美国爱经

　　20世纪80年代，美丽的女大学生萨曼莎·休斯（乔塞琳·多纳休 Jocelin Donahue 饰）看上一间公寓，好心的女房东已经免去了麻烦的保证金，不过萨曼莎还是要为了每月的房租而努力。她从布告栏找到一份保姆的工作，当晚，萨曼莎的好友梅根（格蕾塔·葛韦格 Greta G erwig 饰）送她前往雇主家面试。梅根对这份工作颇有顾忌，而萨曼莎似乎急于赚钱，全不在意。　　雇主乌尔曼夫妇住在荒郊野外的一幢老式别墅中，这里没有小孩需要照看，文森特·乌尔曼先生（汤姆·诺南 Tom Noonan 饰）要为他生病的母亲找一位护理人员。萨曼莎起初惴惴不安，但看在钱的份上她最终选择留在这里。而她将为这个选择后悔莫及……

一份不祥的求助信被传到了20世纪80年代的一家邮局里，将一名死信调查员与一名被绑架的键盘技术员联系起来。

　　Can I Get a Witness? tells the story of a mother and daughter in a near-future world where huge sacrifices are made to maintain life on Earth.　　With its resources swallowed by e-waste and overpopulation, the world is experiencing an anthropogenic collapse. To manage, technological advances are shunned. Nobody has electricity and only people with exceptions are permitted cars. Most importantly, there is also a collective agreement that nobody is allowed to live beyond the age of 50.　　Oh’s Ellie lives with her teenage daughter Kiah (Keira Jang), who is starting her first day as a Documenter, an important role in this new world order. She uses her artistic gifts — beautifully conjured in animations — to draw the dying ceremonies, since printing and photography have been banned.　　Kiah is paired with Daniel (Joel Oulette), the young man who performs the contractual elements of each person’s end-of-life ceremony. He matter-of-factly provides the packages a person can choose, sets them up when the time comes, and performs the burials. But his new coworker is having a hard time handling the emotional impacts of the job.

本片以乡村考古为背景，讲述少女露西与母亲卡罗琳重返家族故地时，意外揭开一段被岁月掩埋的亲情谜团。露西在两只神秘灵雀的指引下，与好友化身“小侦探”，通过老宅残片、褪色信件与家族旧物，逐步拼凑出曾祖母时代因战乱而断裂的情感纽带。这部别致的定格动画采用手工剪纸方式制作，创作团队用2000个纸偶和826个布景拍摄，堪称完成了一项不可能的工作。片中既有细腻舒缓的情绪铺陈，也不乏快速剪辑的惊险片段。导演安东尼·兰席奥以一段层层递进的冒险旅程为载体，娓娓道来几代人之间的情感牵绊，描绘出一部充满诗意、幽默和温情的动画佳作。