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?
本片回顾了以米国为主的2021年相关的“大事”。好像去年差不多这会也看过《Death to 2020》。一如既往的黑色幽默、一如既往的严肃讽刺。将来该不会成为奈飞的传统保留节目了吧？疫情、环境污染、元宇宙、奥运会……还有《007无暇赴死》的上映。这所谓选择“大事”的标准，还真是一时让人找不到规则……
非常荒诞又是现实真正存在的事件，世界变得越来越没有理性，无脑疯狂。回看，2019年是那么的遥远
又俗又烂又好笑，像极了国内互联网公司会在办公楼打卡机旁边放的宣传片，像极了2021。
去年刚出的时候感觉蛮新颖挺好玩，但今年在炒一次冷饭就明显觉得无聊了~
对民主党和共和党的讽刺力度完全不同，只能说就是好莱坞左派带着屁股拍的~
We end the year as we began it.
反智美国的年度总结，这个超级大国从未像如今这么分裂过
今年外国糟心事也不少啊
不光是death to，而是fucked up
因為有了去年的經驗笑點更密集更諷刺了hhh karen，老白男，無知群眾，還有狂黑elon musk什麼的。笑完那種無奈感比去年更深了 我們2021的教訓就是人類沒有從2020學到一點東西。
还是觉得挺有意思、吐槽和讽刺方式回顾一年，这种年终总结有趣多了。休格兰特老了也还挺有风格的，毒舌又优越感十足的老头子演绎得淋漓尽致。
What I did learn in 2021? I learned that nobody learned anything from 2020.
韩版《五十度灰》，没那么高级奢侈，办公室恋情更接地气，几处小情趣拿捏的很到位，徐贤是最大亮点，整体还是偏偶像剧。至于爱情的公平理论，每人的尺度不尽相同。6
what I learnt for 2021 is that people didn't learn anything from 2020
Gemma每句话都讽刺得针针见血，太搞了哈哈哈
自己给自己黑到家，反正就是不管什么事情都要分两派，从戴不戴口罩打不打疫苗到总统选举，感觉美国人民天天过得跟辩论大赛似的。还不如干脆恢复到南北战争之前的地盘，由驴象两党分而治之呢。的亏是伪纪录片，要是真实的美国早就被玩坏了。
暗讽2021荒诞的黑色political和主义幽默对着现实犹如隔靴搔痒。没关系，等这两年过了以后就知道这两年有多好了。Death to 2021, death to everything Yeah. :)
在新常态中创造常态主义hh （真的很喜欢这种形式元旦晚会+吐槽大会
很有益处的尝试，请坚持拍下去谢谢。
期待2022，还能什么更荒诞魔幻的事情不能在地球发生
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