visual media

Kirstin 2022-04-21 09:02:27

I would like to share with you my own thoughts on stream-of-consciousness in the movie. The points are scattered and may be one-sided. Welcome to exchange and discuss.

The first time Roger proposed to let the interviewees turn around to see their bodies, almost all girls would be stunned; but when Roger said "Come on, this is visual media", most girls seemed to acquiesce to this sentence , and then really got up and turned around.

Visual media does not seem to be fake, nor is it fake that most female anchors have beautiful long legs and exquisite makeup, and Roger's lustful heart under the authoritative and professional appearance must not be fake.

From the glamorous anchor station, to the small room that only you and I know, from the legendary figure who generates 1/3 of the family's income, to the middle-aged man who asks for oral, from the bright and talented students who graduated from the top schools, to succumbed to The unspoken rules of the workplace, where exactly caused this serial sexual incident in the first place. Is it wrong with the visual media, or because the female anchor is beautiful, or because Roger is lustful.

It seems to be driven by nature. In a high-light moment, everyone is chasing exciting visuals, female anchors release the charm of women, and men have lustful hearts in the face of such charm, visual impact, desire to drive away, coupled with empowerment, there seems to be a gap between extreme professionalism and extreme unprofessionalism. Nor is a spectrum so far away.

Of course, like all news or documentaries, all the blame must end up on Roger, who is absolutely wrong. This is a reasonable ending.

Of course, I've seen women's rights and workplace sexual assault, but since it's a movie, not just a piece of news, what I want to capture is what "this person" is like, not what the matter is. of.

Except for the blond silly white sweet who is a fledgling little screw like most young people, you will find that most of the main characters in this movie are people who have earned the upper hand after fighting in a world that is seen as cruel, or For the elite class, it is difficult to discover the "human" or "emotional" side of this person from the work environment or even private life.

Therefore, the most impressive thing for me in the whole movie, and the expressions of the two characters who accidentally revealed "human nature" are the expressions of the two characters.

The first look was Roger's face in the car after the sexual harassment incident first broke, facing someone he trusted.

Roger

The lady just said, "Are you ok?"

And Roger just looked at her and said nothing.

At that moment, Roger's expression was that of a poor and even helpless middle-aged man.

I think Roger at that moment was the most like a middle-aged man in the whole movie. He was no longer the CEO of the famous FOX TV. He was no longer the female anchor who rudely said to the cameraman during the live broadcast, "The camera is a little wider. Slap her leg!" is no longer aggressive in the face of the media and will never lose.

That scene made me think about how many children Roger and his wife have, how he treats his children, what kind of father image he is, how his children think of Roger, and what impressions or impressions he has of his own father. Labels, how far are these labels from "my father was a long-term sexually abusive colleague".

And at the moment the news broke, what kind of mood would his children welcome the news.

In real life, everyone plays multiple roles at the same time. In theory, the evaluation of a person is either a single point of evaluation in a role, or the sum of all roles.

However, in public perception and public opinion, it seems that if a person fails in a certain role, he will all fail in the eyes of the public.

Public opinion continues to ferment, news heats up, and a scandal becomes a "hot spot", pulling down a person to become a hot spot, and finally a platform, such as Weibo.

Of course Roger is absolutely wrong, but it is precisely the breaking news in the press, the industry that communicates itself, that seems to have an extra layer of irony.

The second look is that the most powerful female anchor is in the elevator, watching the scene of the young silly Bai Tian walking towards Roger's unspoken small room.

The most powerful female anchor

Her expression at that moment showed that she fully knew what was going to happen, and she also fully saw that Silly Baitian was panicked and eager to help.

She didn't say anything, just gave Silly Baitian a meaningful look when she was in the elevator, and kept staring at the direction where Silly Baitian was going while the elevator door slowly closed.

The characters of the most powerful female anchors in the movie are undoubtedly dazzling, have a successful career, and have almost no shortcomings.

The point that just made me think is that when I may become a powerful person in the workplace in the future, I fully know "what to do" and what is professional.

However, my profound meaning and my silence and restraint prove that I am strong or that I am not so strong.

Aside from these two character shots, in general, the script events are indeed off topic, in line with breaking news, but the extension of the content, especially the character characterization, may be limited by time and a little dull.

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  • Dagmar 2022-04-23 07:02:31

    What saddens me the most is not wasting time on such rote movies, but that two of the three heroines have frozen faces and can't express their expressions. What's even scarier is that I'm still a fan of the two of them!

  • Charlene 2022-04-23 07:02:31

    5.0 started out in a fast paced and orderly manner, with a lot of rapid lens pushing and shaking, creating a tense, compact, and closely connected high-density rhythm and atmosphere. Like the antonym of "Focus", it is extremely "publicized" in various degrees. But suddenly the whole thing falls apart in the middle, and the narrative, editing, and perspective are all in disarray. If you lose, you will lose. The process and results from no one standing to countless standing ups have all failed. It was originally a very tense conflict, but it also made a kind of "antonym". Wanting to use the political background to sublimate the whole has a very absolute political stance, and the political expression of the whole film is radical and naive, but the biggest problem is that there is no deep thinking about this problem itself, only shouting. called protest. If the characters are done well, they may be able to recover, but they spend a lot of time on group portraits, and finally the main character collapses and the secondary character is a paper man. The performances of the three heroines were all wasted.

Bombshell quotes

  • Megyn Kelly: All I want is for this to go away, Roger.

    Roger Ailes: Look, every general in history has gone into battle feeling the same.

  • Gretchen Carlson: Do you know why we dress soldiers the same? So everybody knows they're replaceable.