工生活、和被宛如火山灰覆盖的废旧工厂同时，出于对个人悲辛叙事的着迷，把原子化的老年困境拍成带上一层田园牧歌滤镜的选择。不过看到科恩嫂在清泉中裸体平躺独对天地，看到与性无关的衰老女性身体，清洁，一无所有，对那种孤独有所触动，在那一幕流下眼泪。
现代吉普赛的自我修养:失去，孤独，旅途，上路。
9分，广袤的世界，渺小的个体，怆然之情油然而生。无论是偌大的房子，还是不起眼的房车，只要天地间有一处心之所归的地方，那就是家。每一个上路的个体都是自立的，他们见过太多经历太多，用一种随心的方式继续生活着，而每一个上路的个体也是孤独的，他们背负着自己的伤痛，勇敢而怀揣希望地走在路上。
剪辑还蛮有灵气的，风景和配乐都不错，只是剧情推动和一些关键点的设定稍显刻意，后半部分不如前半部分好。
意想不到的治愈，本来以为是批判社会的电影，原来是诉说人生无奈的。看到IMDB上有很多人打差评是因为一，它美化了nomad的生活，没有尖锐地揭露美国社会的黑暗现实：这个是我本来的预期，但现在更好，因为每一个人物都太鲜活了，他们的故事很打动我，让我感受到了人的独特价值。他们并不是为了一个社会议题而存在，而是为了自己而存在；二，没有故事，像纪录片：这对我来说是优点。看的时候觉得时间变长了，听到一个人的故事就仿佛也看了那么长的一生，我不禁哀人生之须臾。了解到赵婷编剧剪辑导演集一身，让我想起我也曾三职在身拍了部动保基地纪录片，筹了三万多块钱。虽然辛苦，但当我在Premiere配片尾，在导演剪辑编剧下写我的名字的时候真的很骄傲。赵婷真榜样，希望她获奥斯卡。
不知道这个片在国内能撑多久 很久前我献血时就看过了这个片 觉得还不错 至少这是我的菜 叙事在后端有点散漫 不过音乐和感情真的是一流的
之前看过，忘记评价。为防止以后消失，先给个五星。我真的很喜欢这部电影。寂寥的荒原，没有目的地的旅途，有一种莫名的情绪抚慰作用。看完后我真的觉得焦虑的心平静下来了。看完想起了艾略特的《荒原》：爱尔兰的小孩，你在哪里逗留？那一段。说出来不怕您笑话，此前一直很抗拒开车，看完第一次开始考虑考驾照，甚至都开始搜索房车了。估计会成为我最喜欢的、会反复看的电影之一。
镜头写实，人物表演也自然，全片都在传达悲伤和思念的情绪，就是没有能让观众记住的段落。
1，有纪录片风格。2，是疗愈电影。3，相当于美国版的《天水围的日与夜》，渐渐揭开整个人或家庭的真实情况，暗中情感激荡，却不给你发泄的出口。4，是个公路电影。5，探讨了生死，和《一天》结尾部分一样，还是疗愈。6，貌似公路电影都是疗愈的。7，没有一个台词和画面是无用的，全部细节都是伏笔，在后半段一个个呈现。二刷的时候，一开始就会有2个感动点扑面而来，真的是细节控。8，缺点也是一样，太完美了，每一个坑都完美的填上了，甚至刻意而为之。谁会记得几个月前送你一个打火机的路人？9，《大佛普拉斯》并不需要交代的那么清楚，却依然震撼。留白其实也是一种完美。10，细节伏笔：全部细节都是在出现后才交代，让观众恍然大悟，犹如画卷，一步步揭开她完整的人生和性格特点，非常值得二刷。11，鲁多维科·伊诺第的钢琴曲作品。
非常喜欢，色调和镜头都太美了。有一种深沉的悲伤。
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