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?
氛围营造的不错，故事的切入点和深刻性不错，但是各种回忆尤其是开头，还没进入正题的时候，显得混乱，各种阴暗叙事、穿插，让不习惯这种风格的人看的很难受，床戏全部剪掉不是问题。以及故事还是有比较明显的漏洞
看电影前就大概猜到了剧情，观影中从开始就知道了结尾。爱情的剧情永远都是分分合合，这部影片没给出什么惊喜。唯一值得打星的是恰逢其时赶在31号上映，给情侣们一个足够有仪式感的跨年吧。
一个藏在谍战外壳里的真爱故事，倒叙回忆和出色的氛围渲染，有种末日危情的悲壮底色
Bang bang, that awful sound
故事一点没有，就是为了反转而反转，实际上之前什么都不重要，重要的全在桌子这里，看这里反转就是了。无聊，冗长。
实际上就是类似办公室内斗加诈骗小套路的故事，演员没用好，拍的挺复杂，但没做到见微知著
It’s the things that we don’t know that get to me.
派派为什么爱演这种中成本的动作烂片？最近这部和承包商梦回10年代啊。派，咱要不拍完龙与地下城堡就潜心演些文艺片吧，你看那xxx都…
这特么哪是悬疑惊悚片，这明明就是虐恋爱情片！
再好的配乐也拯救不了拖沓的故事…原来是讲爱情 （微笑脸
披着间谍情节的爱情片？贯穿整部电影的餐厅戏有点意思 就是派派和女主没什么cp感 派派饰演这个年龄跨度很大的角色很不错 该年轻时候年轻 该成熟的时候成熟
…？（有没有人知道片尾曲叫什么哪里可以听啊！！！！全片最棒就是这首歌了啊！！
看到第十五分钟我觉得它可能不是个甜甜的爱情片
相爱相杀的办公室爱情…宝刀未老是怎么翻译来的。看剧情，一点不宝刀，完全各种老。老刀早就锈死了。
你确定这种题材配这种叙事对劲吗？惊悚tag是给观众的吧。我早在十分钟就有点倦怠了，往后的硬撑都是因为除了看电影也没别的事做。
就…好吧。但是怀念Carmel！不知道啥时候才能再去
Bang bang, my baby shot me down
梅兹拍剧其实还行，这部捣腾得有些像电视电影了……
算一部靠故事，演技和镜头的电影，我喜欢但是大概不适合漫威粉。
以为是什么间谍动作片，看了才知道是个大部分时间在各种倒叙插叙的爱情片。片名起得倒挺好，两位果然“宝刀未老”得干了一场。
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