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.
太致郁了太致郁了太致郁了，下次心情不好不要再看战争片了。
多少有点水土不服，但还是我爱的是枝裕和，全宇宙最温柔的导演
反杀加一星。其他部分没什么感觉，到底算通灵题材还是怎样。
《我眼中的阴影》发生在第二次世界大战期间 ，讲述了1945 年哥本哈根盖世太保总部被炸事件，这是二战期间丹麦最悲惨的事件之一，当时皇家空军误炸了哥本哈根的法国学校，造成多名儿童和修女死亡
“总有一天，你得站出来保护你自己。”
战争车轮下最惨的还是妇女儿童，这群投错炸弹的英军上军事法庭没？
唯一的「敗筆」是萊姆雖被埋，說話依然元氣滿滿～
看完我只有what the fuck形容了，伊桑霍克演了个这么肤浅的角色，我一直以为这片子有什么特别？？
想法挺好，可以做的再极致些。伊森霍克最近老演坏人。
隐约地觉得像沙马兰的《分裂》，但恰好相反这部的反派塑造有些肤浅薄弱单一。
的邪恶」。
喜欢开头的钢琴曲，喜欢最后的结局，其余的也没有什么特别喜欢的地方了。
几乎就是小丑回魂翻版，前面大量铺垫基本都是浪费，反派也是毫无意义 😓
一部根据真实历史事件改编的电影，能拍得如此失败，也真是少见。二战结束时，英军的误炸，导致近百人死亡，大多是孩子。如此事件，客观地平铺直叙，也会拍得让人震惊。该片导演却无谓地给故事增添了不少东西，视角又不断地转移，还一味地煽情，影片的叙事弄得乱糟糟的。如无必要，勿增实体。此片导演还真需要认真思考一下奥卡姆剃刀的原理。
剧情太弱了，比《小丑回魂》差的不是一点半点啊；不仅是电话的意象old，作用都是一个，一点惊喜没有；如果当幻觉讲某几个孩子的提示根本胡扯，开门密码和砸墙不可能；ethan线就没展开讲；妹妹是蛮可爱的，但故事线就没用；这最后🍊破案结局扯到以为是➖鈡独占结尾……
所以总得来说，密室逃生、灵异加心理困境，每个都想沾一下，结果就拍出来既不好看，又满是bug。一般我都会觉得很多恐怖片评分太低，而这部，我觉得评分太高了。
如果有上帝，如果它依著自己的樣子造的我們。那爲什麽我們有這麽多戰爭，爭鬥。上帝是否有能力創造另一個上帝？如果可以，兩個上帝是否會打起來還是和平共處？
近乎真实还原了英军误炸法语女校事件，战争的残酷与惨烈，多处令人窒息。炸弹、女童、鲜血，还有上帝的假寐。
后半段情绪像洪水一样倾斜，演员表现力太强了
前面真的有点看不下去，尤其裴斗娜这个人物背景没有交代的很完整让人一头雾水。但是进入了后半段，从洗车戏开始就渐入佳境，依旧是这样非血缘关系的亲情关系探讨，是枝裕和纯熟的令人感动的剧本力量。“谢谢你出生在这个世界”这句话能感动大部分人。
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