Ace in the hole

Fanny 2022-01-26 08:45:16

The title translates to an upside-down trump card, which I think is quite appropriate. Only those around the hole know what this trump card is. At the beginning of the film, the male protagonist is a person who is biased towards the opposite. He is a news reporter, a news reporter who has been fired from newspapers in major cities. He came to the small town just to find a news breaking point for himself, so that he can welcome home. Sure enough, it's a noir movie, so people can be angry and helpless. The problems that existed in the 1950s still exist, and because of the development of the Internet, it seems to be more serious. What does news exist for? People report whatever media they like to watch. Bad news is most popular because good news is not news... These lines are just spoken from the protagonist's mouth in understatement, but the tingling is not at all. Not a lot. I have always been a little disgusted with headline parties, big data, etc. This kind of vicious flattery to readers is really ugly. The ace at the end of the film died, and the male protagonist repented. Maybe he has always had a conscience, but he has always regarded the news as a tool for him to return to New York. He thought he could control everything, including saving the person who died within seven days, including Fulfill all his foolish ambitions.

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  • Dewitt 2022-01-26 08:45:16

    A prospective picture of the carnival group outside the cave & entertainment to death. Billy Wilder's witty lines and the dark side of human nature form an absurd but not without bitter irony. The cunning and ambitious reporter Chuck Tatum also became the most insane role of Kirk Douglas's career. The end of the fall to the ground is very powerful, but its death is too deliberately choreographed. | Tent and Train | I'm on the boat, and you're all in the water. (8.5/10)

  • Robb 2022-03-26 09:01:13

    Billy Wilder's black masterpiece. I don't know why it has to be translated into this strange title. Isn't "Ace in the Hole" easier to understand? If the director's later "Wind and Rain in the City" was a mockery of the unscrupulous media, then this film was called an indictment of bottomless news. The general public's blind and frenetic pursuit of hot spots is an interesting contrast to Kirk Douglas's psychological transformation. Stories from 70 years ago have no sense of disobedience in today's Internet age, because the ugliness of human nature has never changed.

Ace in the Hole quotes

  • Lorraine: I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.

  • Lorraine: I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.