The pursuit of the truth is the pursuit of the truth

Christy 2022-04-04 09:01:08

My 5-star recommendation: Denial. Based on a true defamation case. A few feelings:

1) There are a lot of dialogues in the film, between the heroine writer and lawyer, writer and friend, writer and opponent, writer and the public... The dialogue is very large and complex, involving the case, the law, and personal emotions etc., but it's all well written, enough to explain the plot, and less enough not to be all dialogue.

2) The problem with Chinese film and television dramas is that even a little professional dialogue cannot be controlled, so it is full of parents who are divorced from real life and flirtatious, because there is no threshold for writing, filming, and watching these lines (these must be written brilliantly In fact, it is not easy, but after all, it can be written even if it is poorly written), which eventually led us to produce a large number of very boring film and television dramas, with no ideas, no common sense, and technically mediocre, and some works are not even worthy of evaluation. Bad, its only characteristic is boredom.

3) The pursuit of truth is the pursuit of truth. Chinese people like to say that there is no absolute truth, this is nonsense, and the truth, like the truth, is not obvious and readily available. Because it is difficult to ask the truth, so there is no need to ask? It's not easy to make money, have you ever given up?

4) British actors are still more restrained and good at conveying complex emotions.

5) Gossip: The heroine is the current wife of 007. The male protagonists are also big casts. There is also Xiao Xianrou who is about to appear in "Dunkirk", although there are not many scenes, it is very eye-catching.

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Denial quotes

  • Richard Rampton: They're a strange thing consciences. Trouble is, what feels best isn't necessarily what works best.

  • David Irving: [first lines; in a video speaking to a sympathetic audience] I don't see any reason to be tasteful about Auschwitz. I say to you quite tastelessly that more women died on the back seat of Senator Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than ever died in a gas chamber at Auschwitz.

    [audience laughing and applauding]

    Deborah Lipstadt: Holocaust denial rests on four basic assertions. Number 1: That there was never any systematic or organized attempt by the Nazis to kill all of Europe's Jews. Number 2: That the numbers are far fewer than five or six million. Number 3: That there were no gas chambers or specially built extermination facilities. Number 4: That the Holocaust is therefore a myth invented by Jews to get themselves financial compensation and to further the fortunes of the State of Israel. War, the deniers say, is a bloody business. There's nothing special about the Jews, they're not unique in their suffering. They're just everyday casualties of war. What's the fuss?

    Deborah Lipstadt: Okay, and here's another question, how do we know the Holocaust happened? Seriously. I'm asking. How do we prove it? Photographic evidence? Not one person in this room or outside it has ever seen a photograph of a Jew inside a gas chamber. You know why? Because the Germans made sure that none were ever taken. So how do we know? How do we *know* that so many were murdered? So what's the proof? Where's the proof? How strong is it?