The law should be based on morality

Lola 2022-03-22 09:01:37

With the encouragement of CBS TV producer (Al Pacino), a former tobacco executive (Russell Crowe) finally mustered the courage to open the tobacco company's sores. Knowing that things are unpredictable, justice hit the ceiling of the confidentiality agreement, Lao Ah and Lao Luo, two old men, started a difficult fight, fight and fight, and finally successfully exposed, won the lawsuit, but lost the old man For his job, Lao Luo "lost" his wife and children.

If you think this is just a commonplace drama, a typical American hymn of personal heroism, you are wrong! Simple plot, simple character relationship, and even simple contradictions, but still will not let the film fall into a rut. Of course, without Al Pacino's frantic and clamorous acting skills and Russell Crowe's poised performance, perhaps the entire movie would have been boring. Aside from the plot and actors, the theme of the movie is the most interesting. "Shocking Insider", on the surface, broke the inside story that the tobacco company added harmful substances that can quickly absorb nicotine in cigarettes, and suing the tobacco company is to protect the public. In fact, what the film accuses is the insider behind the scenes, the limited freedom of the press, the corrupt judicial bureaucracy, and the sanctimonious system in the United States, which makes Lao Luo, who has been discovered by his conscience, and Lao Ah, who insists on press freedom, so isolated and helpless. If the law is not based on morality, then morality and conscience, in the face of the law, in the face of the so-called confidentiality agreement, will only be at hand.

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Extended Reading
  • Kennedy 2022-01-26 08:15:20

    The foreshadowing at the beginning is more sinister, implying that these big chaebols are more terrifying than the primitive sects with guns.

  • Isabell 2022-04-21 09:01:48

    With Al Pacino, it's still boring.

The Insider quotes

  • Jeffrey Wigand: Up to you, Jeffrey! That's the power you have, Jeffrey! Vital inside information the American public need to know! Lowell Bergman, the hotshot who never met a source he couldn't turn around!

  • Lowell Bergman: You go public, and 30 million people hear what you gotta say, nothing - I mean nothing - will ever be the same again. You believe that?

    Jeffrey Wigand: No.

    Lowell Bergman: You should. Because when you're done, the judgement is gonna go down in the court of public opinion, my friend. And that's... the power you have.

    Jeffrey Wigand: You believe that?

    Lowell Bergman: I believe that? Yes, I believe that.

    Jeffrey Wigand: You believe that because you get information out to people, something happens?

    Lowell Bergman: Yes.

    Jeffrey Wigand: Maybe that's what you've been telling yourself all these years to justify having a good job. Having status. Maybe for the audience, its just voyeurism, something to do on a Sunday night. And maybe it won't change a fucking thing. And people like myself, and my family are left hung out to dry, used up, broke, alone.

    Lowell Bergman: Are you talking to me, or did somebody else just walk in here? I never forced any of that...

    Jeffrey Wigand: I don't really understand, exactly...

    Lowell Bergman: Don't evade a choice you gotta make by questioning my reputation or 60 Minutes with this cheap skepticism.

    Jeffrey Wigand: I have to put my family's welfare on the line here, my friend, and what are you putting up? You're putting up words.

    Lowell Bergman: "Words." While you've been dicking around some fucking company golf tournaments, I've been out in the world, giving my word... and backing it up with action. Now, are you gonna go and do this thing, or not?

    Jeffrey Wigand: I said I'd call the kids before they went to bed.