It's a little long, and the narrative rhythm is a little slow in the middle. The further back the better. Based on a true story, it is a very good story without being lengthy and not running accounts.
Reality is powerful. But the truth is so rare and so hard that we all start to avoid the news and speculate every event in the opposite direction. In an era of peace, democracy, rule of law and justice, it turns out that airing truth is such a difficult thing, it will destroy a person's happy family, threaten a person's life safety, destroy a person's future and a person's reputation. When the media, as a commercial organization, is owned by interest groups, it is bound to wear shackles. In that yoke, is there still freedom?
The Insider is a story about media justice. Jeffery Wingand, a former practitioner in the tobacco industry, decided to expose the fact that cigarettes are harmful to public health after being fired and attacked for no reason. After filming the interview, Jeffery received physical threats, and CBS Media was thwarted by the company's upper echelons. Reporter Lowell contacted NYTimes to expose the reasons why CBS did not allow the interview to air, and finally made the show air.
Movies about the media are often long and depressing, because it is a contemporary war, silent and difficult, with blood on the phone and in the camera. Standing up has become the closest thing to heroism. After all, I will not benefit from telling the truth, but I am facing the threat of a consortium.
The most difficult person in the world is nothing more than a person who has been in the WTO for a long time but still retains a little idealism in his heart. While they were saying, "Isn't it right to support the family for a living?", they had already blamed themselves and felt guilty for eight hundred times in their hearts, and they always wanted to change something with a little bit of unwillingness. Jeffery was brave, and he eventually did, breaking nondisclosure agreements to tell the truth, even if it meant losing the family's future benefits.
Lowell Bergman is a true journalist. I have a lot of respect for all those who can call themselves journalists with a clear conscience, for their blood, steadfastness and bravery. Lowell has been argueing, for the truth, for the good of the people, and for the meaning of news. Lowell said that as a front-line reporter, he never broke his promises, and that the source provider he promised would be safe, and he would do it. Is a very attractive person.
As they said, there are very few such people. And every common sense around us is created by these heroes. Defenders of truth, they deserve a movie.
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