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".
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
看哭了。选择独处在别人眼里可能是偏执，但内心的孤独不足为外人道也。 -不是每个人都能抛下一切。-你确定我是抛下一切？
联想到阿克曼的《安娜的旅程》。区别在于阿克曼风格化的镜头语言下是非常现实主义的片子，而赵婷现实主义外表下的镜头和情节是非常浪漫主义，甚至带有乌托邦色彩的。It’s not a bad thing. I like this film and hope I can practice this kind of life myself one day.
自然主义生活流，淡淡哀伤，默默上路，最大特点就是没特点，比较舒服
心里有爱人，心里有家人，自己住在自己心房里，身处何地都可安定。
印象最深的就是那句，如果你要了解当地的生活，就去AA。
不觉得拍的有多好，能得奖只能说选题好，聚焦那些四处流浪的房车客，有年轻面孔也有老人，反正各有理由无法停留某个地方，表演感很突出清楚这是假的，但我知道这些人是存在的，能产生共情，我期待这题材能拍出更棒的影片
似乎是与生俱来的流浪，也是被回忆拉扯在了路上
没看出有什么特别的深意，只是一个寻常人的寻常故事吧
沒有說甚麼故事，但呈現了一個疏離卻容易產生共鳴的情緒狀態。/ May have marked the end of hippie era?
失业了怎么办？失去家庭了怎么办？还未老焦虑今后的人生怎么办？观影感受情绪起伏：担忧-暖意-悲哀-释然，资本与全球化带来的难题不是一个国家的问题，现实很裸露很残酷，大环境扑来了，能怎么办，只能靠人自我的强大生存意识继续活下去。I‘m just houseless，not homeless. 心即家，家在心，如果守不住房子，那么守住家，踏路而上，直至生命最后一刻。致渺小而伟大的自己。
中方，中国导演赵婷自幼受社会主义教育。在赴美留学期间关注美国中部底层人民的流浪生活，并拍出一部电影展现了这个受一辈子美元奴役终在晚年决定追逐自己心灵的特殊群体，揭露了资本主义残酷的社会现实。
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#
配乐太拉垮了。私以为最后一个镜头如果不要那辆车会更好。剪辑真棒，有得学。
期望过高，中国房车是富人的游戏，美国房车是穷人的家
EP.15-21 《那田蜘蛛山篇》
质量不错的，但是评价是不是过誉了？老年《天涯沦落女》➕失落的美国工业之歌。里面的原声音乐有时候挺多余的
这诗和你将千秋流芳
2022年，在曾经喧闹的上海居家33天，也是一种Nomadland
是部适合放假时安静去看的片子 有的人是Houseless被迫上路 有的人是厌倦城市而叛逆地远行 有的人在沿途寻找生命的意义 有的人看遍世间无常向死而生 很难说好坏 但这都是生活。集会时莎士比亚的诗 “狂风将五月的蓓蕾凋残 夏日的勾留何其短暂 休恋那丽日当空 转眼会云雾迷蒙 休叹那百花飘零 摧折于无常的天命 唯有你永恒的夏日常新 你的美貌亦毫发无损 死神也无缘将你幽禁 只要世间仍有人吟诵我的诗篇 这诗就将不朽 永葆你的芳颜” 在路上的人 唯有从生活中提炼些浪漫 才能抵抗沿途的寂寥
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