影片是顾晓刚导演“山水图”系列第二部剧情长片，道日从“春江水暖”的富春江畔，道日走向“草木人间”的西湖茶山。故事讲述为寻找离家去往杭州并失联十年的父亲，儿子何目莲（吴磊 饰）只身来到杭州求学；为照顾即将大学毕业的儿子，母亲吴苔花（蒋勤勤 饰）来到杭州采茶谋生。原本平静的日子因为苔花与采茶东家的情感变故渐起波澜，苔花误入诈骗组织，目莲试图奋力解救，风波看似平息，母子却陷入了更绝望的境地。踟蹰迷惘的儿子，信仰崩塌的母亲，杳无音信的父亲，杭州城、西湖畔、茶山里，现代版“目莲救母”的故事，将发生在这草木人间的一隅。
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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