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".
资本可以随意流动，但劳动力就其自然属性则很难，流动的劳动力成了现代的nomad；但他们又并非游牧民，游牧民有自己的社会组织、生产资料以应对风险，现代nomad则与生产资料分离，除了为生活所需的少量组织（清扫垃圾、实物交换、娱乐……）他们只是出卖劳动力路上偶然相遇的个体。某些自然景观、无人荒野的镜头让我联想：如果是马利克大湿+卢贝斯基会怎么拍
生活的写实如达内兄弟，表达诗意的时候像马力克，稀松平常的记述仿佛看到《昨日欢愉》的影子……这部电影的影像风格在其他电影里都见过，没有特别之处，导演好像只是把他们恰到好处地融合了起来，看不出痕迹，像水一样。
美式空巢老人和下岗职工所有困苦人们的飘零生活，没钱又没人，尽是满目疮痍和一边无际的寂寞。只能靠着逝去的美好记忆过活，带着伤痛孤身一人四海为家浪迹天涯。在全球拿下88个奖项和60项提名。导演赵婷扒开浮华看本质，科恩嫂的演技让影片比《骑士》升级不少。致那些不得不上路的海燕们。7.5
其实本质上，关注和表达视角挺中国人的。想起了当初进藏路上的一些驴友们，还有朋友圈的“职业旅行者”。在路上，对有些人是体验人生的一种方式和一个阶段，对有些人则是内心疗愈的不能停止的精神药剂。
能否把你比作夏日璀璨
影片最后的字幕：献给那些无法停下脚步的人，我们路上再见~
每天都是未知
It's like I want to go through that time and have the feelings you gave me
这种淡淡的风格挺治愈的，走在路上,看到后面却有开始怀疑，这是一种逃避还是救赎，不是被美化的西部牛仔，而是社会性的放逐，被社会放弃的那些人，我们该怎么办，导演发现了问题用美化的滤镜展现给大家，但是化脓的伤疤不会成为金色的勋章
身体和心灵
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。
不知道為什麼想到逆光那兩句歌詞。離開釋懷很短暫又重來。吾心安處是吾家，人生後半程孑然一身的在大山大海中找一個parking place，看似淒涼的context但不給予評價。如此嫻熟的調度與情緒克制的演出，好電影。
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。
赵婷导演非常稳啊，完成度相当高，影像很扎实。这电影手法现代，也很美国。前半段很碎的剪辑，节奏拉快，夹杂着动人心魄的自然长镜头，能看到一些泰伦斯马力克，后半段慢下来，其实总体社会议题谈的不多，更多还是对人精神、情感层面的探讨和挖掘，诸如生活的意义，人生选择（人是本性和环境的混合产物，环境、人生际遇发生骤变，有人回避，有人妥协，有人直面，有人遵从本心），何处才是我们真正的归宿。科恩嫂表演绝对一流。配乐确实铺的略满，基调上苍凉感可能不够。看好夺奥斯卡BP或directing ！
游牧之行，无依的心；翻山越岭的迁徙，不过是内心的一场放逐。视角虚实难分，风情画式影像用旅途的不易映衬着心灵的苦修，将其视作解谜或解脱似乎都并不影响它若有似无的社会性；阶级与落寞在一切的最终都形成了忧伤的通感，意韵凄苦却坦荡、悠远而迷人。
流浪的人，何以为家。有些人确实不得不上路。。
看着还是纪录片的手法和拍摄方法，画面不那么好看，老头老太太也不讨喜，估计应该是题材还算新颖。
講的是遊牧，演的是徘徊，徘徊在回憶裡的遊魂，究竟是能逃到哪裡去啊去？
这部片子反映了美国的衰落？不，这部片子宣扬了美国的自由
少小离家老大回， 乡音无改鬓毛衰。 为爱浪迹走天涯， 荒废小镇守空闺。 大部分人很难感同身受，与其说是观察到一群漂泊在外、与世无争的群体，不如说感受到更多的衷情、洒脱、果敢、自由、积极，following your heart. See you down the road. 个人体验：OST在最后略喧宾夺主，充盈得太满乃至于都要溢出来的感觉。
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