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?
上一次看《2020去死》还感觉就在不久前...
搞笑地串联了一年大事件:美国入侵国会、塔利班掌权、气候变化、失败的气候大会、无人的东京奥运、英美澳武器协议、omicron病毒变种、贝佐斯的太空之旅、Facebook知情影响却无所作为、改名元宇宙、反疫苗者、反口罩者…… 几个叙述者锦上太添花,让讽刺到达一个新的高度。
不知道是世道出问题了还是我出问题了,这片子应该是部讽刺喜剧,但是看着又像是部纪录片。
what did I learn in 2021? I learned that nobody learned anything in 2020.更像正经纪录片了,可能真的是太离谱笑不出来了
留着2021最后一天看,小失望,梗没玩好,吐槽也没啥力度
希望2022年别再去死了。
这个系列好比慢速跳楼,在落地之前还会期待下一层的窗户里能看到什么。
great,用俗套的英式幽默讲点美国年度总结,好像那就是世界总结一样。
what I learnt for 2021 is that people didn't learn anything from 2020
2021年已经死去,就和去年死掉的2020一样。想念梁欢。
永远democracy ,永远idiot,永远chatterbox
看了2020之后觉得也应该看一下这部。纯属惯性,下次不会了,浪费时间。我的笑点全在那个英国女人身上。
2021真是太难了,戏谑调侃一下,反衬一下那些经历过的人间不真实,才能更好地反省这个真实的世界到底有多荒谬
“runaway!”
以后可以看这个系列跨年了,今年又是一波狂嘲,虽然没什么用,但是看着解气啊。
2021最后一天看的这个片子,访谈的风格,但是我觉得问题的方向,思辨都没有很有心,整体就是说了事儿,很浅的有个表达,思考可能都谈不上。总之用它纪念一年的最后一天,我有点失策了。希望2022年世界会更好。
元旦观看,虽然不如2020去死,但我依然已经笑爆了,回头看到豆瓣上评论竟有很多人不满人家不提中国。这些网友连开片第一幕是中国郑州都认不出来还嚷嚷着美国不待见我们,这跟片中的average person有什么区别?而现实是美国从2020到2021连续2年作死,疫情之下其程度已经让人瞠目结舌,却依然是世界第一。电影四星的水平,打五星是为了方便以后 2030、2040 年回来再看一遍哈哈哈哈哈。重点:不需要倍速观看好评。
这部并不好看的喜剧比我的2021年还有趣 sad
比去年的好笑了不少,比烂的世界,大家应该已经习惯了吧。
看了预告,认为男主选角很到位,我也想欺负他。
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