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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
用极米投影仪投到墙上看，结果过了一会儿以为网断了，我看的是极米自带的屏保。有些影像的画外空间感挺有意思的，比如赛车和马。但是整体上看，是不是该忽视极简表达中一直觉得杜尚的小便器就是小便器的恍惚感呢？
只是看上去简单，但挑选一个空镜代表一个州实在是非常复杂，它不能太典也不能太不典，要让人会心但又要有思索的余地。它还要足够幽默，要让人对外部世界充满怀旧的幻想……当然最重要的是影片结尾埋下的那个梗：你真的得能在某一个确定的地方找到这样的景象。
California pretending to be other parts of the States.
梦游美利坚
就展示了美国各处的景象