The protagonist interspersed in the main narrative process explained the life experience and sentiment fragments to journalists in class. It was not until the end of the film that I realized that it was his own conjecture. This conjecture has been interspersed in the film, which has the effect of guiding the development of the incident and also revealing the truth of the entire incident. Although it does not happen in reality, it is a performance of film art that can reflect the inner thoughts of the protagonist.
The first small part of the film is foreshadowing. The protagonist Steven praises others' necklaces and lip glosses, remembers other people's preferences, and arranges the location of the barrels in alphabetical order to provide convenience for others, etc., which are the performance of high emotional intelligence. At work, I use pens and notebooks to make notes all the time. Anything that I can't remember for a while, he will say, in my notes, everything is complete! This newcomer, full of enthusiasm and hard work, conquered everyone with his charm.
He is very enthusiastic and writes articles for many magazines and newspapers, and has won the approval of many editors.
He also has his own writing style. He felt that the New Republic magazine could be more entertaining, so that it would be more attractive. Therefore, where he could not get real clues, he opened his mind and fantasies, filling the originally broken news into a full story report, with extremely strong logic and extremely true details. He also vividly showed the facts he "saw" with his actions to prove its authenticity. So that no one can find the flaw. Of course, this has something to do with his good interpersonal relationship.
However, it is not undiscovered that there are problems and frauds. The former editor, Michael, discovered that there was something untrue in the factual background of Stephen's news gathering. After confirming it by phone, he did not directly warn or react to Stephen. Until Stephen was suspected and denied by his second editor Chuck, he came to Michael to complain, saying that the editor Chuck had always held a negative and hostile attitude towards him, did not believe in himself, thought he was fabricating facts. At this time, Michael’s heart was very clear that he didn’t think Chuck was a biased person, so Michael asked about the Steve bottle incident. At this time, Steve didn’t say anything, implying that things like fabricating news facts had happened before. pass.
From Michael as an editor to Chuck as an editor, every reporter in the New Republic seems to be dissatisfied with Chuck, who was at the same level or even worse than himself. These reporters seem to have formed an invisible force, fighting against Chuck every moment. Before the Stephen incident was revealed, they did not believe Chuck, thinking that Stephen was wronged by Chuck. They are blinded by Stephen's charm.
Regarding Chuck, through his conversations and opinions, I did not have a good impression of him at first. It wasn't until he realized that there was a possibility of fabricating facts in Stephen's report, he began to doubt what Stephen said, and did not blindly believe what he said, and then launched an investigation. During this process, he put the interests of the New Republic and the audience first, and tried his best to protect the New Republic through various means, which also reflected his perseverance.
The hard work of the reporters is shown in the film. It also exposes the psychology of reporters who want to gain fame and fortune.
Stephen is very comfortable in his circle, but he is also worried about other people's attitudes towards him. "Are you angry with me?" is a sentence he often said.
His personality is also full of strong perfectionism and vanity.
In order to circumvent his lie, Stephen made web pages all night. Unexpectedly, he was interrupted by a colleague pushing the door, deeply shocked, and his face was full of panic and astonishment. At this moment, it is the great turning point of the character image that I have seen.
The biggest attraction of the film is to restore history, exposing a journalist's experience of abandoning journalistic professional ethics and wantonly fabricating news facts.
As a journalist, the premise of all work is to ensure the authenticity of the news. A journalist is not a novelist, so he can't have his thoughts and thoughts. The material they have must be well-founded and must not be false. As a reporter, Stephen used his own imagination to rationalize and vividly use his imagination to make news and good news to make good news, so as to satisfy the freshness and interest of the audience. This approach must never appear in the press. Once it does, it will disrupt the order of the press and break the norms of the press.
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