Write this record and watch the movie again, first write it in a narrative way. At the same time, I found that Liu Xiaofeng's method of writing ethical analysis for the Gadfly can also be done in the way of characters, and I can make up later when I have time.
Plot introduction
The son of the female reporter Rachel and the daughter of the female agent Erica are studying in the same elementary school. Both of them have joined the mothers who take care of the children. Due to the different division of labor, the two have never met. Until one day, Rachel found Erica, who was watching children playing football, and said that she was a current affairs columnist who had worked for the Sun for five years. Tomorrow, the Sun will publish an article she wrote about Erica. She knew that Erica was a CIA agent who had been ordered to find out whether the assassination of the US President some time ago was related to Venezuela. After completing the mission and returning to China, Erica reported that Venezuela had nothing to do with the assassination, but the White House ignored the report and pointed the finger at Venezuela. The attack indicated that the commission was responsible for the assassination.
An absolute killer story. Once this incident is reported, the White House will face public doubts, and Erica's identity as an agent will also be exposed. For agents, identity is the most important. What’s more complicated is that Erica’s husband is an ambassador. He is dissatisfied with the current White House and wrote a lot of criticism. Even Erica himself cannot be sure whether her husband has exposed her identity. At the same time, she herself was also suspected whether she chose to find a safe channel to announce the matter because the report was ignored.
The film quickly advanced to the morning of the next morning, and the report attracted extreme attention from the media industry. Rachel was invited by the FBI to talk after sending her child to school. The prosecutor asked her to tell the source and asked her to talk to the source, asking the person to agree to announce her identity to protect Rachel, otherwise Rachel would go to jail. Because this report led to the leakage of state secrets and endangered national security. If Rachel rejects 1, she is doing something that endangers national security and flouts rights.
On the other hand, Rachel is on the side of the media she represents and needs her to protect the source of the news, because only in this way can it be ensured that when similar incidents of the government deceiving the public occur in the future, someone can tell the truth to the public and the media needs protection. Information channels, otherwise the truth will definitely disappear under the infiltration of power.
After returning to the newspaper, the lawyer learned that the prosecutor had met with Racel and told her that the federal government had no laws to investigate national security issues, even though 49 states had laws to protect journalists. But "someone has leaked the country's top secrets, this person is treason." That's how the federal government sees it. The power of the special prosecutor is higher than that of the FBI. "His only purpose is to find out the source of your information." It can be seen that although the Sun newspaper has made legal preparations for this report, they did not realize that the government's counterattack was more violent. .
On this day, Erica approached Rachel and said that she and her husband were going to part ways. The husband would take away her daughter. She did not ask Rachel to tell who exposed her identity. She only hoped that Rachel would tell her whether she was a close person or a work partner. Rachel refused. Erica is the poorest person in the movie. Because of her identity exposure, she was suspected by her colleagues, and was investigated and unable to work normally. For the safety of her daughter, we cannot live with her. Her husband also divorced her at this time. In fact, they must have been a happy couple in the past. Erica's husband was her professor at Yale. At that time, her husband was in another marriage. The huge attraction made them get married, but Reality makes lovers hate from love, and strong women have to face reality and accept everything that comes suddenly. The greater misfortune is yet to come.
Rachel was summoned, and the progress of the trial was so fast that the barrister that the Sun reported could only greet Rachel and her husband before opening the court without any preparation. Because Rachel refused to tell the source of the news, the judge ruled that she was contemptuous The court was imprisoned. When she was in prison, the camera captured her with French white-edged fingers. This elegant woman didn't know that she would not be free for a long time. Over the past few months, she has been imprisoned in a detention center, trying to bargain with the representative prosecutor of the CIA before the court hearing (I don’t understand the law, my understanding is this). The media's attention to this matter has decreased, and the newspapers continue to pay high fines for Rachel, and her situation is getting worse. After being imprisoned for 7 months, she accepted an interview with a well-known veteran host. She saw that the middle-aged hostess wanted to induce her to be vulnerable, her husband, children, etc., and she wanted to tell her the source of the news. Rachel said 3. You are tempting journalists to do things that violate the principles. You know that I need to protect the source of the news. As for the "they have a purpose in disclosing information" as you mentioned, I think once the impact is like the Watergate incident or the Pentagon file incident At the same time, those purposes are not important anymore. The reason why you won’t be investigated by the government is because the government doesn’t care who told you where Paris Hilton ate yesterday. What a great mouth. It was also during this time that she was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, but ultimately did not win.
After Rachel was imprisoned, her novelist husband wanted her to tell him who the source of the news was, but was rejected4. The husband was surprised and thought he was not trusted. He also complained about Rachel abandoning the family to go to jail for personal principles. He took his son to live, took him to prison to see his mother, until one day he took his new girlfriend to the restaurant to eat and was seen by Rachel’s old lawyer. The lawyer said, “If you think your wife is responsible for this, you two
She shouldn’t be a couple.” Back to Erica, she resigned because she couldn’t stand the CIA’s suspicion. She lost all protection and was shot a few months later. After learning the news, Rachel asked herself for the first time, “Am I doing the right thing?" At this time, her grief and guilt are not just what they look like now. I will explain the reversal at the end of the film.
Once again, Rachel got the chance to get rid of all this. The prosecutor took out a pile of CIA personnel to sign a waiver that allowed identification. Rachel was asked to point out her source from these people. She refused again. She didn’t. I believe that these are signed voluntarily. If they do not sign, it means that they will not be peaceful after repeated investigations. Of course, she has other reasons. Her old lawyer said to her privately, "A person is respected alive, but the number of people attending his funeral depends on the weather and the environment has changed. In the past, such struggles would have been much easier, but now the media is beginning to stop it. The protest began to lean towards the government, including your newspaper, which stopped following up on this matter a few months ago. What do you look like now? Your son does not have a mother! What I am protecting is yours, no Your principles."
"A man left his family and went to jail in order to defend his principles. People used his name as a holiday. A man left his child to participate in the war, and people built a monument for him. Now a woman is here. Doing the same thing, she is treated as a monster. If we make concessions, what should we say?'The premise of trusting a reporter is that she can't be a mother? Because the mother will collapse.' In fact, if before writing this article I know this will separate me from my son, maybe I won’t do it. But everything has happened, and if I choose this path, there is no way to go back. I believe my son will be fine in the end, because Lei thought Good father, they will be fine. All this has nothing to do with my intelligence man. My intelligence man will be accused of killing Erica. I promise, this will definitely destroy the intelligence man we are talking about. This is not fair." Then Rachel said that her intelligence agent did not realize what she was doing when she provided the information. This also paved the way for the end.
Then, a CIA named Stan stepped up to be investigated and admitted that he had leaked information. Everything seemed to be turning around, but no. Stan only confirmed the information during the drunk conversation, and was not the first person to leak the information. This means that Rachel will spend a longer time in prison. In view of this, the old lawyer told her about her husband's affair. Next, the U.S. Supreme Court finally accepted the case. In the solemn court, the old lawyer's speech was enough to embarrass people who knew little about democracy. He said "Immuning journalists is done by countries that are afraid to blame."
After being imprisoned for 360 days, she was released at midnight, but on her way home in the car, she was arrested again for the same reason as the last time for "contempt of court."
Then she was sentenced to two years in prison for obstructing the federal investigation. On the way to the prison, she recalled taking care of the children on the school bus. Erica's daughter, Alison, found the teacher and her, and said that she was pulled by a little boy in her braid and didn't let go, so the teacher asked her to sit next to Rachel. Rachel's son was in the back row. He said to Alison, "You just told on nicky. You shouldn't complain!" "I told him to let go, but he always didn't listen to me before telling the teacher." The two children quarreled. Rachel told her son not to do this. Timmy said "But you're not suppoused to tattle." Rachel told her son "Well, you're not to have to put up with bullies, either." People bullied.
Next, Alison, who was sitting next to her, saw that she had been typing in a notebook, and asked her, "Are you a writer? My dad is a writer. He writes reviews, but my mom doesn't like it." "What does your dad write?" He writes about the president." "Why doesn't your mother like what your father wrote?" "I heard them quarrel once, because she discovered that Dad used some secrets she discovered." "What did your mother find? "It's about Venezuela." "What is your mother going to do there, on vacation?" "No, she goes there to work for the government, but don't you tell others that I'm talking about it, okay?" "Okay."
The intelligence man who has always been protected is Erica’s daughter. If Rachel speaks out, Erica will of course be accused of malfeasance for not keeping her husband confidential. Later, Erica will be killed. If Alison’s name is spoken, she will kill her mother on her back. The cross, her life is bound to collapse, so when she learned of Erica's death, she asked if she had done anything wrong. I think Rachel is not only under the principle of protecting her media class, but these reasons make things more complicated and delicate. Rachel is a mother. She loves her son. Her nobleness allows her to protect other people's children, but she loses her son's custody.
Of course, these cannot be simply understood as exchange or retribution. The facts are more complicated. What’s more terrible is that these psychological feelings of Rachel can never be expressed. Whether to the outside world or to her own children, I imagine that after she was released from prison, her son asked why he didn’t choose to go home to take care of himself, but insisted on that. She can’t tell how much she is a mother who loves her children when she is cold and personal. She even gave up her freedom in order to protect a mother’s love.
As she said, “Once you choose this path, there is no retreat.” Some people say that the final treatment of the film is a compromise and compromise. Rachel’s insistence is shifted to the perspective of protecting the child. To find the moral fulcrum of conscience to fight against national security, I don’t understand it that much. This ending is very clever, especially when watching the second time. The ending and the beginning are like a mystery, like a key and a lock. The answer is very early, very oriental.的处理方法。 Treatment methods.
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