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.
一地鸡毛的中年生活，偶然闪现的回忆重召；看似没有拐点也无从前进的人生，总要选择倒退，才能有新的方式行走。选择轻剧情的方式剖视生活危机，并串联回忆与往事；甜蜜与酸涩并存，配搭时间符号（地震、全输的世界杯再到空无一人的东京大街）…这般掌控之下，竟然也细煲出如散文诗的别致味道。
“因为你内心很冷漠，所以对别人表现得很温柔”，年纪越大越是认清自己。
节奏略慢，片尾还有个彩蛋。大人只是一种定义，别人给与的的定义，无论你主观上愿不愿意接受，你都将会被社会同化
讲述了一个到了46岁仍然没有勇气面对生活的家伙，以初恋女友为借口浑浑噩噩的活了20多年的倒叙故事
至于为何香织（伊藤莎莉）会在2000年的第一天弃男主而去：要知道香织是很有想法的女孩。两人从一开始每一步都是女方主动的：见面的方式，去宾馆约会，租车出游...。虽然电影没有告诉我们是什么让香织下定决心弃男主而去，但显然香织否定了男主提出同居的建议。可能是觉得男主终不是她心目中可以结婚的对象。情侣分手多不是一个原因造成，但必有最后的一根稻草。
日本片名都好郭敬明风...很丧很悲凉，但可能是薄荷糖倒叙的手法印象太深刻，这一部用相同的回溯，把明信片作为穿插的载体，就显得很平淡。男主就像是被动的活在世界里，被动地接受工作、爱情，第一次被带去开房时闪烁的灯光，和开头时房间外扑灭的东京塔，不变的是男主没有“爱人”的能力。
电影里反复出现的点题句可以用来评论这部电影——“真的太普通”！十多年前会因为蓝色大门里“我们会成为什么样的大人”共鸣共情，十多年后对我们无法成为像样的大人生活归于普通终于孤独这种非常容易共鸣的内核却无法共鸣共情，真不是我变了，而是因为当代文艺片实在太差了，形式承载不了内容，内容撑不起情感，就很容易矫情了……要看这种倒叙时间线我不如去看不可撤销，好歹还有贝鲁奇。
为什么要这么说，
最后那一段在出租车上，看到窗外过去的场景片段，包括最后一场戏，他用尽全力奔跑，看见的也都只是过去的回忆，可还是…“好普通”，没能成为特别的人，也没能长成大人。
当人到中年，回首过往，每段经历都令人唏嘘。不管拥有多丧或者多愤怒的青春，最终都只能不可避免地成为无聊的大人。伊藤莎莉虽然外形不够出色，但灵气十足，引入注目。
普通就好了。
過往遇到的人成為現在的你。
因为一开始就知道现在的样子，所以倒叙着感觉到大家的变化好像也觉得理所当然，但是其实大家都想成为有趣的大人过。最后一个人漫无目的地在深夜的街头走着，觉得自己还是无法成为大人。感觉这个电影大概是除了我这类人绝对看不下去会睡着的那种电影。
倒叙的方式像走马灯似的回顾自己的青春好像也有那么点意思，感情线不过是个幌子。我们都无法成为大人，其实是无法成为理想中的大人，可是只要我们不堕落，普通，就已经是很难得了。
我觉得唯一的问题就是太长了，本来就是倒叙，开头看的时候真的不知所云的地方很多。这对于展现电影的主旨挺好的，可你的大脑真的很难记住很多细节。我感觉导演已经很尽力去暗示你这里是知识点这里你记一下，但是两个小时还是太长了。
我的身体里，充满了尚未成佛的词语。可我也不能永远带着你，不管哪里都去。
没有太看懂，大概因为有些部分没有共情吧。喜欢主角坐着taxi，伴随着小泽健二的歌，一路是过往的片段。觉得演员还挺厉害的，算是比较有跨度的戏，特别是从青涩时期转变到成熟的那段，觉得对比很大。
看有短評說像另一版本的花束 可惜男女主顏值都不是我的菜 實在撐不過10分鐘
46岁才终于变成无聊的大人的吗？太碎了，歌还行。
近年隔一阵子就出来一部用怀旧表达人生迷茫的中年危机电影，这部里的各种要素实在是太烂熟太套路化了（
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