New York private detective Duncan "Mac" MacLain is blind but has keenly developed all his other senses. He pursues his work assisted by his faithful guide dog Friday, his butler, Alistair, and his assistant, Marty. Retired actress Norma Lawry, an old friend, comes to Mac seeking advice. Her headstrong 17-year-old step-daughter Barbara, herself a promising actress, is enamored with her leading man in a small theater production, the much older Lothario Paul Gerente. Paul, who had once been Norma's lover, has convinced Barbara that Norma actually wants Paul for herself and has only married her father Stephen for his money. At Mac's urging, Norma tried to reason with Paul, but he insists that he loves Barbara and laughs her off. Barbara is equally disdainful of her and agrees to meet Paul for dinner that night at his apartment.
Norma's husband Stephen Lawry is a scientist leaving that night on a trip to test a secret invention on which he has been working for the government and the war effort. Worried about Barbara, she uses a pretext not to accompany Stephen and goes to the apartment. When Barbara arrives, she finds Paul's dead body and thinks that Norma has killed him, even though Norma insists that he was dead when she arrived. Barbara threatens to call the police unless she leaves Stephen. Fearing that a scandal will hurt him, Norma agrees. Norma then turns to Mac, who goes to Paul's apartment with Friday and Marty, only to find the body and the rug under it missing. A man arrives to replace the rug and Mac hides in a closet, overhearing a telephone call to Norma's number from "Gabriel" to "Vera." Mac accidentally gives himself away, but with Friday's help overpowers Gabriel, who refuses to talk. Mac has Marty hide him to keep him under wraps.
Norma returns to her country home unexpectedly, which discourages an espionage ring that includes her butler, Hansen, from breaking into Stephen's safe and stealing his plans. They have killed Gerente, who was also an agent, and hidden the body. Mac arrives with Friday at Norma's house and pretends to be her curmudgeonly "Uncle Mac" who has come for a visit. His blindness lulls any suspicions Hansen might have about him. Shortly thereafter, Barbara comes home from an "emergency rehearsal", called to get her out of the house by her director, Cheli Scott, who inveigles an invitation to spend the night at the Lawry home. Unknown to Barbara and Norma, Cheli is the ringleader of the spies. Cheli ordered Paul killed because his affection for Barbara was beginning to limit his effectiveness, and she immediately suspects Mac is not what he seems.
Gabriel's wife Vera, the Lawrys' maid, is also a part of the plot. When Gabriel does not return home, Vera becomes hysterical with worry. Mac secretly asks Vera to meet him in the greenhouse, using her worry about Gabriel as a lure. She is observed by the others, however, and is killed by Hansen before she can reach Mac. The spies cut the house's telephone wires so that Mac and Norma cannot call the police, and Cheli has Mac locked up under guard. Using his blindness as a distraction, Mac overpowers his guard and releases Friday out a window with instructions to "go home and get Marty." Stephen arrives home and Cheli threatens his family if he does not give her the final step in creating his invention, which was not in the safe. Barbara finally realizes how much Norma actually cares for her. Mac tries to stall for time, but is locked in the cellar. When Hansen goes to kill him, Mac has broken the light bulb and his advantage of total darkness helps him overcome the spy. Marty and Friday return with the police. When Friday is spotted by a lookout, Mac overpowers him and is saved from being shot by another lookout by Friday. After the spies are captured, Stephen and Norma are off to Washington, D.C., with Barbara remaining behind to care for her new "Uncle Mac."
感恩这是开启2021的第1部电影。配乐有时很贴合，有些时候有点满。和前作《骑士》一脉相承的摄影太棒了，如麦克多蒙德所说“摄影机注视我的脸，像是在看一座国家公园”。轻描淡写下大象无形，无依者晚年困境，充满哀伤和温情。无论前路何方，nomad不讲最后的告别，只说see you down the road。
这片透出来的悲伤和海边的曼彻斯特有点像，而我更能看懂后者的悲伤。说不上太喜欢，但挺遗憾因为愚蠢的原因而不能在国内上映。每年都有大量制作精良、远不如这部优秀，但也颇有亮点的电影上映，而我们在电影院却只能看那三两部密钥延长一次又一次档期长达两三个月的不断刷新世界影史票房纪录的国内片，以及部分已经上映十几年、政治上正确、又已经得到市场检验的国外片，更让人遗憾。从书本以及电影里了解到的美国人，注重与他人的联系似乎更甚于所谓集体主义的中国人，他们甚至不能独自打保龄。
一宗产业的倒闭好像树倒猢狲散，“萧条时代”三连击的第三击，但是看的过程中感受并不深刻，惟觉个中似有一种亚裔人最擅长的巧妙的不得罪人。是想要触及保障不健全的痛点吗？No，有些人只是不适合屋檐下终老，有些人不喜欢被领带拴住的生活，还有些人希望路上能够重逢逝去的亲人。世代流传的母题仿佛轻松找到了解答，或诗意或温情，但直觉告诉我这并不是真相。最好拍成纪录片，否则就会像这样，编导的才华驾驭不了素材，给出的解答煽情但缺乏根基，某些滥俗的升华，干脆成了鉴别村花的那粒豌豆。
1.哪一刻死去才會死而無憾呢?2.心遠地自偏。3.此詩不朽而你也將永恆不朽。4.沒有最終的告別就沒有分別。我們路上見。5.織女座1987年射過來的光，今天才到這裡
用自然抚慰破碎之心，孤独也是途中风景。一成不变的阴郁色调让电影本身包裹一种寥落，于女主来说却是孤傲与洒脱。亡夫始终不能埋藏记忆深处，既然不想回归，那就一起在旷野流浪。全片在放逐与资本之间游移，Fern想逃离却无法避免的芥蒂始终横亘眼前，或许我们身处的时代，没人能真正挣脱社会生活。
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在我看来，这是反公路片甚至是反好莱坞的公路片，它如一个圆环：外在的路线与内在的心理都是，永远绕不出去，无穷无尽不死不休——弱人物弧光甚至无人物弧光，因此愈加浪漫美妙的表述反而带来愈加深邃的绝望。路上的人们是拥有抛弃所持一切的豁达魄力？与此相反，他们上路，是因为无法放下自己一无所有之余的仅有。
电影讲述的是那些被生活抛弃的人们如何更积极的去拥抱生活的故事。因为总有晚霞出现在旷野的尽头，所以便要一直追寻。
一个人去看的，确实是让人重新思考人生的作品，音乐好听，最喜欢75岁的Swankie提到的和她最后用影像记录下来的那些燕子，也想去看看那些高到天际的红衫林。
我们要飞到那遥远地方看一看 这世界依旧那么凄凉
自然风光确实动人，感觉还是有些过誉。也太赶了，一站一站像是计算好的机械而不自然。赵婷好像在采访里有说到想达到影像的流动，真没怎么感觉到，空洞松散和重复感更多。
二刷之后，还是一样，后半段没办法看完，8倍速结束了。让人犯困的旅程，现在是真的，平铺直叙的流水账可以叫隐忍克制的处理，配上钢琴和各种孤独的背影，深邃的眼神，好文艺好高级，不拿奖岂不是显得评委没水平？皇帝的新衣就这样来的。穿着新衣，我们路上见。🙄
有时候奖项似乎跟影片本身不是那么相关。
孤独感是每个人都有的，所以人类就是群居动物。但是人的进化到现在的人，就是因为有许多异类吧，他们远离人群，也永远在路上。这电影其实还讨论了美国的养老制度，其实我觉得这个是很难解决的，人内心的孤独不是靠养老福利的提高来解决的吧。所以人始终要解决“自我”或“本我”的问题，但是活着还是必须有“他我”，“有人惦记才算是活着”。最终才自由自在的走在路上，完成“超我”。
7.1 穷山恶水短镜头，所有场景都快得可怕，剪辑彷如害了连贯动作恐惧症，大半部电影的镜头都像是过渡镜头，而且还要念诗秀台词……
1，有纪录片风格。2，是疗愈电影。3，相当于美国版的《天水围的日与夜》，渐渐揭开整个人或家庭的真实情况，暗中情感激荡，却不给你发泄的出口。4，是个公路电影。5，探讨了生死，和《一天》结尾部分一样，还是疗愈。6，貌似公路电影都是疗愈的。7，没有一个台词和画面是无用的，全部细节都是伏笔，在后半段一个个呈现。二刷的时候，一开始就会有2个感动点扑面而来，真的是细节控。8，缺点也是一样，太完美了，每一个坑都完美的填上了，甚至刻意而为之。谁会记得几个月前送你一个打火机的路人？9，《大佛普拉斯》并不需要交代的那么清楚，却依然震撼。留白其实也是一种完美。10，细节伏笔：全部细节都是在出现后才交代，让观众恍然大悟，犹如画卷，一步步揭开她完整的人生和性格特点，非常值得二刷。11，鲁多维科·伊诺第的钢琴曲作品。
两个人撑起来的电影，赵婷作为导演编剧剪辑，将极具个人特质的气息带入，使电影整体保持一种淡然的简洁，有点与自然融为一体的感觉，从摄影、谈话、画面等；麦克多蒙德则用自己的演技完美诠释了这样一位孤独流浪的主角。电影气质有点天人合一的味道，很喜欢最后一幕，即使身处泥泞，历经坎坷，依然选择放下，保持向前。真的很佩服赵婷。
希望所有我爱的人都不必有这样的游荡和浪漫。
感觉是把留学生常说的“好山好水好寂寞”拍出来了。
不太喜欢赵婷作品的原因，可能是给我感觉她总试图用西方影像去追求东方意境，台词里讲述的都是琐碎的人生道理，日常感悟。大量的低饱和光线，黯然落寞的镜头色彩，广角下的自然景观，空镜头，无一不是为此而设。但我却总是能感受到矫情、闷气，她越想把作品变成一首诗，我就越清晰地看到诗的死亡。本片对我而言的看点，全部来自于弗兰西斯的表演和形象。
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