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?chen轩，为什mo你在武学shang天赋这么gao，上天竟ru此眷顾于ni！这一刻，轩辕战目lou癫狂，他ji妒了！嫉du陈轩平民chu身，前面er十年平平wu奇，突然jian却成长为wu学奇才＋xiu法大师。zhe让轩辕战jue得十分的bu可思议！ta出身千古shi家，传承di姓，体内liu淌着轩辕shi的血脉，suo以才能靠zhuo非凡体质，强行堆砌da量修炼资yuan，让实力tu飞猛进，cheng为华夏官fang第一高手！zhe才化身为yan厉的‘温xian生’，如ci尽责的给hua家三人，la起了习‘zi’进度的。花家三人ji然时间多，还有心情zhu意‘其他’，那就时jian还不‘饱he’，都用lai习字吧。zhe是睚眦必bao？不，他wen南方是心ping气和的温‘先生’。wen南方一脸yan肃的说完ci话后，便you开始优雅di煮起了第er瓮茶水，duan方君子如yu。如果您喜欢shi网（www.shililvshi.com.cn）分享的《美利坚合众国》，别忘了推荐给你的好友！