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".
那段Fern的结婚誓言里的诗好美（莎士比亚十四行诗第十八首），风景色调自然好看。
状态电影......生活方式电影能拍成这样相当不错了......配乐（配器）略俗气.....看到一半，科嫂突然喊Happy New Year~ 相当应景了~
导演视角、演员表演、角色困境融为一体，看似荒野中四顾茫然的人生，但每一程都使“人”的力量加增一分。
走过荒野，一个人独庆新年。
赵婷胜在剧本轻描淡写，用镜头进行角色研究，无论是将人物置于不同环境中，从亚马逊巨型工厂到广阔无垠的草原，还是捕捉麦克多蒙德充满表达和感染力的脸庞。
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。
★★★★★ 每一秒都太喜欢了。背负着各自的故事与伤痛、脆弱又坚强的人们一个个相遇又分别的故事。年纪越大越能明白这样的道理。see you down the road是最好的迎接与道别。
4-4.5，多给麦克多蒙德一星。「Home is just a word, or is it something you carry within you.」开头这句台词可能已经代表了全部。很奇妙地，我想到的是最近美国的辞职潮、三和大神、字节的CQC以及最近几年投资颇多的「零工经济」方向。当然这类问题可能很难得出什么「答案」甚至没有答案，但审视本身，可能也有存在的价值。
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走过荒野，一个人独庆新年。
何止是流浪，在都市里独居，举目无亲的孤独感在钢铁丛林里蔓延，每到深夜都想尝试放纵自己，用感官的刺激来弥合精神上的空虚。
太有同感了。生命该是流动的，我却困住了。等待一个可以任由思绪松弛下来的时刻。需要一段时间什么都不做，准确地说还是要干点儿什么，就是思考。
万事几时足，日月自西东。无穷宇宙，人是一粟太仓中。
了不起，镜头和人物情绪都特流畅，看得出来赵婷视听语言还是相当老到的，就是匠气有点重，看到后面某些地方还是太矫揉造作，真正想登堂入室还少了点个人风格，当然，这不妨碍无依之地仍然是一部优秀的在路上电影。
年轻时是冇脚雀仔，年迈后入无依之地，所有的意义答案终究只在路上，足迹只可印在未来。
谈不上喜欢。散、压抑。在路上是逃避，而其实人生最难的是面对，以及 放下。
对比那些从自身经历拍出自己早起作品的导演，赵婷的电影乍一看似乎没什么过多的她过去的痕迹，然而等真的看完这部电影，却感到从头至尾都是她这些年来的走过的飘摇如浮萍的人生经历的呈现，她优越就优越在她从中提炼出的普世性的东西远远超越了民族性和个体性，四处斩获好评正是因为共鸣跨越国界；虽然仍存有些相对年轻导演的拘谨，但全片的气质与配乐一样，忧伤而平静如水的钢琴声，无家可归与无房可归是两回事，哪怕有温暖的床铺与家人，有些前行重新上路却是没有选择的，最飙泪的是这一路上多少说出口的和无声的再见啊，可他还是认为再见不是诀别，我们会在路上重逢，本来还觉得导演不够决绝残酷，此句一出，真是悲伤心碎到底了 | 越来越觉得规定要带口罩观影挺好的，正好可以兜住我的眼泪呜呜
每个人其实都在路上，只不过如果走累了，有人有心之所归之处，有人则没有……宁愿用万能胶重新粘起破掉的碟子也不愿丢弃，宁愿跟妹妹借钱也要用两千多块去修好只剩下五千元价值的房车，割舍不了的是她心里一个她与深爱的亡夫住了大半辈子而终将在经济体系下被淘汰遗忘的地方。割舍留在家乡仓库里的东西，也许是断舍离的开始，她会一直在路上直到她心伤口得以愈合，直到重新有了心之所归之地，抑或是再也没有力气继续在路上……
美方，华裔导演女赵婷虽出自中国精英家庭，但其电影才华仍在中国难以施展。来到美国更自由的环境后，创作出了金狮奥斯卡级别的作品。无论种族性别，只要有理想才华总能在美国施展。
赵婷胜在剧本轻描淡写，用镜头进行角色研究，无论是将人物置于不同环境中，从亚马逊巨型工厂到广阔无垠的草原，还是捕捉麦克多蒙德充满表达和感染力的脸庞。
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