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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  • Damien 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    I like the mood at the end. While the tone is sometimes quirky, I'm sure it will be revisited at key moments, and only this amount of information and twist is worthy of the difficult reality.

  • Dahlia 2022-04-23 07:01:45

    The storytelling is too life-like, and it is only at the end that I can see the feeling. 12March

The Insider quotes

  • Lowell Bergman: I am trying to protect you, man.

    Jeffrey Wigand: Well I hope you improve your batting average.

  • Jeffrey Wigand: How did a radical journalist from Ramparts Magazine end up at CBS?

    Lowell Bergman: I still do the tough stories. 60 Minutes reaches a lot of people.