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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Extended Reading
  • Norberto 2022-03-28 09:01:12

    The world is full of interests, and they put on the cloak of morality only to pursue people's desire to spy. The interior of the cave was photographed three times, and only reporters, doctors, and priests saw the victims—the conscience of the secular, scientific, and religious. Public opinion can continue without the life and death of the characters, and whether the poor people live or die is only entangled with the reporter's personal conscience. Quite an open scene, the story develops very smoothly, and the ending is slightly delayed. Kirk fell, and the world finally shut up.

  • 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)

Ace in the Hole quotes

  • Nagel: [on the telephone to Tatum] Come on Tatum! How much for the Minosa story? Exclusive!

    [listens]

    Nagel: What! Don't you know there's a war on... somewhere?

  • Vocalist: [singing] We're coming, we're coming Leo/Oh Leo don't despair/While you are in the cave-in hopin'/We are up above you gropin'/And we soon will make an openin' Leo./We're closer, we're closer Leo/And soon you'll breathe fresh air/While you are in the devil's prison/Keep the spark of life a fizzin'/We'll soon have you out of prison, Leo./Oh Leo, Leo, Leo, Leo.