While surveying a telegraph line in 1861, Western Union engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger) is severely injured in an accident. He is discovered by Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), an outlaw on the run from a posse. Forced to travel on foot after his horse was hurt, Shaw at first considers stealing Creighton's horse, but changes his mind and takes the man with him, saving his life.
Sometime later, following his recovery, Creighton returns to Omaha, Nebraska and plans the construction of a telegraph line from Omaha to Salt Lake City, Utah. Facing considerable opposition to the line from Confederate soldiers, Indians, and outlaws, Creighton elicits the help of his sister Sue (Virginia Gilmore), foreman Pat Grogan (Minor Watson), and assistant Homer Kettle (Chill Wills).
Looking to put his outlaw past behind him, Shaw arrives at Creighton's Western Union office looking for honest work and is hired as a scout by Grogan who is unaware of his past. Creighton recognizes him among the men and allows him to stay despite his suspicions. Creighton also hires tenderfoot Richard Blake (Robert Young), a Harvard-educated engineer as a favor to Blake's father. Shaw and Blake are both attracted to Sue and vie for her attention, but their romantic rivalry is cut short when construction of the telegraph line starts on July 4, 1861.
After work commences on the line, one of the men is killed apparently by a mysterious band of cattle-rustling Indians. Unconvinced that Indians are to blame, Shaw rides out to investigate and follows the rustlers' trail to the camp of Jack Slade, a former friend and cohort, whose gang committed the killing disguised as Indians—the gang Shaw left following his last bank robbery. Slade reveals that they are working for the Confederacy to disrupt Western Union because they believe the telegraph service will help the Union. Shaw rides away and returns to the line. Not wanting to turn in his former friends, Shaw tells Creighton that a large band of Dakota Indians stole the cattle, and recommends that they simply replace the herd and not risk a fight with the Indians.
Sometime later, a confrontation takes place between men working on the forward line and a band of drunken Indians. When one of the Indians tries to steal some equipment, a nervous Blake shoots him, ignoring Shaw's order to remain calm. After word arrives that the main camp is under attack by other Indians, the Western Union men rush back to help with the defense. At the main camp, Slade's men, who are again disguised as Indians, steal the Western Union horses. The company discover the ruse when one of the wounded Indians turns out to be a white man. Forced to buy back their stolen horses from Slade, Creighton becomes suspicious of Shaw's involvement, especially when he admits to knowing the gang.
Soon the U.S. Army arrives and announces the Indians have now refused to allow the telegraph lines to go through their territory in response to Blake's shooting of the drunken Indian. Creighton, Shaw, and Blake ride out to convince Chief Spotted Horse to allow them to build the line through Indian territory, even though the man Blake wounded was Spotted Horse's son. Creighton is finally able to persuade the Indians to allow them passage, and work continues until the company approaches Salt Lake City.
Sometime later, Shaw receives word that Jack Slade wants to meet with him. On the way to see Slade, Shaw is captured and bound by Slade's men. Slade says his group is going to burn down the Western Union camp and they don't want Shaw to interfere. After Slade and his men ride off, Shaw escapes from his ropes but arrives back too late to prevent the fire. He helps rescue some of the Western Union men from the flames and burns his hands in the process.
After the fire, Creighton confronts Shaw for an explanation, but Shaw does not reveal what he knows and is fired by Creighton. As Shaw leaves the camp, he tells Blake that Slade is actually Shaw's brother and that he, Shaw, will find Slade's gang and stop them from interfering with the telegraph project. Shaw rides off and finds Slade and his men in a nearby town. At the barber shop, Shaw confronts his brother, whose gun is concealed under the barber's sheet. Slade shoots Shaw through the sheet. Shaw fights back in spite of his wound, killing some of the gang members, and then dies. Blake arrives and continues the fight with Slade who dies from his wounds. Soon after, the Western Union line is completed and the workers celebrate. When Sue laments the absence of Shaw, Creighton tells her that Shaw can hear them.
这一场旅途是如何开始的？或许是离群索居的独特，也或许是心里放不下的一个人。只是不想停下来，诗意吗，孤独吗，快乐吗，幸福吗？
虽然并没有经历过这样的生活，但是，不知为何，却能深切的感受到漂泊者那股孤独、悲伤、却又温馨的感觉。可能这份感觉在电影中无处不在，无论是演员、画面、摄影、音乐，都被此深深的浸润，形成一种如诗般的美感。但又像漂泊者一样，这种如诗般的美感没有归宿，永无止境
以为一直要逃离的那个起点，可能只是公转的焦点；以为不断远去的逃离，可能只是兜兜转转。6
看了无依之地和骑士很能理解为什么漫威会看上赵婷，她的节奏很快逻辑又清楚，剧本充满感情但又克制，是那种市场会喜欢的文艺片导演。不过这片的范式很让我联想起拆弹部队，都是用刻板印象引入人物，经历一段洗礼和过去对视，让观众对人物改观，最后找回自己
Stunningly beautiful
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
D- / 好久没看到过这么无趣的公路片了，摸不透素材选取的思路，采用线性叙事又放弃叙事逻辑而改用场景拼贴，剪辑叙事和摄像各行其道，而影像又空洞而缺乏表现力，因此填充的配乐甚是露怯，和马力克比也差太远。
居无定所、安居乐业、游牧民、西部开拓者……从美国传统来看，有些灵魂是注定“被流浪”的。当一类矛盾与民族性紧密关联时，它的化解本身就是矛盾了。
画面很有质感，可能是年纪大了，越来越看不得这些揭露人间惨痛现实的电影了
震撼度不如当时看《骑士》那么强烈，缺少了一股狠劲。之前看过一个赵婷谈马力克的《新世界》对她创作的影响，这部片子里有更多效仿马力克拍人与自然的镜头调度，但是其中有一些成为了这部片子的减分项，因为她们两者的落脚点是不同的，马力克希望我们关注的是个体之上的宇宙，而赵婷更像是宇宙之下的个体，所以她通过给置身于广袤无垠中的科恩嫂中景的那些镜头所营造的氛围，比起树林里的几个马力克调度，要对这个主题表达更有效。不过整体还是胜在质感，以及四平八稳的铺陈和人物塑造，减少对白通过镜头来交代心态变化也做得很干净利落和清晰，确实拍的挺扎实
TIFF // Fern是当代资本主义社会的被束缚的侠女。
过去一年发生的事情对美国和美国人所扣的印象分，靠这部片子全都补上来了，让你再也不敢小瞧中西部人民
偶然摧折或自然地老去
被过誉了。在影像上Zhao和马利克根本没法比，马利克是有非常丰厚的影像基础来引导视听的，并且马利克的镜头是有着极强流动性和运动感的，不是说你对着个自然景观调调色然后放上极其抒情的音乐就可以的。其次这个主旨就如同白左一般，只是表面上的无病呻吟根本没有深入的内容，更像是找了一个社会议题去迎合学院派的口味，但拍着拍着发现自己深入不进去选择了一个更简单并且迎合大众的主题继续拍，一切都是精英式伪善的视角和无病呻吟。影片唯一做的不错的，是影片拍出了一种现代人的孤独感，而这种孤独感主要是科恩嫂那股气质和她演技衬托出来的，Zhao如此平庸的技艺居然能在这个时代能横扫奥斯卡，美国电影真的在走下坡路了。
从逃离之路连上生命之路。
这一场旅途是如何开始的？或许是离群索居的独特，也或许是心里放不下的一个人。只是不想停下来，诗意吗，孤独吗，快乐吗，幸福吗？
弗恩从内华达出发到亚利桑那、犹他州再到加州，这也是我们当年走的美西grand circle大环线的路线。估计是赵婷男友的设备经费有限，美西的辽阔壮美在我看来是没有拍出来的。尤其到结尾在加州一号公路，阴沉的天，弗恩微笑的面对大风大浪的海岸，这寓意很赞。但一号公路真不是这样阴暗丑陋的，那是加州的精华
考试和准备下一场考试的学生
《无依之地》，如果没有潜在的感情线，追随自由和死去的丈夫的约定，就更像人一生的荒芜了。
❶ 我見過寫詩的乞丐，彈吉他的手機貼膜師，所以相信底層不止肯洛奇，也會有吉普賽詩意（臉龐村莊裡不就有個以宇宙為家的浪漫流浪漢嗎）著墨少不同於無 ❷獨立堅韌又保持距離的善意 ❸內布拉斯加收甜菜，在亞馬遜的臨時工作，土豆山下孤獨蹲坐，深夜降溫的停車站，洗澡時沖走身上污垢，借錢碰壁，生存技能的互相傳授，停車過夜被驅逐...哪個不是生活的困苦呢 ❹收集石化的棕櫚木；荒野裡的黃昏；去大房車參觀驚嘆有洗衣機，假裝出發去夏威夷；在動物園看餵食鱷魚被嚇到；觀星體張開右手接住1987年星光並感受原子爆炸到手中；舉起多孔石塊看遠處山脈；swankie發來的燕群視頻 ❺ salute to the earth ship ❻不是homeless，是houseless ❼將遠方的石頭投入火堆中懷念我。
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