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".
2.7 看开头的时候觉得，美国人可真可怜啊（此处是跟欧洲人比，不是跟中国人比），女主和像女主一样的人真辛苦啊。可是看着看着，我的感觉就变了，我真的配同情女主吗？这很多在路上的人吃过苦不假，可是这种生活是他们找到的一种新的生活方式，又何尝不是一种快乐呢。我们和他们比，我们的生活就真的比他们的高端吗？非常妙的电影。
然而电影本身用诗意的镜头与配乐让流浪这个行为变成了某种天涯沦落而并不仅仅是窘迫，主角也没有自怨自艾强行加入令人反感的尴尬戏份，这就已经很好了。
生命是趟没有终点的旅程，不论我们选择走哪条路都没有对错之分，而生命的终极意义是摆脱无明找到真我。
自己把日子过好就完事了，没有必要去judge别人的生活方式。总觉得现在的一众“高新产业园”就是数字时代的恩派尔/东北工业区，成于需求也死于需求。Ps.workhorse还是可以做选择的，而韭菜只能被割……选词精准
“荒地上长着丁香 把回忆和欲望参合在一起”
没想到能从别人的豆瓣里打卡～
我拥抱更多的记忆，但陪伴我每天的只有那一份，一切看来那么实感的温暖都不是我可以拥有的。
以极度小资的方式呈现无产阶级，和《骑士》一样，所谓“自然主义”的外壳下，包裹的依旧是一个程式化的故事，但这部要矛盾得多。如果真是想要替真正的游牧者发声，那就应该以他们为主角，而不是让他们成为背景，让来体验生活的奥斯卡影后逮着一个就来一段鲁豫有约（唯一与主角发展出浪漫关系的“男主角”也是职业演员）；如果着重的是人物研究，那为何不多把视线从“站点”中挪开片刻，多拍一点“上路”的过程？
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。
赵婷并不像旁观者去触及一个未知的领域，她更像是一个游牧在美国西部的人间烟火，去以最高度的对任何生命的共情和敬畏，将自己融在那里。她影像所呈现的真实，就像电影中任何一个人物。在体验过人间的一切，更敢于为自己而活，即使这个过程也充满着未知，充满着痛楚，也充满着随遇而安的快感。可能是今年最佳了。。
Fern路过许多人的生命，不在一处逗留，但这样的奔波却是实际上一种怀念和停驻。有非常之多沉默的镜头，孤独空旷，没有表情，但诗意盎然。最初时候会想，Fern在这些时候都会想些什么呢？看到后面我放弃了这样的揣测，如同fern看着无人之处一样，只是这样看着她。
这部片里看到了很多很多其他电影、真实事件以及人物的影子，但又觉得略有不及，有一种窥探到某一特定群体的表面生活，浮光掠影的感觉，总体还是觉得不太够深刻
《无依之地》的跳跃性剪辑大约可见一种诗性，看似碎片化，反切出一种白描性自然主义。不仅是单单描绘西部美景，而是于一种边缘性的生活方式的探索，更为隽久地感受到永恒的怅然的自由，然后面对人生还是要继续下去。较之一路上遇到的那些石头、遥远的星辰、广阔无垠的荒野、盘绕的大树、一望无际的公路和终将废弃的工厂，你我都是过客。有一种鸟是停不下来的，旁人看来是偏执般的孤傲，熟不知她助人的善意，和念莎翁十四行诗时格外的温存。参差多态才是幸福之源，告别那些宏大叙事，孤独的人并不可耻。8.6
后崩盘时代，零工经济，被迫游牧。也与美国六十年代的嬉皮士文化进行对话，但与他们不同的是，那些中产阶级的孩子们是在模仿贫穷，而本片里的关键是“had to”，不得不离开，不得不上路。这不是“在路上”，而是迫于生计，可与《对不起，我们错过了你》结尾的卡车上路对话。从冬至冬，一年时间，周而复始，重回亚马逊打工，女主角拒绝了一切外力的帮助，她是“无法停下脚步的人”，导演依然进行了有限度的审美诗化。非职业演员表演出色。
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。
After Bob's death, Fern chose to stay, being houseless - "If I left, it'd be like he never existed," she said, "I couldn't pack up & move on".
一首关于孤独、哀愁与怀念的影像之诗，摄影、配乐、表演都堪称完美。活在路上，是绝大部分中国人无法想象更无法实现的生活方式。不是我们缺乏冒险精神，也不是我们天生恋家，只是这样的想法往往只在年轻时昙花一现，信仰的缺失让我们走到哪里都像是无依之地。
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？
See you down the road. 这也算是公路片吧，镜头风格好喜欢。孤独并伴随着孤独共生，不停下脚步，至少是我会愿意选择的生活方式。（和我娘一起看的，她看完就完全无感…毕竟只有我这样的性格会恨不得远离固定环境天天在路上
人不必相同地活着，也不必活当下。人可以只活在对过去的追思中与对未来重逢的期盼里，活在不得不将自己流放的路上。这种流动感，是他们灌注生命的方式，是他们得以喘息的通道。
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