Sad after watching it

Marie 2022-04-19 09:02:00

After watching it, I regret that "Good Night and Good Luck" was unlucky at the Oscars. Looking at the predictions of the media before the awards, "Good Night and Good Luck" is the second seed in both the best picture and the best director. In the end, it only won the best supporting actor, which is considered to be George Clooney. A small compensation. Black and white films are used to reflect historical events. "Schindler's List" has been used for a long time, but I still admire the director's courage and ambition. He is not shooting a story, but just like a documentary to record a similar story during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The work of a group of people in a political environment. For people like me who don't understand McCarthyism, after watching this film, I don't necessarily gain much insight into that history, but what I saw through the film was the character of American journalists in the 1950s. In fact, there are many such films praising freedom and justice fighters, but basically none of them were made in China. This is to mention the recent big change of "Southern Weekend" and the collective sabotage of "Beijing News". Only in a democratic country like the United States, journalists are truly uncrowned kings, and those journalists in China are at most some so-called literati who eat, drink, and have fun, and their sense of justice has long since disappeared in their hearts. So far, I have watched four of the five best films nominated for this year's Oscars. If you want to arrange the seats, "Crash" is first, "Good Night and Good Luck" is second, and "Brokeback Mountain" is third.

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Good Night, and Good Luck. quotes

  • Don Hollenbeck: [to Murrow, after his interview with Liberace] You're getting really good at this; people might think you actually like it.

  • Sig Mickelson: [to Murrow] Go after Joe Kennedy, I'll pay you for that.