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".
但这诗意绝非她追求的东西。当诗意成为一种生存要件，奔波生活的人又何谈风月呢？
喜欢。看完理解了这个片名。过度解读会变得无聊，只是看，就好了。想学车了，需要有一段这样真正自由的人生
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出走半生，一次次上路，逃离熟悉的一切人与物，无非是想要逃向寒荒，放逐心里那个始终滋生蔓延的伤口。失去你，家园湮废，幸福也变得可有可无。张开右手，望向星空，来自千万年前宇宙爆炸的微尘，如今落入了你的手中。而你在哪儿呢，在我已经离开的苍茫旷野中吗？还是在我即将抵达的渊崖巨浪中？无尽轮回里，你我的生命又是什么呢。继续上路吧，为了再一次相遇。如果这一生不能，那就到下一世里久别重逢。
看到最后才理解这部电影为何能得奖，因为电影院会有更强的体验感，和女主角一起体验游民式的生活，摄影和配乐完美。但由于非影院的观感，没有那么强的沉浸感，反而为了强化体验而弱化的背后的社会问题，成了更主要的关注点
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3.5星。和前一部《骑士》采用类似的策略，选取一个核心人物，透过其视点去观察周边环境和人物，可惜这次是一个虚构的人物，难度有所增加。既要保持人物的自发性，又要不经意地制造些许戏剧化情节。纪录混合虚构的拍摄方式在此用得并不理想，前半段女主角和真实人物同场时有掩饰不住的尴尬意味，后半段聚焦在女主角身上的故事似乎好一些。观众未必能理解每一个游牧者的真正心态，但是赵婷镜头下这个虚构人物令我信服。并不仅仅是经济危机，更多是对至亲的眷恋和回忆导致她走上游牧生活。于是后半段的重心转为角色如何学会告别，如何化解心中的执念，从此展开另一种新生活。
Ali演的是没话说了，风景和装修也美得很。就是这故事是不是略弱。。。当然，是个很精致的小品了！
人不至于绝望到死，因为有条退路，还可以去开RV，我说我想隐居，但却有不得不停留在一处生活下去的理由，我要和世界告别似乎还有些远，也许偶尔随处游牧随波逐流断了线迷了路失了方向，但有些人生活早已成了黑洞，吸走了一切光和热，他们不得不上路，心静自然凉。赵婷让国人知道，我们不缺好导演，缺的是宽容的环境。出字幕前最后一段旋律莫名让我想起了《在人间》：会有柏林墙出不去，一生与苦难做邻居，伟大时光已夺走你什么，在人间有谁活着不像是一茬炼狱，我不哭我已经没有尊严能放弃。
题材好感，比预想的好，虽然过于精致还有烂俗配乐，但这类故事只要不说教不自作多情就不会令人厌烦（反面典型《冰山的阴影》），我只是喜欢那句是houseless不是homeless罢了
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。
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游牧心灵对家是如何认识的，它仅仅需要占据心灵的空间吗？穿梭，零工，告别。几段配乐非常精致，好听，感动，但也消解了一些纪录片式的力量。剧情片中的纪录片语言，也是一定程度的突破。
3.5，面前旷荡广袤的，不是无依之地，而就是人生啊。核心提取出来也蛮鸡汤的，刚开始还以为是比较严肃的社会议题，后半段一路滑到了“和爱的人总会遇见”这个调性，重回工厂也变成了抒情段落，就还挺奇怪的。可能会朝迈克·李的方向发展？
车厢里，荒野上，工厂车间，温馨家庭，每个空间的感觉和作用都拍得好清晰。选择“石头”来代表这些houseless的人也很贴切玩味。
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。。
孤帆远影碧空尽，唯见長江天际流……以前不大明白這两句，昨下午看了這片（赶热闹）算明了一點……人生長恨路長在……
片子真好～幸亏我看了～
美国广袤粗犷的景色，真是冷峻。
前一个小时觉得此片不过是技术上相对于《骑士》更成熟了，剪辑更优秀，有些画面快刀斩乱麻的舒爽。后一个小时渐入佳境。
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