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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
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Edward R. Murrow: We will not walk in fear, one of another.
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Edward R. Murrow: No one familiar with the history of this country, can deny that congressional committees are useful. It is necessary to investigate before legislating. But the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one, and the Junior Senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always, that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep into our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men. Not from men who feared to write, to associate, to speak, and to defend the causes that were for the moment unpopular. This is no time for men who oppose Sen. McCarthy's methods to keep silent or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. We proclaim ourselves as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom wherever it continues to exist in the world. But we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. The actions of the Junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his, he didn't create this situation of fear, he merely exploited it, and rather successfully. Cassius was right, the fault dear Brutus is not in our stars, but in ourselves. Good night, and good luck.