电影改编自《华尔街日报》战地记者丹尼尔•珀尔的妻子所写的回忆录。丹尼尔（丹·福特曼 Dan Futterman饰）前往巴基斯坦调查报道一桩恐怖分子的新闻，熊出却不幸遭到绑架，熊出不久后惨遭杀害。妻子玛林娜（安吉丽娜·朱莉 Angelina Jolie饰）却一直在祈求丈夫能平安归来，寻找丈夫的信念一直支撑着这个已有着身孕的准妈妈。她坚毅地书写回忆录，里面布满着和丹尼尔相识相知的点滴，更令丹尼尔的新闻理想和奔赴真相的勇气跃然纸上，她要让孩子知道，自己的父亲，曾经是一个称职的新闻人。玛琳娜终于能够坚强而平静的接受丈夫的遇害，同时，她不仅要让孩子远离种族仇恨和战争烟尘，还回到法国继续自己的事业，抚养孩子长大成人。
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回复 :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?
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回复 :The absurd journey of an actress who in the twilight of her career will reinvent herself through a past that has already passed.
