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Margarette 2022-04-23 07:02:00

The film presents audiences with the nerve-wracking weeks of that June, a tight-paced, exciting, and detailed narrative for what could have been a boring story, and it's neat and thematically focused. Powerful, always focused on whether or not to report this potentially incendiary truth. Although the first half of the film is too protracted and loose, people are still very dazed and confused after 30 minutes of watching it. But the following plot narrative quickly got on the right track, making the overall structure fairly compact. In general, this film has a deep and serious theme. Except for the procrastination and trivialness of the first half, the overall rhythm of the film is relatively good. Lao Si's exploration of the theme and content is stable, which can be called an excellent work.

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  • Vinnie 2022-03-22 09:01:46

    A relatively modest adaptation for the publication of the Pentagon Papers. Unlike Spotlight, which focuses on digging for clues, the film talks more about the relationship between the media and the government. Although the whole is of course a hymn to the "fourth power", the reflection on the media interspersed is extremely valuable. At the same time, it is not easy and "timely" to use the role of Aunt Mei to express the difficulty of women in the workplace. However, obviously due to the tight production cycle, the editing is a bit messy

  • Brenda 2022-03-28 09:01:03

    Although this is just a very neat and typical American theme movie aimed at winning the award, as a movie itself, there is nothing outstanding, but it still makes me want to cry. . . Because in that era, news could be worth every word and change the direction of the era. In that era, there were countless Americans who could put aside their left and right positions and stand up against the country purely to defend the freedom of the press and to prevent the abuse of power. machine. So in that era, no matter how violent and unscrupulous Nixon was, he could still be defeated by the joint efforts of countless famous and unknown warriors. . . Today, although there are still such journalists in the United States, there are still brave men who dare to stand up in front of Congress to accuse the abuse of power, and there are still whistleblowers who are willing to take risks in order to defend democracy, but times have changed. Social media, political propaganda, and the populist frenzy have made everything that once saved America irrelevant. This is the best era for the strong,

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  • Daniel Ellsberg: Someone said this at some point about why we stayed when we knew we were losing. Ten percent was to help the South Vietnamese. Twenty percent was to hold back the Commies. Seventy percent was to avoid the humiliation of an American defeat. Seventy percent of those boys just to avoid being humiliated? That stuck with me.

  • Fritz Beebe: The company's selling how many shares?

    Kay Graham: 1.35 million shares.

    Fritz Beebe: Price range is?

    Kay Graham: Between 24.50 and 27 dollars per share.

    Fritz Beebe: Not exactly a huge difference.

    Kay Graham: For them! But, you know, the bankers always fiddle with the prices. But, for *us*, that's over 3 million dollars and that represents over 5 years salary for 25 good reporters.