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".
“谁此时没有房子，就不必建造，谁此时孤独，就永远孤独。”路上的那种孤寂感想起了里尔克这句诗以及亚历山大-佩恩的《内布拉斯加》。
夏天匆匆离去毫不停顿
景觀、光線與視聽之美讓我流淚，文本與對白的虛假無力一再將沉浸的我硬生生拉扯出來。
整体挺chill out，通俗版Terrence Malick能成新一代的鸡汤配方倒是没想到。
一部充满感情的了不起作品，许多美好的东西汇集于此：美国精神中伟大的游民传统与坚厚的家庭伦理，中国古代的、魏晋式的兴尽而返和倒履相迎，Instagram式的、充满道路、海洋、悬崖和车厢的#vanlife影像，冰岛式的、Amiina或Múm般的音乐，还有神龙士力架式的当代奇观土味与令其道德化的悲悯人情。这些古今中外网上网下的情感点，荟聚在一个华裔移民、重组家庭中成长的赵婷身上，凝练成结尾出现的一句题献：给那些离开的人。批评点也是明显的，就是其中以精致影像呈现出的某些粗俗，顺着刚才的话继续往下说就是“仿生赵婷会梦见神龙士力架吗”，但这种东西见仁见智，我觉得一尘不染的高雅算不上什么有品位的事情，恰到好处刹住的粗俗足以保持甚至提升水准线。索尔斯克亚曾回追50米只为把对方前锋从背后铲倒，但这不影响索尔斯克亚是一位始终优雅的球员。
3-2 等不到电影院上映了，所以直接下载看了（结果后来导演又被cancel）。看完之后才后知后觉电影的余味，就真的是无依无靠到处流浪，年老力衰没有金钱，子女也在他们自己的世界里好好生活着。
拒绝港湾，回到最初梦碎的地方，然后再转身继续走下去。真正的公路片。
大量固定镜头，大量空镜，类纪录片模式，精简的对白，偏严肃题材。这几项元素堆积，让观影难度陡然提升，隔了好几次才看完。表面是反资本主义的现实议题，实则空洞无味，如高级版郭敬明一样感叹金钱魔力罢了。
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#
亲爱的，我们也并不是朝着甜蜜走去，而是向着永恒。
赵婷的电影确实在一定程度上打碎了近十年来流行文化对于young wild American时代的庸俗想象，引入的萧条、阶级视角也几乎是独异的。但是我稍不满的是刻意强调主人公受文学影响的一面，而且画面配音乐的抒情方式也用得过多而显得偷懒了。印象深刻的是一幕背景音和现实吉他弹唱交叠覆盖的场景，断续的弦乐有一种超拔的视角。
感觉主角的设定有很多不可推敲之处，查了下果然是原著书中没有的人物。这种无父无母无孩无产的设定，给了电影某种“自由”，却也造成了遗憾？
3.5星吧。感觉有点碎。最打动我的竟然是最后的一句“See you down the road."
电影是很主观的，如果说很喜欢的人是因为看到了自由和追求，那我只能看到孤独和悲伤…
电影是很主观的，如果说很喜欢的人是因为看到了自由和追求，那我只能看到孤独和悲伤…
与《骑士》一样赵婷这次把镜头再次对准了边缘人群，绝妙的摄影与音乐搭配上主演精湛的演技，讲述了一个孤独的流浪者的精神之旅，是表演、音乐、摄影的盛宴。我们能感受到主角在精神上的患得患失，在流浪途中的精神变化，利用音乐表达情绪。但赵婷还是与之前一样用了一种极度浪漫化的方式粉饰穷人流浪漂泊这一脑残行为，颇有些迎合都市中产阶级趣味的味道在里面。与此同时还不时讲一些听上去很有道理的心灵鸡汤，这也是一种迎合。这部电影把镜头对准了社会底层，没有什么批判，反而大加粉饰，“他们虽然没有家，但是互帮互助，乐在其中，至少他们有自由”，我认为这是在吃社会底层的人血馒头。
有段时间没看这么丧的电影了，每次看这种电影，总觉得这个世界就只剩下这些，一个孤独的人，一个悲伤的故事，有时候看美国的这些电影，就觉得他是一个孩子，把小时候的各种可能都实现了，既然结果并不是我们预料的那样美好，而我们中国人就成熟得很像一个大人，做很多事儿都会思考很多，可从某一个方面来说，又觉得这是一种前卫和保守的差别，只要当事人不觉得有对错和好坏之分，那他就只是一种生活方式而已
观影其实是很私密化的体验，如果它能够让我relate，那么对于我来说就是一部好电影。《无依之地》前面1小时20分钟我都是跟在大片留白的剧情后面，偶尔被细节或台词触动，而从Fern离开Dave家的那一刻开始，我开始和她一起上路了。一个人吹着海风，和路上遇到的朋友聊过往，走向未知，孤独但自由。We don’t settle. See you down the road.
女主说出新年快乐的时候真是感觉2021年的第一天看到这样的电影真美好。
她的无助、孤独，都随着内心对大自然的吸收而逐渐消散，即使同住的人不在了，依旧能回到最初的平静和幸福。赵婷，不简单。
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