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?
91岁了，还在努力的每年贡献一部电影，的确是服的不要不要的。但是看这场电影，看着他走得一步一摇晃，生怕下一个镜头，就会倒下来，真的老了呀。致敬！
I was a lot of things, I’m not now.如果可以 请继续拍下去。
东木老爷子90多岁还亲自导&演，不知道会不会是最后一部。片中许多细节都使人动容，音乐也很赞。要爱护老年人。爱啊…
也许东木大爷老了 想拍一个温柔简单的故事 这么大年纪还自导自演 想到这就无比敬佩
老爷子还是很自信啊，女人对他见一个爱一个...
英雄有迟暮，铁血含柔情。深夜观影毕，多打一颗星。
电影很工整，美墨边境完全成了老爷子大片的背景板，特别是有些部分是直接能拿去当广告的程度，在这方面东木还是游刃有余，故事上就偏平淡了，每次危机来临就瞬间结束，加上年事已高，驯马镜头也用了替身，不过老爷子的状态是真的好啊！
故事很简单，也不太吸引人，东木老爷明显老了，90岁了，太厉害了
雄鸡是硬汉，东木老爷子也是，从《黄金三镖客》到《廊桥遗梦》，从《不可饶恕》到《老爷车》，再到这一部，老爷子霸气，好电影便是如此，讲好一个故事，演好一个角色，老爷子做到了。
90岁还能谈恋爱，太强了。
东木老了，这么大年纪还在努力拍电影，虽然未达上乘但可看性依然在
需要矛盾与冲突的地方都可以猜出来，每一个铺陈之后都没什么意外。不过，还是佩服东木大爷。
看到东木大爷，满满的感动！一生都献给了电影事业
8.0/10，好像只是讲了一个很普通的故事，我却看的很入神。东木老师果然是讲故事的高手。
上次送毒品，这次送孩子！哪里跌倒就在哪里躺平，爱情不是物质的堆积，是心灵与生活细节的偎依
美墨边境风景美如画，非常温柔的公路片，老爷子美美的黄昏恋了一把。哪怕是替身骑上马的瞬间也让我心潮澎湃了一把永远的cowboy任谁都要夸句macho！🐔演技奇佳可以参演鲁尔福的《金鸡》
老了，真的老了。最早看的一部他的片子是火线狙击。
平淡无奇 小男主既无成长也无用处（鸡都比他有用）跟骡子和老爷车比不了 没了东木大爷的情怀分就是流水账的烂片（话说开篇加这种妹子过边境混时长的片段就大感不妙 到后面也充斥着和剧情人物塑造都无关的混子片段）
Don't teach me manners when you're in bed with my mom,where she sleep.
暮年的东木，创作力依然旺盛。虽也看得出有些力不从心，即便弯腰屡背，内心永远是那个牛仔
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