While surveying a telegraph line in 1861, Western Union engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger) is severely injured in an accident. He is discovered by Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), an outlaw on the run from a posse. Forced to travel on foot after his horse was hurt, Shaw at first considers stealing Creighton's horse, but changes his mind and takes the man with him, saving his life.
Sometime later, following his recovery, Creighton returns to Omaha, Nebraska and plans the construction of a telegraph line from Omaha to Salt Lake City, Utah. Facing considerable opposition to the line from Confederate soldiers, Indians, and outlaws, Creighton elicits the help of his sister Sue (Virginia Gilmore), foreman Pat Grogan (Minor Watson), and assistant Homer Kettle (Chill Wills).
Looking to put his outlaw past behind him, Shaw arrives at Creighton's Western Union office looking for honest work and is hired as a scout by Grogan who is unaware of his past. Creighton recognizes him among the men and allows him to stay despite his suspicions. Creighton also hires tenderfoot Richard Blake (Robert Young), a Harvard-educated engineer as a favor to Blake's father. Shaw and Blake are both attracted to Sue and vie for her attention, but their romantic rivalry is cut short when construction of the telegraph line starts on July 4, 1861.
After work commences on the line, one of the men is killed apparently by a mysterious band of cattle-rustling Indians. Unconvinced that Indians are to blame, Shaw rides out to investigate and follows the rustlers' trail to the camp of Jack Slade, a former friend and cohort, whose gang committed the killing disguised as Indians—the gang Shaw left following his last bank robbery. Slade reveals that they are working for the Confederacy to disrupt Western Union because they believe the telegraph service will help the Union. Shaw rides away and returns to the line. Not wanting to turn in his former friends, Shaw tells Creighton that a large band of Dakota Indians stole the cattle, and recommends that they simply replace the herd and not risk a fight with the Indians.
Sometime later, a confrontation takes place between men working on the forward line and a band of drunken Indians. When one of the Indians tries to steal some equipment, a nervous Blake shoots him, ignoring Shaw's order to remain calm. After word arrives that the main camp is under attack by other Indians, the Western Union men rush back to help with the defense. At the main camp, Slade's men, who are again disguised as Indians, steal the Western Union horses. The company discover the ruse when one of the wounded Indians turns out to be a white man. Forced to buy back their stolen horses from Slade, Creighton becomes suspicious of Shaw's involvement, especially when he admits to knowing the gang.
Soon the U.S. Army arrives and announces the Indians have now refused to allow the telegraph lines to go through their territory in response to Blake's shooting of the drunken Indian. Creighton, Shaw, and Blake ride out to convince Chief Spotted Horse to allow them to build the line through Indian territory, even though the man Blake wounded was Spotted Horse's son. Creighton is finally able to persuade the Indians to allow them passage, and work continues until the company approaches Salt Lake City.
Sometime later, Shaw receives word that Jack Slade wants to meet with him. On the way to see Slade, Shaw is captured and bound by Slade's men. Slade says his group is going to burn down the Western Union camp and they don't want Shaw to interfere. After Slade and his men ride off, Shaw escapes from his ropes but arrives back too late to prevent the fire. He helps rescue some of the Western Union men from the flames and burns his hands in the process.
After the fire, Creighton confronts Shaw for an explanation, but Shaw does not reveal what he knows and is fired by Creighton. As Shaw leaves the camp, he tells Blake that Slade is actually Shaw's brother and that he, Shaw, will find Slade's gang and stop them from interfering with the telegraph project. Shaw rides off and finds Slade and his men in a nearby town. At the barber shop, Shaw confronts his brother, whose gun is concealed under the barber's sheet. Slade shoots Shaw through the sheet. Shaw fights back in spite of his wound, killing some of the gang members, and then dies. Blake arrives and continues the fight with Slade who dies from his wounds. Soon after, the Western Union line is completed and the workers celebrate. When Sue laments the absence of Shaw, Creighton tells her that Shaw can hear them.
最后居然还“献给留在故乡的人”“也献给外出的游子”“以及迷失了自己的人”，这是拍电影，不是写散文诗！
装腔作势地跟拍一段无逻辑的运动，随后的大全景自曝其片场实质，电影小镇级别的置景完全僵死，人物在各种精致构图的钳制下如同木偶。为什么要对标《罗马》？几乎和国产片水平差不多，报奥斯卡之前不如先来春节档走一圈，让大伙看看北爱版《我和我的父辈》
2022.02.17一个人在蓝湾看。以小城窥大世：生存的困，时代的苦，小情的囧，大情的难。两个点：爷爷去世的萨克斯，88岁Dench最后的“Go. Go now. Don't look back”及门后垂首，以及小尾巴“For the ones who stayed. For the ones who left. And for all the ones who were lost.” 3星半。
男人的乡愁永远如此平庸，不舍得过去，不敢面对未来，最后还是女人决定要离开，女人说don't look back。但总的来说，很平庸的电影。
电影一般。不过字幕组能把“England”翻译成“英格兰”而不是“英国”么？人在北爱尔兰，还说自己背井离乡去“英国”，emmm……
前部分以为是讲一个北爱尔兰留守儿童的故事，后面发现是往故乡主题发展的。片尾字幕：致那些留下的故人，致那些离开的游子，以及所有迷失的人。
致留下的，致远游的，致迷失的，致敬回不去的
非常勉强的及格。100分钟的电影几次无聊到暂停。又是老电影串烧，又是金曲串烧，还有雷神漫画，还到处念诗。看不到什么情怀，只有一股逮着往里塞的感觉。和《罗马》比实在是有点碰瓷，感觉更可以相比的是德尼罗的那部《布朗克斯故事》，可惜比起那部也是远远不如，一堆莫名其妙的构图和节奏奇葩的剪辑。不过里面确实有一些挺触动我的地方，不至于让我太厌恶。
没去电影院看因为怕我只能听懂十句话（。但总之我自己还是挺喜欢的，北美移民家庭人看到最后还是无法克制地哭了一会
小朋友可爱，但是电影匠气十足，看后越想越觉得难看
不太行，演员很卖力，但是剧本不行，不知道怎么拿的提名的
这个广角大景和个色视角畸变的构图实在太像一个我喜欢不来的合作摄像的习惯了看得受伤。剪辑和调度也是跳来跳去，故事本身也没有多吸引人，感觉在看一个片场…
一些片段的剪辑速度似乎与画面构图有仇，摆出如此精致的构图，还没来得及仔细看，剪辑很快切到下一个画面。同样是小孩子的视角，以告别和成长为主题，这么对比《八月》真棒啊，声画都有雕刻时光的味道。
{★★☆} 这不是个轻松的决定：我相信Kenneth Branagh童年的图像，也相信他在镜头后忠于这份图像。但看完后数日，我脑内却难以回忆起几个这部致敬Branagh所成长街区的电影里，在那条街区上生活的被挤压、坚守或放弃的人们。就像孩子模糊的念想，贝尔法斯特变成了一个抽象的概念。有地标、有伤痕、有欢笑，却没有一个让他不舍离去的理由。
音乐铺得有一点满，虽然用了黑白但是整体镜头给得非常工业化，buddy和爷爷聊“离开”这件事时挺动人的。
不是套个黑白滤镜就怀旧复古高级了，电影院屏幕画面是彩色的看的人却是黑白的，这个设计没理解出彩的点在哪，从故事到叙事都平庸，一些构图和镜头语言更不明表里，奥斯卡最佳影片居然入围这部都没有暗处的女儿，实在不解。
像是《罗马》但又不一样 相同的可能都只是导演对童年的怀念 一开始的空镜我好喜欢 虽然故事不太吸引我可是画面很喜欢
Someone stayed, someone left, someone were lost…
很多部分在怀旧感人和用力过度做作之间左右横跳，不明所以。新教旧教双方观点，留守的离开的，啥都提了但啥也没说个所以然，连个对立的情绪都给的不到位，高潮靠动作戏也是醉了。bgm听得只觉得吵闹，并且和一看就是编剧写的过度用力的做作的部分非常不搭黑白影像，更进一步怀疑黑白的必要性。
能不能别套那么多公式啊😅
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