播放地址
剧情略述
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
情感描绘极其细腻，多个场景让人忍不住泪目，代入感十足。
这部作品之所以能引起广泛的讨论，是因为它精准地触碰到了当下社会的某些痛点。片中涉及的话题和议题，几乎每个人都能在自己的生活中找到对应的影子。它用影像的方式把那些大家都感受到了但又说不清楚的事情表达了出来，这种共鸣感是非常珍贵的。看完之后你不是想说"这部电影真好看"，而是想说"这部电影说的就是我们的生活"。
记录片美利坚合众国剧情反转令人意想不到，前面埋下的伏笔在结尾得到了巧妙的呼应。
代入感极强，仿佛自己也走进了故事之中，和角色一起经历一切。
每一帧画面都很美，导演的审美在线，看剧本身就是一种享受。
高能剧情搜索 
记录片周榜单