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?
今天获得金球奖,恰好昨天才看。可能还是离个人生活境遇太远,代入感不强,体悟孤独,继续上路~
感情落脚点被角色直接讲出来,这很扣分。。剪辑节奏重复,每个段落卡点很准,配乐也是。。印象最深的是亚马逊的巨型仓库
虽然讲述的是美国故事,但情绪表达挺东方,钢琴配乐也挺东方。通俗的讲,都是天涯沦落人,伤心人。离开人群久了,回不去了。还有那些只有自己到过,被自然感动过的瞬间。于是想,50岁也上路吧。
克制的流浪长诗,既不过分悲戚又不过度赞美,对失去和放下的探讨其实和《蓝》的自由母题接近。略有遗憾的是未能把时代背景下个人精神的强迫流浪表现更充分。换句话说,所谓"自由"也不是纯粹的个人选择更是对后工业资本主义的拒斥与背叛,能更有现实批判力度。但一个中国籍导演能拍出如此美国的作品,还有麦姨的演技,真的厉害
失业了怎么办?失去家庭了怎么办?还未老焦虑今后的人生怎么办?观影感受情绪起伏:担忧-暖意-悲哀-释然,资本与全球化带来的难题不是一个国家的问题,现实很裸露很残酷,大环境扑来了,能怎么办,只能靠人自我的强大生存意识继续活下去。I‘m just houseless,not homeless. 心即家,家在心,如果守不住房子,那么守住家,踏路而上,直至生命最后一刻。致渺小而伟大的自己。
you can stay here. no I have to do laundry.
大概可能有无字幕的原因,影片整体给我的感受与豆瓣剧情简介完全不同,我看到的更多的是一种自主选择,而不是被迫。明明可以放弃她的破车,但女主宁可求人也要守护她移动的家;明明好多人邀请她留下来,她毅然上路。在山林中奔跑,收集一个个好看的石头…生活孤独却热爱
为了宽阔的草原
不是传统的homeless的故事,更多的是自我选择的放逐
我也不是一无所有,我会整理好自己的行囊继续前进。
“他们所奔向的那条路不是逃亡之路,而是在给所有人未来可能遭受的痛苦指一座灯塔。 ”
无依之地的fern才真正的活着
当一个人同时失去了家人和家园时会体验到的孤独,公路旅途也是探索生命意义的路途,关于丧失与疗愈、羁绊与放手、关于生死。其实片中涉及的每一种问题和状态都让人不忍去触碰和细思,但导演不仅有勇气触碰,而且处理得极为克制,哀而不伤,灰凉中又有光亮。
一句话的故事
构图好美,配乐超赞,很多长镜头。
第一季
心无所属,永远是一个人的旅程。这一生,我们离别又遇见,在路上,却充满希望~
dedicated to the ones who have to depart. See you down the road. 生活在钢筋水泥中久了看到广阔荒芜的地方 真觉得心胸开阔。但我的心态终究是从一个旅行者角度来思考,而这种荒芜对于nomads或者the homeless来说是一种生活方式甚至是the only way to choose, 因此我的向往显得很何不食肉糜 拜托我自己 别这么矫情了
我主要是真的不太喜欢科恩嫂… 真的很苦相啊,看了难受。如果换个主演,大概甚至还会列入我比较心水的电影list……
Happy new year。
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