In the afternoon, I watched Director Si's "Washington Post". When I first heard about this film, I was a little skeptical. I always felt that this kind of film should not have much condiments, but after watching the film, I was slapped in the face again. .
This film mainly tells about the leak of the "Pentagon Papers". In 1971, a Department of Defense official exposed the secret documents of the US government's involvement in the Vietnam War through the "New York Times", "Washington Post" and other media. Previous attempts by the U.S. Department of Defense to obstruct the release of the documents have failed.
The plot is simply like this, but the fascinating point of the film from the beginning is that the upper management knows that this victory cannot be won, and on the plane, his superiors have already asked the relevant researchers, but he just got off the plane. To reporters, we saw that the faces of the upper class changed so quickly that the scholars who answered the questions of the higher-ups on the plane were particularly surprised.
Maybe it was because of a sense of responsibility. Later, the researcher made a backup of the relevant research materials. Maybe he also knows the seriousness of the situation and what this document will mean to the government and himself once it is exposed. So when he took the document and walked out of the Pentagon, we still saw his hesitation;
It was only later that he bravely took a crucial step, perhaps a small step for him, but frankly speaking, for the American press and publishing industry, this is bound to be a classic case that will go down in history.
Because if there is no report on the Vietnam War, the US media may still be an official vassal, and there is no such thing as a conscientious media for the people's right to know.
With the end of the "Pentagon Papers" incident, it also marked the beginning of the discredit of the federal government led by Nixon, and the subsequent Watergate incident directly led to the downfall of the Nixon government. Here we can also see the important role that the media played in the whole event.
What I'm particularly curious about is that, at an important juncture, Aunt May's character perfectly illustrates the courage of a woman in power. Although from Hanks' point of view, he thinks it's nothing, but Hanks' wife deeply knows what this decision means to Aunt May and the Washington Post.
And this film also tells us that when we make some major decisions, we will inevitably face some pressures and trade-offs, but standing in the long river of history, both you and I need to know what this decision means to the same industry or to the entire country? Maybe in the end most of us will succumb to pressure, but very few of us end up fighting against authority. And it is because of these people that we finally see the world continue to evolve for the better.
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