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.
布景、光影、人物台词和细微表情的细节都难以言传的精妙，诡异和嘲讽，庄严和肃穆互相吞噬的角力让整部剧曼妙无比。
走的和《智能大反攻》相反的路线，倒是有点哆啦A梦的感觉，但是本片在处理上还是在温情的基础上点了社交软件发展带来的问题的，主角最后在数据中心看到自己同学真正内心世界的部分还是很有感触，借小白暗示人们对手机等社交工具其严重的依赖确实是让社交能力变差了。但是看的时候感觉影片的不少情节转折过于生硬，而且把所有孤独的原因全部推到社交软件开发者身上太简单粗暴，讨厌孩子的那个反派角色也很单薄，有些遗憾。（7/10）
如果结局停留在Ron的回归的话，这部电影，不考虑那些细思极恐的细节比如智械危机，还算是一部优秀的合家欢喜剧动画，因为在那时，小男孩和他的小机器伙伴都经历了非常棒的成长事件。
虽然剧情一般，但风靡全片的想象力与创造力也是很好的加分项。
【A-】是个非常用心的好故事，结局真的很让人难过但却又很有分量，非常喜欢这种残缺美的结局。笑点的设计非常聪明，好几个都特别好玩。一些情节写的不严谨，但瑕不掩瑜，是个很用心也很棒的电影。
人工智障觉醒小故事，感情哪有算法。
不是很能get這種義大利家庭劇，有幾處很好笑，後面有點無聊了（演哥哥的好帥竟然連IMDb上都一張照片也沒有？
851｜如果不明白足球之于意大利、马拉多纳之于那不勒斯的重要地位的话，可能会难以理解这部电影。法比托身上是四十年之后的索伦蒂诺投去的审视的目光，正因如此他的人物特征是格格不入的，他似乎看到了这座城市不可避免的衰落，尽管他们迎来了马拉多纳，尽管他们夺得了意甲冠军。马拉多纳是这座城市的上帝，也是那不勒斯的人们短暂狂欢的象征。所以回看整部电影，这不仅是一个混杂着多种情感与回忆的成长故事，还是索伦蒂诺写给自己家乡的挽歌。当衰落不可避免地来临，当马拉多纳有一天终将离开，那不勒斯人选择了纵情狂欢。这是一部完全的悲剧。
结局不太好，ron是数据，复制粘贴就好，为什么要剪切粘贴？！
天上掉下个傻缺机，傻缺机治好了全球孩子的缺友症，然后卒
Grandma喜欢的那个洗脑神曲真的笑得不能停~神经兮兮又充满智慧的机器人设定也是挺可爱的~
如果是十年前（2011）的电影它还能算好动画，但现在已经是2021了啊……
交友为什么要依靠机器人？出发点就错了。看个乐呵吧
属于索伦蒂诺的“痛苦与荣耀”，一个夏天发生了太多的事情，足球是留在这里，家人是伤痛，性是重新与未来建立连接的桥梁，电影就是梦想之神；导演把那不勒斯拍的太美了，和天才女友里的那不勒斯完全不是一回事，而且电影中的幻想和现实好几次的连接拿捏的恰到好处，不过这也是导演一贯的水准吧
模仿费里尼来拍自己私人回忆，却抗拒观众走入其中。
尽管这是一部温情动画，但其背后反映的问题其实细思极恐，贪婪无序的资本开发出无孔不入的社交媒体，随时随地就可以入侵一个人的隐私毁灭一个人的存在，更恐怖的是现阶段普通人几乎没有还手之力，所以互联网并没有让世界变得更好，反而更加异化了这个千疮百孔的世界。
真美啊，索伦蒂诺自己的罗马，我的那不勒斯，我的卡普里，我的阿马尔菲，什么时候能重回那片蔚蓝之海
所有的元素都似曾相识，大数据感十足，但当这些元素被类型片的套路技巧和动画技术包装起来，一切都成了全新的，它依旧能让人感动，依旧是一个好故事！这部动画电影再次证明，只要会讲故事，同一个故事讲多少遍，都一样的有效，故事不是最重要的，怎么讲故事才是因人而异的决定性因素。
4.5 一开始以为电影是在拍墨西哥的故事。确实会想起阿方索卡隆。最喜欢的两场戏：父亲出轨，母亲气炸拋橘子嘶吼，最后却以“马拉纳多转会那不勒斯队”结束。男主的第一次，始终未被点燃的那根香烟。下葬那场戏，对声音尤为敏感。看到最后小修士出现在车窗外时，仿佛做了一场梦，而在驶向罗马的车上，法比安也沉沉睡去。拍电影不仅是关于孤独与痛苦，多想想快乐的事情。你绝望了吗？不，其实你还有希望。通过这一场梦，与自我达成某种和解与念想。
大师的半自传，意式风情，意式温馨，意式幽默，跟青涩少年一起走向成熟。一切全是“上帝之手”的拨弄。虽无“故事”，还是很好看。
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