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?
the whole world is watching.
对话很有趣，某些部分很有深意，相当的精彩，主题也是非常值得思考，不多说了，懂的自然懂。
“审判分为：刑事审判和民事审判 不存在政治审判。” 哎哟喂！脸好疼...
JerryRubin
PS：昨天看“八佰”，今天看这个，我突然觉得中国为什么要宣传反战，中国近现代根本没有对外发起过战争
惊艳的开场，法庭激烈的交锋，精彩的答辩，机关枪似的台词，思想性的火花四溅，Sorkin借古讽今，以左派视角交出这样一份优秀的作品，来作为对当今灯塔国政治生态和minzhu思想的批判反思。the whole world is watching，同时完美契合当下US大选的时间节点。全员演技无敌，小雀斑和波拉特的对手戏太赞，最后的法庭总结意料之中的燃。
The struggle was real.
说鸡确实够鸡，但能做到这么鸡也是人中凤凰了。
The whole world is watching
10-18 去年就出了，就收藏了，竟然拖了一年还没看，大概因为觉得是庭审相关的会有些不感兴趣，但是昨天又突然觉得能静下心来看它了，就点开了。讲越战的，最近是把美国的历史捋得越来越清楚了，这场战争真的是从影视剧里认识的，但是也就这两年才看懂了。This is us里按照生日来征兵，教父2结尾里michael自愿参军，去年看的《早安越南》基本绕不开越战。（准备去多看点相关的纪录片和电影了），这里是讲本土民众如何反对战争的，台词紧凑毕竟是索尔金，就还是蛮好看的，有些写的真好。但是人物太多了，有点流水。
the whole world is watching……
最后歌曲响起很感动，虽然对那段历史不太了解，也看得出是美国一贯的电影风格，追求自由才是宪法精神。
叙事技巧高超，但内容还是脸谱化的政治正确。
念名字的部分其实让我觉得稍微有点突然。剩下的就是完美，剧本太扎实了。
千名英魂万卧底，十年断层一镜隔。
必须有理有据的摆明自己坚定的态度和立场，尤其是面对脑残，赖子和傻缺云云的时候。
和《社交网络》一样台词连珠炮式高密度输出爽片！民运抗争和教唆暴乱，维宪游行和寻衅滋事，仅仅一线之隔。
注定结局的政治审判，半百之后世界并没有变更好。
插画师定格住历史性的时刻和一张张激昂的面孔 而需要看精神科的Hoffman法官只配在那里敲个槌子
因为某地有些情绪非常个人 fuck the police
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