Many Chinese admire the film because it tells the triumph of press freedom.
Let's first look at the 1950s of the last century. Due to the shadow of World War II and authoritarian factors, the whole world was guilty of a left-leaning problem. The United States later led to the further outbreak of civil rights. This is a political progress, and Europe is somewhat special. , which led to the rise of the new wave, which was an alternative style of artists, but the East became more authoritarian, and only then did the Cultural Revolution suffer. Therefore, we are somewhat unbalanced psychological factors, and therefore have a kind of respect for this film.
But in my opinion, this kind of reverence is blind. Moruo's heroic deeds have no room for legend in the East. Just like we say that Mr. Lu Xun was lucky or unfortunate if he survived the Cultural Revolution, this kind of assumption is boring. , but no one dares to face it directly, because the answers we think of are often terrible, why, because history has proved that there is no good hope in our thinking, so there is a whole country's blind behavior, and the American Morrow-style survival The environment is very different.
Admittedly, Moruo is a fighter, but in China he is just another monster, I am afraid this is beyond doubt, because of this, we see Moruo's heroic will produce a kind of inferiority, this inferiority causes We admire this film. It's not how good this film is, how exciting, how heart-shattering.
Maybe saying the above remarks means that I am a pessimist, let's not think about it for the time being! In line with the fast food era, we must be truthful, the news must be truthful, and we must have a conscience. Unlike the political environment of that era, the infiltration of business into the press is even more terrifying. Although personal freedom is not necessarily persecuted, the masses are in a kind of In the process of deception, the right to know has been seriously tarnished, business has blinded the conscience and truth of the press, and then the press has blinded the conscience and truth of the audience. In this cycle, there is no truth, where is the fighter!
The above is based on feelings, not in the list of film reviews, just to illustrate that if political factors are involved in the analysis of this film, it will be unfair to a large extent, especially for us, this horizontal comparison is also insignificant. It is meaningless, Chinese-style barbarism has always coexisted with civilization, and it is reasonable to explode in a timely manner. This is incomparable to the United States, which has only a history of more than 200 years.
Going back to the film, black and white, retro, all these create the characteristics of the film, and at the same time bring the audience into the context of that era, the form is reflected in the content, which is more perfect.
But it's a pity that the opening chapter was a big failure. Morrow's speech, the following group of life is long and boring, I really can't understand, there is no necessary plot for the characters, why is there such a paragraph? It would be better if it was placed at the end. After all, the audience already had a sense of identity with Morrow at that time, so this kind of group appearance appeared in a timely manner, indicating that it was a people's will. But at the beginning, I felt a little bit inexplicable.
To be honest, after reading such a beginning, I felt somewhat disgusted in my heart, so drowsiness struck. But fortunately, the anti-McCarthy plot did not let me down. The memories of the whole film were completed in one go, especially in the rhythm control.
The rhythm of a film probably needs to be composed of several aspects, such as speed of speech, editing, length of scenes and so on.
This film has done a very good job in this regard. The first is the speed of speech, which is the most important part of the film. It was determined by the character Morrow, and in the environment at that time, everyone was in danger. Under the living conditions of the TV station, including the nature of the work of the TV station itself, the importance of the speed of speech is determined. It is not only fast, but also loud and clear. We can take this film as a model for a courtroom film, but the courtroom scenes in the plot are a bit pale in the way of documentary interpretation, and this paleness just shows that the McCarthys are unwarranted and their theoretical arguments Therefore, the speed of speech of Morrow and his colleagues not only played a role in speeding up the rhythm, but also made clear the position of justice and injustice.
Editing is another feature of this film. We don't see any fancy things at all. They are very conventional. With conventional black and white images, they are clean and neat, so that people can't feel the influence of watching movies brought by editing. This is also very in line with the story of the film. It is rigorous and serious, and has a sense of the times at the time, and it plays a certain role in rendering the characters of the people in the play. This is a necessary means, and it has nothing to do with retro.
The change of the scene is also one of the prominent features of this film. In fact, the scenes of this film are very fragmented, and there is very little dialogue in each scene. Even when Morrow is sitting in front of the camera on the show, due to the fast language, the sharp The political commentary is also not felt for too long in this scene. There was almost no scene-jumping scene, and this triviality just reflected the nature of the work of TV workers and the debate-like tension at the time.
Finally, it should be noted that Morrow's performance can indeed be amazing, and will never lose to Hoffman in "Capote". The tragic image of pity is displayed on the screen. Moreover, the performances of his colleagues are also moderate, which makes people feel that the reason why this group of journalists can disagree with McCarthy has the capital, and it is also very convincing.
Therefore, apart from the group photo scene at the beginning, which made me a little dazed, this film is basically a pretty good film, but if I were to be a self-reference, I would lose a lot of the film itself. This reference simply cannot be established.
2006-10-9 in Tongzhou
Han Xi
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