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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.
Extended Reading
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Virgil 2021-12-12 08:01:16
For the government, the stupid the people, the better.
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Colleen 2022-04-23 07:02:16
Only after watching "Details of Democracy" did I know this movie. I was not interested in most of the political themes, although I was surrounded by big politics to move forward and survive. The media should be an independent third party, and it is not the mouthpiece of any political party that speaks to Pulitzer. The reporters in the movie are all elegant and handsome, because they dare to bear the pressure. I've always liked the "screwed" media, the people and teams who stand up and tell the truth!
Good Night, and Good Luck. quotes
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Edward R. Murrow: He was one of those civilized individuals who did not insist upon agreement with his political principals as a precondition for conversation or friendship.
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Edward R. Murrow: That's why I never plan ahead.
William Paley: Really? Because you never know...
[Drops an envelope full of evidence suggesting Murrow was on the Soviet Union's payroll]
Edward R. Murrow: Been reading fiction?
William Paley: I really hope so. You tell me.
Edward R. Murrow: Well, now we know how they will come after us.
William Paley: This is just their first shot. Somebody's going to go down.