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.
最喜欢中间说为什么选中了这个宇宙的女主，你一事无成，万事都糟糕，反倒让你拥有了无限种可能性。
此时很难不想起陈铭 站在宇宙中心呼唤爱
个人喜欢度：2星；从全片制作水准来看：3星。
形式上真的很华丽有趣，也看哭了。内容上老实说，对“妈妈”这个角色的描述也没什么新意。妈妈必须承担一切，理解一切。要救老救小，体谅和接受所有人。妈妈没有别的选择，有的话也不能选、不会选。流下的泪，可能并不是因为母爱，只是那些她没有可能拥有的自我，很多妈妈真的也不能拥有。
What the fuck did I just watch
太怪咖了我的妈呀！简直没有一处"正常"的喜剧点！无厘头、恶趣味，还有一个个奇葩的脑坑，使我每一次的"哈哈哈"都紧跟着"什么鬼!?!"。疯了整个宇宙，谁能想到，最后竟被悬崖上的两坨石头招哭了。
男女主的爱情也很感人
①「平行宇宙」和拯救世界的梗不過是一種形式主義的膚淺，很多觀眾卻以此為樂此不疲的有趣，頗為狹隘；②劇情幾乎是小兒科式的，而且西方環境下對於東方文化的「家庭困境」式解讀與理解也儼然成為當下的「流行」；③總體上電影符合一種「抖音」式低廉，包括關繼威的鹹魚翻身難道不是因為資本看中其「酷似成龍」？
1、这片子的最佳对照物其实是《你好李焕英》啊！2、绝望主妇在飞驰的过山车上一边上心理分析网课一边玩吴桥杂技，还要把所有踢出去的盘子（主题）接回来，编导技术性一流。属于必须在年富力强的时刻才能拍出这种聪明又缜密的片子。3、想象力超一流，但以此刺激亚裔中年女性复杂而疲惫的多角关系身心，诞生了一种又爽又不爽的体验，男编导让女性走传统男性英雄升级模板，却又竭力维持平衡，很不容易。4、明显看到亚洲各种文化符号在美国的流行度和刻板印象的糅杂。
这电影很绝，绝在用了几乎所有我对影视创作最讨厌的元素，集结拍成了这样一部混乱（自说为天马行空）的电影。电影从头到尾用了无数人物平行宇宙中的人脸特写剪辑成一堆，急速跳越企图做到瞬息全宇宙的概念，却不好好沉下心讲好任何一个宇宙里的故事。男主选角失败，插菊花大战、头顶干脆面大战，以及les情侣之间变成柔软的香肠双手，用脚弹琴等令人看得坐如针毡，最后来了两块石头，对白又苍白无力，看看《红楼梦》中的石头记，曹雪芹早在两百多年前就抒写得更富有哲理和想象力了。如果要小成本和比创意，不如从头到尾就拍那个山崖上的两块石头，从头到尾出字幕对白，讲好故事讲好人生大道理，倒也是一种新意。这样一部讲述家庭和母女关系的奇幻片，它本可把该讲的故事讲感动的，比如外公抓住gf的手用粤语说“女朋友”时多美好啊！
“正因为你什么都做不好，所以你无所不能。” 每一个失败的我分裂成优秀的我，另一个平行宇宙中不再渺小愚蠢的我。
中年妇女发疯文学，虽然最后还是 Love&Peace老套路，但真的让我找回了小时候热爱电影在录像厅激情澎湃又哭又笑的初心。
哪有那么多和解。还是be a rock比较实在。
4.概念也棒。亚裔家庭的代际纠纷，传统观念和现代观念的冲突，虚无主义与存在主义的对抗等。
男女主的爱情也很感人
自从看了刘擎的书以后，发现很多哲思的内核本质上都是一样的。
没想到这么稀碎也能是一部电影，我的最高评价也只能是有佳句无佳章了，虽然还蛮喜欢花样年华风格的段落，以及认可一切无用是为了让我们更好受。
4.0。1.又是内地互联网网红片，又被过誉。2.交代平行宇宙等一系列设定还算有趣，越往后越说教越偏商业类型片。3.致敬成龙功夫喜剧、《2001太空漫游》等太多影片，两段平行宇宙里石头的对白堪称想象力巅峰。4.开篇杨紫琼同一时间疲于处理大量的信息流，像极最近几年我自己的生活状态，零散和扁平化取代深度思考和专注度，久而久之彻底被压缩成碌碌无为的庸常，与其说家庭、女儿、爱人和解，不如先同自己和解。5.挥舞大长JB打架、利物肛插也算是恶趣味满满。
And I'm the only one who laughs
挺酷的，一些烂大街的元素和主题，却能剧作上三翻四抖讲得不油腻；有一些段落又真的很有新奇感，虽然缺少一些真正特别勾人的情感表达，但还是非常棒的执行力。
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