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?
最大优点是服化道，是真的给我强烈愉悦感的那种服化道。相较于原作的改动几乎全是赘笔，仿佛是嫌原作不够通俗直白，导演加入战争背景，戳破男主“双赢”谎言，甚至直接加入男主身份背景并让他杀人。精神分析的意图太明显，反而让原作最迷人的暧昧内核和宿命感荡然无存。好在收尾收得比原作干净利索。
卡罗尔后大魔王&鲁尼玛拉终于合作了可惜没有对手戏
所以凯特女王和鲁妮小白兔就是个假招牌啊。其实故事不算差，也不算复杂，不知道为什么非要拍的这么死样怪气，尤其前半部分，拖沓沉闷意味不明。而且一直都不怎么喜欢布莱德利·库珀，不管是长相还是演技，都是那种不算差，但也实在不觉得有什么亮点的演员啊。
这一版比起47年原版简直就是金玉其外，哪怕画面再精致。片长这么长配角依然这么单薄，想想原版Zeena和Pete等配角可都是很鲜活。陀螺也不忘自己的恶趣味，同时还老生常谈各种issue,没必要真的没必要。大魔王的角色也是一出场及全程就各种霸气外露，还是喜欢原版的处理。
质感很好，非常讲究，没有失望。托罗的每部电影看下来有个感觉，似乎导演对影片的解读，会比影片呈现得更丰富，恐怕是因为在剧本之外花了更多心思。
故事很好，可惜表演有点中庸和一般，平铺直叙吧，凯特仍然是抢风头的那一个。
关于怪物的养成和轮换，一切有为法，如梦幻泡影，如露亦如电，应作如是观。
当我看到电视广告"Cate Blanchette is the greatest femme fatale of all time"的时候就没办法不看这个电影了。第一个抱怨还是太长了。前后两段是两个电影吗。群星云集的，Bradley cooper其实不错。感觉是个警世片，几个教训：喝酒毁人生，不要和笑容冷艳颧骨高的金发美女打交道（适用于所有黑色电影），不管你怎么避免你都会最终变成你憎恨的父亲的模样。I still had a good time, along with 3 other people in the theater. Had a churro donut with ice cream. Absolutely delicious.
平庸到不知道说啥，除了结局呼应着开头留下一抹无法逃避的荒诞与无奈感，其余：故事很老套，情感也生硬，骗局没悬念，人物内在挖掘也不深，更重要的这还是个翻拍，就这？托罗是奥斯卡的爹？
引用陀螺自己的话：“I think the tragedy is when you finally have all the people that you need surrounding you, and you have nothing left to say.” 功成名就之时却不能言之有物，是挺可悲的。
“You don't fool people Stan, they fool themselves.”
通灵术就是一念地狱，内心自卑的异乡人对名利的追逐就像片名一样，nightmare alley通往噩梦。
引用陀螺自己的话：“I think the tragedy is when you finally have all the people that you need surrounding you, and you have nothing left to say.” 功成名就之时却不能言之有物，是挺可悲的。
AMC 没看过老版的，故事节奏很差，导致两个半小时让我觉得过于拖沓，毫无必要；马戏团真没必要着墨这么多，和后面的故事发展有很大的割裂感。其他方面都很好，有点可惜。好莱坞大概真的拍无可拍了，不是炒冷饭就是炒冷饭，还炒不好，食之无味。
什么什么都好但是索然无所的那种莫名其妙的感觉....
托罗应该有更为复杂的叙事方法，但他选择讲故事平铺开来，也没有选择如今年很多电影一样加上章节标志，人物也都是速写和粗线条的刻画。前一小时的很多镜头仅仅为了展示精致的美术，而结尾足够残忍。时不时出现的反法西斯战况也没增强现实感和年代感，整体更像精心编织的一个黑暗童话。
太傻逼了，说这是黑色电影是对黑色电影最大的侮辱，只能说无知的人还是太多
其实故事是有点cliche的，但陀螺的哥特审美又一次占了上风。
让服化道让演员自行调控
Not my cup of tea....
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