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?
那个色彩斑斓的地方精神污染魂都吓飞了，不能承受第二遍
don’t really care about the story gets a bit boring at times but visually cool as fuck. puppet blood is revolting. too many references. so much work. the set is insane.
I did not get it. I was just in awe.
非常棒的定格动画，肉块状的血腥场面，表现的淋漓尽致，极强的视觉冲击，到了足以做噩梦的地步。
能拍出这种诡异的电影，主创团队绝对是有点能耐！
"Hoping is waiting for someone else to do it. We'd all be much better off without it."
像一个血腥疯狂的梦境，适合当噩梦素材，也适合做个横版恐怖游戏
【2】不知所云
形式用心了，也够疯。但，语境始终没超脱西方上帝那点事儿。
定格动画，花了不少功夫，但真心看不懂，就指着影评了
真的 一看就是歪果仁搞出來的
这就是传说中接地府的艺术吧🙊
疯狂、神秘、混乱、无序、破烂、腐败、惊奇、诡异、恐怖、恶心、不适……真人特效+定格动画，想象力爆炸，模型装置牛逼，基本上是奇观展示，没有逻辑和故事。最后玩了一把创世大爆炸，梦幻联动2001，致敬了库布里克，导演是星战特效师……
以废土朋克风格定格动画表现的混合了宗教奇幻和政治隐喻的文明兴衰故事。本片的形式和主题高度统一，其黑色调性很容易使人联想到 Tim Burton 的一系列作品，但残酷程度则远甚之。影片的想象力之深刻壮阔令人叹服。
很喜欢任务人被抓住之后被医生开膛破肚深入挖掘血液四溅最后掏出一只虫子婴儿的场景。
不幸的是，两三千年乃至最近百年的所谓人类文明史可以总结出一个规律∶百万分千万分乃至亿万分之一的狂徒可以将剩下的绝大多数拖入万劫不复
效果很牛逼，风格很诡谲
很概念艺术性的动画，感觉是短片加长版，不适合搞这种长度，分段可能好些。
刚开始觉得是一张迷幻专辑的MV，越往后看越觉得画面和音乐缺一不可，合二为一胜过任一。
无厘头 起码在电影里埋下一个观众用以解读电影的引子吧？
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