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?
对命运重构的欲望没有得到实现，但是确确实实的认知了轮回的意义。
地獄的內容 噩夢的形狀
现在竟然还有这种电影...一点剧情没有？一点看不下去...视频作品集的感觉...跟堆砌词藻没啥区别就是无聊
确实有点晦涩，不过梵高当年不是也被人当作疯子吗。说不定本片会在电影史里有一席之地呢，哪怕《致命弯道》也有自己的一席之地啊。
疯狂、神秘、混乱、无序、破烂、腐败、惊奇、诡异、恐怖、恶心、不适……真人特效+定格动画，想象力爆炸，模型装置牛逼，基本上是奇观展示，没有逻辑和故事。最后玩了一把创世大爆炸，梦幻联动2001，致敬了库布里克，导演是星战特效师……
Cult中的cult，没看懂，噩梦不过如此
細節非常多，隱喻也非常多。需要考據党幫忙考究一下。人類文明文化輪迴史與寓言。就是，不建議拌飯看，會有點胃不舒服...
在走入高清的视觉之后 一切都不再显得神秘诡谲了
emmm行叭 埋汰版黑石碑 我感觉我在做梦但其实我清醒的 我以为这是废墟但我看到了我自己
前十分钟嘴就没合上过。后面逐渐适应了，到结束还觉得意犹未尽。这种末世游览片还挺合胃口的，核战争，资本主义这些象征还挺明显的。其他的只看出来个库布里克。个人喜欢，畸形老头还有他的缸中世界，钟与时间流逝还有最后的萃取婴儿粉末之宇宙诞生。
Mind blowing !! So cool !
末世噩梦，实验性很强，能引申出许多世界设定
类似2001太空漫游，剧情就像是观光巴士，重点是（导演想表达的）窗外的景色而非巴士座椅舒适与否。
美式mind fuck。拍的很好，下次不许再拍了
剧情不太明显，但彩蛋比较多，于我而言还是很有意思的
像一个血腥疯狂的梦境，适合当噩梦素材，也适合做个横版恐怖游戏
献祭品的护士，失控的医生等等
美轮美奂，这才是真正值得整个IMAX看的电影1.最大的缺点就是真人出现的部分2.赞美电影摄影画面“每一帧都可以当壁纸”（X）“每一帧都可以当金属专辑封面”（✓）3.好多小细节好可爱4.配乐简单粗暴但是很魔性（褒义）5.想象力极其丰富，爱丽丝梦游地狱
扭曲过后的世界或许就是这样血腥荒诞……疯神并不是神，而是异化了的人类自己
看不懂，但大受震撼，想到可能跟资本主义帝国主义剥削有关，但看着无头绪，尺度一般
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