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剧情简介
James Benning’s first film called The United States of America was a 1975 trip across the country, capturing its scenery through a car windshield. This second one also crisscrosses the nation, but without a car, carving it up instead into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to Kelly, Wyoming. The names of the places are nondescript, but the images attached to them are anything but, immaculately composed shots of landscape, cityscape and the spaces in between. As we move from A to Z, the images coalesce into a portrait of today’s USA, tracing out its fault lines almost in passing: fenced-off facilities, a river bed running dry, factories and refineries, run-down streets and gas stations, a camp under a bridge. The past is there too, seeping up through the songs and speeches that sporadically pierce the background noise or the motifs that evoke a whole career the clouds, trains and cabins are stand-ins for films, not just states. As always, there’s time for more abstract thoughts too: each image may stand for a state, but representativity is slippery. Which state is more cinematic than the rest?
观众心声
特效场面震撼，绝对是视觉上的饕餮盛宴。
节奏把控完美，两个多小时丝毫不觉得漫长。
配乐简直是灵魂，情绪完全被它牵着走。
结局处理得干净利落，没有强行圆满。
题材大胆、现实立意深刻，抓住社会痛点，剧本扎实。詹姆斯·班宁在影视创方面的确很厉害，希望记录片多来点这种影视剧，强烈安利大家这部《美利坚合众国 》。