公开听证 Public Hearing

Public Hearing is the verbatim re-performance of a rural American town meeting from a transcript downloaded as publicly available information. Shot entirely in cinematic close-up on black-and-white 16mm film, a cast of actors and non-actors read between the lines in an ironic debate over the replacement of an existing Wal-Mart with a super Wal-Mart

《公开听证 Public Hearing》的演员表演都很自然，剧情和人物也比较合理，没有太多的刻板印象，特别是在人物塑造上非常好，尤其是演员饰演的人物特别到位。

多线叙事交织得很清晰，最后收束得漂亮。

很适合全家一起看，不同年龄层都能找到共鸣。

导演James N. Kienitz Wilkins的叙事手法很新颖，打破传统套路。