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".
金球奖落下帷幕，无依之地成为最大赢家，除了斩获最佳剧情电影，赵婷也获得了最佳导演……在我看，这部电影足以和Charles Chaplin的《Modern Times》比肩，都是在讲经济大萧条之下的人性光辉大爱无言。弗朗西斯-麦克多蒙德和“漂泊者”之间的互助就像Chaplin和孤女，彼此帮扶亲密无间，并且全部都坚信希望之光就在眼前。奥斯卡影后沧桑的面容很富有年代感，她追逐着季节更换工作频繁，与《Modern Times》的Chaplin异曲同工即便相隔近百年！
两个人撑起来的电影，赵婷作为导演编剧剪辑，将极具个人特质的气息带入，使电影整体保持一种淡然的简洁，有点与自然融为一体的感觉，从摄影、谈话、画面等；麦克多蒙德则用自己的演技完美诠释了这样一位孤独流浪的主角。电影气质有点天人合一的味道，很喜欢最后一幕，即使身处泥泞，历经坎坷，依然选择放下，保持向前。真的很佩服赵婷。
豆瓣标签回来了！补标！很好看的一部戏，想起一句说话，叫做“此心安处是吾乡”。真正的家是不仅仅是一个有瓦遮头的地方，也是安放我们心灵的地方。我觉得《无依之地》既反映了赵婷的世界观，也符合近代美国开拓西部的精神。主角不断地在流浪，在寻找自己的答案。我们的答案又是什么？我觉得这个问题也许连我们自身都不清楚，有些人平平淡淡过了一生，有些人没有到我这个年纪已经撒手人寰。也许我们应该做的，就是不断前进，不断认识自己，不断寻找自己的答案。 / 2022.4.21 家
现代吉普赛的自我修养:失去，孤独，旅途，上路。
延续了《骑士》的自然主义，但在文本上更精巧细致了，影像上能看出想呈现一种被迫迁徙的荒凉感，但大风光加煽情配乐又让情绪的流动没那么自然了，感觉赵婷在选材上的能力是强于影像表现力的，现在的定位还是少了些个人特色。
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。）
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。
从标题到剪辑，气质很统一。有点像海边的曼彻斯特。人们总认为不论生活是什么样，人都应该向前看。其实不是所有人都可以做到，也不是所有人都认为有必要。
我记得看的时候有些害怕，好像看到了未来的自己。但同时也意识到自己并不具备如此活下来的技能。
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这片透出来的悲伤和海边的曼彻斯特有点像，而我更能看懂后者的悲伤。说不上太喜欢，但挺遗憾因为愚蠢的原因而不能在国内上映。每年都有大量制作精良、远不如这部优秀，但也颇有亮点的电影上映，而我们在电影院却只能看那三两部密钥延长一次又一次档期长达两三个月的不断刷新世界影史票房纪录的国内片，以及部分已经上映十几年、政治上正确、又已经得到市场检验的国外片，更让人遗憾。从书本以及电影里了解到的美国人，注重与他人的联系似乎更甚于所谓集体主义的中国人，他们甚至不能独自打保龄。
@ L'Epée de bois 刚好一个多月没去电影院了 电影院观感加一分
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北方一片苍茫。没有之前想象的那般凄凉，也并非纯然“无依”，反而时不时恍惚，似乎自己也存在某种可能进入如此生活轨迹，以前阅读《在路上》，以及在青海教书，在大西北搭车的时光，某些感受，似乎也穿插浮现。其实只要一个轻轻的转身，我们就可能过着完全不同的生活。而他们的在路上，并非无依，而是必须上路。。。ps，最近在读《扫地出门》，pss，父子弹钢琴的画面，太动人。
There's no final goodbye. I'll see you down the road.
流浪者之歌，听见了诗看见了光，经历过风霜雨露，无需太多感伤，也不需要抒情，懂得人自然会懂
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
赵婷大概也是那种不得不上路的人吧。鼓励五星，几乎没有废戏，应该是李安的《断臂山》以来最好的华人导演的好莱坞电影。表面上是一部寻找心灵治愈归宿的荒野生存式公路片，背后却是一曲美式资本主义的挽歌。就像亚马逊这种怪兽级别的互联网科技企业，未来对底层劳动者生存空间的挤压，肯定不是靠着喊喊民主自由的口号就能解决的。
这是一个关于永生的科幻寓言，也是一个关于“我”的哲学拷问。导演带着对克隆科技的伦理思考，抛出了许多问题，除了对克隆的反思，电影更深层次的母题依然是爱，当人面临纷繁复杂的纠结时，唯有对周遭的爱，能指引我们做出正确的抉择。曾经斩获奥斯卡最佳男配角的Ali一人分饰两角，演绎了两个大体相同却又有着微妙差异的人物，他不露声色的演绎，将本体和副本间相爱相杀式的复杂关系和情绪诠释得自然到位，让人忍不住置身于Cameron和Jack的角度去尝试抉择。这部电影的整体观感很苹果，不管是故事讲述还是场景设计，极尽简约的科技感。只是有一点不理解，既然科技发展都进步到可以完成基因修复和记忆复制的克隆了，为啥还治不了男主的病？最后，四星推荐。
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