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.
时间跨度这么大，想要的太多反而什么都不能得到，童年的那段描写即多余又拖沓。
5星给原作（生活没不好过的人看了感受不到啥，就打个2星。呸，就算过着好日子的人不少又和我们这种社会地位低的人有何关系？富人、社会地位高的人们总是有无限的选择权，不曾体会将来也不会体会到的痛苦对他们而言是没有意义的正如此片，只不过看看演员（小说改编（作者在小说繁体中文版后记中的话:
也是这样，想说话，却支支吾吾的，表达不出来
7分。准确的说，不算是犯罪片吧。破案的过程和谁是凶手并不是本片的重点，重点在于探寻为什么会发生这样的惨剧。日本地震后产生了很多消极影响，比如很多人因为地震陷入了极度贫困。日本的法律规定，低保必须本人亲自申请，所以并不是所有贫困人口的生活都能得到保障。电影中因贫穷和饥饿死去的奶奶，就是得不到保护的人。她因为个人原因放弃申请低保，而政府工作人员却放任了她这种行为，最终导致悲剧发生。这些政府工作人员法律上并无责任，在地震后他们的工作量剧增，他们自己失去了亲友，还要面对繁重的工作，早就疲惫不堪，于是产生了“反正不可能救助到所有人”的心理。假如他们就是那“百分之一”的卑劣者，那么乘以基数，这个系统中就有成千上万这样的人。可悲的是，国内也在发生着相似的事情。
盛夏未来让我坐立不安，这个打分也是奇奇怪怪的，文艺片果然是不受钟爱，我和我朋友包场电影院了，两个人聊讨论，人，还是要真的脚踏实地之时，才能真的发自内心地探索生命的意义。
大概猜到了结局。提前规划养老储备金很重要，呜呜。
关于普通公民如何被“正常”饿死的故事。这个当口看感触会格外深刻。关键它不光写了表象，还探索了造成这种情况的东方社会和人性的内层。触碰到了最关键的地方。
砂糖的造型不咋好看，宽叔也机器人了点，kento在线，果耶妹子感觉没以前好看；至于eita，还是那种贱贱的感觉，
なぜ、殺したのか
郭小鲁——永远不变。
三颗星鼓励“科幻片”。不过！搞不懂为什么一定要安排青梅竹马—青年分开—中年重新在一起的爱情，还拍的这么像几个花絮接在了一起。如果非要把感情和科幻集合，完全可以学学《降临》。
分几层来看这个电影哦，导演的能力不足应该扣两颗星，但是全员细腻演技又能补回来一颗心，说是悬疑那就是笑话了，导演想要把立意拔得很高，但是又讲不好故事。我本来是不那么喜欢短发造型的tkr的，但又因为感觉这个故事能和最近的上海共情，就看了，然后就拜倒在tkr的演技下了，全程没有什么妆造的变化，也没有浮于表面的情绪波澜，是以一种进入角色的方式，把他演绎出来。tkr真的是天赋型的演员啊，老天爷追着喂饭吃的那种吧！
徐静蕾：我对别人都是逢场作戏，唯独对你一如往昔。王朔：让我交出自由青春和我的笔，我也不会交出你。
题材非常棒，人物描写很细节，对于灾后人物心理的前后差别也非常耐人寻味。就是反转太明显，从惠姨去世同福利社对峙那眼神就感觉八九不离十了。刑警也很多槽点，比如凶手披着长发没带手套这样都没留下证据。但总体而言还是一部值得一看的电影。
从腐烂尸体上飘出的一缕残魄，仍带着尸体的衰朽气味
故事立意很好。但是，电影前半部分真的太平了，整体的冲突不够。小说里的很多细节没有拍出来，我记得是有死去的惠婆婆的胃里只有纸的描写的。片子整体呈现出压抑、悲伤的调性，如果能够再给多一点情绪和剧情的反差，对我而言会更理想。毕竟，一个预告片就让我去读了原小说，真的很期待过的。灾难夺去性命不是一瞬间完成的，在第一次爆发后，往每个人的心里塞回一些东西，让彼此伤害成为蔓延的瘟疫。而规则，永远是给守规之人的，那么善良的人，活该被放弃吗。请再多一点，保护善良的人吧。请再多一点，从自己身边做起，保护善良的品质吧！否则，遗留下来的，只能是全员恶人的未来了。这样的未来，还值得期待吗？
王传君是个好演员，王珞丹就算了。把对生死的思考一股脑地化作旁白表述出来，搞得电影像旁白配画面。旁白写得很好，画面也很好，后段回国了没旁白的部分也很好，但是凑成的电影实在不咋样。小孩部分像年代戏，青少年部分像青春戏，国外部分像科幻惊悚片，回国后部分拍出点贾樟柯的味道。拍得很用心，但不是部好电影。
震災は怪物だ。又是一部311震灾创伤片，霓虹金还真是能把大震灾题材翻来覆去地讲故事啊……应该也算是震灾10周年纪念片，濑濑敬久监督又一次选择了很稳的社会派题材然后很稳地讲完了它（并且依然稳定地没有新意），这种纪念题材给这位监督也算是一种稳不出错了。
怎么说呢，可能不是我喜欢的类型吧，依然是讲地震灾难之后给大家造成了后续的一些问题
后半段垮了，这样做实验是不能通过伦理委员会审查的，根本不可能这么做实验
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